MP> >  MP> I don't really hold the party leadership responsible for it.  I hon
 MP> >  MP> believe there are not that many people who WANT to run for office. 
 MP> >  MP> you do it correctly, it takes a lot of time and dedication for what
 MP> >  MP> likely a very small return.
 MP> 
 MP> > The problem is that it's the committee chairman's job to find candidates
 MP> > has a job to do, and it's unacceptable for him to say "I couldn't find
 MP> > candidates."
 MP> 
 MP> If you ask people and they all say no, what do you do?

Keep asking around. If he asks every bus driver in the county, one of them will surely give up the spitwads for the county executive job.

Or he could do what the samurai does when he wants to avoid being captured. Anything's better than paving the way for Democrats.

 MP> Problem there would be that your chairman might be able to run for and
 MP> hold one office, but he likely cannot run for or hold multiple offices
 MP> at the same time.

He's making a lucrative career out of being a committee chairman. He should be running for office instead. The committee chairman doesn't have 40 hours worth of work to do in a week.

 MP> > I know people who are more qualified than me who could have ran for thes
 MP> > vacancies.
 MP> 
 MP> Well, there you go.  Probably the same thing that others think when
 MP> asked.

But if I were a retired judge and you were the Republican committee chairman for the county, and you were asking me to run, that would be way different.

 MP> > I even gave Benji a referral to a friend of mine who is a retired
 MP> > town justice, but he never replied to my email (instead he put me on his
 MP> > mass-email list, like a jerk.)
 MP> 
 MP> Do you know for sure that this person was not contacted?  A better
 MP> strategy would be to check with them first and see if they want to run,
 MP> then give them Bemji's contact info.

I don't know if he was contacted but I doubt it. There are also lots of other retired judges, retired police officers, and even current police officers and/or attorneys who could have been asked. It's not like we're asking them to run for president; we just need their name on a ballot, next to a letter R.

Democrats know the drill.

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