It's smart to be wary of those NAPs. Some of them are ... colourful to say the least.
My mid-career (rank 6 or 7) doctor sim went to buy some coffee, and was attacked my some random townie git. Fortunately he's as strong as a mallee bull so he won that fight. That sim better watch out if he ever visits the hospital and Doctor M is on duty.
If you have the NAP called Green Gardening active, you can rapidly get a bunch of the influence points you need to vote in the weekly planning. Clean Energy Production is another pretty good one, because after you chuck a solar panel on the roof, the influence just trickles in. You also save a bit on power bills which is nice.