• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    zero local campaigning

    That’s usually true here as well. This year is the only time I have seen someone campaign. I know him and he’s an amazing guy, so I hope he wins, but I have just never seen local politicians willing to go out and press the flesh.

    He works for one of the local TV stations as a “one-man-band” (someone who goes out with a camera and gets the story and the interview and such themselves, but doesn’t get a reporter credit), so he knows how to talk to people, likes to talk to people, and he’s well-known in the community.

    That’s it. Him. No one else ever.

    Probably why we had the same Republican mayor for four terms.