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I've thought about this in the past. If I wanted to run for governor of my home state in 20 years, what are things that I could be doing today to move towards that goal? I'd assume it would be running for smaller offices to gain some political experience and creating relationships.
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…
Great idea, btw
For example, for women, there's this course:
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> A: People who vote straight party-line, no matter what. A toad could be on the ticket and they'd vote for it. Since the parents is discussing running for local office, I'm not sure why you think party comes in to play. Or perhaps this is a regional thing? In my city, party affiliations are not advertised/listed for positions such as city council, mayoral, parks board etc.
Interesting, I seem to recall party affiliation on most of the local positions on my ballot. Granted, not for things like library board member.
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Can confirm that it really works. I suggested to an old mentor a couple years back that he should run for office. He eventually (somewhat reluctantly) did, and found that it was surprisingly easy to get into, even without a large network of influence. It's pretty positively telling that even he, a fairly socially awkward guy, could get as far as he did. Since lots of tech folk fit that mold, it would be great to see…
Really simple toolbox for establishing a credible website, donation bucket, social media presence, self hosted email, mailing list, voter canvassing lists, news outlet contacts? Parties and big campaigns can set such things up for candidates, but could a functional - if less sophisticated - version of those tools be established for potential local candidates? (Perhaps, I'm just ignorant and such a toolset already exi…
However, it is showing me a lot of "Next Election" times that were last year. I guess the data needs some cleanup.
Also, President seems to be missing. :)
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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…
Even one student on the board can prevent improper use of executive session, which is a huge problem in education politics.
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I was actually thinking the same thing. Like it offered me the Attorney General position, but some quick googling shows me "...No person shall be eligible for election or appointment to the office of Attorney General unless he is a citizen of the United States, has attained the age of thirty years, and has the qualifications required for a judge of a court of record...". And I don't meet two out of three of those req…
At the very least the site should ask your age as well as your location. Otherwise, it'd show every US citizen as eligible to run for president, which obviously isn't true for anybody under, what, 35?