I agree with @UrLogicFails, local offices are incredibly important positions. A city council can affect so many facets of citizens’ lives, for better or worse, and a decisive vote for reducing insitutionalized harms is a huge thing to bring to the table. If you’ve got the bandwidth and inclination, go for it. Even the running for a position can be a platform to bring about social change, however small it seems.

It’s something that I’ve considered, but we’re recent enough residents in a state with an insular culture (Maine - I’ll tell you the “joke” I was told by a townie shortly after moving here if you want) and trying to bootstrap a business so it’s tough to place any resources towards it currently. It’ll certainly be revisited if circumstances make it an option, though.