Dear Life-Pac.org,
A freeholder does not change
or establish policy. If elected, I
will be one of fifteen to contribute a voice when
drafting a charter/constitution for Clark County that
will, eventually, be presented to the voters.
I am interested in representing the
citizens. I am interested in hearing
your opinions and learning why you believe as you do.
Do not expect me to argue but I may ask
questions.
Your questions, I believe are
designed to learn more about me. I
hope this alternative suits your purpose. I
am dedicated to running this campaign without financial
contributions (my own or others) and to remain
authentically me.
In 1992, a month before I turned 19,
I bought a home pregnancy test and a bottle of pre-natal
vitamins from the Hi-School Pharmacy in Battle Ground.
I took the test before my shift at Papa Aldo’s
and I had to have a co-worker help identify the faint
mark indicating a “positive”. I
scheduled an appointment with the Crisis Pregnancy
Center -then located off of Fourth Plain, Blvd.
The councilor/volunteer showed me the positive
sign on the test that I had taken there and said that it
was possible to have a false positive but she hadn’t
seen it happen.
The next day I told my mom. I
remember that she took me on a drive explaining my
options. I don’t remember if abortion
was mentioned. I told Ellen’s (my
daughter) dad later that day and could almost hear him
think: “How am I going to get out of
this one.”
I promised myself that I would spend
24 hours meditating on each course of action available
to me, this included abortion. At the
time, I could conceptualize killing myself but not
killing someone else. This helped
reveal to me when I think life begins.
I was consistently below the poverty
line as a single parent and I have experienced violence.
As a massage therapist, I am very aware of the
exploitation that occurs under the guise of my
profession. I have ran across a few
despicable possibly soulless humans and prayed to not
wish them obliterated.
I have also seen people worse-off
than poor, communities come together for a common
purpose, acts of kindness committed with no reciprocal
expectations, and miraculous transformations of the
human kind.
It is essential for me to have a
daily interactive relationship with God.
Of my core beliefs, I keep in mind, God is bigger
than religion, I don’t get extra points for getting
closer to temptation before I resist it, and how I
believe is not how anyone else believes, even if they
are sitting in the same pew.
Thank you,
Alice Williams
Freeholder Candidate for District 3
(position 3)
http://askalicevancouverwa.wix.com/askalicevancouverwa
(I know the website is a mouthful but
its free)
Feel free to post this response in
its entirety on websites and printed material.
