"Will the Leaders Finally Come Home?"

You have the million dollar buildings located in impoverished communities, and in some instances, one on every corner but you reside outside the city. The neighborhoods that you serve are drowning in a myriad of problems including unemployment, living at or below the poverty line, increasing teen violence, teen pregnancy, and teens dropping out of school by 8th grade, illiteracy and senior citizens who are afraid to leave their homes for fear of being victims of a crime in a lawless society. You do little or nothing at all to offer effective solutions to improve the quality of life for the people you represent.

Will the leaders come home?

You claim you want to serve your community as an elected official because the community you reside in is impoverished and bereft with violence, and yet once elected, you relocate so far from the community that residents have to put out a missing person's report to locate you. When you do return to the place that you promised to serve, the visits are so infrequent that your constituents hardly recognize you.

Will the leaders come home?

Just visiting the community you're invested in that demands effective leadership is not enough. People don't follow big buildings, fancy cars, clothes and hollow promises--they follow courage, strength, compassion, integrity, and loyalty.

We're concerned about our children because their role models are the drug dealers, the pimps, and the carjackers. But where are the ministers, the priests, rabbis, the elected officials, the entrepreneurs, the attorneys, and the doctors to guide them to be productive servants for humankind?

Will the leaders come home?

Our broken communities have been degraded, fleeced, overlooked by politicians, and finally, abandoned by those that were suppose to motivate, empower, and be the beacon of light that the youth, adults, senior citizens, and families need. And so we continue to wait. We wait but for how much longer?

Will the leaders finally come home?



Anthony P. Johnson, Candidate for State Representative for 42nd Ward & 180th District
647 East Raymond Street
Philadelphia, PA 19120
215-744-1773
215-715-0355
antho@earthlink.net