VOTE

Texas started no-excuse early voting in 1987.  While the first couple of years wasn't exactly what it is today, by 1991 we had pre-election day voting for elections with no reason necessary for you to go and vote.  It would prevent everyone from having to stand in long lines on election day. 

Voting for the City of Gonzales starts Monday April 30th - May 6th from 8 AM - 5 PM and May 7 - 8th from 7 AM - 7 PM. 

For almost 3 years I've been activist on our city council.  But for almost 30 years now I've voted.  Even when I was in Germany I voted via absentee. 

It is not only our civic right, it's our civic duty to vote! 

I don't care which of the candidates you are supporting for mayor, or if you're in district 4 which candidate you're supporting, What I do care about is hearing people complain about what's going on in this community and doing NOTHING about it.  Now is your no-excuse time to do SOMETHING about our city. 

We ARE going to get a new mayor and district 4 IS going to get a new council member.   So are YOU going to be a part of that? Or are YOU going to be someone who just whines when things aren't what you think they should be.

One thing I'll give to everyone who is running, at least they are trying to make a difference, and not just sitting on the sidelines complaining without doing anything.

God Bless,
Dennis Nesser

REFERENCES
Texas Early Voting
City of Gonzales Order of Election

It a freaking blog!

So someone made comment that I had a campaign sign up in violation of our city ordinance limiting campaign signs to 60 days prior to an election. This idiot must live under a rock to not realize that any and EVERYTHING on that board is connected to a blog and that particular blog was Nesser for Mayor where I explained that what I'm really calling for is for people to step up and run for office.

I'm not sure why city council member and mayor have this 'only the holy few' can even run for office, and after all that's not me right? 

I hear from several people that have opinions on EVERY agenda item that comes up.  They need to run for mayor or council.  I hear from people that have out of the box ideas for this city (you know like we actually should be bringing business TO Gonzales, not chasing them away), they should run for mayor or council.  There are people that have some fiscal knowledge that this city could desperately use right now.  They should be running for office.  And while the 'total package' would be nice, I'm not sure who in Gonzales would have all those attributes. 

If you've never run for office it's not a problem.  There is no requirement to have been dog catcher before you run for mayor.  Come by, I don't care who you are, I'd spend an evening with you and talk to you about running for an office and the basics of it.  What you'll have to have, what you should do, what you can expect. 

On a side note I don't know what's happened that some have had issues posting comments.  I posted a fix to it on the previous blogs comments.  I will put them at the bottom of this too. I have not blocked anyone from posting a comment on this blog.

God Bless,
Dennis Nesser



Fix to not being able to post a comment:
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Set the Privacy slider to "Medium".
Hit the "Advanced" button, and examine the "Advanced Privacy Settings".
Check “Override automatic cookie handling”
Click both "First party Cookies" and "Third party Cookies" should be set to "Accept"

Voting Part 2

How did I let it slide that we ALSO have an election for school board? I'm not much happier with our school board and their misplaced priorities than I am with our City Council with twiddle dee and twiddle dum that are sitting there.

I have to ask you, do you think it was smart of these guys to have picked "Coach" for our superintendent?I'm not happy that we are spending money upgrading our sports facility when we've have temporary buildings for our educational classes. I'm not happy that our high school has teachers that need to be fired, so that those who want to teach can.  I'm not happy with the way the school board did the dress code (I'm not opposed to the dress code, heck I think it should be tighter, but why wait till the last minute to do it?).  I'm not happy with the moving ACE back to a campus when these students have proven they can not function in that environment and I truly believe personalities with the superintendent that were not in control by the school board was the real reason it's being moved.

These are just a few of the items I can come up with off the top of my head.

Did you realize that the largest portion of your house taxes are for the school board? Off the top of my head I think it's 4x that of the city. And why? Because of bad decisions of the school board!

Gonzales, find the candidates personally if you want to and ask them what do they believe in.  Ask them if they promise to do something about these and any other issue you know of. Worst case educate yourself on what these people believe in.

Pray about the answers you heard.

Then GET OUT AND VOTE! VOTE VOTE! Please, it's at the School Central Office.  Don't wait till election day when you might forget.  Get out NOW AND VOTE!

God Bless
Dennis Nesser