A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Kelly Sedinger

Would you ever consider running for political office? If so, which one?

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6 Responses to A Random Wednesday Conversation Starter

  1. M. D. Jackson says:
    January 16, 2013 at 1:33 pm

    I once ran for president of the Student Council at the University of British Columbia. I ran a lackluster campaign and came if third, just ahead of the "joke" candidate.

    My lack of any kind of business profile in my community (a writer? An Artist? You ain't a businessman!) and my appalling French (bilingualism is a must in Canadian politics) preclude me from running for any sort of public office.

  2. Roger Owen Green says:
    January 16, 2013 at 2:26 pm

    I was President of Student Govt in HS, and was involved in Student govt in college. But the only thing I'd run for these days is library trustee, because it's nonpartisan. Partisan politics suck in America.

  3. Kal says:
    January 16, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    I ran for University Student Coucil and represented my faculty of education. But that was just a scam to get free theatre tickets and party invitations. It was fun to be all corrupt.

  4. SK Waller says:
    January 16, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    Oh, hell no!
    🙂

  5. fillyjonk says:
    January 18, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    As SK said: Oh hell no!

    I'm too much of a people pleaser and worry too much about whether I'm doing the "right" thing. And I tend to take criticism as evidence that I'm an awful person who should never show my face in public again.

    So being an elected representative would DESTROY me.

    Also, after being on a volunteer beautification committee, where we spent six months carefully crafting a potential landscaping ordinance for new businesses (as in: You are not permitted to blacktop over your entire property) and then having a lawyer for a couple of the businesses come in and tell us how BAD and WRONG that idea was, and how it would hurt new jobs coming to the area, I just gave up any dreams of being able to make a difference that way.

  6. teflonjedi says:
    January 19, 2013 at 12:48 am

    I'd go for being the Premier of British Columbia…my French is not good enough for higher than that.

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