If following the Council here, or if understanding that the volunteer Mayor has ceremonial and largely policy/agenda promoting role, I'm not sure that I personally would insist the Mayor of Springfield be vetted in the existing city politic.  Those skills are not as useful to leading the city at this point as I can tell, as much as bringing innovation and some sort of visibility to the important issues the City is facing.  Understand that just my modest candidacy here has generated more interest in the issues of the election than I can find in most prior and recent media.  Lundberg was getting ready to run unopposed, and those skills that you might attribute to her experience, even with me running, are largely unused.  While one may not think I've gone through the process, consider also that I'm running partly because I'm -not- part of that process.  Its time to break up the old mindset and divisions that still prevent us from moving forward past a long failed timber economy.