Candidate School: No Mother Emails This Weekend.

We know you love your mother and your mother loves you. There’s nothing like a mother’s love. We know. Maybe you are a good mother. Your wife may be a great mother–second only to your dear ma. Your mother was wise, kind and wonderful. You are very lucky in the mother fate gave you. Candidates, please, lay off Mother’s Day and your mums as fundraising tools. Give your mater a break, and the rest of us, too. Save the cloying desperation for next year when you’ve realized just how hard it is to get to that $250,000 or are struggling with the reduced requirements of an under ticket candidacy.