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Very cool! I like how you also provide resource to get one's candidacy started
I didn't see it on the site, but there's also an advocacy group for science / STEM folks who want to run for the first time: http://www.314action.org/want-to-run/
Their energy proposal is fusion research... there are much better ways available.
My name is Jim Cupples and I work on RunForOffice.org Thank you for the suggestions and comments. 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…
My name is Jim Cupples and I work on RunForOffice.org Thank you for the suggestions and comments. 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…
Mostly, we want people to simply know what they can run for and how to get on the ballot.
Inaccuracies on the site are my fault. I work with amazing students, mostly from USC, and we put it together as best we can. The shapefile stuff is also sometimes wonky. A GIS student from UCLA is the awesome person behind that.
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…
"Almost certain" seems like an exaggeration. At my college (Yale), the "student government" was basically just a committee to plan Spring Fling. You can see their budget online: https://www.ycc.yale.edu/budget/
I'm not sure that's true, but I think that's a presumption that people make when thinking about education politics.
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…
Apparently they're looking for volunteers ( http://getinvolved.runforoffice.org/volunteer ). I'm not involved with the project (although seriously considering volunteering), and it looks like they mostly just have scraped state/federal senate/congress/governor information and plugged it in, but aim to add more.
County State Population Los Angeles County CA 10,100,000 New York City NY 8,400,000 Cook County IL 5,200,000 Harris County TX 4,300,000 Maricopa County AZ 4,000,000 San Diego County CA 3,200,000 Orange County CA 3,100,000 Miami-Dade County FL 2,600,000 Dallas County TX 2,480,000 Riverside County CA 2,290,000 San Bernardino County CA 2,000,000 Clark County NV 2,000,000 King County WA 2,000,000 Tarrant County TX 1,900,000 Broward County FL 1,835,000 Bexar County TX 1,818,000 Santa Clara County CA 1,800,000 Wayne County MI 1,775,000 Alameda County CA 1,580,000 Philadelphia PA 1,500,000 Sacramento County CA 1,445,000 Palm Beach County FL 1,370,000 Nassau County NY 1,350,000 Cuyahoga County OH 1,270,294 Hillsborough County FL 1,267,775 Orange County FL 1,169,107 Fairfax County VA 1,130,000 Contra Costa County CA 1,066,000 St. Louis County MO 1,000,000 Honolulu County HI 980,000 Bergen County NJ 938,000 DuPage County IL 917,000 Duval County FL 886,000 Ventura County CA 839,000 Pierce County WA 819,700 Montgomery County PA 812,000 San Francisco County CA 800,000 Multnomah County OR 766,100 Washington DC 658,000 Denver CO 649,000 East Baton Rouge Parish LA 445,200 St. Louis City MO 318,400 Livingston Parish LA 134,000 Ascension Parish LA 114,000 Grand Forks County ND 69,000 Lee County IA 36,000
County populations covered: 85,127,576
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Running for local office is not in fact all that expensive at all!
For a house representative, it is around 2M dollars every two years. That's 870M dollars of special interest money every two years and 7B dollars every four years. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/7-billion-spent-on-201...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Running for local office is not in fact all that expensive at all!
For a house representative, it is around 2M dollars every two years. That's 870M dollars of special interest money every two years and 7B dollars every four years. http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/7-billion-spent-on-201...