How to Run as a Local Candidate

- be genuine
- have hand outs and informational flyers and stuff
- invest into billboards
- invest into road signs
- ask for help
- understand your roles and have a good treasurer
- do your paperwork on time
- keep fund raising in condition with the law
- set up like TPUSAs and other local organizations in your local area.
- Lincoln ran for office like a morbilliom times before winning and becoming president
- focus on campaigning a lot
- be willing to get people involved in your campaign or the campaigns of others
- give nonprofessionals the chance to shine and be picky in regard to recruiting talent
- don’t waste money on consulatanrs
- work with your local party and your staff
- endorsements aren’t everything but focus on getting important local figures to introduce you to their network and get them to invest into your campaign
- don’t come out with a huge platform. Cough cough. But focus on the main points that people care about.
- there are a lot of across the aisle issues especially in education that can net you voters. Many people are looking for common sense politicians and bipartisan policies.
- as early as legally possible, get networking with people
- be less concerned with the quality and fanciness of your websites but be concerned with networking and campaigning
- get your family, spouse, and groups on with the project and be transparent with them
- when you run, you should not be an unknown element and should we pretty well known and credible
- family research council is a good place for learning how to run for school board candidates
- if you are running against an incumbent, recognize that you are an underdog going against a professional and you need to prepare yourself so you do not look unprofessional
- giving speeches are an easy way of gaining endorsements from influential being
- get involved with local political organizations and clubs
- make a case for issues that you will be running on in the future. Create a substack and content regarding your political career
- have a well developed ballotpedia page and have a picture of yourself
- clean up your past, and flood the Google search engines with good stuff and your presence to swamp out the bad
- keep your documents and communications of yourself to your candidates short. 2-3 pages should be good
- focus on 3-4 issues
- Look into already existing resources for running for local office so you don’t waste time on theorizing policy and plans
- be willing to ask for peoples money and take initiative for running
- be willing to ask your supporters to donate and campaign with you
- be willing to admit to controversial statements when you are starting out in politics, so the issues won’t explode on you later down the line when you become more controversial and important
- be shameless in regard to asking for help from community members
- Sell better futures and your ways to manifest these futures rather than using fake and gay platitudes
- go to the dinners and meetings of these various political consultation, parties and stuff
- build up your LinkedIn and professional profiles as these accounts are for professional networking
- invest into Facebook ads, and attempt to get verification status from Twitter
- make your ads semi-entertaining and funny to ensure that people do not sleep to your ads and so that people will get curious about you
- Scott Presler has good content on running for local office. Ask him for his primer.
- Use Tiktok as a way to build up tough skin by exposing yourself to being humiliated and clowned on by public opinion
- be convincing and persuasive and have real answers to questions rather than gay platitudes and fake answers
- study the demographics, trends and attitudes of your district/community, so you may successfully craft yourself perfectly to the state
- be willing to fire bad campaign staff on the first strike
- get a new phone and use it for your political phone number
- create a team and do not run as a one man army
- pay the fee of running rather than focusing on getting signatures. Getting signatures is a waste of money
- look into where you can run up your margins and look into what you can outsource}
- have relevant job experience for your position. For example, Trump did Trump organization, made a lot of money and was a good economy president