Have any of you ever run for public office?

I have and it wasn't easy. That's why it bothers me when I see so many being unkind to fellow democrats some may oppose, who have agreed to run.

Let's chill out and vote FOR the ones we want and not against those we don't. K? Positive = Win!!!! :-)

I've also run a couple campaigns for things like school board and county recorder. It's a full-contact sport!

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and found out I don't play dirty enough. Very disheartening.

floating around somewhere, lol.

You got a lot of 'splainin' to do.

Such experience makes it all the easier to differentiate the real world activists from the purely keyboard commando types.

It ain't nearly as easy as it looks. :toast:

Julie

and the glory guys who only go to an occasional meeting

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Thanks, Julie, for all you do.

I lost to a popular, moderate, incumbent Republican. I never stood a chance. But it wasn't ugly, it didn't need to be. In fact, I do not believe he ever went door to door, just did a few mailings in the last few weeks of the campaign basically reminding the voters that he was the Republican in the race.

Last year the incumbent lost in the primary to a very right-wing challenger. I didn't run again, but persuaded a fellow Democrat to do so. That campaign got ugly in the end, with nasty mailings from both sides. The Dem won by three votes.

Howard Dean wants more of us to be like you. Thanks for hanging it out there. You rock, lady!!

politically active. And he was the single largest donor to my campaign. I got $500.00 from Democracy for America, the maximum any one individual or group can contribute to a Kansas State House candidate.

I served 3 terms starting in 1998 but took a break in 2004. I haven't decided whether I'll go back but certainly not in the near future. Many people have no idea how hard it is on one's personal life.

Nonetheless, I have no regrets from those yrs. I authored and passed some great legislation and overall feel I did a pretty good job. One of my favorite part(s) was "taking out" a 10 term Republican in a district only 24% Dem :evilgrin: It was on my third try granted, but I finally did get him. :-)

Thank you so much Sheila for trying. It's not easy to put yourself out there. But you did, and it's much more then many do. And don't forget, you can always try again when the time is right... I guarantee that whatever you accomplished in 2004 will work in your favor if you decide to try in 08 or even as distant as 2010...people may not know why but your name will still sound familiar to them somehow. :-)

But getting back to the point of this thread....I really hope we Dems will restrain ourselves from tearing each other apart in the upcoming primaries. I hope our candidate (whoever he or she may be) emerges with a nomination unblemished by infighting. We can't lose sight of the greater goal.

My father ran for a local school board job and won easily over a few terms.

My mother ran for a council position and it was ruthless. My father had paid for yard signs with her face on it (nice photo of her smiling) and the opposition goons would go around the neighborhood defacing the signs and her face on the signs. It became a mission for my Dad to go around the neighborhood with ink remover and remove the ink and tape back the tears and rips. An odd Shakespearian love story...

She lost by a dozen votes.

blaaah!!!

That's why I think all these be nice to the candidates posts are ridiculous. Nobody ever is.

I lost, but I have won two other intra-party elections where voters voted at the polls.

I've also worked on a couple of campaigns which is also rewarding.