Miss Manners: How Do We Tell Our Neighbor that They Shouldn’t Run for Office?

Miss Manners: I’m too tired to support my neighbor’s political campaign

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After well over a year of enduring political campaigning, we are quite fatigued from it all. The results were quite disappointing to us. Then our dear neighbor announced they were mounting a campaign to run for a state district office and requested our substantial financial and fundraising support.

Miss Manners: How do we tell our neighbor that they shouldn’t run for office?

When the announcement was made, we seriously thought they were joking due to the perceived inability to attain, much less perform in, such an important government capacity.