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234. When I ran for the waterboard

I thought I was gonna get paid, $50 a meeting or something. Which is not much, but for a guy who only made about $12,000 a year, it would have been something.

I was kinda happy that I was able, eventually, to get fairer water rate increases. Although tonight I was the only one in favor of more benefits for the workers. And tonight a guy came who is thinking of running for my spot (as a write in candidate (I chose not to file for another 4 year term so there are only two people who filed for 3 spots) is one of the richest guys in town. Very knowledgeable, I am sure, since he owns a construction company, but is he gonna give a crap about the working class? And is he gonna use the water board, as I hoped to, to go for higher offices?

My Congress run was a bit of a lark. I just lived in a district without a candidate, as I saw it. The woman said she was running in January, but by April still hadn't filed, or apparently talked to the press anywhere. So I filed on April 15th so Democrats would have a candidate. Then Cheryl filed and then another guy filed too, who doesn't even live in our district. I still wonder if that guy wasn't sent into my race in order to derail my campaign. Because Johnson County, where he hails from is a wealthy county and the Democrats there might not have liked my "tax the rich" platform. Cheryl still got 32% of the vote, which I figured our district had about 35% of yellow dog Democratic voters. I was hoping for 40% myself and think I would have put more effort into it. But that might not have mattered, because I ran myself ragged and still lost the primary.