Miss Manners: How do we tell unqualified neighbor we won’t support their campaign to hold public office?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: After well over a year of enduring political campaigning, we are quite fatigued from it all. The results were quite disappointing to us.

Then our dear neighbor announced they were mounting a campaign to run for a state district office and requested our substantial financial and fundraising support.

While understanding the need for a years-long strategic process to achieve this goal, we have concerns. Physically and financially, we are not in a place to participate. But even if we were able, we do not feel this individual has the skill, knowledge or ability to adequately represent our district. In fact, they have never run for, much less been elected to, any office at any time. There also exist aspects of their past which would become political fodder in the hands of an