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Posted: Aug 23rd, 2007 02:16 am |
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| Funny story, that. I showed up with a six pack to shoot some pool, and thought there were alot more cars than normal....lol. But the host said, come on in and make urself known, and being me, I accepted the invite.
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Posted: Aug 23rd, 2007 02:38 am |
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| Ahhh, the good ole days are really gone.
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Jim Flynt
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Posted: Aug 23rd, 2007 03:11 am |
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CUZ wrote: Ahhh, the good ole days are really gone.
As I said before Cuz:
Why else is Oak Ridge light years away from Summerfield & Stokesdale by any measure of progress?
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Posted: Aug 23rd, 2007 03:49 pm |
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Jim Flynt wrote:
As a Post Script, I would add that I have been privileged to have been the campaign manager for 28 candidates in various races. My candidates won 27 out of 28 of those races, and the 28th candidate lost by only 8 votes against a much larger 'ticket' in a partisan race in a year when one political party didn't do so well at the polls.
Additionally, I have consulted with and been involved in dozens more. Those races have included several gubernatorial, US Senatorial races, congressional and State Council races.
I spent one whole year traveling all over North Carolina as an aide with the then NC Attorney General during his successful race for the US Senate seat formerly held by Senator Sam Ervin. And then years later, spent quite the considerable time traveling with the candidate who successfully ran for and won the seat as NC Attorney General.
Politics is more of a hobby than a vocation with me. Managing campaigns is altogether much more fun and fulfilling for me than being the candidate.
I'm an old political junkie to tell you the truth. Politics and political campaigning gets in your blood, and once it does, you can't get it out.
With all this patting on the back that you do and giving yourself credibility for successors to office and your supporting efforts to gain their success, how come you failed being elected to office in Stokesdale when you ran?
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Posted: Aug 23rd, 2007 04:06 pm |
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GRITS wrote: With all this patting on the back that you do and giving yourself credibility for successors to office and your supporting efforts to gain their success, how come you failed being elected to office in Stokesdale when you ran?
The answer is real simple: At the same time as the campaign started, I had to go to Moses Cone Hospital for a quadruple heart bypass surgery and then spent several months recovering from that surgery.
But I am doing well now health wise and physically so thank you for your inquiry. I now have a 21 year old heart in a 57 year old body. Yet, there are still times when my much younger mind wants to write checks that my old body simply refuses to cash. (You older folks know what I am talking about).
In hindsight, I probably entered that race for all the wrong reasons, and after my heart surgery, I realized that and also that my heart simply wasn't in it. I have serious doubts that my heart will ever be in a race again personally as a candidate.
It is no great secret that I did not campaign at all. I did not spend one cent. I did not buy nor put up campaign signs. I did not make even the first telephone call asking for support. I did not send out the first piece of mail. I did not knock on the first door. I did not even respond to the NWO Observer questionnaire and request for a photo (which was published for those candidates who did). I did not ask for one single person to vote for me. I did not work the poll on election day. And in fact, I asked dozens of friends and neighbors specifically NOT to vote for me.
Not surprisingly, a candidate who doesn't put their heart into their campaign simply isn't going to win, and my heart was not in that race. I learned a lesson.
Most candidates also make lousy campaign managers for their own campaigns. I'm no exception to that rule.
Last edited on Aug 23rd, 2007 04:34 pm by Jim Flynt
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