Campaign Tip of the Day: No Surprises for the Spouse

Dude, don't let your spouse (or significant other for that matter) find out that you have big plans to run for office on Facebook, or by an email announcement of your fundraiser. Yes, this happens and here's an example from the local news.

Hot off the Press, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Big whoops for this candidate.

What happened was a wanna be Assessor-Recorder-Clerk sent out an email announcement about his candidacy and a big fundraiser he was having. His wife was one of the recipients and went ballistic. She took it to Facebook, his Facebook page, complaining that she wasn't even told about the run. And that this was not cool.

                                                        Picture shown here is a re-creation of the event.

Now he has suspended his campaign while he tries to make things right on the home front. If he just told her up front, discussed the pros and cons, she'd probably have been totally supportive.

She says she supports his run and just wanted to be consulted. Did she over-react? Maybe, but not conferring with the family is a major no no, you can bet the public, and his opponent, won't forget this episode anytime soon.