pudge's Journal: Carpetbagging

I am now a carpetbagger. There's a law that says precincts can't have more than 800 voters, and due to the huge turnout from the recent election, the precinct I am the duly elected PCO of -- Bryant -- has over 800 voters, and was split into another precinct, Henning, in which I now reside. The Republican voters of Bryant have a Henning resident carpetbagging as their representative! It's an outrage!

Likely, after the next election in May, I'll get local party officials to switch my office to the Henning precinct, as they have the power to fill vacancies, and I can resign from Bryant and be appointed to Henning, meaning I will no longer be duly elected, but appointed. Oh well, it was good while it lasted.

You get what you pay for

[nandorman]

I suppose you will reimburse your former constituents for all the monies the contributed to your campaign? And why is it that only "Hugh" turned out for the election? Nandor

Re:You get what you pay for

[pudge]

Everyone gets a full refund, yes. If only I could get a refund for my election filing fee ($2, I think).

Hugh?

Re:You get what you pay for

[nandorman]

Just a snide comment about your "due to the hugh turnout" typing slip. Ha ha. Aren't I funny?

Nandor

Re:You get what you pay for

[pudge]

Woulda been funnier if I had noticed before just now. :-)

a good thing

[JDizzy]

I suppose the high turn out is good. Being appointed is weird, but whatever, you can always jump through the hoops again in your new area. *sigh*

Re:a good thing

[pudge]

Nah, being appointed is actually pretty common. There's a lot of vacancies -- in our area, more vacant positions than filled ones -- so the party is often appointing people (I was appointed for most of last year).

Adjacent precinct rule?

[Kymermosst]

I'm a Republican PCP in Oregon for my own precinct, but it is also acceptable to run as PCP for an adjacent precinct, so it technically isn't really carpetbagging.

I take it that this isn't the case for you?

Re:Adjacent precinct rule?

[pudge]

As best I can tell no, but it's an interesting idea, as we have several examples here of two people who want to be PCO in a single precinct, but no one in the adjacent precincts.

However, we do have appointed positions called "captains" where they act functionally similar to "officers," but they don't have all the rights to vote in the district committee meetings and such.