I am a Candidate for Public Office

[kroxquo]

For many years, I taught about civics literacy and concerned myself with promoting fair and equitable treatment for everyone, but never actually felt involved myself. Until today. I am officially a candidate for the School Board of Jones County, NC

[elwoodblues]

Good luck.

[Beebs52]

Good luck!

[tlynn78]

Cool!

[silverscreenselect]

Good luck! You'd have my vote if I could vote in North Carolina.

[flockofseagulls104]

Good Luck! I probably disagree with your position on a lot of issues, but not your right to do what you think is your civic duty.

I WAS elected to a public office. The party I belong to voted for my appointment to our county's election board. It was unanimous. Unfortunately, the other party didn't much like me. I know what's in the voter roll and what the law says about it, and they decided they didn’t want me on the election board. They got their minions and NGOs together and manufactured a social media campaign for the benefit of the judge who was charged with the usually ministerial job of officially appointing me. By law, each party gets 2 seats on the board. They convinced the judge to deny my election and refuse to appoint me by accusing me of being an 'election denier', among other things. (They must not see the irony in that.) The judge never even bothered to talk to me, or the county party directly, this being a democrat controlled county and all. The wording of the law in my county doesn't have the word 'shall' in it, so there was no use in fighting it. In my county, the democrats apparently get to choose who the republican appointees are. I guess it's sorta like the Senate Blue Slip.

They think the same thing in SSS's county. I have two friends in that neighboring county who SHALL be appointed to the election board by their County Commissioners, who have been ordered to by the court to the tune of a $10,000 a day fine for every day they don't appoint them. But like good democrats in Fulton County and nationwide, they believe laws and court orders they don't like don't apply to them, only to everyone else. They are stalling and delaying, and the county appeals court is taking its time in making a ruling. So, the Republican Party does not have equal representation on the Fulton Board of Elections. Ho Hum. What else is new? I hope your county is a little less corrupt than metro Atlanta and you get to serve if you are elected.