Adrienne Martini - Somebodys Gotta Do It: Why Cursing at the News Wont Save the Nation, But Your Name on a Local Ballot Can
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50 percent memoir, 50 percent advice manual, and 100 percent heart. The New York Times
Somebodys Gotta Do It is a humorous (and instructive) memoir about a progressive woman who runs for very small-town elected office in a red countyand wins (yay!)and then realizes the critical importance of the job.
Back in the fall of 2016, before casting her vote for Hillary Clinton, Adrienne Martini, a knitter, a runner, a mom, and a resident of rural Otsego County in snowy upstate New York, knew who her Senators were, wasnt too sure who her Congressman was, and had only vague inklings about who her state reps were. Shes always thought of politicians as . . . oily. Then she spent election night curled in bed, texting her husband, who was at work, unable to stop shaking. And after the presidential inauguration, she reached out to Dave, a friend of a friend, who was involved in the Otsego County Democratic Party. Maybe she could help out with phone calls or fundraising? But Daves idea was: she should run for office. Someone had to do it.
And so, in the year that 26,000 women (up from 920 the year before) contacted Emilys List about running for offices large and small, Adrienne Martini ran for the District 12 seat on the Otsego County Board. And became one of the 14 delegates who collectively serve one rural American county, overseeing a budget of $130 million. Highway repair? Soil and water conservation? Child safety? Want wifi? Need a coroner?
It turns out, local office matters. A lot.
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I never know which valuable tidbits of information I should acknowledge on an acknowledgments page and always fear leaving someone out. Regardless, here are the people without whom I could never have done any of this.
Thanks go to you, dear reader, for reading. Now is the time to bend that moral arc. Run for office. Make phone calls. Register voters. Write postcards. Knock doors. Its hard at first but ultimately worth it.
Had Charlotte Nelson, Krista Jean Anderson, Sara Marcus, Leslie Danks Burke, Denise King, Kim Muller, Carolyn Wolf-Gould, Amanda Champion, Charles Decker, Elaine DiMasi, Stacy Hackenberg, Liz Walters, and Seema Singh Perez not chosen to answer their email and/or pick up their phones, this would have been a very thin book. Without childrens book creator Lisa Horstmans quick sketching pen, this book would be short one map and a lot of charm.
The team at Henry HoltHannah Campbell, Jenna Dolan, Rick Pracher, Declan Taintor, Maggie Richards, Jessica Wiener, and Jason Liebmanmade me look much smarter and more fascinating than I actually am. Assistant editor Ruby Rose Lee is a font of patience. My editor Barbara Jones is a mighty witch among women.
Elizabeth Kaplan has been my agent longer than my son has been alive and, somehow, neither of us looks a day over forty. She has always told me exactly what she thinks. This is a good thing.
Daniel Alexander Jones is an artist and soul friend whose work flows into my life just when I need it most. Lin-Manuel Miranda is an artist who has no idea who I am but whose Hamilton propelled me up First Avenue during the New York City Marathon (I mentioned the marathon, yes?) and convinced me that the American experiment is worth the fight.
Speaking of my countrys ever-evolving government and legal system, the voters in Otsego Countys District 12 took a chance on me. My colleagues and I are doing our best to make this an increasingly vibrant place to live.
Moving even closer to home, by the time you read this, my oldest child will be ready to vote in the 2020 election, which seems impossible, but here we are. While she and her brother dont find anything I do all that interesting, they are supportive nonetheless.
It is impossible to thank my husband enough for being who he isand hed likely deflect any attempts to do so. He will always be my lobster.
What if I told you its going to be alright?
What if I told you not yet?
What if I told you there are trials ahead beyond your deepest fears?
What if I told you you will fall down, down, down?
What if I told you you will surprise yourself?
What if I told you you will be brave enough?
Black Light, Daniel Alexander Jones
You are angry. You are afraid. Given all that has happened in recent years, you cant see how to get this country back on a sane path, one with protections for the most vulnerable people and our environment. And one where every personno matter their race, economic status, or sexual orientationis treated equally under the law.
In 2019, the nations prospects were made even more harrowing by the Supreme Court decision that, according to a very narrow interpretation of centuries of case law, gerrymandering is A-OK. The consequences of this could be grim. As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent: These gerrymanders enabled politicians to entrench themselves in office as against voters preferences.
The way forward feels impossible to see. I hear you. I am you.
Even though the power of positive thinking is part of why were here, it is true that every crisis also contains opportunity. Dig deep and discover your joyful warrior within. The only way out of this is to convert all that fear and ire and disgust into action. Small steps matter, especially if we hold hands and take them together.
Right now, there is a ripe, juicy opportunity ready to be plucked. The redistricting that will happen in 2021 will set electoral maps for a decade. Now is the time to run for local or state office (or support someone who is) because those offices have the most influence on how districts are drawn. When IS now exactly? Its well, its now. You might want to read this book first, but then, after that, immediately after thatis now.
Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat watching right now, if you know someone who ought to run for something, or if you ought to run for something, the thing you ought to run for is the state legislature in your state, Rachel Maddow said. And you better do it right now.
This book offers some hints and tips about running for local office but isnt a how-to. Other books, such as Amanda Litmans Run for Something: A Real-Talk Guide to Fixing the System Yourself, will give you an action plan for getting in the game. The book you have in your hands (or on your screen) is, instead, your companion while you do what Amanda tells you to do. Somebodys Gotta Do It is an experienced (okay, slightly experienced) friend to anyone who wants to rebuild and reimagine what America can be. The officeholders at the top of the system can only do so much without working with the elected representatives at the bottom. This book will show you that you (yes, you!) are somebody who can make a difference. And this book will keep you company when it feels like too much. It isnt too much, really. Sort of. And anyway, even when on occasion it is a lot, somebodys gotta do it.
If you are truly following the tenets of Oprah and living your best life, you will have at least one moment in your existence when you realize that the water you landed in after your leap of faith is miles over your head. You are down in the Mariana Trench with the luminous fish who have become so adapted to the pressures of the briny deep that they will explode if brought to the surface. You are that far out of your depth.
Ive had three of those moments. The first was when I moved from my native Pittsburgh to Austin, Texas, to follow some guy when he moved there for grad school. The second was when I had my first child. And the third took place in a lovely, if generic, meeting room in December 2017.
There was a giant Christmas tree in one corner and maybe seventy-five seats in front of a podium. We had breakfast nibbles and coffee to fuss with while we listened to a presentation on the different forms of county government and which would work best for Otsego County. I was one of the incoming representatives on the county board, soon to be sworn in on a bitterly cold New Years Day.
Our county is the only one in New York that uses the Board of Representatives modelthat is, fourteen representatives, one for each district, but no county executive; thus, every single decision is made by the fourteen-member committee. Many of the incoming reps had run on changing that Board of Reps system because it is wildly inefficient and keeps us from being able to focus on issues bigger than budget modifications and mandated training.
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