I. Issues based on gender: It would be very foolish of me, a candidate for United States Congress to ignore factually, there are men and women in America. I have studied issues related to gender. Gender divides us as a nation. Amelia Earhart, a famous Kansan was very connected politically. She advocated for the Equal Rights Amendment. Although we are all afforded equal protection of the law by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Now I have found most men have no clue of what women want politically. Nor am I going to state I have full comprehension of what this segment of Americans wants and expects from their congressman totally either. For if I stated I understood what women and younger girls want, would be very presumptious of me, since clearly I am a male. I have as a civil right activist studied what women want. Most of us men have no clue. Or, if we are enlightened enough, we ask the women what do they want.
Briefly, women have told me they want some of the following:
1. Equal pay for equal work
2. To be respected.
3. Children's issues are more important to them than they are to most men.
4. Reproductive and health related issues are important to women.
5. Sex is not as important to them as it is to men.
6. Relations and being able to communicate with men is important.
They want us men to put down the remote control and listen to them for a while. And if we do not, they are going to take credit care and go shopping because some men are more interested in TV, than they are in them or their children. Now, for men, we have our own issues also. We men know and understand that the living room is in fact, the proper place for our shoes and socks.
Anyway, item six above is merely me demonstrating I have a keen sense of humor. I have to try my best to be witty every once in a while. I want to have some running for United States Congress. I like to laugh some of the time. And some of the time, I am very serious. Your call which one.
7. Issues related to their children are very important. Like the education of their children.
Now, do women know what men want? Yes. Men typically are pretty simple of the two different genders.
Men have a very short list of priorities. Typically:
1. Sex
2. Food
3. TV
4. Want someone that loves us unconditionally and tells us we have been good people. (Most women want the same).
II. Classification based on political party affiliation:
Many Americans could care less what your party affiliation is. What they want our statesmen instead of yahoo politicians. Mr. Scherer concurs.
Mr. Scherer is indifferent to party affiliation. Basically, he prefers to focus on higher affililation. Mr. Scherer is not a party loyalst-he is a party leader. Party loyalsts do whatever the leaders tell them blindly. Mr. Scherer is not blind.
Hence, he leads whatever party he is affiliated with. Scherer has been a party leader in several political groups. This includes the GOP party (2006 to present), the Democratic Party (1994-2006), and being a charter member of the Reform Party started by Ross Perot. (1994). At various times, Mr. Scherer has been connected or involved in some kind of political party movement since the age of 7. In fact, I remember watching the Kennedy/Nixon debate in 1960.
I did not like Kennedy's Boston accent. So, I remember clearly telling my Uncle, Big Al Pickman I was a republican. He said, "you are not a republican". Your dad is a democrat. Well . . . this made me mad so I ran away from his country home. Our family farm has a nickname. It is called Rattlesnake Hill for a good reason.
Regardless, my uncle came and got me about 10 minutes later. I was really upset. I was certain my dad was a republican. However, in retrospect, my uncle was probably correct. More than likely, my father who had passed two years earlier when I was age 5, would probably been a Democrat. So for a long time, around 50 years or so, ever since, I have been active or involved politically.
I remember political events. I remember the 1972 Presidential election. Thomas Eagleton was running to be the VP of the United States. Mr. Eagleton single-handedly made me bury my political ambitions, from 1972 to 1994. The media made a big deal about Eagleton having an anxiety disorder. Eagleton was a coward and so he dropped out of the election to be the Vice President of the United States.
So, because this event, I was certain my own political aspirations had to be buried into the closet. So I did that. I was a closet politican. Until around 1994. I said big, deal. I have a disability I did not cause. I came out of the closet. I came out of the closet because I become cognizant of the Americans with Disabilities Act. And because of this national mandate to overcome the vestiges of actual and de facto discriminaton,
I got more and more involved at several levels, judicially, legislatively and at the executive level. Sometimes, I have regrets of coming out of the closet. But I have to set that aside, those kinds of regrets. For good reason-I cannot make America a better nation if I hide in some closet.
Naturally and finally, Mr. Scherer generally has evidentiary documents to support any claim of party affiliation.
III. Classification based on skin color or race, or ancestry or our heritary including DNA/RNA
First of all, I am a civil rights activist for everyone. I do not like classifications schemes that divide us as a nation.
Second, race is not a science. It is a myth. Nor am I color-blind either. It is fact that in the United States, we have problems related to the color of a person's skin. A lot of this race nonsense started with our founding fathers cowtowing to the southern colonies whose economic conditions were dependent upon the slave trade. So, our founding fathers made some concessions or compromises with the southern colonies to form this great nation of ours.
Third, we all should be proud of America overall for what makes our nation unique. Sure, we have some things we should not be proud of, like slavery. However, we should be proud of our unique country being a melting pot. We have people in the United States from all over. What other country does it like we do in America? Why do so many people from so many continents and other countries, come to be an American just like us? We are so fortunate to be in this nation. Sometimes, we forget. But we better not. We have to fight for freedom and never, ever take it for granted. God bless America.
When it comes to relationships between people, don't we all have this basic want for the same things? We all want love, friendship and unconditional acceptance of who we have chosen to be. Naturally, our United States Constitution ensures us we all have that right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As well as many other promises we hold dear as patriots of our nation. We merely have one problem that needs to be fixed. Getting rid of yahoos that do not believe in our United States Constitution. (Like progressive socialists).
In closing, all I want to be is employed and have a job as your best candidate for United States Congressman. Later, I will be adding some more distinct groups in America. Doing the very best I can to listen and understand what these groups want and expect from me, their congressional candidate.