In December 2016, I decided to enter local politics, running for library board. This portion of the journal chronicles the details of that race; I’ve separated it out in the hopes that it might be helpful to any one else thinking of running for local office.
Below is a full list of all the Politics entries, in order (starting late 2016). In most browsers, you can open them in new tabs by right-clicking. Alternatively, to read through the whole series without having to click to open each page, visit the category page.
- Support December 3, 2016
- Office December 7, 2016
- Retail Politics December 8, 2016
- Petition December 8, 2016
- Tired! December 8, 2016
- OPALGA December 9, 2016
- It’s time. December 11, 2016
- Notarized December 11, 2016
- Mohanraj For the People December 12, 2016
- Not (quite) as calm as I look December 13, 2016
- Banking December 13, 2016
- Statement December 19, 2016
- Forsworn December 19, 2016
- Electors December 19, 2016
- Debate December 20, 2016
- Setting up campaign December 20, 2016
- Imposter December 22, 2016
- Rodham Consulting December 23, 2016
- Verklempt December 23, 2016
- Campaign account December 23, 2016
- Mohanraj for Library Board December 25, 2016
- January Politics December 27, 2016
- Temperament December 30, 2016
- Money December 30, 2016
- Campaign headshot January 9, 2017
- Candidate Forum January 11, 2017
- Hidden Figures January 12, 2017
- Campaign photo January 14, 2017
- Campaing Fund-raising January 16, 2017
- Stylized January 16, 2017
- Bookmark! January 18, 2017
- Button button January 20, 2017
- Money in Politics January 22, 2017
- Campaign and Time January 24, 2017
- Observer January 24, 2017
- What Does Happen at a Library Board Meeting? January 24, 2017
- CrowdPac January 26, 2017
- CrowdPac January 26, 2017
- $1000? January 26, 2017
- Running January 28, 2017
- Ina! January 28, 2017
- Sundry February 1, 2017
- Wednesday February 2, 2017
- Campaign Angst February 3, 2017
- DFA February 3, 2017
- Endorsed February 3, 2017
- iGov February 4, 2017
- Baby’s First Rally February 4, 2017
- HBD February 5, 2017
- $2000+ February 6, 2017
- Book review: How to Win a Local Election February 6, 2017
- Medicine February 7, 2017
- Politics, potluck, and postcards February 12, 2017
- Meet / greet February 12, 2017
- Yard signs February 20, 2017
- Slate One-Sheet February 21, 2017
- Rick Perry and his Eggheads February 23, 2017
- Fund-raising February 23, 2017
- Talking February 25, 2017
- 45 February 27, 2017
- One month out (ish) March 2, 2017
- Taxes and ‘Diversity’ March 2, 2017
- How Does She Do It? March 2, 2017
- How did we get into this mess? March 3, 2017
- Canvassing March 4, 2017
- Canvassing March 5, 2017
- Not so trivial! March 5, 2017
- File under things I never thought I’d do March 7, 2017
- Shrimp March 7, 2017
- Match! March 8, 2017
- Active March 8, 2017
- Precincts March 8, 2017
- IWD March 8, 2017
- Yard Signs March 11, 2017
- Meeting and greeting March 12, 2017
- Baked March 12, 2017
- $5000 March 12, 2017
- Civic March 13, 2017
- So You’d Like to Help Mary Anne Win an Election March 14, 2017
- Home March 15, 2017
- Vernal March 20, 2017
- Book swap March 20, 2017
- Demo March 20, 2017
- OPAL! March 22, 2017
- Trust March 23, 2017
- Equity and Access March 25, 2017
- 216 March 25, 2017
- Endorsement! March 27, 2017
- Money money March 28, 2017
- Ballot March 28, 2017
- C.S. G. March 30, 2017
- Crowdpac March 31, 2017
- DFA graphic March 31, 2017
- All good things… April 2, 2017
- One more day April 3, 2017
- Iron. April 3, 2017
- Thank you. April 3, 2017
- We voted! April 4, 2017
- Woot. April 4, 2017
- 5,564 April 4, 2017