Shownotes Transcript
In this episode of Life Matters Brian examines the month-long election drive from October 3 to November 3, 2020.
Brian explains the significance of each and every vote, not simply on the national level, but perhaps most importantly on the most local of levels. He explains the “Teaspoon Theory” and the use of the “one question test.”
While many excited and passionate pro-life individuals will in fact quickly check the top of their ballots, because of media coverage of the positions of the presidential candidates - they will immediately vote for president. However, after that their eyes were glaze over.
Most ballots in California are chock-full of decisions. Because California is a direct democracy state, there are actually 12 specific laws that will be determined by the popular vote. These 12 propositions are very convoluted in the wording and often intentionally written to mislead and exploit an individual’s confusion and emotions.
In previous programs Brian and Sheila Green examined the deeper aspects of these propositions.
Each and every ballot will also have down-ballot races - not simply congressional and state house races, but offices like supervisor for counties, mayoral, city council, and school boards. These are incredibly important offices particularly given the fact that Planned Parenthood seeks to establish school-based clinics in each and every school throughout the state.
The teaspoon theory. A single vote for president is important but it is a drop in the ocean of the millions that will be cast across the nation. A vote for a member of Congress is also important, but it is a drop in a swimming pool of water. A vote for a State Legislative District is a drop in a gallon of water. A vote for city council is a drop in a very large glass of water, but a vote for a district school board is like a drop in a teaspoon. It will still take many drops but only a few will turn the entire direction of the race.
Brian tells the story of Mike Spence, who has passed away. He was the vice president of California Prolife council but had run for both school board and city council. He ended up as mayor of West Covina.
His first race he had lost by several votes on election night. He went to bed dejected. But when he awoke it turned out he had actually won by three votes. Mike made it a point to fight Planned Parenthood and the radical left at every turn in that school district.
Years later, Mike determined to run for city council. The radical left ran a candidate against him. This time he was much further behind on election day but the ballots were to take several days of counting. Again, Mike, through some odd circumstances, ended up being pushed over the top. A bag of ballots on the second day was discovered. It happened to have been the ballots of his own precinct. Not only did they make up the difference in his being behind, but he put him well ahead by a mere 10 votes.
Your vote counts in every election. But it is these powerful local elections that Planned Parenthood and the left are seeking to control- your local community and school boards. This is where your knowledgeable vote can have the most effective power.
Close to Election Day, when there’s very little time to assess where candidates stand, Brian suggests employing the one question test.
Ask the local candidate if they approve of Planned Parenthood coming into public schools and referring children for medical care and treatment, including abortion without parental knowledge or consent. This is applicable not merely to the school boards but the city council and county supervisors - as the abortion industry seeks government funds from these entities.
This specific policy issue allows clarity of a yes or no response. To ask a candidate if they are pro-life or pro-choice invites meandering opinions and weasel words regarding religious convictions, inclinations, personal versus public policy and other vagaries of semantic shifting. The question should always, always deal with very specific public policies that are being presented in the civic realm right now.
When people in the community hold candidates accountable before the vote it is of much greater significance than complaining after they hold office and make unwise decisions. Holding signs and heaping scorn on elected representatives is much less effective than educating and motivating them to make wise decisions before they ever have to. It also equips the voter to make wise decisions on election day. And elections really matter.