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Arlene Peck
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Biographical Information
Current Occupation/Employer
Retiree. Currently owns and manages residential rental property in the Spokane Valley area.
Significant career experience
Former Republican party activist who worked extensively in the Goldwater Presidential campaign and later supported the Ronald Reagan gubernatorial and Presidential campaigns. Now an active member of the Constitution Party of Washington and member of the Constitution Party National Committee.
Family
Native of Minnesota, has lived in the Spokane Valley since 1989. Married for 40 years, now widowed. Mother of one son. Active in church and teaching Sunday school and Bible studies since the age of 13.
Voter's Statement
As a member of the Constitution Party, I believe in placing sound governing principles ahead of politics, pragmatism, and the popularity contest that electioneering has devolved into.
Contrary to what some would have us believe, government is not an amoral entity. Every person elected to office will govern according to the influence of their personal moral values and spiritual beliefs, therefore, it is merely a question of whose values will be imposed.
I acknowledge that our rights come from God and are not dispensed by government. The proper function of government is to safeguard those rights, not regulate them.
I support small, unintrusive government, strictly limited to the role delegated to it by the Washington State and US Constitutions. All decisions made while in office will be based on these documents and Biblically prescribed moral values designed to protect the fabric of our society.
Though some may bristle at the thought of bringing together Christian belief and affairs of civil government, I firmly believe, as did the Rev. Charles G. Finney, that "God will bless or curse this nation (and our state) according to the course Christians take in politics."
It is time to take a stand.