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It’s February – 5 Things You Should Be Doing Right Now
Make reservations to have a romantic evening with your sweetie. Check the Planbook, man, and keep your priorities straight! File for office if your deadline is in February – you should have checked...
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How to Run for City Council – Get A Grip
NYC City Councilman Christine Quinn – I just like this pic of her. She doesn’t actually look much like this in real life. Running for city council is a lot like running for any other office…and yet...
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How to Run for City Council – Paperwork
Ah, the bane of my existence, paperwork. I hate the seemingly endless stream of paperwork that accompanies running for office. The good news, if you’re running for city council, is that the...
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How to Run for City Council – Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Chandler for Borough President! Now that you’ve gotten your paperwork in, you’re really running for city council! Except not really, at all. Anybody can slap their name on some forms and drop them...
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It’s March – 5 Things You Should Be Doing Right Now
Top o’ the month, to you, my faithful politicos! I’ve got another monthly update for you. Let’s touch base with what your campaign should be doing now that spring is nearly upon us…we hope. It’s time...
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How to Run for City Council – Know Your District
Guess what! It’s time for a geography lesson! Clearly, you need to know where your district actually is if you are going to run and win a political campaign there (duh). But district boundaries can...
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Why You Should Campaign Like Neel Kashkari
Guest post by Matthew P. Today, the GOP candidate for Governor of California, Neel Kashkari, released a documentary video and accompanying WSJ op-ed detailing his experiences as a homeless man in...
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How to Run for City Council – Finding the Magic Number
If you’re super lucky, you’re running for city council in a district that has embraced technology and has all the election data for the past several election cycles, broken down by precinct and in...
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Can I Win? Analyzing Voter Data
Now that we know how to mine the data we need, it’s time to put it to work for us. Analyzing voter data is not much fun. It’s mind-numbing, in fact. But it’s the type of thing where if you stare at it...
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It’s May – 5 Things You Should Be Doing Now
May is quite possibly my favorite time of the campaign year; It’s warm and sunny but not blazing hot like mid-summer, and the campaignable (I totally made that word up) events are starting. “But the...
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It’s September – 5 Things You Should Be Doing Now
It’s September! Welcome to the semi-official beginning of “Campaign Season!” “What?!?” you say? “But I’ve been working my tail off for eight months already!?!?” Yes, yes you have. But not highly...
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It’s October – The One Thing You Should Be Doing
October is about one goal, and one goal only: talking to voters. You need to be walking your district as much as possible. For you that may be every single day, three weekday afternoons and the...
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What I Learned Running for Political Office (Part 1)
Yep, you read that right. I, the behind-the-scenes political consultant type, ran for a local political office this past year. And I learned a TON. I also RELEARNED a ton as well. I almost don’t...
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Calling All Mommies – Why YOU (Yes, YOU!) Should Run for Local Political Office
We need more women in government leadership. More specifically, we need more MOMMIES in government leadership, and not just because Congress looks like a play date gone horribly wrong. Think about...
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How to Run for City Council – Get A Grip
NYC City Councilman Christine Quinn – I just like this pic of her. She doesn’t actually look much like this in real life. Running for city council is a lot like running for any other office…and yet...
View ArticleHow to Run for City Council – Paperwork
Ah, the bane of my existence, paperwork. I hate the seemingly endless stream of paperwork that accompanies running for office. The good news, if you’re running for city council, is that the...
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How to Run for City Council – Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Chandler for Borough President! Now that you’ve gotten your paperwork in, you’re really running for city council! Except not really, at all. Anybody can slap their name on some forms and drop them...
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9 Reasons Why You Should Run for Local Office in 2019
You have been thinking about it for a long time. There are some issues in your community that really bother you. You have ideas about how problems could be solved, but you don’t have a platform for...
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