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Phoenix61

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2. I have a friend who was a county commissioner

Reply to qwlauren35 (Original post)

Thu Jan 25, 2018, 02:49 PM

Jan 2018

I'm in a deep red area and he ran as a democrat. He said he'd been one too long to change just because he was running for office. Anyway, one of the things he said that surprised me was not to use your own money. His point being that if you needed to do that it meant you didn't have the votes you needed to win. He also said you need a lot of volunteers, a whole lot. We had the same mayor for 20 plus years when a school guidance counselor ran against him and won. My friend explained that the mayor was so sure he was going to win and his friends we so sure he was going to win they didn't phone bank. The school guidance counselor did and it paid off big time.

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