I was 18 years old when I sat across from a friend of mine in the Simi Valley Denny’s listening to my 18 year old friend contemplate running for Mayor of Simi Valley. “I should do it,” he told me. “The Simi Valley Mayor is almost never contested. If I run a good campaign, I might win.” He didn’t run, though. He had too much respect for city government to run for Mayor just because he could.