Our beloved Baltimore City has developed a critical heart condition. While serious, however, she does not have to become a fatality. Typically, with any cardiac event, it proves to be a wake-up call for the patient. Complacency, a sedentary lifestyle, and poor eating habits, all tend to come to a screeching halt. In order for survival to prevail, a completely new direction of behavior must become the new discipline.
My name is Jason Pyeron and I am running for Councilman in our Baltimore City. Just as you, I too, love our city. The status quo can no longer be acceptable if Baltimore is to survive. I not only am running for this office to see Baltimore survive, I am driven to see her thrive! Baltimore is not a city of losers, we are winners and I have all intentions of proving such a claim. In fact, I am so confident in the fresh new, common sense, ideas I will be proposing, that I see Baltimore as being the model city of solutions for other impoverished & failing cities to fashion themselves after.
You might be wondering why I have chosen to run for councilman and what’s in it for me? Let me share a brief story with you, if I may. When I was a young teen, I came in the house after hanging out with some friends. I noticed a layer of dust on top of the television. As though I were the assayer of cleanliness, I gave it the old proverbial ‘white glove test’. I ran my finger through that dust and holding my finger up high, I announced to my mother what a mess it was. Expecting to inform her of the problem and then be on my way, I was quite taken back by her response. Very pleasantly, she told me ‘thank you’ for letting her know, but then she reached down underneath the cabinet and grabbed hold of the Pledge and a dust cloth. Placing them in my hands, she said, “Remember Jason, you live here too. Don’t just tell me about the problem, be part of the solution.”
My friend, therein lies my motivation for pursuing this office. I can complain or I can do. I gladly choose the later. Furthermore, with regard to the question, “What’s in it for me?” My wife and I live here too and we want a safe, enjoyable and flourishing city in which to live, just the same as you. Together, we can make that happen. In order to facilitate these aspirations, it is high time for us to think out of the box. So far, the conventional approach has been of little, to no, effect in our communities. If you elect me as your councilman, I will work diligently to bring you innovative ideas to not only put Baltimore back on her feet, but to make her a City of excellence. We truly will be the example for others to follow.
If you will elect me as the councilman for your district, then we can begin to work together to make a #BetterBaltimore today.
