The road to congress
Old Man Jenkins67
As a complete n00b to politics in this game (you cannot be anything else unless you are in politics already,) I wanted to document my road to running for congress.
I researched how to get started. I read the same thing over and over: Get involved, volunteer, become a deputy ambassador,become involved on the message boards, and IRC.
OK I have done these things (still trying with the IRC thing.)
Then I found out you need party "endorsements." Not sure what this meant, I pm'd my party president. They said look for the form in the upcoming paper. Did this mean their paper? The parties paper? I just did not know.
I went to the parties page (on eRepublik) and somehow stumbled on the little balloon that took me to my parties forum. I registered and told them I would love to run for congress in Arizona (I figured I would start with a wasteland state.)
I then read you must be a member of the forum for at least 30 days before I could run. I went back an edited my post begging: Even though I just joined "Can I still run for Congress?"
That was yesterday. No response yet.
So, I moved to AZ. Put my bid up for Congressman of AZ.
As of yet I have no endorsement.
I even asked a very popular Ecitizen to endorse me somehow. He said "Make me P.P. and I will..."
I have no platform because I have no idea what my parameters are as a congressman. I could say "Raise import taxes!" I could say "Lower income taxes!" But I do not know if I can really do this.
I do like the fact that my P.P. says they want to run a transparent government. I can get behind this...
So this is the road to Congress for me. A lot of red tape, which I will continually document in my paper "The Modern Drunkard."
If you want to follow me on this road, vote and sub and we will all see what happens.
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Comments
actually, if you get a message from the party, you can run. also, the brown button don't work in usa -.-
Thanks! But The button works fine...
If you are not comfortable with IRC and the forums, then I suggest not to run until you are. This is where you will spend 95% of your time if you become a Senator. Good Luck!
-Senator John Largo
😁 what that guy said. Senators spend all their time on the forums and IRC. If you can't do this, you can't be a congressman.
😁😁^
I say....go for it.
It will be part of your education and you'll be less of a noob when done, whether you win or not. A bit of advice. You will need to organize a group of friends (ten or more) to vote for you. Provide them moving tickets etc. so they can journey to AZ and do the deed.
BTW It might be better (though I'm not sure if it possible.)if you watch which parties place which candidates in which states. It might take more than 10 votes to upset a very popular candidate. Also, you might try to drum up support using the shout module. It costs nothing and if you plan it right with the right message you and your friends can have almost 'round the clock exposure...
Good luck!
America needs even more Drunkards in Congress, just for laughs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggxzA" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggx[..]ggxzA
Maybe I should change my name to "Max Baucus." That was truly great J! Thanks for that.
Congrats, Jenkins, you are now the official candidate for the LIB party in Arizona!
Anytime.
im posting from the future!
you WILL become a congressman, but only on day 4,377...
(congrats!)