John Washington III Asks Where the Fight Is From Politicians Who Claim to Work for the People

John Washington III is challenging the gap between what politicians say during election season and what they do once they hold office. John Washington III wrote that every election season brings the same claims — "I'm working for the people," "I'm fighting for the people" and "I'm here to represent the people" — and John Washington III asked: "Where is the fight?"

On public safety, John Washington III asked where those same politicians are when police officers abuse their authority or engage in corruption. John Washington III asked why they are not fighting to hold corrupt police officers accountable, and why they are not standing up for the citizens who put them in office.

John Washington III then turned to property taxes. John Washington III asked why politicians always talk about lowering property taxes but never seriously discuss ending property taxes on the homes people own and live in, and why a family should spend 20 or 30 years paying off a home only to keep paying property taxes on that same home for the rest of their lives. "When do the people actually get to own what they worked their entire lives to pay for?" John Washington III asked.

John Washington III also questioned how a politician can campaign on lowering property taxes, get elected, and then vote for tax increases, and he asked how many citizens even know what is being voted on when those decisions happen. John Washington III closed the point with three questions he posed in the remarks: "Where is the transparency? Where is the accountability? Where is the representation?" John Washington III wrote that a politician cannot claim to be fighting for the people during election season and then ignore the issues affecting their everyday lives in office.