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Terry remember Val.s addage "quality has no fear of time"
you made the right decision
On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Terry Wright wrote:

> Over the past few weeks, it has become clear to me that the situation with my mother's health (physical and psychological) is not going to permit me to devote the required time to a run for County Council President. She is getting more and more forgetful and more and more psychologically dependent, and I have been running myself ragged trying to look after her and attend to the campaign. Finally, it began to affect my own blood pressure.
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> I kept going back to what you said last fall when we talked, and you said, "Be sure you really want it". Well, I did, but not enough to overcome the increasingly time-consuming efforts to juggle both sets of responsibilities. Had the primary been in a few weeks or a month -- or had there been no primary, I probably could have worked it out, but I was worried that I'd get to late spring, and things would be worse and I'd have even less time, and there would be too little time for someone else to mount a campaign.
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> It didn't help that I was unable to find a Campaign Manager (a Val or Ted type) who could handle all of the administrative details. I had plenty of folks willing to help, but no one who had the time or willingness or experience to pull it all together. I was trying to do that, and that's a recipe for disaster. It was taking up time that I should have been using meeting with people.
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> Rebecca Young, the County Chairman, had said to me last fall that, "You need to have a supportive family", and I didn't. It was non-supportive on the best days, and bordering on hostile at other times. While everyone said that they'd help pick up the slack with my Mom, it didn't happen. They all have their own lives and schedules.
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> I'm a little disappointed, because I think I would have won (the support from everyone -- especially folks I don't know well -- meant a great deal to me), and done a good job, but elective office has never been something I felt I have to do.
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> On another front, Jane and I are close to being done with your boxes in DC, and then I will be coming over to go through the boxes at you house. I'll let you know when I'm ready to start.
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> Terry