Skip to content
Menu
Planet Stahl
  • Cart
  • Checkout
  • My account
  • Scholorship Fund
  • Shop
  • Candidate Stahl
    • Campaign Donations
Planet Stahl

Door Hangers, the “elevator pitch”

Posted on October 18, 2020October 19, 2020

I have spent a few days now out on the local streets in Washington, Illinois placing “door hangers”.  When we started this campaign, I was told that the Libertarian Party of Greater Peoria would be supplying these guys for the campaign.  All I had to do was come up with some verbiage about me or my candidacy for County Board Chair.

As a first time candidate who was working under time constraints…  I rushed to fill the white space.

Now, as I am placing them on doors around Tazewell County, I am not totally happy with what I came up with.  The wording and key points on the hangers deserved more attention when we were making them.  Next time I jump into this…  I’ll be a little more clear!

Lets dissect those bullet points as I wrote them…

Fight for your individual rights:

“I WANT GAY MARRIED COUPLES TO PROTECT THEIR MARIJUANA PLANTS WITH GUNS”

We joke and use this phrase a lot when talking about Libertarian ideals.  Its the short form of the platform?

I don’t use weed… I am in a conventional marriage and have been for 25 years.  Our family gun ownership is not nearly as zealous as some.

That said, I will fight for your ability to have personal freedoms unimpeded.  Government is best served when its worried about roads, bridges, education and general infrastructure.  Dictating and ruling what’s going on in your house or on your property is not their job.   I am leaving you alone and expect everyone else to do the same. (Unless you are not following the non-aggression principle)

“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. “John Locke 1689

He will protect the 2nd amendment.   

I have said this before…  The 2nd Amendment was not written to protect your right to hunt.  It had purpose offering citizens protection against foreign powers, each other and to maintain a “free state”.

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

I see no reason that we should infringe on the rights of gunowners and I feel that Illinois’ Fire Owners Identification (FOID) process is burdensome enough to owners and retailers in our state.  For the life of me, I am not sure why we make it so hard for legal gun ownership… Especially as illegal gun crimes rage all over.  The state should take those legal fees that they collect and use them to collect the illegal guns.

As for the government crashing through your door and taking your guns and civil liberties… I would argue that the government has already taken away a lot of your rights.   Through the back door with taxation.  (They will do the same with electric and autonomouse vehicles … watch)  This article about where your FOID fees go illustrates that everything the state does is an effort to take in revenue.  They will not be getting rid of FOID anytime soon.

Bonus information.  I heard about this at the local shooting range…  Apparently the current administration left some people less than pleased by avoiding controversy about gun rights.  If the Tazewell County Sherriff agreed, I would sign off on sanctuary status for gun owners in our county.

Be Fiscally Responsible:

Its a cornerstone of my beliefs in government.  It might be my inner Ross Perot coming out.  When I was 21 and able to vote for the first time… Ross Perot (Pre Reform Party) had taken his own money and conducted classes on CBS primetime (I think it was CBS?) about the deficit and NAFTA.  He didn’t have much of a bed-side manner… But he got his point across.  We spend more than we bring in.  Federal, State, County, City and some school districts.

Thats was crazy then… And its not gotten any better today!

If you have a business, home or family in an area that’s behind on its bills… You will be paying more for everything when the bills come due.

Mackinaw recently approved reshuffling its bills around a few years ago so that they could levy a loan for the new football field and bleacher complex.   It was on the ballot and passed via a public vote.  I was against it.  Getting out my future telling looking-glass… I was not sure that a town like Mackinaw that depends on some big businesses in Bloomington Normal should be taking out extended loans.  What if, State Farm decided to move its corporate office to a more business friendly state?  (Same question, what if their employees can work from anywhere in the USA like they are during COVID?)  I posted these feeling and you should have seen the hate.  I was not trying to ruin anyone’s scholarship or high school experience.  But you would have thought I was crushing the hopes and dreams of a million kids.

Somebody has to say no.  We can work together and do what is necessary urgent needs appear.  Other than that, we have to work under the belief that revenue growth over the next decade will be negligible at best and error on the side of lowering the budget when we can.

First step…  Remove the pension system from County Board members…  Even the County Board Chair.  (The position I am running for)  These positions are a “service” to the community, not a career.

Like I said in my vide interview with Steve Suess…. Let me be the bad guy!

Serve the Community:

I know a few people who were into politics from college on… But really… I never jumped into this race as a career choice.  Just as I have done with every volunteer job I have done in the past… I took on this challenge as a way to help and do my part in an organization in the community it serves.  In this case, its to serve Tazewell County.

I am not born and raised here.   But I have spent the last 30 years working in the Pekin area and have now lived here longer than anywhere else in my life.  (Born and raised in Fairbury IL)  I love everything about our county and local communities.  I feel that we all have a stake in the future of the county and should do our part to make sure those who follow us will not pay the price of our inaction today.

Its our responsibility!


Thanks for taking the time to read this “manifesto”???  LOL.  Sometimes I feel like I live a very transparent life… But politics is something I have purposely left offline over the last decade because its not worth arguing over.  Its worth thoughtful conversations, face to face… But its not worth sparring in social media posts or twitter wars.  Nobodies opinion gets changed that way.

Thanks for the support!

Eric

#stahlforliberty

https://www.facebook.com/stahlforliberty

Related

Archives

Eric Stahl

Twitter

Tweets by Planetstahl

  • May 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • August 2023
  • July 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • April 2023
  • March 2023
  • February 2023
  • January 2023
  • December 2022
  • November 2022
  • October 2022
  • September 2022
  • August 2022
  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • February 2017
  • December 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • May 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • December 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • June 2015
  • January 2015
  • October 2014
  • September 2014
  • August 2014
  • February 2013
  • July 2012
  • June 2012
  • May 2012
  • April 2012
  • November 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006
  • August 2006
  • July 2006
  • June 2006
  • May 2006
  • April 2006
  • January 2006
  • November 2005
  • October 2005
  • September 2005
  • August 2005
  • July 2005
  • June 2005
  • May 2005
  • September 2001
  • May 2001
  • April 2001
  • March 2001
  • February 2001
  • January 2001
  • December 2000
  • November 2000
  • October 2000
  • September 2000
  • August 2000
  • February 2000
  • November 1999
  • Cancer
  • Candidate Stahl
  • Digital Divide
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Grief
  • Health
  • History
  • Home Improvement
  • Libertarian
  • Local News
  • Music
  • Pets
  • Scholarship Fund
  • Social Commentary
  • St. Jude
  • Throwin' Wrenches
  • Trail Team
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Work
Eric Stahl

©2025 Planet Stahl | WordPress Theme by Superb WordPress Themes