One Giant Leap on The Road to Real Elections
My name is David R. Gillie. I am running to become your next Cache County Clerk, and I am asking for your vote this November.
In coming posts, I intend to share some of my thoughts on the often overlooked, but vital, role of the County Clerk in sustaining republican self-government. For now, let me touch on a central duty of the Clerk that has been foremost in my mind since I retired to this valley four years ago: his duty with regard to elections and election integrity.
Properly understood, the Clerk is only an enabler in a duty that we as citizens all owe to each other. That duty is to conduct open, honest elections at stated times, in stated places, on principles that have received our common consent, because they reflect respect for ourselves and each other and inspire confidence in ourselves and each other as citizens.
REAL ELECTIONS are something that REAL CITIZENS owe to and expect of each other.
One Giant Leap on The Road to Real Elections
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With 30 years of Navy service, rising to the rank of Commander, David R. Gillie's extensive experience in leadership, intelligence, and diplomacy makes him the right choice for Cache County Clerk.
The first American citizen in my family, I am passionately committed to our ever doubtful, ever hopeful, American Endeavor: to secure FREEDOM under LAW with and among our families, neighbors, and fellow citizens. I have devoted significant portions of my life to this noble endeavor, as an enlisted Sailor, as a Navy Officer, and as a professor and lecturer. By my candidacy to become your next County Clerk, I seek to make another contribution to this endeavor, this time in a sphere closer to home.
I enlisted in the United States Navy in 1989. Along the way, I earned an officer's commission and retired a Commander after 30 years' service. My service enabled me to make contributions to the American Endeavor of which I could scarcely have dreamed: I served as a diplomatic interpreter, inspected strategic submarine bases of the former Soviet Union and Russian Federation, directed Signals Intelligence and Information Operations at sea and ashore, conducted advanced research and development projects, helped to prepare significant war-making and force development decisions on major Navy and Joint staffs, and led some of our Navy's finest Sailors as Officer in Charge, Executive Officer, and Commanding Officer.
From time to time across the years, alongside primary Navy duties, I have taught Intelligence and National Security at U.S. Government civilian and military institutions, as well as at private universities, while occasionally lecturing on Foreign Affairs and American Civics in 10 states.
A widower with a second family, I am father to a son by my deceased wife, Amy Ellen Gillie. With my second wife, Lilian Gillie, I am adoptive father to a daughter and stepfather to three sons and three daughters.
Since retiring to Cache Valley four years ago, Lilian and I love serving in Church, working our tiny Logan farm together, and playing with our six โ soon to be seven โ grandchildren.
