Voting for a candidate based on their previous experience in office appears at first glance to be a rational approach, but it is wholly dependent on the definition one chooses for the word experience. 

Should the measure of a person’s experience be that they were previously elected or appointed, or what they accomplished while they were keeping a chair warm? Affordable housing, childcare/early education, year-round employment, dock design, sales and severance taxes…the same questions and…