Feel-good update: 16,000+ people have signed up to run for office
It’s time for the Olympics!!! And also some great Run for Something updates!!!
It’s time for the Olympics!!! And also some great Run for Something updates!!!
(I’m pretty excited about both things.)
Did you see this? Ross was published in the New York Times! There was a completely garbage column recently about how fewer people should run for office — obviously, we vehemently disagreed. Ross spit some hot fire:
The key to reducing partisanship is not to run fewer people. It’s this: Run good people in every race at every level. You don’t need years of political experience to serve well on a school board or in the state legislature. You need passion, a willingness to learn and more compassion than our president.
Opinion | Yes, Run for Office
To the Editor: In " Politics Shouldn't Be Like Open Mic Night " (Op-Ed, Jan. 26), Jonathan Rauch and Raymond J. La Raja…mobile.nytimes.com
Medill News Service has a great look at the movement of millennials running for office — and has great audio & video of a bunch of our Chicago-land candidates. These folks will give you good feelings. Bustle also talked to a bunch of women running for office, including our very own Bushra Amiwala.
(As an aside: 400 people came out to Bushra’s fundraiser last week. That’s not a typo — four hundred people came out to a fundraiser for a young woman running for Cook County Board. Ba-na-nas.)
We also joined Forbes for a long chat on why young people should run for office.
Another neat thing we did this week: We had a super special candidate conference call — Senator Brian Schatz joined to talk to 100+ potential candidates, answer questions, and get people fired up. So fun!
We had two events this last week: In D.C., we joined our partners at Emerge America for a joint fundraiser — turn out was great and people had a good time. In Denver, a committed crew of candidates and volunteers hung out at a bar on Thursday, talking through how they’re going to work together to win in Colorado. More events to come!
In Run for Something-adjacent news: As we keep promoting filing deadlines and working with state parties to fill out their candidate recruitment, we then like to keep tabs on the results… Ohio has recruited candidates for all 99 state house seats. Alabama has recruited for 70% of their state legislative races (up from barely 50% last cycle).
Oh, and don’t forget that just last week, in Missouri, a 27 year old Anheuser-Busch employee flipped a state house seat.
Finally, in Run for Something candidates-are-the-best updates:
Thanks for doing what you do to help all this happen. We’ve officially crossed 16,000 millennials recruited to run for office — so much to come!
Miss last week’s update? Catch up!
Feel-good update: Remember the State of the Union? That was LAST WEEK.
Every week seems to last a million years. Let’s relive them all together.medium.com