Plenty of other positions where the people who *can* get voted out are so insulated that it never happens in practice, like for instance the small suburb I live in with off-off year city council elections every 4 years. Or school board elections that happen in special election times in March of major election years so that no one knows a…
Plenty of other positions where the people who *can* get voted out are so insulated that it never happens in practice, like for instance the small suburb I live in with off-off year city council elections every 4 years. Or school board elections that happen in special election times in March of major election years so that no one knows about them except the people who put extra effort into reading the elections calendar in particular.
One (mostly) positive thing that’s happened bc of Covid is people being more engaged with what their local officials are doing. At least that’s my anecdotal observation. I started attending our council’s virtual meetings and sending letters when it seemed like would never end their mask mandate.
Plenty of other positions where the people who *can* get voted out are so insulated that it never happens in practice, like for instance the small suburb I live in with off-off year city council elections every 4 years. Or school board elections that happen in special election times in March of major election years so that no one knows about them except the people who put extra effort into reading the elections calendar in particular.
One (mostly) positive thing that’s happened bc of Covid is people being more engaged with what their local officials are doing. At least that’s my anecdotal observation. I started attending our council’s virtual meetings and sending letters when it seemed like would never end their mask mandate.