There is local corruption here, especially with the electric company charging people $1200 a month.
The town has not seen any improvements here for 8 years and the place continuously looks like a shithole.
The internet provider here has a monopoly and pays the city a certain amount every year to have exclusivity over lines here. The internet is very bad and we have a fiber provider but they are not allowed to dig lines in city limits. Only the cable provider.
The church here is corrupt and everyone is very niche and runs a tight group. Last year, the church spent 3 million on music equipment. But interesting enough, the pastor has a new Tesla and is building a new home on 30 acres..
We are talking about a church with maybe 300 people attending. There's no need for that type of spending and most of the money comes from people attending and seems to end up in the wrong pockets rather than church programs.
Lots of corruption, judges, police etc.
I want to clean it up.
What do I need to know to run for Mayor and what do I need to be prepared for? I plan on doing this with my own funds and am already committed to it.
The place needs to be cleaned up and everyone here on the local level has been in the same position for nearly 30 years.
I am 100% sure I will run
Let me know if you have experience and I would love to hear from you.
It's time to redpill the town.
Order your flyers and campaign signs. Make contact and start feeling our business owners now. which ones are going to put up a sign or let you put your flyers in there businesses? You want individuals who live on busy streets/corners for sign placement, but those business owners are paramount. Also the chamber of commerce if they aren’t part of the corruption. Keep your cards close to your vest. Feel people out in a very tangential way at first. Mention the corruption, throw out a little bait and see if you get a nibble. Find supporters. Try to get a good sized core of people who have already said they’ll support you. Then get those signs up all at once. It’ll look like they sprouted overnight like mushrooms. There’s a serious psychological affect to seeing your opponents signs everywhere you look. And as much as it sucks social media sites are going to be important. Same kinda thing. Get those people to share your name and campaign page everywhere. All those Shares and likes go out at the same time as the signs. Try to make it seem like the race is over before it begins.
It helps to be squeaky clean but if there’s something out there that folks are going to use against you try to get in Tony of it. Yeah I was arrested for public intoxication. 15 years ago when I was 22. But do you want someone who had one youthful indiscretion or someone whose been using the town coffers like his personal piggy bank for X years? That sort of thing. They’ll try to call you an alcoholic. Dig up old girlfriends who may not like you, all kinds of crap.