Robert "Bob" Brandt

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Summary of my campaigns for public office:

My 2008 campaign for election as DuPage County Board Member was unsuccessful.  Click here for more details. 

My 2007 campaign for re-election as Woodridge Trustee was unsuccessful and I was not re-elected.  Click here for more details. 

My 2003 campaign for election as Woodridge Trustee was successful.  Click here for more details. 

My 2001 campaign for election as Woodridge Park District Commissioner was unsuccessful.  Click here.for more details.

My 1999 write-in campaign for election as Woodridge Trustee garnered 35 write-in votes, just about 1,500 shy of victory.  Click here.for more details. 

The following quote from Abraham Lincoln sums up my feelings about running for public office:

New Salem, Illinois

March 9, 1832

"Fellow Citizens:  Having become a candidate for the honorable office of one of your representatives in the next General Assembly of this state, in accordance with an established custom, and the principles of true republicanism, it becomes my duty to make known to you - the people whom I propose to represent - my sentiments with regard to local affairs.

Considering the great degree of modesty which should always attend youth, it is probable I have already been more presuming than becomes me.  However, upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all times wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.  How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.  I am young and unknown to many of you.  I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.  I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me.  My case is thrown exclusively upon the independent voters of this county, and if elected they will have conferred a favor upon me, for which I shall be unremitting in my labors to compensate.  But if the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too  familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined."

Your friend and fellow-citizen,

A. Lincoln