Run Jane Run...We Need You in Office! by Maria Rodriguez

Author:Maria Rodriguez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2018-07-10T15:35:59+00:00

Staffing

Staffing needs vary wildly between local and higher offices. However, one thing is always true: you, as the candidate, will have to create the right mindset for them. Attitude in any organization starts at the top and filters down. Mindset is important because it creates a feeling of unity in pursuit of your election to office. It helps focus people should they get sidetracked. It can also be inspiring when you all feel part of “something bigger.” Remember, staff members differ from volunteers in that staff have specific jobs to perform and are paid for doing so. They may or may not be as passionate as your volunteers—but they should be, if you create the right mindset. Volunteers work for free and either shift assignments as needed or perform one assignment specific to their skills and ability. Mindset and respect unites them all.

Something occurred to us that we think may be important to think about as you form that mindset that will unify your people to support your positions and advance your goals. We mentioned early in the book that conditions in 2016 reminded us very much of conditions in 1968. Like then, we were in a war we did not understand and seemed incapable of winning, and it tested both our mettle and our morality. Civil rights were being denied, even by police. Riots took place in multiple inner cities; poverty was eradicating entire classes of people, particularly the middle class—an erosion that would only get deeper with time. Values of every sort were being questioned. Heroes, though in demand, were in short supply.

Some of your volunteers will be too young to have even been born then. It will be up to you to draw some parallels, so they see how women then too rose up in what was perhaps the second wave of feminism (if you consider the first wave to be suffragettes) and are again rising now in a third wave. For instance, there is a new wave of women running for office and taking on the challenge of resetting both our cultural and political guidelines and mores.

What we found so interesting is that looking back, it has been fifty years since 1968, and the suffragette movement was approximately fifty years before that. And fifty years before that, there was the Civil War when women were called to step up because there were no men around to run businesses; and step up they did. Each major movement seems to take about fifty years to emerge in full—and about fifty years equals the birth and maturity of a whole generation. So once a generation, people—and women in particular—seem to say, “Our generation must do things, change things, and make the world a better place.” That lends credence to two famous quotes by two famous women:

“The critical responsibility for the generation that you’re in is to help provide the shoulders, the direction, and the support for those generations who come behind.” 22

Gloria Dean Randle Scott

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

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