I need your help tomorrow - not with donations -
but with your vote.
True leadership, vision, collaboration and
change start right here, at the local level.
That leadership is forged in every election, by
you.
Consider the public-private partnership entered
into twenty years ago between your spcaLA and the City of Long Beach -
resulting in the spcaLA P.D. Pitchford Companion Animal Village & Education
Center.
Partnerships like ours became the norm and the
model not just in animal welfare, but right now in pandemic response. Chefs
working with government to feed the hungry. The state of California working
with private hotel chains. Public-private collaboration shows the best of
America.
When you vote in every election, at the local
level, you are voting for yourself. Your kids. Your parents. Your pets. Your
businesses.
Whether your interest lies in protecting the
environment, fostering animal welfare, increasing literacy, or providing
comfort and housing to the homeless, to name a few, you must be vigilant in
studying the candidates, their competencies and virtues and vote for the ones
you would hire in your own businesses.
Conversely, we must fire the ones that don’t
deliver. Don’t allow top leadership to abdicate and delegate policy and
responsibility to loud, fact-challenged ideologues who holler at them during
council meetings.
We small businesses, charities, and citizens
must band together as “Davids” against the “Goliaths:” the governments, the
public servants who would exploit us for their own benefit.
Vote every time, in every election, whether
local, county, state or national.
Vote to keep your elected officials on their
toes. Vote to insist they honor their promises. Vote to ensure your future.
Just vote.
