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Steve Adams Announcement Speech

August 30, 2011

I want to thank my friends and supporters for joining me today as I announce my candidacy for Coeur d’Alene City Council. I am running because I am “for” this city. I am “for” the heritage of our city of Coeur d’Alene and “for” the future that we together will make as proud citizens of the Lake City.

I love this city. Like my friends and neighbors this is the place I have had my darkest days as well as my brightest moments. This is the community I was born and like thousands, this is the community I chose to raise my family. It is the place we worship God and each day we work, strive and build businesses to support our families and make a life in this uniquely beautiful place. Coeur d’Alene is our home and it is worth fighting for.

The people of Coeur d’Alene deserve a voice and a vote in our mutual future. We cannot be a city in which the few decide what is best for the many. We are a community of thousands of voices, each deserving to be heard no matter who we are, what office we hold or what we own. This is a community of families and neighborhoods, churches and schools, shops and business . . . and a few politicians, government boards and bureaucrats should not hold the monopoly on the decisions about our future.

We, the people deserve a vote on the expenditure of millions in tax dollars on a park whether the check is written by the city or an agency created by the city. The people have the right to question exorbitant raises for city employees when over 10% of us are unemployed and most of us have our household budgets are stretched to the limit. The citizens are right in questioning why our tax dollars are going to fund art at a sewage treatment plant instead of fighting crime. Our city, Coeur d’Alene, is worth fighting for fiscal responsibility, public accountability and government transparency.

I have a different vision for our city. One of conservative government, safe streets and a prosperous economy. Many years ago President Ronald Reagan talked of his vision of a “City on the Hill”

“I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite

communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city

built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with

people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed

with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had

doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.

That's how I saw it, and see it still”

I believe in our “shining city by the Lake.” Together we can make our dream a reality. I humbly ask for your help and support in our endeavor to make Coeur d’Alene “a shining tall proud city.”

Thank You