Precinct Elections

The deadline for filing for candidacy is noon on the 10th of February - a mere three weeks away. So far I've seen a dearth of applicants on the sheet in Lake County (I can't find anything online for Porter - put link in comments if you have one). All politics is local, and nothing is more local than the precinct captain. You can have your city chairman (or woman) ask the county chairman to appoint you to a precinct in your town, or you can run for your own home precinct and be less at the whim of your "bettors." Reading blogs is fun, writing even more so. But if you feel like getting involved of the process of making the sausage, now is the time to do it. I'd like to see how many bloggers and commenters step up. Gearhart did by winning town council. Tracy ran for county office and gets credit for that. And if you're in my precinct, you can stop on by and genuflect to me since I am my precinct's elected boss - actually it's more like the boss washes everyone else's feet at the table, but anyway. If enough of you like minded folk get elected, you all of a sudden have a voting block in county. If you stay home, meh. "I coulda been a contender, I coulda been somebody..." etc.