#runforoffice — Public Fediverse posts

Help your campaign succeed

Acquiring and holding public office is a serious challenge for anyone,
tools like the #RunForOffice site make for a helpful place to start

– what offices are up for election in your neighborhood?

https://pol-rev.com/run/

What It’s Like to #RunforOffice as a Young, #Blind Person;
#Disabilityrights are at the heart of Madeline Ryan Smith’s #campaign against a twenty-term #GOP incumbent.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/madeleine-smith-georgia-house-blind-campaign-disability/

The wave of #antitransgender #bills is motivating #trans #people to #runforoffice.

A new #study found that #LGBTQ+ #candidates are particularly #motivated to run for office and also face unique obstacles.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Politics #DemocraticParty #Allies #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/the-wave-of-anti-transgender-bills-is-motivating-trans-people-to-run-for-office/

I was today years old when I learned that a Cormorant Village, Minnesota, had a dog as a mayor. 🐶 Big fluffy Duke served four terms of one year each (that's 28 dog years!).

Read/ listen to the proof (incl. a song about Duke) here:
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/27/698700400/duke-the-beloved-dog-mayor-of-minnesota-township-passes-away

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs #Election #Mayor #Minnesota #RunForOffice #USA #FunFact #Politics #NPR

Scary stuff:

In a conference room near the #Capitol, #YoungConservatives gathered in April to learn how to #RunForOffice —how to #win & #wield #government #power.
Among the keynote speakers at the summit, hosted by a grp devoted to “training #America’s future statesmen today,” was #JeffreyClark, the fmr snr #DOJ ofcl who in 2020 sought to use federal #law enforcement power to undo…#Trump’s defeat.

#NationalSecurity #Conspiracy #Fraud #Republican #GOP #Criminal #CoConspirator #Ethics #democracy