Okay, I admit it I have grown tired just sitting there and letting everyone else decide what goes on.\u00a0 I have finally returned to an active (ish) political life.\u00a0 In the 1990’s I stood as a candidate for the last appointed school board position in Arlington, VA but was not successful.\u00a0 The following election cycle I was going to run for the County Board of Arlington, VA but got started too late to gather enough signatures to get on the ballot, so instead I got a few people to write my name in on the ballot.<\/p>\n
Fast-forward twenty or so years.<\/p>\n
Last spring I became active in the Democratic Party of Dona Ana County, New Mexico.\u00a0 I filled the vacant spot of a Precinct Chair (100% of the winning candidates in my precinct totals were blue on election night) and I ran as a delegate for Hillary Clinton to the DNC.\u00a0 I also did some volunteer social media work and app testing for the HRC campaign.\u00a0 As well I helped out two state-wide candidates as the Dona Ana County Captain for their campaigns – one was successful, Julie Vargas, and unfortunately the other, Michael Vigil was not.<\/p>\n
In December, I decided it was time to throw my hat back in the ring and I returned to my roots and filed as a candidate for the Las Cruces School Board from district 2.\u00a0 Unfortunately I was not successful on election night in February, but now I was hooked.\u00a0 In March I filed the paperwork with the FEC to form a committee to explore running for the US House seat from the 2nd District in New Mexico.\u00a0 Exploring was fine for a week or two, but I think I wanted to run in any case, so on April 1st I filed the paperwork to officially declare as a democratic candidate in the 2018 election cycle.\u00a0 I threw together a quickie website (http:\/\/www.ron2018.org) and am currently trying to decide how best to proceed from here.<\/p>\n
Locally I am still involved with the local democratic party as a member of the County Central Committee and I did make a play for the SCC, but missed by a few votes.<\/p>\n
In solidarity,<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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