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lauradi7dwA lot has been made of the facts that volunteers working for the campaign of Virginia state legislator-elect Danica Roem knocked on 20,000 doors and that she won by focusing on local issues, which people found more important than her gender identity (she is an out trans woman). In Tulsa County, OK, the door-knockers for Allison Ikley-Freeman (who won by 30ish votes, after extensive ballot counting) discovered that some people didn't even know there was an election. It was really worth it. I keep thinking of Tip O'Neill. I saw him once walking in a parade in Cambridge. The person standing next to me said "There's Tip. Hello, Tip." I suspect he didn't really know O'Neill, but felt that he did, much as polls showed that 50% of Boston voters claimed to have met Tom Menino. Talking to the neighbors matters in politics.
Yesterday was Run for Office Day, according to people I follow on Twitter. Here's how:
https://www.runforoffice.org/
I'm not going to do it - student government at UNC-CH in the 1970s and being on Lexington's solid waste action team in the 1990s were more than enough for me, but I admire people who do the work.
Yesterday was Run for Office Day, according to people I follow on Twitter. Here's how:
https://www.runforoffice.org/
I'm not going to do it - student government at UNC-CH in the 1970s and being on Lexington's solid waste action team in the 1990s were more than enough for me, but I admire people who do the work.
