HAVE YOUR VOICE HEARD IN WASHINGTON!

If such a thing is possible, our founding fathers must be spinning in their graves as they look at the state of our Republic today.  Thomas Jefferson said it best when he stated, “Most bad government has grown out of too much government,” and “Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have.”  This most certainly is the state of our government today.

As a small businessman I interact daily with other small business owners across North Carolina, and of course the declining state of our nation is frequently discussed as corrupt, corporate giants are given our tax dollars without accountability, while mom and pop entrepreneurs are strangled with so many regulations that most will fail within two years even in strong economic times.  Talk is all we do until elections come around.  Then we act by voting into office the same people while expecting improved conditions.  Too many of those elected have forgotten that the original concept was to act as representative servants of the people.  How long has it been since you felt that your voice was heard and expressed in Washington?

Much speculation is made in the press as to which liberal candidate the Democratic Party will run against incumbent, Republican Senator Richard Burr.  Most likely it will be one of the career politicians from Raleigh, who has done such a fine job with mismanaging our state government. I believe that North Carolinians deserve better representation than what we have received in recent years.  Therefore, as a concerned, conservative citizen I believe that I am truly more in touch with the desires of the people of this great state than someone who has spent the majority of the past two decades in either Washington or Raleigh.  My name is Eddie Burks and I am offering myself as a Republican candidate for United States Senate.  Unlike most striving for such a  position, I am neither wealthy nor well known to the statewide electorate.  I am simply an ordinary man with a servant’s heart.  I work much more than forty hours per week struggling to make a living with a small advertising agency.  I serve as a Deacon at Bailey’s Grove Baptist Church.  I work hard for the people of Asheboro as a member of the City Council and hold leadership roles in numerous civic activities from Kiwanis and The Salvation Army, to The United Way, and Crime Stoppers, to name a few.

While I appreciate that Senator Burr votes conservatively on most issues, it has been my observation that he is out of touch with the people who elected him.  This concern was expressed to me by city leaders from across the state at the most recent North Carolina League of Municipalities annual meeting in Greenville.  Actually, most could not tell me anything about our senior senator.  Those who did express some knowledge of the man expressed as many negative as positive interactions with his office.  Those complaints came from as many Republicans as Democrats.  Although, this was simply my own informal poll, it was in line with a recent Elon University poll published in October, finding that Burr’s approval rating among Tarheel adults was at 37 percent.  The same survey showed that 22 percent disapproved of his performance and forty-one percent did not know how they felt about his performance of duties.  While the current political winds are blowing toward Republican gains in November’s elections, Burr appears more vulnerable than any Republican incumbent in the Senate.  John Hood, president of the John Locke Foundation, recently stated “While Richard Burr is a relatively unkown freshman senator, he brings little baggage into the race.  He’s not unpopular, just unknown.  That means he still has the opportunity and the means to define himself for the electorate in the coming months.”  How can a man accept his pay if he has done so little during ten years in the house and five years in the senate that he is still unknown and still needs to define himself for the people he’s supposed to represent?  Where’s the outrage at what’s being forced upon us?  We, the people of North Carolina, deserve real leadership in Washington.

If you’re like me and are tired of politicians who invest more in representing their own needs instead of our needs, you’ll make the decision to make a change at the ballot box.  I respectfully ask for your consideration.  To find out more about me, please continue through this site.  I’ll be updating this regularly.  Look for me on Facebook, too.

Sincerely,

Eddie Burks, Candidate for US Senate