If nominated, I will not run.
If elected, I will not serve.
This insanity started right here in the Bay Area. As some here may recall (this was admittedly before my time) there was a plan to build freeways through San Francisco to connect the Bayshore Freeway and Bay Bridge to the Golden Gate Bridge. There were to be two of them, one, extending from the at-the-time end of the Central Freeway (at Turk Street) to the Golden Gate Bridge ramp and the other, along the water front from the end of the (ill fated, via the 1989 Earthquake) Embarcadero Freeway to the same point. Now the Embaradero Freeway was a bonehead move but the Central Freeway extension made sense (and STILL makes sense!). Anyhow, the proto Lefty SF whackos rose up in opposition and stopped both from expanding. (post script - The '89 quake damaged the Embarcadero Freeway and they had to tear it down, the Central has been slowly torn down as the NIMBYs have expanded their power and as anti-suburban-commuter Communists in SF have increased theirs). Once the Left experienced this small victory, back in, IIRC, 1958 or 59, they set their sights higher. It took them until '74 to get someone sufficiently whacko to undertake their plans, but Moonbeam did get in (this was definitely during my time - I was 12 when he got voted in) and the rest is history.