Why am I your candidate for House District 7?

I have had a lot of people ask me “why are you running?” I honestly see this as an extension of all the work I have put in to serving this community already. I am not new to Helena, I have been there to stand in support of great bills that protect families and strengthen communities as well as fight legislation that weaken or diminish our rights. I have the leadership experience for Helena as well as the relationships to get the job done.

I believe that solutions are possible and that we need to break the status quo. I have been listening and asking the questions to learn what really matters. I have experienced that parents know how to parent, teachers love to teach, and a clean and productive environment will produce jobs as well as protect the amazing outdoor activities that we all enjoy.

I am no stranger to adversity, like many of you, and have learned how to create solutions where there looks like none can be found. I also know that my principles are the one thing that I can always fall back on in decision making. I am unwavering on those principles the Constitution has clearly laid as a foundation for leadership.

Too many people think that they have all of the answers and want to tell Montanans how to live their lives, many of these talkers gravitate toward leadership in government to control. I want to serve through leadership to create individual opportunity.

I am Ronalee Skees for House District 7 and I would be honored to count on your support.

Please visit my website at www.ronaleeskees.com to learn more and to tell me what is important to you.

Rift in the Republican Party

I find it interesting that the news worth printing beginning this political season is the media biased rift in the Republican camp. There is a fundamental difference in those that call themselves ‘Responsible-Republicans’ the rest of the party. We are not hearing what those ideals are, just the blood sport of the slugfest. Essential to this argument of the ‘divide’ is the principles of the party platform. I am not advocating being a party line person with no regard for the collective needs of a community, just the basic foundation of the platform; limiting government to its constitutional role, free market solutions for economic growth, sanctity of human life, personal responsibility and the consequences that accompany those responsibilities. There are a few others, but for the limited space of this letter I only will mention those. The aforementioned hyphenated members of the party are working against the principle of limited government. The reason that this is even a part of the platform is because the Republican ideals strongly believe that the constitution set a standard for the level of government control in our individual lives. The more we give to laws that invade our very fabric of life, the less control we have over it. Free market principles have morphed into a good ole boy system of ‘protecting mine at the cost of theirs’ by creating law and alliances that protects their investments while the rest of us have to subsidize their privilege. All life has value and we are to honor and protect the older citizens among us, as well as those that are yet to be born. I support primary elections to listen to the concerns of the people and hear the different candidate’s approach with solutions. I am not at all interested in the good ole boys fighting a death match of mudslinging. So I ask the question of you, if examining the principles of the divide, who are truly the responsible ones?