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[mopinko]

48. it can suck.

i've only run for office twice-
once, in '75, i ran to be the 1st student trustee on the board of my community college. i won.

2nd time- after being appointed and then re-elected 'by acclimation' twice, to my ward dem party.
we never had more candidates than seats, so there was no point in balloting.
when we finally had more candidates than seats, guess who got voted off the island? yup. me.
because i support charter schools. we have one of the best schools in the country that is a charter. and an old catholic hs that had to close it's doors had just been taken over and became a spanish language school.

it just happened that the room was stacked w teachers. the ag was the guest speaker, and she had pissed off the teachers. most of them were ppl we never saw.
it's not like i made a speech. i just chatted up one of the nuns from the old school, a long time active member. i ended up arguing w one of them, batting back the usual talking points.
i had 5 kids, crazy geniuses, that went through every part of the system here, w mostly disastrous results.
then he asked me- who told you your kids were gifted? i lost my cool. i wanted to punch him, but i just walked away, rather loudly saying- i'm done here.

so, yeah. never doing that again.