{"id":5494,"date":"2018-02-10T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5494"},"modified":"2018-02-08T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T19:43:47","slug":"candidate-workshop-february-24th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/10\/candidate-workshop-february-24th\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidate Workshop, February 24th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2018 is here and with that comes town, state, and federal elections. Massachusetts elections are often uncontested. About 60% of state legislators do not have a single opponent.<\/p>\n<p>You can change that and it doesn&#8217;t take a fortune to run, you don&#8217;t need an army of volunteers, and the work you do can make a real difference in your community!<\/p>\n<p>Our candidate workshop focuses on what you need to do to be successful, whether you win or not.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll explain how to run small but effective campaigns, logistics (filing paperwork and gathering signatures), and what happens after you&#8217;ve won the election.<\/p>\n<p>Our workshop will be Saturday, February 24th. It will be in the Banx Room at the Worcester Public Library at 3 Salem St. Worcester from 2pm to 4pm. The library is wheelchair accessible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/event\/register?id=30&amp;reset=1\">Please tell us you plan to attend<\/a> or share the <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/event\/info?reset=1&amp;id=30\">full event listing<\/a> with your friends.<\/p>\n<p>This workshop is open to everyone, regardless of party affiliation. People who&#8217;ve served in local office are also encouraged to attend.\u00a0 We hope you&#8217;ll share your experiences, and the things you learned while running.<\/p>\n<p>We do plan to have additional workshops in 2018. If you can help organize one in your community, email us at <a href=\"mailto:info@masspirates.org?subject=I%20want%20a%20how%20to%20run%20workshop%20in%20my%20community\">info@masspirates.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 is here and with that comes town, state, and federal elections. Massachusetts elections are often uncontested. About 60% of state legislators do&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections","category-slider"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1qC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5495,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}