re: #403 Anymouse

I didn’t live here in 2008, and only moved here in 2012. I can’t say if anyone was here (but I doubt it).

In 2014, when I ran (village elections are non-partisan), I was known as an atheist, as an erotic Romance editor, as a long-haired hippie (well, I’m not really a hippie but my hair is down to my waist), and I beat the freakin’ gun shop owner in an open-carry state and unseated him from the village board.

We are not all just one monolith culture out here. Every employee of our village is an atheist. Our last village clerk was a lesbian rancher (poor Rush Limbaugh shuddered over those some months ago). The only monolithic thing about here is lots of sand dunes, cattle, and corn.

But my district ran Rep. Wingnut Adrian Smith unopposed. Next door to me in Wyoming, Liz Cheney ran unopposed. We won’t win if we don’t try, and our view has to be more than just the next election or the last election.

So we don’t have much of a presence here now (when we used to)? How do we build that so in six, twelve, or twenty years we can compete effectively?

“Well, NE-3 is too hard, so we will let Rep. Smith run unopposed (again)” doesn’t really get our message across.

So we get someone on the ballot in 2018. Then what? Do you we magically win that seat?