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Interesting story about an election:
Adverstisement and the Virtue of Audacity
Richard had a friend named Bill Gurley who had political aspirations. Most sophomores were nervous because it was our first year at the big high school that had close to two thousand students, and Bill wanted to run for sophomore representative, but being just a tenth grader, he was timid. Good leaders are not usually meed, but Richard decided to help Bill anyway.
Together, they plastered campaign signs all around the school:
VOTE!
Bill Gurley
Sophomore Representative
As a prerequisite to run, in addition to rallying voter support, Bill needed fifty signatures from students and three from teachers saying that he was a good man for the job. Candidates also needed a certain grade average from their previous schools, so the front office had to sign-off, showing that they had checked the records. In this way the school assured that it maintained a puppet government "representing the student interests."
As the elections drew closer, Bill-the-timid was out sick, so Richard-the-lion-hearted went around and collected signatures from the students and teachers, then got permission from the principal's office.
(Read the rest of this amazing story at the link above)
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