The other day I was nominated to run for mayor at my local township committee. I accepted the nomination for the Republican party hoping someone else would run as a Democrat and win. I'm the only candidate, this is an at-large election I know everyone here and there's no way I'm getting out of this. I only have a month left before the vote.
fuck me
why were you nominated?
Just turn into Bernie once you get elected, not like they can do anything about it until your term is over.
Because everyone there is over 60 and they wanted someone younger to run the township. I'll be 22 in a week.
I could and maybe I'll be kicked out....
Get elected and let Jow Forums tell you what to vote on
>OP becomes the fascist dictator of bumfuck county USA
dude thats sick as fuck
there must be some way to profit off this
Don't be stupid, you might be able to make a career out of this, or a least some decent money. You can do it nigga.
This holy shit dude scam some tax money
>bumfuck county USA
I'm from Pennsylvania so that sounds about right.
>profit
>decent money
I'm in a township with a population less than 15,000. I'm practically doing this for free
>make a career out of this
Also, I don't want to become this. Some local career politicians here are narcissistic, pricks
How much power do mayors even have in clapistan?
The Guild 2 flashbacks
>Mayor: I have an idea how about we [blank]
>twp committee: no
>Mayor: ok
OP, this is the chance of a lifetime. Start a local militia, re-form the Holy Roman Empire in rural America, and issue everyone qt farm gfs. You can do it.
What county of the commonwealth?
That's why you use your influence to get the loyalty of the committee members. Once you control the committee, you control the township. OP has a chance here to make the changes he wants to happen, if he can work the low-level politics.
Damn, I wish
It was probably too much to even say I'm from PA. It's roughly an equal distance between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Good point. I''m friends with most everyone there just I don't seem to have the influence. If anything that's what I need most.
that's great. you get so much money and power lmao
>I don't seem to have the influence. If anything that's what I need most.
Start doing them favors or promising them shit subtly in exchange for their favor. I don't really know what powers/abilities the mayor of a town possesses, but there has to be some kind of bargaining power you'll get. Trick them if you have to.
You have already posted enough information to be doxxed OP
Anyways you should do everything for the lulz. Make a vice mayor and choose a stray cat. Abolish as many taxes as you can and you will automatically be successful
Solid sarcasm right here
There's like 2500 townships in this state. I would like someone to guess which one I'm from simple based on the little bits of information provided.
>Start doing them favors or promising them shit subtly in exchange for their favor.
Good point I'll learn how to suck dicks like a professional politician
why are all the counties in Pennsylvania diamond shaped? like especially in the East.
congratss, your actually going to fix your life by becoming the mayor.. it wont allow you to waste your life online and it will open your eyes from the perspective you have now.
its gonna be a life changing thing... dont pussy out.
Fucking Indians out of their land, rivers, British style borders, and the Walking Treaty.
Thanks, it's nice to think about it from that prospective
depends on local legislation. for instance, New York City has a "strong mayor" who wields considerable power, though there is a city council to supposedly be more democratic. in practice the council is controlled entirely by one party and the mayor does whatever he wants.
in my town there's a mayor, but it's a part-time position that is relatively ceremonial. it basically goes to whomever has the most power in the local political party (and we've had like 3 mayors in the past 50 years). however, the day to day running of the town is delegated to a town clerk, who is hired specifically for that position and isn't politically influential or even known. other places have town councils and no mayors, balanced governments, or something entirely different. when the town is established that's when this stuff is decided and really only gets changed if the current system runs things into the ground and the county, state, or political party forces them to change.
what's the walking treaty?
>Just turn into Bernie once you get elected, not like they can do anything about it until your term is over.
It's his town dude, if he did that he couldn't show his face outside his house ever again.
Become mayor and turn it into neetville, we'll all move in.
You could always do what the Mayor Of Hell did and ban straight people
sfgate.com
en.wikipedia.org
Thanks to William Penn and his fellow Quakers this was possible.
>neetville
>a Jow Forums town
I would rather be mayor of than that
gotta love the colonists and their ingenious ways of cheating the natives