All politics is local. If you elect me, I won't screw you
Wow
Thursday, May 03, 2012
Forgot all about this blog.
Well, I won, and served two years. Then, my family and I moved. There was already a chairperson for my new precinct, and I've been working with and learning from her all this time.
There are things I don't like, about my county party, though things are slowly changing as more conservative get involved. Read 'slowly' as glacial.
Two years ago, the Tea Party gave us amazing energy, and the only ones to fight it harder than the liberal Dems, were our own 'moderate' Republican leadership.
I was asked to not attend the central committee meetings, any more, when, after a rather heated exchange, the Chairman asked me, "What, you one of those teabaggers?"
I said, "Why, yes, I suppose I am!" Then I asked him, if he was a Democrat in disguise, bent on the destruction of America, or just the destruction of the Republican Party, and stated that He surely sounded like a liberal.
My first benefit dinner. The local Young Republicans Club is putting it on.
Campaign Contributions are now being accepted. I need to repay loans I have taken from myself. This is rather confusing, and so are the reporting requirements. But I have help from the county HQ.
The whole idea is to keep campaign mony entirely separate from personal.
Thus I have had to open seperate accounts, start an LLC, and other "firewalls." You'd think they don't want people to run for office, with all the rules they put in place.
The gathering of petition signatures is complete. I got 75, just in case any are challenged. I'll take them to the Bureau of Elections tomorrow. I'll be on the ballot this spring. Unopposed would be good...
Well, I have to have 35 petition signatures. I have 28. 7 to go.
Knocking on doors, asking people for their signature isn't as hard as I thought it would be. A lot of the time the hard part is moving on to the next door. I've already filled one steno pad with issues people have. I'm not even on the ballot yet.
