Politics

I am periodically totally verklempt about how enthusiastic people have been (both in person and online) about my running for office. Thanks, guys. Your support is everything. #runningforoffice

Really appreciate Alyx Pattison of Rodham Consulting taking time out of her day to give me a free hour of political consulting advice over the phone. This is a service her organization is offering for women running for office anywhere, and it was super-useful; I took a lot of notes. I recommend it to you

Pretty much every day since I filed to run for library board office, I have had to talk myself down from sudden insecurity attacks, of why in the world I would ask people to donate money to my campaign (something I’m going to have to start doing soon), or ask my friends to host events

Local friends (and interested non-locals), if you’re interested in helping with my campaign, I’m planning an organizational meeting in early January. There will, of course, be food. 🙂 PM me or comment below if you’d like to be on the planning list and possibly attend the meeting (maybe I’ll set up a Facebook group for us,

There’s this debate playing in the back of my mind, between being ‘realistic’ and ‘dreaming big.’ I don’t think it’s really a debate — overall, you need both, the people who work with the system you have for the improvements that are possible, helping people in material ways as quickly as possible, AND the people

I’m seeing a lot of people in my circles very upset today about the electoral college — I’m not one of them, for a variety of reasons.   1) I didn’t think there was any real chance the electors wouldn’t give it to Trump (so my hopes were neither raised nor dashed).   2) I’m actually…not

I’ve filled out my statement of economic interests and filed it with my petitions (due by 5 today), so I am now officially on the ballot for library board trustee. Trump must have filled out a similar form at some point in the running for president process, and I do not see how he can

I’m pretty sure that in order to run for office, I need to file my statement of economic interest tomorrow, and that to do so, I need to go downtown to the Cook County clerk’s office. I’m going to call tomorrow and make sure I actually need to do that, because it’s time-consuming and a

One thing I’ll be doing this week is setting up a separate bank account for campaign finances, because even though this is a small local race, and I may even be running unopposed, I’ve been advised that I do still need to do some work to convince voters to vote for me, which means at

Just had a nice little freakout at Kevin about what I’ve gotten myself into with this running-for-office thing. Imposter syndrome, we has it in spades right now. I told him how unnerving it was to walk into parties full of strangers and ask them to sign the petition to put me on the ballot. Why