Happy birthday to Anne Marie Murphy! The company was congenial, her homemade desserts, as always, delicious. I particularly appreciate people being willing to take my bookmarks and buttons and hear about my library board campaign. I would feel like a total noodge on the subject, except that people have been so nice, and seem genuinely […]
Immigration rally in support of the coming vote Monday night that we hope will make Oak Park a welcoming village, with strong protections for our immigrant neighbors. I wasn’t surprised, but I WAS pleased, to see a really large crowd out in Scoville Park, despite the cold. Nice words from State Representative Camille Lilly, among
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This morning, all the local candidates were invited to a two-hour iGov meeting (at the gorgeous new Austin Gardens park building) where we learned the basics of how the various taxing bodies in our municipality interacted with each other. I know — thrilling stuff! But it was actually pretty interesting, esp. when the tax
Wednesday night, I went to the Democracy for America rebooting meeting. This org started as Dean for America, and after Obama won, they mostly went defunct for several years. But they’re back now, and there was a lot more interest than they anticipated — about 60 people, instead of the 6 they expected. The leader,
Having a little campaigning angst. I keep feeling that with the nation in flames, if I have extra time, I should be pouring it into fighting things at the national level, or at least state, not just local. Yes, running for anything is important, and important change happens at the local level, and yes, my
The Wednesday Journal (local paper) published my piece about the march. 🙂 Thanks to Kelly O’Keefe for encouraging me to write something! I hope it’s a good piece — I was trying to capture a little of the sense of the march, make it clear that women were marching for a broad coalition of issues, not just reproductive justice
Yesterday evening, I went to an hour and a half info session at the library about the new District 97 referendum, and yes, it will raise our taxes, which hurts, especially in this time when so many of us are stretching ourselves thin with donations and support — but I am now convinced that it is
Campaigning isn’t all work — sometimes it’s just yummy. Amanda Daly invited me to her church group yesterday, where they were doing their annual ‘cook as many dishes as possible from an Ina Garten cookbook and vote on your favorites’ party. She introduced me to many of her friends, and told them all that I
I don’t know how introverts ever run for office. Maybe they don’t. I am still trying to wrap my head around how being a public servant requires a goodly portion of the job to be campaigning (and a goodly portion of campaigning is fundraising). The sheer number of hours you spend meeting people has startled
