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Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

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Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

#141

Is there any contact information for the site itself? The "APPLICATION GUIDELINES" and "submit application to" information for one of the positions I just viewed is inaccurate...

You can contact me directly at jimcupples@gmail.com and I'll have a Contact Us page up in a day or so.

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

#142

This does not seem to include any local offices... it begins at the state level for me. There are many city and county positions that are better beginnings.

Dang. That's not the intention. We do have limited coverage regarding the local offices. We have done 50 of the largest counties in the US, which totals coverage of about 85 million Americans, however, that's only a quarter of the population.

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

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post #97

What about local offices?

The purpose of the project is to do the local offices. If we don't have any for your county/town, it's just a matter of us not having volunteers for there. Local offices, in my perspective, is where all the opportunity and value is at.

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

#144
I'd suggest a reword to "might be eligible" or "your residence qualifies for" or somesuch. Some offices have their own specific requirements, such as age or technical qualification.

For example, to run for California Attorney General, one "Must be admitted to practice before the state Supreme Court for at least five years immediately preceding election or appointment to the office".

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

#145

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…

Jim, great work! Don't let the haters on here get you down. This is an amazing idea.

Thanks very much!!

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

#146

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…

Honestly, I have a lot going on right now but I strongly believe in this cause. I'm happy to volunteer if you need help in any areas.

We'd love it. http://getinvolved.runforoffice.org/volunteer/?recruiter_id=...

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

#147

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…

Not to pile on a ton of feature requests, I think the site is already great, but it would also be cool if it took age as an input, as some offices have age requirements.

You're right. We are going to have a more robust data set with those types of searchable features.

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

#148

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…

I entered 94541 (Hayward, CA) and it listed some mostly correct ones but also City Council seats for Aurora, IL. Great idea, btw

Ha. Correct. Ironically, today of all days we are having problems with our GIS. One of our stressed out engineers is working on it!

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

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post #51

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…

RunForOffice.org should have a Twitter handle.

Thanks, we do at @rfonb

Re: Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for

#150
I ran for elected office previously. It was a very educational experience. It was a state level office. While I didn't win, I had fun and planned on doing it again (I got sick in 2012 and 2016).

It cost me about $200 for my campaign, most of which went to GoDaddy for hosting. So don't think that you need a billion dollars to run for office (except if you want to run for US President).

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