Invitation to the Candidates

Subject: The Party is Over: The Citizens’ Movement has Begun

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From: Stuart-Sinclair Weeks, Co-Founder, WE, the People: The Citizens Movement to Revive the Spirit of Public Service.
 

Founder of The Center for American Studies at Concord, MA, author, columnist, TV and radio host, playwright, and descendant of one of the older military-political-business families on our shores, beginning with William Bradford of the Mayflower, Governor of the Plimoth (Plymouth) Colony.
 

Since the founding of our nation, the last 9 generations in the Weeks family have served in state or national office, going back to Arthur St. Clair, President of the United States “in Congress Assembled.” More recently family members have served as State Representatives, US Congressmen, Senators, Secretaries of Commerce and War, as well as party heads and as candidate for president of our United States.

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Alongside Stuart-Sinclair’s work as Founder of The Center for American Studies, he has worked in 3 congressional campaigns, got two gubernatorial campaigns up and running, as well as one presidential First-in-the-Nation primary — for republicans, democrats, and independents alike. Paul Glover, former Green Party Presidential candidate, is the first candidate to have begun to work with WE, the People: The Citizens Movement to Revive the Spirit of Public Service.

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To: 1. Those candidates who realize that the party is over, all but over — independent voters nearly outnumbered republicans and democrats together — and The Citizens’ Movement has begun.

 

2. Those candidates who are committed to making a difference, a real and lasting difference, committed to become part of the long-awaited solution, as opposed to the ongoing problem: Partisan Politics as
Usual.
 

3. Those candidates who are committed to Public Service — as opposed to self-service.
 

4. Those candidates who are not certain that you will win your election (wishful thinking aside in the flush of your “race”), or whether the race you find yourself in is what you truly bargained for.
 

5. Those candidates who are discovering not only that, caught up in the “race,” you are losing your breath, balance, your presence of mind . . . . but, in the whirlwind of campaign activities (travel, handshakes, speeches, interviews, the kissing of the babes), who are realizing further that you are not able to justice to your original intention to run for office. That intention being, can one say: To move beyond “politics as usual,” in order to make a real difference?
 

6. Those candidates who would welcome the opportunity to devote yourself to a celebration in which you can not possibly lose — as long as you don't allow yourselves to get distracted by the polls, numbers,
surveys, as long as you are willing to give it your best, very best. We refer to those candidates who are both able and willing to think outside of the box of our ailing political system.
 

Finally, this invite/memo is addressed to:
 

7. Those candidates who, on the basis of the foregoing points, are able not only to hearken to George Washington’s dire warning about the “baneful effects of the spirit of party,” but who can envision taking up the “great and extensive project” of one of our most beloved and accomplished public servants: Ben Franklin’s “United Party of Virtue” — a veritable movement in, and for, our time.

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A warm welcome to one and all to become part, an integral part, of WE, the People: The Citizens Movement to Revive the Spirit of Public Service.

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