Back in the days of “Alderman Jan,” when I was still on FB and Nashua had zero representation in any legislative body, Beth Scaer authored a survey in one of the local groups, either Nashua Politics or Nashua Scoop. It was a multiple-choice question, and it asked something like this:
So you don’t like your elected officials and their antics, what do you do about it?
A) complain
B) vote in every election
C) door knock/phone bank for a candidate
D) donate to the campaign of a candidate
E) run for office
I don’t remember the numbers, like how many people participated and percentage of each answer, but you can probably see where I’m going with this. I voted in every election, every primary, every city election and every special election for decades, then I ran for office, three times, and here we are.
Three weeks before the primary, I tried to rally up the troops with this article, hoping to get some “new help” off the couch. Now that I gave the two candidates, Nurse Terese and Emily Phillips, some time to decompress and start reclaiming their personal lives, post-defeat, I reached out to both of them to follow up. I asked if any new people (meaning people not already on activist groups’ speed dial) emailed them between August 19 and the primary to offer their help. Both of them answered no. […]
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