my campaign

in my recent NPR-ing i have been audience to the reports of the millions of dollars candidates are spending to campaign themselves into office. office they so desperately want to hold so that they can - supposedly - serve their communities. i mean, really, that's the whole reason for seeking public office, right?

what has occurred to me, repeatedly, though is that those millions would be SO much better spent on actually supporting and helping the community. aren't there causes enough from A to Z that complain of underfunding to the point that many of them are on the brink of ruin? causes, by the way that pretty much anyone could get behind - the zoo, museums, hospice, habitat for humanity - necessiarly NON-PARTISAN causes...

so... i decided yesterday on my way home from work that if i were going to run for any office ever, i would find out how much it would cost me, do enough research into the community to discover which programmes really needed the most help, hold enough in reserve to run ONE commercial - maybe 3 times - and run the following (ultra-short, i might add) ad - the rest of the money would go out into the world where it could help:

rather than spend hundreds of thousands of dollars retaliating against my opponent's ugly tv commercials, i have donated this money to the following public programs:
* * * * * list of community whosie's here * * * * *
for more information on how i want to help our community flourish, please go to my website
www.FinForOffice.org
(please note: this is NOT really a website, please don't try to go there)

ok - i'm going to get off my platform.
have a nice day