Khasinkonia wrote:Sanabel wrote:Well I recall some things they mentioned.
Apparently Mayor of New Orleans has some stigma around it, and it isn’t really great as a launch pad for statewide office.
Also, her being both an accomplished economist and an accomplished minister may be a bit much, but I’ll have to see it.
Just some thoughts.
I wasn't going for accomplished so much as educated in both, spending more time in education than working. My thinking is that she will have wanted to work with the church since the beginning, but as ordinations weren't yet allowed when she was in college, it'd be more to the effect of switching professions. I'm not envisioning a high status in the Chicago Federal Reserve so much as a secretarial position, and then for ministry, Trinity is one of the larger churches with more history that I can work with, but I'll probably either substitute it for a church in a South Louisiana community that would be a better base as needed while I write, and/or do something to the tune of a failed campaign or two. Regarding ordination, while Nashotah does have a good reputation, it's simply the best narrative fit as it's fairly conservative theologically in many ways, while still working with regards to ordaining women. Folks have multiple professions over the duration of their lives, and so the basis that I'm making for this character would be that she had an unfulfillable dream, so pursued her secondary passion, until the dream became possible. As for her involvement in politics, I'm going to use Katrina as the catylist for it, as I remember a lot of folks in Louisiana felt despaired and looked for different paths in life afterwards, and that, combined with the blow trust in the government took during the initial response period, will compell her to run and go in this direction. This reasoning would also be useful to ground her, I think.
Would they put someone with a prestigious PhD in a secretarial position?
That doesn’t answer my concern over the mayoral-gubernatorial political path.
