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Thank you for the comments and suggestions. We agree with the comment on student governments, by the way, and would be happy to include them.
Anyone can email me at jimcupples@gmail.com if they like
Stale data, unfortunately. I could run for the US federal legislature, with an election day of Nov 8, 2016. Also, no local elective offices in my jurisdiction.
Yeah, and it isn't like it is Nov 9 and they didn't have a chance to update the data. It mostly had high level state and federal ones here (I know all of them already). Where are all of the local ones? Great Expectations on my part I guess...
I know this might run somewhat counter to the point of the site, but I'd love more information about what the effective qualifications for filling the positions are. Obviously any moron can get elected, but that doesn't mean I'd feel particularly good about, for instance, running for SF Public Defender without being a lawyer, or city treasurer without any background or knowledge in finance.
I'm a politics nerd that likes local government, and believe it has dormant power for movements. I wrote a piece called The Bottom Carries the Top that explains my thoughts on that stuff.
Anyway, I agree with many of the comments and we think the university positions is a great idea.
If you like, feel free to email me at jimcupples@gmail.com or cupples@nationbuilder.com
Hope to hear from you
This doesn't appear to include student offices, which, especially at large state universities, are very powerful and misunderstood. If you are a student, consider running for student office. It's likely (in fact almost certain) that your student government makes more decisions that impact your life and spends more of your money than the national government does. They typically have multi-million dollar budgets, seats…
This doesn't appear to include student offices, which, especially at large state universities, are very powerful and misunderstood. If you are a student, consider running for student office. It's likely (in fact almost certain) that your student government makes more decisions that impact your life and spends more of your money than the national government does. They typically have multi-million dollar budgets, seats…
Although it can still be used as a bully pulpit and sometimes extract concessions by producing enough bad press or student anger, I think alas that a lot of what you mention in your last sentence has already happened. On the University of California Board of Regents, for example, students have 1 out of 26 seats, and in recent years are usually in the minority on votes, so the student representative is there more or l…
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True. And, if you see a news report about somebody whose positions you like deciding to run ... send them a campaign contribution. Running for office is quite costly these days, and no-strings-attached contributions are really helpful. (Many contributions have strings attached. Yours doesn't have to.)
Running for local office is not in fact all that expensive at all!
Stale data, unfortunately. I could run for the US federal legislature, with an election day of Nov 8, 2016. Also, no local elective offices in my jurisdiction.
It's unlikely your local governments have added or subtracted a lot of positions since the last election, so just look at the 2017 elections on the list.
This would be much more useful if they displayed some election statistics and information on incumbents and political parties. The stated purpose of the tool is: > Today, 40% of state legislature races go uncontested and the problem is worse at the local level. There is a crisis of leadership occurring in our democracy. We need more people to lead. We need more people to run for office. > Run for Office is a free ser…
I think of David Brat beating House Speaker Jared Cantor in 2014 as being the canary in the coalmine.
There's never an apples to apples comparison, but Cantor had Brat outraised by over 20 to 1, and Brat beat him. On top of that, campaign messages are more and more delivered and received via free mediums, like YouTube, which brings the cost of a campaign down tremendously.