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This is an open letter to Jim Brannon. Losing an election is disheartening. I know, I lost two 
attempts at becoming a state representative. The margins of loss in my races were very large so requesting a recount never even crossed my mind. Coming up just a few votes short of winning is certainly disappointing but not requesting a recount must show in your heart that you recognize the original vote count indicated your opponent had won. Rather than blaming the voting process, you might consider blaming the 70 plus percent of registered voters who sat on their hands and chose not to exercise their right and obligation to participate in the election of their city officials/David B. Larsen, Coeur d’Alene (Coeur d’Alene Press letter to the editor). More here.
Question: Have you ever run for public office and lost?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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danofthecommunity on December 14 at 2:36 p.m.
Yes, once in a school board race.
But then I won three other times for school board, once for city council, and several times for clerk including a primary contest.
If I was a batter, I guess I’d be pretty happy with my percentage. As an elected official I know I am.
Almost anyone who won an office at some time or another may have lost as well. I think of how many times Ron Rankin (who was a former school board opponent) ran before he became commissioner and then what a good job he went on to do.
Howard_Martinson on December 14 at 5:18 p.m.
Yep, I ran for council in 2001. No fun to come up a few hundred votes short. Successful candidates Deanna, Ben and Woody went on to do a great job, and so I feel OK about the eventual outcome, however I always wonder what would have happened if…