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Intent to run for office

Submitted by Starwing on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 12:56am.

Greetings all!

After much interpersonal debate, chatting with business owners, patrons of said businesses, and consulting with family and friends, I have decided to run for Olympia City Council, Position 2.

However, I have run into a major snag.

I have, after much searching on the 'net, found absolutely NOTHING as far as information on how to get my name on tha ballot. My next step is to go down to City Hall and ask them, but I suspect that the Powers That Be may not have that information readily availible. Being a "political outsider", I also suspect that the reason such information is not made availible to the general public (via the internet) is because those in power do not wish to lose it.

Indeed, when I go down to City Hall, I expect to be pointed to a filing cabinet and told: "If you want to run, the information is somewhere in there, somewhere."

Can anyone please point me to a resource that doesn't involve me leaving my house?

Thank you in advance. Here's a web-version of my campaign poster for your enjoyment.

Starwing's blog
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Good luck

Submitted by stevenl on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 1:24am.

Starwing, go file at City Hall as if it is your right, because it is. If they hassle you, then report it here at OlyBlog.

Thanks!

Submitted by Starwing on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 2:27am.

I'll go down to City Hall tomorrow right after work. I appreciate the suggestion of posting any unpleasantness which I may have.

In fact, if I have any problems, it will *proove* something about the local government: that it must be renovated. This confirms 90% of the reasoning behind my desire to "throw my hat in the ring" as it were.

I've always been outspoken politically (even when I thought I was a Republican... *shudder*) but witnessing --via the Idiot Box-- scandals (Nixon), scandals over scandals (Ford pardoning Nixon), assasination attempts of Presidents (Ford, Reagan), media butchering of numerous Senators, etc... one would have to be exceedingly crazy to enter the political landscape.

I suppose I must be driven.

I'm (pardon my French) pissed off *SO* much by witnessing my freedoms eroded; the gap between rich and poor being widened; the government wrigling its way into my life in far too many ways to count; my tax money going to causes in which I do NOT believe... all of this reminds me that this is no longer the great Nation for which my ancestors fought and died.

You cannot change the Nation without changing the communities which make up said Nation. I am only one man. I can only revise the world around me. (After all, I don't live in Washington D.C. like our Senators and Congerss-folk.)

Perhaps with my ideas for local reformation and the support of liberty loving citizens, a more positive and prosperous environment will be created.

Maybe --just maybe-- others will witness this rejuvination, build their own models, and what began here will become a New Heartland. I envision Olympia becoming a paradise.

I'd like the world to be paradise. [Like the bumper-sticker says: "Think Globally. Act Locally."]

Hence, I must run for office.

I must be crazy to be this driven.

--== S T A R W I N G ==--

Don't go to city hall, while

Submitted by emmettoconnell on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 7:02am.

Don't go to city hall, while your running for a city office, you have to register at two places:

1. The Public Discloure Commission. You have to file with them ASAP. Acutally, within two weeks of when you first posted this here. Here is the page with all the resources you'll need.

2. County Auditor. This is the office that will actually "get you on the ballot." Here is the page with that info. You don't file with the auditor until June though, so hold tight.

Good luck, and thanks for posting here. Hope to see you around!

Nice... Go get em!

Submitted by oldtimeydave on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 8:30am.

Nice... Go get em!

www.satanosphere.com/comments

Submitted by Bricks Jesmin on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 4:34pm.

www.satanosphere.com/comments/2002/5/22/75254/3185/10

Olympia is a nuclear-free zone.

Yes, Oly is nuclear free. I'd like to keep it that way.

Submitted by Starwing on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 9:54pm.

So long as you have posted the comments to the story, I think it's only fair that people get a direct link to the whole story. One may also wish to consider the date of the posting as well.

http://www.satanosphere.com/story/2002/5/22/75254/3185

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Whoa

Submitted by Norm on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 10:12pm.

Am I reading that wrong, or are you advocating for the US to drop a nuclear device in/on Afghanistan? I realize this was almost 5 years ago, but WOW.

This is getting WAY off topic....

Submitted by Starwing on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 11:06pm.

... so I'll keep it short.

I was agreeing with Mr. Bell that a limited nuclear engagement may be necessary in order to win the war on terror. Use of nuclear weapons is not idea that I like, but it may be inevitable.

Some of my views have changed over the years, and thus I will refrain from attempting to defend something I wrote five years ago.

Let's all remember that this is a local election, not a national one. I'd like to use this forum to discuss issues relevant to Olympia today, not rehash debates over national and international concerns.

--== S T A R W I N G ==--

Paradise

Submitted by Sarah on Sat, 01/20/2007 - 10:39am.

Do you have campaign manager(s) yet?

Not yet...

Submitted by Starwing on Sat, 01/20/2007 - 6:40pm.

But I am looking. :)

--== S T A R W I N G ==--

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