Your guide to running for office

Life Kit

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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If you've ever thought about running for office — your town council or school board, the state legislature, or even Congress, this episode is for you. We'll tell you where to start and how to navigate everything from campaign fundraising to building a "kitchen cabinet." This episode was originally published on October 17, 2019.

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0:00.0	you're listening to life kit
0:02.7	from npr
0:05.4	when bushra on the wall of first-time politics she really didn't know what she
0:09.0	was doing
0:09.9	she even had a google had a run for office
0:12.0	and i did google search it
0:13.7	but actually nothing came up
0:15.8	the first thing on the list that i found was
0:18.0	understand election law so that's what i did so that i googled election law
0:22.3	and no i'm not seen amount about illinois finance laws and waste uh...
0:26.8	be compliant with the policy specific to the state of illinois and
0:30.1	i found that i was almost
0:31.6	putting my efforts and i guess my ex into the wrong baskets in the beginning
0:35.3	because i literally didn't know what to start
0:37.2	she wasn't really sure how to fun raise she would kind of
0:40.0	vaguely ask people you know maybe you could
0:43.3	think about donating to my campaign
0:46.0	and that wasn't working she didn't even really feel like she deserved the
0:49.1	money
0:49.6	would i donate fifty dollars to myself
0:52.3	this is something a lot of first-time candidates struggle with
0:56.0	bushwick also didn't have a voter outreach plan she didn't have a vocal
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