Running For Office, New York Style - Huffington Post

My friend and Air America colleague, Scott Elberg, often says to me that he "can't imagine running for office and subjecting myself and my family to the abuse." Another friend asks, "why jump back in the meat grinder?" The simple answer, as family and colleagues will confirm, is that I love public service, politics less so... And if the risk of loss and the anxiety of always being poised between adoration and humiliation in a campaign is the price of service, I'll pay it. I don't run to run, but to serve.

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I entered this contest for Public Advocate, the City's ombudsman and #2 office city-wide, expecting to be subject to seven months of hazing by rivals and anonymous critics with axes to grind and sloppy reporters to quote them... and then be told what a great guy I am should I win this Fall. Been there, done that -- toast of the town, then toast. I try not to inhale either excessive praise or excessive attacks in order to focus on the reward of holding a great office to expose, solve, propose, legislate and litigate. Voters and politicians have very different mind sets. Voters are almost without exception nice and positive -- oh Mark Green, you were a really good advocate... Thank you ma'am. Politicians and press, well, less so. I was reminded of this in April as I began to speak to a Democratic club forum. One of my competitors openly barked at an aide, "tape him! tape him!", hoping I guess for a flip flog, faux pas, a Macaca moment. He was inadvertently embodying the headline of a recent the New York Observer blog, "Who Will Destroy Mark Green?", a piece which presumed that someone(s) would have to personally attack the presumed leading candidate in order to get in a run-off.

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