Looks like an interesting panel discussion
Metropolis hosts a Panel Discussion: How to Run for Office and Work on Campaigns in the St. Louis' political landscape.
Thursday, October 6th
5:30- 6:30 Social Hour at Nadoz
6:30- 8:00pm Panel Discussion in the Bradshaw Room
At the Coronado
3701 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, MO
PANELISTS WILL INCLUDE:
Rachel Storch, Missouri, House Representative District 64
Jeff Smith, Candidate for Missouri Senate Seat in 4th District
Ron Jackson, St. Louis School Board Member
Jim Shrewsbury, President of the Board of Alderman
MASTERS OF CEREMONIES WILL BE: Jim Davis, director of the new Richard A. Gephardt Institute of Public Service at Washington University in St. Louis.
Workshops on How To Not Run A Campaign, featuring examples of rotten candidates, poorly run campaigns, and classic campaign bloopers, would be much more helpful and more fun.
Example: Do not let just anyone donate food to a campaign event. Someone well meaning, on a tight budget, and not right in the head might volunteer to provide a tasty hors d'oeuvre spread. Later on a presidential wannabe might have to detour off schedule to get his stomach pumped. Then you might find out some of the pate was cat food. I'm not saying that this ever happened during a campaign stop on the west side of Missouri. But if it did it would be the kind of story that should be passed on during the mentoring process.
Posted by Howard on Thu., Sep 29, 2005 at 10:29 AMTom Bauer is putting on such a workshop later this year
Posted by UltraDem on Thu., Sep 29, 2005 at 11:17 AMDude, I know like half the people on that panel! How come I only found out about it yesterday?
I can't go, anyway - I teach a class in urban politics at WashU at that time!
JF
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Posted by oazaxdz on Wed., Oct 12, 2005 at 4:09 PM
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