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Letter to the editor: Dick Cates is right choice for district
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From Scott Laeser

Argyle

To the editor:

With just a few weeks until Election Day, we are all ready for the campaign ads to stop. While colorful yard signs are livening up roadsides more and more every day, we won't miss them when they disappear with the last leaves of fall.

But by Nov. 4, we have choices to make regarding who will represent our communities in 2015, and for our next representative in the 51st Assembly district, I think Dick Cates is the right choice. Dick has spent his lifetime building and running a successful farm in Spring Green and educating the next generation of Wisconsin farmers at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His service on his community's school board further demonstrates Dick's commitment to giving students the educational opportunities they need and deserve to lead successful lives.

One of our greatest obligations as a community is to provide children and young adults with an education that inspires and motivates them to pursue a career they can become excited about and succeed at. I know I wouldn't be where I am today without the educational opportunities I've been fortunate to have and the encouragement to pursue them. If we want our communities to flourish and remain strong and our region to grow, we need passionate and inspired young adults to operate our farms and start the small businesses of the future.

Dicks Cates is dedicated to giving everyone in our district the education they need to succeed. That means investing in our schools, supporting our teachers, and demonstrating leadership as a role model for our students. I am confident Dick will strive to make our government work for all of us, not by arbitrarily growing it or shrinking it, but by asking the tough questions about what it can do best and what it should avoid and then working with everyone, no matter their party or ideology, to move us forward.

We all have a voice in making sure our government works for the betterment of our community, and Dick Cates is the right candidate to represent the 51st Assembly District. Whoever you choose to support, please get out and vote on Nov. 4.