"Have you considered running for a local office first?"
"Local office holds no appeal to me."
Isn't that a bit like applying for your first job and saying "Data entry holds no appeal for me. Do you have anything in a Vice-President of Marketing position?"
In other words, why should people elect you to represent hundreds of thousands of people (and a major city) in the national government, when you don't even have experience representing more than one person?
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I would say because the people who have experience aren't doing a terribly good job, and thus experience isn't all it's cracked up to be in this regard.
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"Experience" is what you get when you were really expecting something else.
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By the way, if you want to read a good book on the corruption in state and local politics, try Three Men in a Room by Seymour Lachman, a former state senator here in New York. It's not a long read and it came out around three years ago but it's a good book on what happens when power corrupts.
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"Congress" is capitalized.
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Be sure to make that joke about how "Congress" is the opposite of "Progress". A real crowd pleaser, that one.
You could YouTube yourself- or go on CurrenTV asking voters what THEY really want in a Congressman. Go with the younger voters- they eventually do vote, you know.
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