HELPING CANDIDATES
Helping Inexperienced Candidates Run Credible Campaigns
There is a strong need for people willing to invest their experience in the coaching of inexperienced citizen candidates for elected office in Clallam County. This teaching must cover the complex regulatory technicalities of running a campaign operation as well as addressing the strategic issues of campaign management.
We Instruct and Advise a citizen candidate on policies and regulations, strategies and procedures involved in running a political campaign at no charge nor obligation to the candidate
The Calico Cat has held a long standing conviction in the benefits of competition in elections for local nonpartisan office. In pursuit of more and better competition, it began to assist independent-minded partisan and unaffiliated candidates in 2016 using a campaign readiness checklist. Much experience coming as candidates or campaign workers. Along with much wisdom from professional operatives they were convinced of the overarching need for candidates at the local level is independence. Independence characterized by a desire to service and a common sense mentality. The need to look upon each local issue on its own merits and context without the burden of a complicated party platform loaded down with National and State issues.
The Calico Cat has assembled this accumulated knowledge into an instructional workshop. This learning tool can best be described as basic training for the novice candidate that will acquaint the candidate with the technicalities of running a campaign as well as prepare the candidate to think through his or her candidacy before making a commitment to launch. The Calico Cat provides this service at no charge as a benefit to its membership.
CANDIDATE COACH
The Candidate Coach is the central figure of our process. It is the Candidate Coach who works alongside the candidate: coaching, advising, encouraging, answering questions. Candidate Coaches have much experience as campaign managers and advisors and in most cases have held elected office or leadership posts in working campaigns. They work with candidates throughout their campaigns, guiding them through the difficult wickets of running for office