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ObviousThrowawayIsObvious [they/them, comrade/them]

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  • I want to run for office

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  • I hear you and meeting with the community is a big part of running a campaign. I'm in an org and work with other orgs so will definitely be doing this. It helps to be running for something because its easier to get people to come to a town hall for a "candidate" vs. "some activist organizer"

  • North Carolina Coast mass shooting suspect identified as Nigel Max Edge aka Sean William Debevoise, a US marine who had been deployed to Iraq and has a plastic plate replacing half of his skull

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  • A bit more BG on the race: I'm planning to run as a Democrat "in name only". I don't want that ballot line, but I feel its a necessary evil for a few reasons:

    In the US no one takes third parties seriously.

    Independent candidates typically don't win AND they have a much harder time getting on the ballot in the first place. I would have to gather thousands of signatures to get on the ballot at all if I took this route.

    I would be accused of "ballot splitting" if I ran on a separate ballot line and would get 0 attention as a result. The point is to get attention, not be written off as some sort of crank!

    I want to "block" this ballot line from a moderate Democrat.

    There's another person who is thinking of running, and she would be the Moderate Dem. She's a model Capitalist, in her 50s with kids and a respectable job, POC, member of the Chamber of Commerce, and doing a tiny house thing to help with housing. Tiny homes are a band-aid on a terminal wound. We need Socialism, not capitalist solutions that push us into smaller and smaller spaces or try to "public-private partnership" our way to solve these problems. I believe she's nice person with her heart in the right place, but her policy comes from the Capitalist world and will always be limited. This is the fundamental problem with Democrats: They can't even think of a solution to our problems outside of Capitalism! I'm convincing myself if she runs I should Primary her to at the very least challenge these solutions and maybe pull her left.

    My Republican opponent would be a African-American Christian conservative. He comes from the finance industry. In a past campaign one of his opponents ran ads attacking the fact he wrote a bad check in his 20s. This is the kind of weak-sauce attack I expect from Democrats. No one cares about that kind of petty crap. What I am worried about is this guy, being a person of color, will have some protection against me. He will probably call me racist even though I have 0 interest in attacking him directly. He's just a pawn of his corporate donors, but I'd like some advice on how to handle a local Candace Owens type without sticking my foot in my mouth.

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    ObviousThrowawayIsObvious [they/them, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

    I want to run for office