Separation of Powers

It is easy to be discouraged in a campaign.  Especially when you know your candidate is the right man for the job but he is a Democratic and your state is overwhelmingly Republican.  It seems that every day I get a phone call saying that we need to on TV more attacking Brewer and I totally agree but what a lot of people don't know is that even though Goddard is what is considered the top of the Democratic ticket this election is considered a "clean election" unfortunately.  Believe me unfortunately.  That means that each candidate is only allotted $600,000 in personal fundraising and the rest goes to the Arizona Democratic Party and then is divided among the candidates.  Thats why your not really seeing a lot of ads from either candidate on television but there are a ton on YouTube.  Because you have people like me who can take media that has been filmed at a previous event and splice it together into a 30 second clip and load it onto YouTube.

But what can really be discouraging but also bring interns together is the layout of the office.  We are in a unique building in Phoenix.  It is more of a rectangle than a square so all of the desks are lined up against the wall leaving no one really eye contact with each other.  On the far end you have all the people with titles and on the other end you have the interns.  This has built a strong comradery with the interns but a little internal turmoil within the office because of the separation.  I still have tremendous respect for my colleagues but I think who ever thought that it was a good idea to put everyone where they did was a good idea must have been out of their mind.    A campaign like this with such a minimal budget needs all the support it can get and something as little as desk arrangement should not be the straw in the camel's back.