Rather then bitch about your congressperson...How many here

[dorktv]

will be RUNNING against their lame congressperson?

[Wabbajack]

1. Not 25 yet

and I like my Congressman.

[dorktv]

2. Yes but this is for people who hate theirs. Like me.

[punpirate]

4. While I consider...

... my present Congress critter certifiably insane, I doubt that my very conservative community would think I'm a better alternative to him. :)

[dorktv]

5. You never know how well you will do until you try!

[fryguy]

3. too many skeletons in my closet

don't need to relive the "indiscretions" of my youth - especially without a former head of the CIA for a dad.....

ps - i've not complaints about mine

[Dr.Phool]

6. I ran last time

Skeletons and all. It's a lot of work, and taking on a 20 year incumbent with $800,000 in the bank is no easy job.

Maybe if I'd gotten a little help from the DNC and DCCC things would have been different. I did get an offer of money and an endorsement from DFA, but, I'd already dropped out.

[dorktv]

7. I thought I was going to lose my primary because I had only

$1000 bucks and he had 5K but I won...then I got NO help from anyone in the party and damned if the Coordinated campaign did not work against me and all the other dems running.

Kudos on you though!

[ashmanonar]

8. i'm not old enough.

otherwise, i'd consider it. it might help to have a college degree tho.

[dorktv]

9. I do not have one. All you need is to know the issues and be old

enough.

[ashmanonar]

12. fair enough.

oddly, i don't know who MY rep is, although i know john conyers is a lower michigan rep. i should look into that.

[dorktv]

14. Yeah...I mean I did a great job with no money...As

one of my favorite politicians said:

"It does not matter if you lose as long as you FIGHT" Stu Starky who ran against McCain

[ashmanonar]

21. yep.

honestly, tho, i don't think i have the temperament to run for office. i'll support whoever i like, who i think would be good for the position, and do art or whatever for political reasons, but i couldn't be an elected official.

[elshiva]

10. Yeh, that's my post.

Yes, my Congressman is same ol' lame ol' Bartlett. I DID vote against him in 2004 and will keep doing it even if he runs against a frikkin' fiscus plant (remember the Awful Truth?). I'm only 23 and can't run anyway because I got no experience and have a long record of mental illness. Sorry.

[dorktv]

11. Never think that your illness can stop you. You will be old enough

in 2006 maybe?

[elshiva]

16. I'll be 25 in Dec 2006 actually,

too young to run? Really don't want the media to see one of my crying fits or even worse to get into one on the Senate floor.

[dorktv]

17. yes...dang it!

I was going to be screaming "LIAR!!!!" during the SOTU address so why not?

[elshiva]

18. Well, too many skeletons in my closet, seriously.

It could hurt those closest to me as well as myself if some of the skeletons are let out.

[dorktv]

19. oh

[ashmanonar]

13. honestly?

i'd vote for you over some of these shills we have in senate or house.

who cares if you have a history of mental illness? as long as you know the issues and have principles.

[elshiva]

15. Thanks for your vote, but I

do not think many people would vote for an openly bisexual mentally ill Derryiac Democrat in the red 6th district of MD. I respect the sentiment to "Don't Just Vote, Run" as Dean puts it, but in the 6th district I got a snowball's chance in Hell.

[ashmanonar]

20. lol.

fair enough.

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. No interest in being a sacrificial lamb

Some districts just aren't winnable be a Democrats (just as some aren't winnable by a Republican).

[ArkDem]

23. We don't have a congressperson.

[JNelson6563]

24. Not me

but I am running for Congressional District chair next weekend so I'll be better able to help replace my congress-critter with a good Dem.

Julie