Today marks one of the final meetings to wrap up matters in the United Kingdom. I am meeting with representative of my children’s school, and I am feeling really hopeful. As I sit here and have my coffee and flip through the news I got to thinking.

I am a man who went from a fairly broken childhood to the military. Between the two I fell somewhere in the zone of always wanting to have a plan. I know my plans will change, sometimes they may fail entirely, but if I have that objective I can push on.

I want to run for office. When I return to my homeland, I want to get involved with the government.

Now I can’t run right away. I have been disconnected from an actual state for three years at this point. Prior to that I lived in Arkansas. As much as I love my friends from Arkansas I think I am just a bit too liberal and godless to win in Arkansas. Prior to that I was in North Dakota, and although I made some of my fondest memories there I really don’t miss the eight months of winter.

Maryland? The home of my birth is no longer my home. I have too many bad memories there, and other than a quick stop this summer to visit with my sister I haven’t been a resident since 2006.

So I have decided to settle down in Washington state, and make that area of the country my home. As soon as I get there I need to get plugged into the VA health care system and get over the last lingering health issues I have. I need to find a house, and hopefully be a home owner with in a year.

After that, then what?

So this is me saying that after I get settled I would like to put myself forward as a candidate for the House of Representatives. I would like to represent the people of Washington state on the national stage and help fight for the progressive causes I believe in. Washington state I feel is my real homeland. The politics at a state level match my views closer than anywhere I have lived.

The breath taking natural wonders of that state have enchanted me since grade school. As soon as I learned about the state I knew that is where I wanted to be. McCord and Fairchild AFB were both always on my dream sheet in the military, and when my girls got into Twilight stuff I was always quick to point out that my favorite state looked like that movie, with less sparkle vampires.

But I have some limiting factors.

I have a very dark and troubled past. I am in the process of divorce from my first wife. I have five children, all of which live with mom in the UK. My eldest has autism, and I have to be mindful of her. How would she react if she saw daddy on tv being made fun of?

I stop myself there. I think she would be proud of me. I did not have a great childhood, but if I can show my children that despite all of the hardship I have had that I kept going and never stopped trying to help they will be proud of me.

So I need some help. This is my public call to the progressive wing of the Democratic party. I need training and direction. I hereby declare my wish to represent progressive values on the national stage. I like to think that I am not a foolish man, and I know this path will test me. I understand this, and yet I now call for training and guidance. I am a Staff Sergeant, and I have skills from that life. I know that I have no idea how to run for public office, and I know I need to seek out training for this.

So I ask my readers, please, if you would like to seem me representing Washington state sometime in the next 5-10 years, please pass this to anyone you think could train me up and prepare me for this next stage of my life.

Thank you so much, and again, if there is anything I can do, please let me know.

Very Respectfully,

John Boulden

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