RSN: Angela Watters | Campaigning: The Unbearable Exposure of Seeing Your Name on Yard Signs

26 November 19 Trying to Catch-Up Any Way We Can Very bad fundraising numbers for November - very bad. We seriously need a few good days of donations. One of those days is Thanksgiving, a day we won’t even do any fundraising. This is a bad situation. We need some help. Marc Ash Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! Update My Monthly Donation If you would prefer to send a check: Reader Supported News PO Box 2043 Citrus Hts, CA 95611

26 November 19

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WILL YOU SIT BACK, OR WILL YOU HELP? Running a truly Reader Supported News agency is a struggle. You see what we do, you see what a news service beholden to its readers can achieve. Will you help make this work? Folks? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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RSN: Angela Watters | Campaigning: The Unbearable Exposure of Seeing Your Name on Yard Signs

ALSO SEE: Part One: How to Run for Public Office – for Those Who Score Low on the Narcissism Scale

ALSO SEE: Part Two: WTF Is That Red Scare Loyalty Oath in My Candidate Packet?

ALSO SEE: Part Three: How to Not Go Nuts When Running for Public Office

Angela Watters, Reader Supported News
Watters writes: "During campaign season, yard signs are ubiquitous on private lawns. When it's your name on the signs, it can feel downright indecent to see them littered about town. If you're an introvert, the exposure can feel akin to listening to The Five Man Electrical Band's classic-rock stalwart 'Signs' on repeat, while circling a lion cage."
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RSN: Angela Watters | WTF Is That Red Scare Loyalty Oath in My Candidate Packet?

11 November 19

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Without Funding There Won’t Be an RSN for You to Come To

Funding is not optional. We are - required - to have a basic budget, like it or not. We would love to reduce fundraising. Reasonable donations will absolutely allow us to do that.

Right now reasonable donations are lacking.

With urgency.

Marc Ash
Founder, Reader Supported News

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11 November 19

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WE NEED A FEW GOOD DONORS … ASAP! - We don’t need zillions of donors or millions of dollars, we need a reliable budget to continue our work. Who can be a part of that? / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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RSN: Angela Watters | WTF Is That Red Scare Loyalty Oath in My Candidate Packet?

ALSO SEE: How to Run for Public Office - for Those
Who Score Low on the Narcissism Scale

Angela Watters, Reader Supported News
Watters writes: "If we were living in an alternative history like the one in HBO's 'Watchmen,' a world in which white supremacy, not democracy, was the enemy, maybe I'd sign the state of Illinois's anachronistic loyalty oath. But I did not."

EXCERPT:

You don’t have to be a genius to run for public office, just look at Donald Trump. He did it, and you know to the core of your being that even a misogynist dickhead from your office would do a better job than Trump. What Trump illustrates is that you don’t even have to have special expertise to run for office and win. Good elected officials hire the best public servants they can find to run the show. Great elected officials listen to the advice of experts and weighs that advice against the concerns of constituents to make the best possible decisions for the community. We need more smart, thoughtful, regular folks in public office – not more grandstanders and blowhards. Take that leap and file. 

Angela Watters is the Managing Editor for Reader Supported News. She was elected to the school board in her town in April of this year.

Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.

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RSN: Angela Watters | How to Run for Public Office - for Those Who Score Low on the Narcissism Scale

06 November 19

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Folks We Need Your Attention to the Fundraiser ASAP!

This is the worst start to a fundraiser we have ever seen. No donations, no RSN. Believe it.

With urgency!

Marc Ash
Founder, Reader Supported News

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06 November 19

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PLEASE KEEP AN EYE ON THE PROGRESS BAR, IT’S NOT MOVING MUCH - We are barely getting any donations at all. That’s a big problem. We seriously need some attention now and in the future. In earnest. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News

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RSN: Angela Watters | How to Run for Public Office - for Those Who Score Low on the Narcissism Scale

Angela Watters, Reader Supported News
Watters writes: "If you don't think you are better than everyone around you and you don't think you have what it takes to save the world, this series about running for office is for you."
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