Glad I Am NOT Running......For Office
 

This might get poofed over to the political forum but not really a political type of subject, more of a "what the hell"?! I have noticed everybody seems to have an attorney, went to see "their" attorney or walks around with an attorney, ETC, ETC. The last one I talked to was in 1978 when I got divorced from my second wife and that was a really ole and slow guy and we spent an hour since we had agreed to everything before hand! If I was running for office the back ground check would probably find those bar girls in the PI, the waitresses in Hong Kong, the sweethearts in South Korea, the two Thai Army Captains in Pattaya Beach Thailand and that bar manager in Rio De Janeiro and probably those week long drunks when in Port and riding around with the Raven's MC in Oakland?!

Well anyways I have nothing to hide now so I might run for Congress just to liven things up!!!!

Yes I agree, they couldn't pay me enough to run for any sort of "Office. I was approached by a state senator about having a run in the next election in my electorate. I said no immediately.

Tell us more about the two Thai Army Captains in Pattaya Beach Thailand!

30 odd years ago I was stationed in South East Asia and I knew a Thai Army officer (Lieutenant). He carried a custom 1911 everywhere he went.
Great guy and he knew were the ladies were ;)

I'm clean except for the Rice House incident, the Duke's Pub affair, the Ryland Inn debacle, and the Watkins Glen caper.

The Captains were a pair of Thai special forces ladies that were on a week's R&R (you guys remember that?) and had built up a LOT of stress. I felt it was my duty to make sure they relaxed as best as possible! One didn't take her combat boots off for two days but finally got calm enough.

All; this bragging about shady pasts...sheesh! I was a choir boy. Just ask anyone.

I like beer, no way I can run for anything.

Brother ran for State Senate in the late 80's. He and his family got all kinds of death threats. Most of his campaign signage got vandalized or disappeared almost as where put out. He lost by a narrow margin and decided he did not participant in anything political after that "due to the many threats." If you run for any office, before you officially run the state gives you a guide that tells what is required and what to expect and it included warnings of the threats. He did not think it was going to be as bad as it was despite the warnings.

One of his son's did the same several years later. They got one of his biggest contributors to put out a vague recommendation/campaign statement. He read thru an approved it. The day before the election the statement was on the news/etc all misinterpreted to make him look very bad, but nothing illegal. He barely lost, it was recounted it was so close. Nephew was appointed to a State appropriations commission, we assume in payment for his troubles. He did not participate in any of the "perks" offered and was let go at then end of his term. He then moved 3 times and changed all of his phones, etc. each time making sure it was out of his original political constituency.

Sounds interesting... I'm guessing they didn't get much sleep! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat3.gif

I kissed a girl and put my hand up her shirt in middle school, so I guess I'm out.

Having been to each of those ports (except Rio) while in the Nav, I have no idea what you are talking about: I generally checked in with the local 7 Day Adventists, hit the floral and fauna shows and museums :D

I was President of the Chamber of Commerce for a year. That’s as close to political office as as I want to get.

And here's the kicker.

What you just wrote alone, qualifies you as a better candidate for any office in the land, by far.

Unfortunately, it's a rigged game....:rolleyes:

^^^^ ....(Seahawk) and you will never make it on the SC because of it mister :). I like beer too, am just a few years older than BK, but remember (or do NOT remember), many of my/our antics...but I dunno.....seriously. They both seem legit. That said....I think the judge is lyin'...his underage drinking (we ALL did....) back then, his frat daze, and the early 80s I remember well (Animal House stuff), there is a LOT I don't remember either though...beer does that :)

I completely understand but disagree with the premise of the thread. We have been electing and RE-ELECTING dirty politicians for over 200 years. From Tammany Hall all the way to Bill Clinton to Marion Barry to Mark Sanford and so on. ECS would need a new Google server farm to list them all. Nothing new or unique about finding dirt on politicians before and after they are elected.

The key word here is elected which implies a limited term. We as citizens have the God-given right to elect any scumbag we want to. But they have somewhere between 2 and 6 years to prove themselves.

I think the key element in the current political dust-up is that SC judges are elected by politicians for political reasons and the term is for life. That changes everything. That and add that the SC has, for the most part, always been above the political fray and riff-raff of the Executive and Legislative branches of government.


Lastly, death threats are a dime a dozen. When I was publishing FirstTime Dad magazine, we had an article on circumcision. A very measured, pros and cons article about the procedure. We got something like 5 letters, actual paper mail letters, from people who wanted us to pull the story or we could pay with our lives. Yup.

I would love to run for office someday but it will almost certainly never happen.

I think what you're seeing now is that the dirty politicians, on both sides, expect to be pulling the strings, and when they can't it gets ugly. It would take about 10 seconds for those SOBs to dredge up something on me.:D

MeToo

Exactly.

The best time for me to have run for office was 25-35. A true saint who worked 40 hour weeks during junior and senior years of high school and all throughout college to pay for it.

I can still run but there would be press.

You could be a democrat though.:D

The dirt is made when corrupt people fear you.

All you have to do to not have it dug up is walk lock step with those that will smear you if you do not.

If one of us ran for office, dim recollections of amorous behavior would suddenly surface from long lost crushes.

You just need the right letter after your name in most districts.

The letter is "$"... both sides :(

I am not a lawyer but the statute of limitations I believe is different from country to country and state to state. Digging up behavior from ten years to fifty years ago can make a difference. The times are a changing....

I was gonna say that I was an eagle scout, but nowadays even that is an excuse for attack.

(I wasn't, just making a point).

Good god, I just ran through some of the indiscretions from my HS days through my head.

I could never run for office of any sort.

For the naive, the early 80's were nothing like today or the last 20 years. With aids jumping from the gay community to hetero in the early to mid 80's it was the end of the wild times that carried on from the 60's and 70's the end of an era.

Everyone was wild back then. Fast Times at Richmond high was not so far off from reality. John Hughes had a beat on the young pop culture of the time, movies like Animal house, 16 candles, Pretty in Pink (which has scenes in it like our recent SC Justice drama) were all pretty representative of the times.

Normal people stay out of politics. We have the narcissists and sociopaths left to run for and run things.

I have talked to normal people who have run for local offices and all have similar stories. I kind of wonder if it isn't the insiders (who are all sociopaths in my opinion) trying to "figure out" the new guy.

A very smart guy that I know told me some time ago that one of the most valuable things in life is to stay off the radar screen.

That's pretty much how I live my life.

I was a trouble maker in high school. Junior year I had long hair and dressed like a trouble maker and got into tons of trouble. Senior year I cut my hair and wore ties to school. I did exactly the same stuff my senior year and got away with it all. (Okay, I probably did worse stuff my senior year and got away with it.) Whereas junior year I was constantly hassled by adults in positions of authority, senior year they looked right past me as I caused trouble.

No way would I ever run for anything.

Somebody would remember the fart I lit in the cafeteria senior year. My life and family would be disgraced.

I have never understood the need for more power/money /influence when you have already live a very comfortable life. Running for office on the surface appears that you are concerned about other people's needs, and want to make a difference, when, in reality, it's much more about how it makes YOU feel.

Far too many things/events in my past that I have a "FOGGY" recollection of to persue ony public office.

A high school buddy and bandmate is now a state legislator, running for state senate and will eventually run for US Senate. I think he's pretty clean, though. Couldn't have been too much shenanigans in high school, since it was an all boys boarding school, though has since gone co-ed.

Depends, was this last week?