Supervisor-elect Anderson plans to prioritize homelessness, transparency [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
Joel Anderson first ran for elected office in 1998. He didn’t have much experience with politics, but he ran for State Assembly at the encouragement of some friends.
He didn’t even make it out of the primary, falling to fellow Republican and future two-term Assemblywoman Charlene Zettler by more than 10 percentage points.
But Anderson, 60, says losing that race turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.
It taught him several lessons about effective campaigning and the power a candidate has to help residents, as well as helped him better understand and appreciate voters, he said.
Print
Joel Anderson first ran for elected office in 1998. He didn’t have much experience with politics, but he ran for State Assembly at the encouragement of some friends.
He didn’t even make it out of the primary, falling to fellow Republican and future two-term Assemblywoman Charlene Zettler by more than 10 percentage points.
But Anderson, 60, says losing that race turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.
It taught him several lessons about effective campaigning and the power a candidate has to help residents, as well as helped him better understand and appreciate voters, he said.