Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Are you asking a candidate to "campaign" here?
No, I'm asking someone to explain a behaviour pattern. One would hope when answering that the member knows the rules about campaigning, but I don't understand a mindset which never/rarely reads TB (by which I take it to mean is uninterested) but then decides to stand, and I'm trying to understand that mindset.
There certainly is a question to be asked of all candidates about why they chose to run, but that's a different question from the rather more pointed 'why would someone who professes to little/no interest in TB chose to run for it?'