What it’s like to be pioneering new political candidate

‘I think people should stop complaining and GET INvOLVED’ – Trista diGenova-CHANG, 2020 write-in @PimaSheriff Candidate

#Trista4Sheriff: LESSONS LEARNED FROM RUNNING �‍♂️FOR PIMA SHERIFF AS A 2020 WRITE-IN CANDIDATE ✍️ by #STICKITTOTHEMAN w/#Trista4Sheriff -A Trumpvirus-free #ComfortZone (Season2!) • A podcast on Anchor


I noticed AZ Daily Star published a very boring article about someone’s experience as a new candidate, so I wrote this, hoping newspapeds would be interested in publishing a better, more compelling take on the experience. 
But since they probably won’t publish it, I’m posting it on my website.
The Entire System Is Rigged- against new candidates, third-party candidates, progressive voices.

On the other hand, if we can get past some hurdles like #ballotaccess, women & young people and progrsssibes actually have an advantage- which explains why corporatist politicians fight so hard to keep us from running. The Voting Machines -#Diebold are still used in America today, although #BBC investigative reporter #GregPalast revealed over 20 years ago now, how election results are as easy to change as ‘a Microsoft Excel document’. #Palast also showed us how #GOP constantly engages in #votesuppression with their #CagingLists & other nefarious means to purge the rolls of registered Democrats- contesting everybody with the same name as a felon, for example, so when they go to the polls they won’t be able to vote! 

Right now GOP are trying to throw out 127,000 votes by a ‘#drivethroughvoting. 

Both parties have tons of money 💰 to throw at lawyers to screw things up using the courts- in fact, that’s what happened to me.
#BennyWhite – the unscrupulous @pimarecorder candidate – contested my nominating signatures to make sure my name was not on the ballot, a case I am appealing to the AZSupremeCiurt out of principle and desire to help upgrade the system. But the damage is done. Without having my name on the ballot the media and even my friends don’t take my candidacy seriously. This massive #votesuppression runs rampant through politics especially today in America, when we have a two-party monopoly of corporatists, who, as @RalphNAder put it, are ‘dialing for the same dollars 💵’. For new candidates, I recommend making sure you have a good padding of nominating signatures, because this tactic of throwing a team of lawyers to intimidate the f out of new candidates like me & block their #ballotaccess. As Anne in the #PimaCounty #DepartmentofElextions put it, ‘It’s cheaper to contest your signatures than run against you’ & actually have to address the ISSUES. As a new candidate, I got NO HELP from #PimaDemocrats when I asked them for alternatives to in-person signature-gathering; nor did #BradNelson head of Dept of Elections even bother returning my calls.I learned that only the state legislature could change any of these rules, so I told them these suggestions: update the practice of gathering in-person signatures to be carried out online, like state races. Also, strike down prohibitive rules that make it harder for third-party candidates to run, like the enormous amount of signatures required to run as independent. I’m of the opinion we should ban all campaign contributions, fake money out of politics, so we can focus on what’s important: the ISSUES.  When covid hit (I urge people to call it for what it is- the #TrumpVirus-man-mads & nasty!) even libraries closed, one of the few places candidates can get signatures. Managers of dollar stores & supermarkets claim their parking lot is ‘private property’ when it’s not; & won’t let us gather signatures although legally we’re supposed to be able to. When I ran for DC city council a long time ago, my campaign signs were systematically taken down. So this time I made only a few by hand & put them in strategic locations the day of the elections; I’ll take a picture & spread it all over social media, with my podcast, #STICKITTOTHEMAN. I ran an ‘absolutely clean 🧼’ campaign- accepting no campaign contributions from anybody, not even friends (thanks, Lars!) because that is just a form of institutionalized bribery. Where I was told some years ago it cost $50,000 to run for senate, #MarkKelly & #MarthaMcSally are in the most expensive aAZ senate race in history. I have found it convenient NOT to accept donations; I didn’t have to file campaign finance reports or create a committee to deal with that; or have ‘fundraisers’ during covid; or even ask other people for money. I hate asking people for money, & I think making politicians beg for money all the time is demeaning and degrading. Besides, if I say, accept a million dollar campaign donation from the police 👮‍♀️ union, I’m just going to do their bidding, right!? John McCain ain’t got nothin’ on me, in terms of being a ‘maverick’ ! Yet our #impotus spent far less than #HRC on HIS campaign; & besides, he ruins – not runs- our country by tweet- & that doesn’t cost anything! My background as teacher & journalist serve me well; social media is a wonderful and free thing. We should, in fact take advantage of that, & BAN MONEY 💰 FROM POLITICS. All along the way, I always encourage good people to #RunWithMe for office. We need good, ordinary people to just go for it! We need #YOUNG people especially, though unsterstandably, all the partisan bickering is a total turnoff, for them & MANY people in this country. Whilst gathering signatures, many people were either disenfranchised for a myriad of reasons – AND they’re totally disgusted with all the BS & corruption in Washington. But don’t let that old truck get you to just let all these corrupt old fogeys continue ruining our country with their BS & #Corruption! And also, I go out of my way to encourage former candidates to #persevere! RUN 🏃 AGAIN! Don’t just give up because you lost one race. And all those democratic candidates on the stage – like @tomsteyer – he should run for another position! Why do these people give up so easily & disappear, I wonder?If they really wanted to be a public servant, they would RUN AGAIN. So I encourage a lot of former candidates – @RalphNader; #StephenColbert, & dedicated, smart activists like @JaneFonda. Why doesn’t she just run for senator? She’s got name recognition, which is KEY to winning the race.  @MichaelMoore, too. I think people should stop complaining & GET INVOLVED.


 #tucsonstar @kvoa #BREAKING #politics #cnn @nytimes 

MUSIC ANNOUNCEMENT: I have free live music 🎶 show – I sing 🎤 songs 🎵 to #ComfortAmerikkka by singing classic folk rock/country amid #TrumpVirus! Can u pls RT this? PRE-ELECTION DAY KKK SHOW- Eine Kleine KORONAVIRUS KOMFORT SHOW for @TrevorNoah & #TheDailyShow by #STICKITTOTHEMAN w/#Trista4Sheriff -A Trumpvirus-free #ComfortZone (Season2!) • A podcast on Anchor
PRE-ELECTION DAY KKK SHOW- Eine Kleine KORONAVIRUS KOMFORT SHOW for @TrevorNoah & #TheDailyShow by #STICKITTOTHEMAN w/#Trista4Sheriff -A Trumpvirus-free #ComfortZone (Season2!) • A podcast on AnchorThis country has been traumatized. By successively duplicitous governments. 300,000 dead � Americans ��. 60 million unemployed. A madman who won’t leave office or quit terrorizing us – so #Trista4Sheriff sings � songs as type of #musictherapy, as


Btw I have free live music 🎶 show – I sing 🎤 songs 🎵 to #ComfortAmerikkka by singing classic folk rock/country amid #TrumpVirus! Can u pls RT this? PRE-ELECTION DAY KKK SHOW- Eine Kleine KORONAVIRUS KOMFORT SHOW for @TrevorNoah & #TheDailyShow by #STICKITTOTHEMAN w/#Trista4Sheriff -A Trumpvirus-free #ComfortZone (Season2!) • A podcast on Anchor
PRE-ELECTION DAY KKK SHOW- Eine Kleine KORONAVIRUS KOMFORT SHOW for @TrevorNoah & #TheDailyShow by #STICKITTOTHEMAN w/#Trista4Sheriff -A Trumpvirus-free #ComfortZone (Season2!) • A podcast on AnchorThis country has been traumatized. By successively duplicitous governments. 300,000 dead � Americans ��. 60 million unemployed. A madman who won’t leave office or quit terrorizing us – so #Trista4Sheriff sings � songs as type of #musictherapy, as

WRITE ME IN -#Trista4SHERIFF, #TUCSON,AZ TRUMP OWES $1 BILLION DOLLARS TO: CHINA 🇨🇳 COMMUNIST BANK; (NAZI) DEUTSCHEBANK & #RUSSIANOLIGARCHS. Write me in – #Trista4Sheriff, #Tucson! We’ll do somethin’ ‘bout that !!! AND all the #MassMurder -300,000 DEAD 💀 AMERICANS 🇺🇸 so far —& #terrorism! #LockThemAllUP. TRISTA4CHANGE.COM Podcast: #STICKITTOTHEMAN w/#Trista4SheriffAZGov&Prez – STAY #SAFEAMERIKKKA, & don’t listen to a WORD the frickin #LUNATICinOURWhiteHouse says!

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WHO OWNS TRUMP’S FATASS? – WRITE ME IN ✍️ – #Trista4Sheriff
WHO OWNS TRUMP’S FATASS? – WRITE ME IN ✍️ – #Trista4SheriffBy Trista diGenova-CHANG4SheriffAZGov&Prez

IF ANY OF US MAKES IT OUT ALIVE, FROM THIS ELECTION SEASON… by #STICKITTOTHEMAN w/#Trista4Sheriff -A Trumpvirus-free #ComfortZone (Season2!) • A podcast on Anchor


IF ANY OF US MAKES IT OUT ALIVE, FROM THIS ELECTION SEASON… by #STICKITTOTHEMAN w/#Trista4Sheriff -A Trumpvirus-free #ComfortZone (Season2!) • A podcast on AnchorEverybody keeps forgetting!! …. THIS FN LUNATIC in*our* #WhiteHouse has his finger on the button, & is ready to push it �‍� at any second…. #TrumpIsTHATdopedUP, ; on #Aderal, & god knows what else… and doesn’t anybody remember- he tried to st