VoteSimiValley.com was inspired by the Bruce Witkin for Mayor of Simi Valley campaign. For years, I’ve been quite simply voting for the incumbents throughout local elections. This year, however, an editorial in the Simi Valley Acorn got me thinking. The writer suggested that our locally elected officials are never challenged which is most certainly a fact in regards to the position of Mayor.

To my surprise, Bruce Witkin read the same editorial in the paper and responded by announcing his campaign for Mayor of Simi Valley. Immediately, I was inspired. When Witkin described himself as a family man and a local business owner with goals to make our city better for those in business for themselves, I was excited. But considering my voting history, and the voting history of many other registered voters in Simi Valley, I wondered how Mr. Witkin could possibly have a chance?

And then VoteSimiValley.com was born. It seems that if we simply gather as a community and talk about what issues are important to us, we’ll find candidates who represent those issues and, simply enough, we’ll vote for them! We not only need to challenge those who are running for re-election, we need to get them campaigning and connecting with us as a community so that we can all be certain they are truly representing us.

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