Hello Friends,
Election season is upon us, and the voters of State House District 163 have a clear choice: One candidate is a special interest political insider who's using Barack Obama and national healthcare policy to win partisan votes. The other candidate wants to bring LOCAL prosperity to the 163rd... wants to work with State legislators (Republican and Democrat)... wants to create a 21st century Georgia. Guess which candidate I am...
Friends, what it comes down to is focus. What will your Representative be focusing on? While I agree that national healthcare policy is a very important and polarizing issue, a Junior State Representative from Chatham County, Georgia has no say in this national policy matter. If Ben Watson, who is a physician, wants to affect national healthcare policy, running for Georgia's State House was the wrong move. Possibly, he should have ran for Federal Representative (he could ask his brother-in-law Jack Kingston how to do that) or he could have run for Federal Senate (he's got plenty of money and backing from special interests groups to do that, too.)
Frankly, national healthcare aside, Ben Watson would have a full plate just focusing on Georgia's healthcare problems: deficient trauma and mental illness infrastructure, Georgia's uninsured children, our state's youth obesity epidemic, our diabetes epidemic, general poor performance in disease prevention, unacceptably high hospital infection rates, just to name a few major issues (see Savannah Morning News editorial link 1 and editorial link 2). It saddens me to know that my opponent chooses to focus on being "anti-Obamacare" to win partisan votes, rather than utilizing his medical expertise to address local and statewide health issues. Friends, Georgia is in bad shape right now, not just with healthcare, and we don't need our local House Representative going on some partisan, political adventure against the Federal government.
We have a lot of work to do in the 163rd: creating local jobs, enacting local small business tax freezes, lowering our local crime rate, helping to better our local education system, protecting our local waters, beaches and wetlands, fixing local public transit and so much more. Statewide issues abound as well: jobs, taxes, poor healthcare infrastructure, transportation, water security, port security, returning Vets, energy, education, our economy...the list seems to go on and on. In my opinion, if partisan politics could be abandoned, Georgia's communities and public servants could come together with creative ideas and bi-partisan policies and effectively lead Georgia in a 21st century direction. However, to move forward, we must first reject partisan politicians and elect public servants with real policies.
The next House legislative session is crucial to our future. If Georgia's Legislators backslide into Liberal vs. Conservative gridlock, it will be incredibly costly to taxpayers, it will tell the business community that Georgia can't accomplish anything politically and it will create zero solutions when the 163rd and Georgia so desperately need some simple, sensible solutions. Yes, national policies are important and serious. They can be fun to talk about, argue about and maybe even, for some, blow off a little steam. However, now's the time for our local elected officials to put political differences aside and work in our own communities and in our own state. Let's get the 163rd and the state of Georgia prosperous, healthy and our children fully prepared for the future. In this process, we will be doing our part, as a state, to help our nation become, once again, prosperous, healthy and successful in the 21st century.
Friends, it's about focus.
On November 2, a vote for Jeremy Scheinbart is a vote for a public servant squarely focused on bi-partisanship, informed citizens and working together to find simple, sensible solutions for problems that face the 163rd and Georgia.
Or, you can send Jack Kingston's brother-in-law up to Atlanta so he can shout toward Washington, D.C. ...
Thank you for your time and fair consideration. More to come soon...
Jeremy
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