what are good qualifications for a person to run for office?

[Night Owl]

Now that it's almost the end of petitioning, candidates will begin the real campaigns so I wonder what are good qualifications for a person to run for office?

[lars]

Originally posted by Night Owl
Now that it's almost the end of petitioning, candidates will begin the real campaigns so I wonder what are good qualifications for a person to run for office?

I asked this more than a month ago and I'm glad you brought it back up NO.

I would challenge any candidates that frequent this board to post a concise, bullet point response to the following question.

WHAT MAKES YOU QUALIFIED TO REPRESENT E.C. VOTERS INTERESTS AS AN E.C. LEGISLATOR?

I don't say residents, citizens, or taxpayers because it is the "voter's voice" they are elected to represent.

Lars

[lars]

Originally posted by lars
I asked this more than a month ago and I'm glad you brought it back up NO.

I would challenge any candidates that frequent this board to post a concise, bullet point response to the following question.

WHAT MAKES YOU QUALIFIED TO REPRESENT E.C. VOTERS INTERESTS AS AN E.C. LEGISLATOR?

I don't say residents, citizens, or taxpayers because it is the "voter's voice" they are elected to represent.

Lars

And by the way, candidates have until July 14th to turn in their signatures at Eagle St. in Buffalo so there is actually ALOT OF TIME.

Considering all of the July 4th activities coming up and all the POTENTIAL SIGNATURES MILLING AROUND IN PUBLIC PLACES AT LARGE JULY 4th FIREWORK CELEBRATIONS - hint hint :>)

[DR_GONZO]

Yuo have to be wealthy. If you are not, forget about it. Have you ever heard of a poor politician?

[lars]

Originally posted by DR_GONZO
Yuo have to be wealthy. If you are not, forget about it. Have you ever heard of a poor politician?

Lincoln???

[CindyLocklear]

Originally posted by DR_GONZO
Yuo have to be wealthy. If you are not, forget about it. Have you ever heard of a poor politician?

Abe Lincoln when he started out?

[DR_GONZO]

He was a great man and even better leader. Those times have since past though. Too bad, we could use a leader or a whole government of cloned Lincolns!

[biker]

Not a good example.

Good old Honest Abe was a well-to-do corporate lawyer representing railroads by the time he became a serious politician.

There are numerous examples of poor folk successfully winning public office.

But there's nothing sanctified about being poor or evil about being wealthy. You need to use the democratic process to find good people.

I am against paying poorly for elected offices. That virtually guarantees that only rich playboys (or playgirls) can afford to actually win.

[CindyLocklear]

NightOwl and Lars:

My Qualifications to represent the EC Voters are as follows:

Education:

BA Degree (English) magna cum laude/UB
J D (a doctoral degree) in Jurisprudence/UB
Additional coursework in Accounting, post graduation /UB

Experience:

1) 15+ years as counsel to the NFTA researching, writing and advising on
a. Open meetings law
b. Freedom of Information Law
c. Roberts Rules of Order
d. Government Procurement
e. Government Contracting
f. Buy America Law
g. Private Labor Agreements
h. Agency rulemaking under the State administrative procedure Act
i. Wrote Government Ethics Codes
j. eminent domain issues
k. real estate/waterfront development issues
l. represented the NFTA on the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Board
m. represented the NFTA on the Erie Basin Marina Development meetings
n. Prevailing Wage Rate law
o. DBE mandates
p Assisted in preparing departmental budgets
q. Dealing in general with government beauracracy, intergovermental relations and public unions and their employees

2) Five Years in Private Industry

a. Retrained from government work to focus on operational productivity, efficiency and profit
b. IDA JDA relations
c. Business expansion sensibilities and concerns
d. Understanding the mindset of management from CEO to Production Supervisors

Miscellaneous

a. No political debts/obligations owed to anyone but the voters
b. free to vote my conscience and to promote legislation in the best interest of the county
c. Logical
d. Persistent
e. Prepared to develop a district outreach/communication plan that will consistently email developments, questions and polls to interested voters to gauge voter sentiments on emerging issues and vote accordingly.

Cindy

[Night Owl]

Thank you Cindy.

Anyone else? The question is open to what the voters think is qualifications.

[DR_GONZO]

You go Cindy!

[Chancellor Qu'noH]

I would like to add since it seems to be left out of the lists.

HONESTY and INTEGRITY

If someone is Honest and keeps his word and cares for the people who put him in office... I would vote for him no matter what party he was from!

[Janezombie]

Anyone with the smarts that can vote should be qualified to run. If they are told what to do by party politics or pac groups are not on my list.

Jane

[lars]

Originally posted by Night Owl
Thank you Cindy.

Anyone else? The question is open to what the voters think is qualifications.

How do you think Cindy Locklear stands up to the "qualification" litmus N.O.?

Cindy - how do you feel about there being a "minimum qualifications" prerequisite for candidates? These could be used in an objective comparison of candidates for a particular office. While we have civil service exams that qualify somone for a specific gov't job, we have nothing that helps the voter determine baseline skills and abilities that could be deemed a set of "core skills" for prospective candidates, particularly those candidates that create legislation and drive budgets built upon tax levies.

Lars

[yokes]

Citizen (Naturalized or natural born) living in the area you wish to serve.

Government by the people should not be closed to anyone.