Wolfeboro District Dialogue

On Tuesday morning, Eric and I drove with the kids to Wolfeboro for a conversation with community leaders over coffee. I was invited to join the group by Ginger, who reached out on our campaign website to ask whether we had any events scheduled in Carroll County and offered to host a gathering in her gorgeous garden. 

On this campaign, I’m learning a lot about how people expect politicians to act. They expect them to spend 15 minutes dropping by a three hour community BBQ to get pictures for social media. They expect candidates to stay in their bubble, afraid of saying something too honest or to admit that they might need to learn more about a topic. They expect them to only visit big towns and to listen only to their donors. And they expect them to talk, talk, talk.

I decided to run for Congress because that’s what I’ve come to expect too, and I am tired of it. As an activist and an organizer, a teacher and a mom, I’ve never had a politician or candidate for higher office ask me what I wished they understood better about my life. That’s why I’m asking that question to everyone I meet. And building a foundation for better public policy.

Driving to Wolfeboro Tuesday morning was spectacular--the sun glistening on the lake, the humidity broken, the wildflowers in bloom--and it was reinvigorating. I’m running for Congress for everyone who is pissed off by a politics that doesn’t consider them or their experiences and politicians who don’t meet voters where they are. On this campaign--and in office--I will do everything in my power to make sure every Granite Stater is heard and seen.