(1) What is the area of greatest need for families today?
(2) What are your feelings about fathers' rights and equity in custody decisions?
Here are Mark's quick answers to your questions:
1) Greatest need for families today is in the area of respect, honor, faith, hope, and most importantly LOVE. When these are expressed, the family gains strength to meet the challenges in their life. Some families will need support and that is where the neighborhoods and communities come together to share in the experiences of life and support one another. There is a weakness in the interconnectivity of community. So, for me, faith, hope, and love represent the area of greatest need. Parental roles need to be understood as honorable, responsible, and accountable for the gift of children and families. Without Faith in the Hope that the Love (God) brings to us, we will continue to experience the struggles of family breakdowns.
2) I grieve at any prospect that a child will have at losing any parent. Custody decisions should be based on the environment that a custodial relationship would provide to the child in a beneficial way. Fathers have equal rights towards custodial relationships as do mothers. There should be no preconceived perspective and the facts of the situation should determine what is best for the child.
I hope my answers help you. May God bless you with His wisdom to make the right decision.
"Thank you Mark.
I sense genuineness and (very importantly to me) faith in your prompt reply to this voter.
You got my vote this morning.
Appreciated & May God continue to bless you!" A concerned voter regarding Families and Fathers
September 19, 2010: How would you balance the budget?
It is a matter of perspective.
It is about Debt Management, especially in this economy. Management
that strives to reduce the debt every year with a goal of bringing the
budget to a balance through a management style that does not allow the
debt to grow on top of itself and beyond controls established by the
debt management program. If a budget is presented to the legislature
and it contains items that are out of balance with the goal of debt
management, then those items need to be reduced to a level consistent
with the Debt Management's goal at the same time providing the services
within reason. Such management would consider/depend on/be reflective of the health of the economy
for the years before and after the budget year. This would be a "3
year" fiscal responsibility management program that assures the debt is
an equal priority in resolving within reason as the priorities of
public service operations budgeted every year. Each year the budget is developed, it reviews economic information from the past year, for the current year, and for the next year, to assure that the budget planning is in agreement with the Debt Management program.
Prepared by Citizens for Mark Ehrlichmann, PO Box 4882, Baltimore, MD 21211
Anne Ehrlichmann, Treasurer 410-542-1510
