My friend Sue Konig had a cool column on the NRO website yesterday

UPDATE: NPR picked up the column Why You Should Run For Office

My friend and neighbor down the street, Sue, sent me an email yesterday. It's was in response to my post God's Gift to the Republicans – Pelosi strikes again! on Tuesday.

I thought I was God's gift to Republicans
http://article.nationalreview.com/427376/put-me-in-coach-/susan-konig?page=1
back on NRO telling people they should run for office!!

Best,

Susan

A minivan mom runs for office (and thinks you should, too).

Here in New York, we are expecting a Cuomo coronation following the Paterson meltdown (which was preceded by the Spitzer meltdown). In Albany, you just can’t get good help these days.

This has spawned a wealth of discussion on the perennial New York topic: With all these Democrats falling over themselves to lose the governorship, why are there no Republicans waiting on the bench?

There are. You might have to squint a little to see them, but they’re there. There are commonsense Republicans stepping up all over the state. I know. I’m one of them.

Six years ago, I had coffee with an elected local official near my small Hudson River village in Westchester County. There was a waste company running roughshod over our community, and the entrenched (Democratic) politicians were letting it happen. I told her what I thought she should do about all this. In the nicest possible way she said, “Why don’t you run for office?”

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So I ran for the board of trustees with two other Republicans in a village that’s two-to-one Democrat. And we won. How? By having a strong, commonsense message of limiting spending and controlling taxes, and remembering that we were asking our neighbors to let us represent them. Democrats as well as Republicans voted us in.