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How To Win A Local Election, Revised: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
How To Win A Local Election, Revised: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide
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Tags: Complete, Election, Guide, Local, Revised, StepbyStepPosted 18 Apr 2010 in General
I purchase three of these books as I am a precinct man
and I thouogh I would learn something. I did. Read one of
these books and you will read the all. None offer anything
different than the tried and true method of doing. Stop reading
and DO. Rating: 2 / 5
Lawrence Grey, How to Win a Local Election, revised edition (Evans and Co., 1999)
Man, does this book almost get it right. A comprehensive step-by-step guide to running a local election campaign, and the information looks, from a logical standpoint, to be good and solid. The one piece of outright untrue information in the book can be classified as an oversight (Grey, who lives in Ohio and “follows local politics pretty closely,” as he says, contends he’s never seen a candidate using yellow and black yard signs win an election. He’s somehow missed Dennis Kucinich, erstwhile mayor of Cleveland and longtime House Rep to the tenth district, who’s been using the yellow and black since Methuselah was a pup). I was already to give this a sterling review. Then Grey messed it up big time in the book’s very last section. And the worst part is, it wasn’t the point he was making that messed it up.
Some glancing references he uses to draw a comparison show that Grey is shockingly ignorant of the mechanisms of free-market economics, so much so that it draws the rest of the logical-seeming book into question; how much does this guy really know about what he’s talking about? Inadvertently, this major blunder does give prospective candidates a very valuable lesson: before you open your mouth, make sure you know what you’re talking about. Doing otherwise might well get you into trouble. ** ½ Rating: 3 / 5
This is a great book for anyone who wants to serve in public office. But you’ll need another book after the election is over… it’s called YOU WON – NOW WHAT? How Americans Can Make Democracy Work from City Hall to the White House by Taegan D. Goddard and Christopher Riback. Rating: 5 / 5
Judge Robert Grey offers a great primer on political campaigns at the local level. This book will walk you through the process of running – and WINNING – a local campaign, inclduing a great “what do I need to do now?” timetable that gives you a checklist of tasks that need to be completed well in advance of the election.
When I wrote “25 Fundraising Secrets, Raise More Money, Guaranteed” I did so to give campaigns at all levels the know how they need to raise enough money to win thier elections. This book is a great compliment to mine – it does for political strategy what my book does for fundraising strategy. Rating: 5 / 5
I echo the previous “raves.” This is a poor candidate’s access to sound and practical advice which can be tailored to a myriad of office’s. “The stone in David’s sling-shot” if you will. A must-have for the serious candidate and staff without major financial resources, and enjoyable reading for the political junkie. Rating: 5 / 5