Liberty Rising Action Guide

The Liberty Rising Action Guide

Our presence is essential in the political process. Politicians are placed in power by ‘We The People’, and their purpose is to serve the people while upholding and staying within the bounds of the Constitutions both State and federal.

Regarding holding elected officials accountable, a friend recently said to me ‘that’s where us lowlives can actually accomplish something,” He went on to imply, “if we knew how.” My response was an emphatic, “NO, you have it wrong”. ‘Low-life’ is not the right word! ‘We are The People’ and we are not lowlifes!” Good government, a government such as ours, must start at the bottom and work its way up. The bottom is ‘We The People’, the ones who do the electing, not those who have been elected. I decided right then that I needed to put something together to help empower ‘We The People’ with the knowledge to hold our elected officials accountable and to set clear expectations on the directions we want them to take We need to be proactive not reactive.

‘We The People’ seem to be accepting the failures of our elected officials and our leadership; failures that are evident on both sides of the aisle. It’s as though we feel we have no power when in truth we hold it all! We are now and have been in the past, failed by our elected officials. However, that failure is also on our shoulders for not activating, influencing and holding them accountable.

Accountability is one of the bedrocks of a representative government as it provides a check on individuals one elected. Politicians often get away with doing whatever they want because they are under the belief that they will not be confronted. They lean on the likelihood that there will be no repercussions for their actions by those who elected them; those whom they represent. If they are confronted usually it occurs when they are running for re-election, which is after most of the damage is done and the window is to narrow to let everyone know what their elected official has been up to. We must start holding them accountable the day after they are elected and everyday after.

This is how we do it...

Become educated . Write your elected official . Phone calls . Letters to the editor

Social media . Testifying . Exposing . Working Elections . Voting

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time

with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

-Thomas Jefferson