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Obviously, he wants people to join his party at some point. But I doubt that he expected to grow his party simply by running for Governor. That's what I meant. Whether that was the best first step toward growing a party formed a month before he announced for Governor is a matter of opinion.
Also obviously, he expected to lose and lose big. He also said in one version of his commercials that he needed 3% of the vote to get on the ballot and polling was showing it was "already there." So, he did meet his only immediate goal in running for Governor with room to spare.
As I said in my prior post, there were any number of first public steps he could have chosen. Running for Governor a month after he formed a new party was the way he chose and probably the one that got him and his new party the most visibility and free publicity the fastest. He ran for Governor, got on the ballot and lost, but we do know his name and the name of his party. And he continued to get buzz after election day.
http://www.masslive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/11/viewpoint_dont_overlook_evan_f.html
And he's raised interest and curiosity, even in DU's Mass forum.
I don't know that running for City Alderman a month out of the box and maybe losing even that would have yielded anything like those results.
In any event, he did what he did and he did achieve a lot in a very short time,given that he did not have a celebrity on the ballot. You think his running for Alderman would have served his new party better I am not so sure. In any event, he and his advisors chose a different route. We have no parallel universes in which to play out alternate scenarios. So, which move would have done his party more good in this amount of time is speculation and opinion.
Thanks for the info about his wealth, but I knew he had money. I did a little googling myself when I first heard of him. I didn't do a lot because I wasn't that interested, but it didn't take much research to find out he had money. (Reminds me of researching Deval Patrick, when I first heard of his run for Governor. Money and scandals popped up in seconds.)
Falchuck doesn't have Koch money, though. Not even Romney money. The Tea Party took a lot of money and that was not even a new party, just a big mouth wing of the Republican Party. But, I am not sure what his personal wealth has to do with whether running for Governor a month after he formed his party was smarter than running for Alderman. Not to mention that he probably has no desire to be Alderman. Now that the party is launched, he has a better shot of recruiting others to run for offices like that.
If running for Governor is all he ever does to try to build a party, though, then I'll certainly scoff right along with you, if we even have reason to be talking about him again. "Calling Falchuck, party of one." (Reference, Robin Williams' "Donner, party of fifty."
We'll see.
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