Posts Tagged ‘Running for Office’
9 Ways to Build a Dynamic Campaign Website
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Every company, cause, organization, and even government agency has their own website, and political campaigns are no exception to that rule. All candidates need to have a presence online to spread their message and present themselves to voters, and that starts with a website. On local campaigns, however, many candidates don’t use their websites…
Read More50 Top Social Media Content Ideas for Candidates & Activists
Running for office? Managing a campaign? Looking for new and innovative ways to spread your conservative message? If you’re running for office, you must be equipped to spread your message through social media. Check out these top content ideas to get you started; they can be used for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Pinterest,…
Read More4 Ways that Presidential Candidates Thank Their Volunteers
Volunteers are the lifeblood of any campaign. Not only do they save a campaign a lot of money, they give the candidate credibility. After all, a candidate who can’t inspire people to donate their time for their success probably isn’t worth voting for. Because you aren’t compensating your volunteers, it is easy to take them…
Read MoreArmy Veteran Works to Improve Wisconsin School Board Finances
After returning from serving a tour overseas with the Wisconsin Army National Guard during Operation Iraqi Freedom, Josh Schoemann decided to continue serving the public by running for school board in his local district. He prepped to win by attending American Majority trainings.
Read More3 Ways to Eliminate the Fear of Fundraising
Imagine that you are a conservative candidate whose campaign is resonating with people. You are drawing crowds to your events, and people are getting excited about what you are saying and what you promise to do. And then, the time comes to do that thing that every candidate does, but no one wants to do.
Read More4 Signs that You Should Run for Office
Did you know that you can run a successful campaign for under $1,000? BJ Murphy, the youngest elected Mayor of Kinston, North Carolina, recently wrote an article with the top four ways to run a local campaign on a small budget. By running a highly organized and relationship-oriented campaign, you can make a lot of…
Read MorePodcast: Political Activism Wisconsin Style with Matt Batzel
American Majority National Executive Director Matt Batzel was highlighted on Commonwealthy.com Podcast Series
Read MoreWisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Budget Repair Bill
Late yesterday afternoon, the Wisconsin Supreme Court weighed in on the Budget Repair Bill (Act 10) and ruled that it did not violate the Open Meetings Law. Judge Maryann Sumi’s injunction to Act 10 was voided because she exceeded her authority, “invaded” the Legislature’s constitutional powers and erred in stopping the publication and implementation…
Read MoreColumbus, OH Candidate Training
Never Too Early to Think About 2012
Today, the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) announced their estimate of an additional $636 million of revenue over the next three years due to an increase in the LFB’s projection of Wisconsin tax collections. If liberals were running the show in Madison, we would likely already be hearing how the money should be spent as…
Read MoreTop 10 Dark Horse Republican Presidential Candidates
With the presidential election only about 20 months away, the list of GOP nominees is slowly starting to come into focus as “exploratory committees” and PACs are forming almost on a daily basis. The names are well known: Gingrich, Palin, Romney, Bachmann, Pawlenty, Daniels, etc. And while some of these names might not excite all…
Read MoreWest Chester, OH Candidate/Campaign Manager Training
From Zero to 60: Effective Activism in Texas
By far the coolest facet of my job is daily interaction with grassroots patriots. Like our Founding Fathers and patriots of every era since then, these people work hard all day, take care of their families, fulfill their obligations, etc. What truly makes them stand with those former generations of patriots is that whether it’s big or small, they refuse to let a day go by where they don’t do something to promote liberty. The future of their country and her freedom is simply too important for them to not take up that banner every day.
Read MoreNew Local Government Leaders Needed
What we are seeing in Wisconsin underscores why local government matters and why we need a new generation of local government leaders. The Left, particularly the Labor Movement is readjusting its focus to the local level. Labor already has control of many school boards and other local government bodies across the nation. That’s why there…
Read MoreWhat Elections?
If I were to walk up to a random person today and ask him/her to share their thoughts on the upcoming spring elections in Kansas, I’m willing to bet that the response would be, “What elections?” These elections are so often forgotten about, and so few people actually vote in them, let alone volunteer on…
Read MoreLow Education Standards = Low Outcome
I recently attended an event in Topeka, KS where Dr. Matthew Ladner, of the Goldwater Institute in Arizona, spoke on the importance of education reform. Lander expressed his thoughts on Florida’s successful K-12 reform and how each state should take note. Florida implemented a variety of improvements, and its students’ achievement levels increased. In turn,…
Read MoreCity Mayor Plans to Broadcast Bird Chirping
Recently, a city mayor declared that he wanted to broadcast “bird songs” on the streets of his city. The rationale? Bird chirping makes people happy. Never mind the fact that I personally think bird chirping is the most annoying sound on the planet, I nonetheless stopped to wonder, is this really what our cities should…
Read MoreTaxing Times in Wisconsin
The Packers may have beaten the Bears on Sunday to advance to the Super Bowl, but Wisconsin’s individual income tax rates are still 2.75% higher than Illinois’ rates in the highest tax bracket. While Wisconsin may have lower corporate tax rates than many other states, the individual income tax rate in Wisconsin is particularly unfriendly to flow through entities (Limited Liability Companies (LLCs), Partnerships, Subchapter S Corporations, etc.) that are taxed at the partner/owner level .
Read MoreCampaign Friendraising
Here in the great state of Kansas, we are fast approaching the deadline to file to run for local offices like city council and school board. Many active and passionate citizens are currently throwing around or already committed to the idea of running for some of these available positions. They’re tired of seeing their tax…
Read MoreWoburn & Worcester, MA Candidate Training
Barking Dogs
As one of my mentors, Dr. Larry Arnn, is fond of saying, “A thing is good when it performs the purpose for which it was made.” A chair you can’t sit in or a gun that won’t shoot straight fail that test. So does a guard dog that won’t bark at bad guys. Being a…
Read MoreTopeka, KS Candidate Training
Wisconsin’s February 15 Primary Approaching Rapidly
Conservatives need to not only make the general ballot, but they need to perform well in the primary. Perceptions influence voters greatly in elections. Accordingly, if you barely make the general ballot, the voters are less likely to vote for you in the general election because you will not be viewed as a frontrunner. Voters want to vote for those who they perceive have the best chance to win. They want to be a part of the winning team. Conservatives need to emerge from the primaries as the frontrunners.
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