One of the best perc from being the Treasurer of the County Democratic Party

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3. well anybody can man those booths

you don't HAVE to be treasurer to do it. I have done lots of it myself, and also at the party headquarters. For this county though it is usually a lot of sitting around. In the 2010 election there was an old fellow who came by most days and we spent a lot of time playing chess. There was not much else to do, although the state party had hired a field organizer to try to retain a legislative seat. So her people also came and went.

There was also the usual housekeeping stuff to do. Emptying the trash, cleaning up after the other volunteers. The toilet stopped up and the building had no plunger. I went home to get my own and discovered I had no plunger at home either. Which I thought was pretty funny. I had lived in that house for nine years and never had need of a plunger. So I bought one for a couple of bucks.

A few people come in to register to vote, but not that many.

No ethnic festivals to go to. Just the County Fair and a few city events and the fourth of July parade in a little town.

Fortunately not that much about egos or purposely destructive people, although one county chair and some others did nominate me to be treasurer and I refused because I thought the current treasurer was doing a capable job. The chair on the other hand, was not doing all that much.