VetOfTheSeasPortland judge says she’s too busy running for reelection to oversee trials
melsaskcaThis is why I have not made a political run. Being a good representative is a job I think I could excel at, but I can’t stand the obligatory glad handing and angling to be elected first though.
Money does not win elections as much as they say, you are the one we need in politics. You need to run out of civic duty, if you can be popular enough to win, and I believe you can.
I agree that money isn’t everything in a run, but it’s in the same way that money doesn’t buy happiness: you have to have a baseline amount to contribute to get your name out–or not be suffering in the case of happiness.
So for me there are really 3 routes:
Congress. My district is deep red because of gerrymandering. My congressman is a second generation congressman and their resting warchest is about $3M. I’m fairly certain if he wins this time it will be at least his 3rd term maybe his 4th.
State representative. This position is held by one of my personal friends and I’ve worked for her campaign. She does a good job. Her district is now also super gerrymandered and is solidly blue.
State senate. Gerrymandered red, but the candidate worked for our ex governor / university president and is politically clouty. I don’t really know how to break in here but it’s more feasible than, say, being an actual senator.
The problem is, by local DNC guidance–and they are mostly shit heels and massively underprepared in my area–they want you to bring money, a campaign manager, and odds and ends parts of a team before you get their support. I don’t WANT to kick in 20k, and have 12 friends who will give at least $1000.
More than I don’t want that though, I don’t want to go to people’s houses, knock on the door, ask them what they think about issue XXX, and then say thanks and walk away after giving them a flyer after they tell me something pants on head idiotic. People are by and large ignorant, stupid, or both, and it’s very difficult for me not wear that on my face. I have enough friends, I don’t want to go to neighborhood chili cookoffs and kiss babies, and I don’t want to go to weekly mixers. I want to read legislation and politic. The whole business of elections is a drag. It’s not that I’m autistic or something and I don’t understand people or hate public speaking (I quite enjoy that) or that I CANT navigate social situations, it’s that I have a young family and I don’t want to dick with earning social credits.
I decided instead to join my HOA board to try to do some good, and that has cured me of wanting to do anything like city council; the juice isn’t worth the squeeze.
You don’t have to play politics in those old ways, they don’t work for us anyway. You have to be populist, rail against some villains, you could do it all from your den/study on the internets. Trust me, you can do it.
All that is left to do is get my supervisor to buy in: this HOA thing has left a bad taste in her mouth for fringe people with more time than sense. Time will tell.
wavebeamYes it does. I ran for city council in 2020, thinking this same thing. I had 6 years experience in the parks board, founded a local youth non-profit, and a VERY clean record and internet presence. I lost to a lawyer with a very public sexual harassment case that he settled. I was like 28 and did not have money. I thought I could win it on my pretty well stacked experience in public service. I was wrong.
The other complication is that I was deemed to be “liberal” and my idiot opponent was deemed to be “conservative” in a non-affiliated position. To be fair, those were accurate designations. My town is very conservative. And my biggest win on parks was enacting a parks maintenance fee so… ¯_(ツ)_/¯
My own father, also running for council, endorsed my opponent. Also, my opponent was such a jackass that he was asked to step down… by my father (who won his race)
Yeah. It looks quite specific.
catbumTangentially related question: is Kenny lemmy frequently snapshot or archived in any form that’s retrievable or moderately accessible for people to look for deleted comments?
I remember short-lived websites for briefly posted but deleted reddit comments. And yes, I mean the websites themselves would go offline quickly, too. I am computer dumb (though I manage to tread water in this sea of whatever the fuck a fediverse even is) but is this what API can be used for?
WesDym@catbum There used to be a number of websites and tools parallel to reddit, including one that archived deleted comments. (Though usually not 'briefly posted' ones: Reddit's engine affords a 'brief' window in which original posts are not stored, and it would be difficult to capture those.)
Reddit eventually stopped allowing free use of its API, effectively shutting down those tools.