Well, I finally made a decision.
It was one of the hardest decisions I have had to make in my life.
Since Ralph Becker, member of the Utah State House of Representatives was no longer running for his seat because he was elected to be Mayor of Salt Lake City his seat was open and in a special election a replacement was going to be found to finish up the remainder of his term.
For about a week or two I have been throwing around the idea of running. I know I am young, I know that I am inexperienced, but I truly felt that I had something unique to bring to the race and that I would bring something that no other candidate could. I think that I truly had a chance to win.
So why not run, you ask? Well besides just being a plain old wimp I think that I have other obligations that I must finish up and stick with. I need to make sure I do the things I have already committed to as fully as I can. If I were to run I would have to neglect my students, neglect my job, neglect my position in the County Party, neglect my position as an Executive Board member of the DEA and part of the PAC committee. I have Europe this summer, I have dogs I am fostering, I have the Board of the Community Council I need to pay better attention to. There is just too much right now.
I want to be in a leadership position. I think I have what it takes to be there. But I am 28. I'm not there yet. There will be future opportunities and I hope that then I will be ready to take them.
I'm very disappointed in myself and hope that I will be ready when the next opportunity arises.
In the meantime if you are so inclined and you want to know how serious I was and how ready I was to throw my hat in the ring you should look at my website I put up. www.westonclark.com Everything was edited and ready to go (with the exception of the "issues" page that needed some editing) but it will have to sit now and await 2009 when Eric Jergensen's position is up on the city council and I am ready then to take that challenge.
wow, wes I am impressed, you would have done great, but what a responsible person to finish up the things that are important to you and those who count on you, that is a great quality of a politition.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kim - you are very kind to say that. We will see what the future holds. I need a break already though. :-)
ReplyDeleteDon't be so hard on yourself, dummy. After YEARS of you taunting me with the fact that you are a lousy seven days younger than me, I can't believe that you would want to be older just so you could run! Be patient - don't run until your hair is more salt 'n pepa and all-distinguished-like. If you keep teaching, it should only take a year or two for you to go mostly gray - it will be here before you know it!
ReplyDeleteI picked out an annoyingly long gray hair from my head the other day. Maybe I should have left it in and cultivated it.
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