For A Change of Pace

While we're all angsting about the Presidential election, a piece of local election news from home (well, my home). My district had 3 folks running for Representative this election: the long time Democratic incumbant, Rosa DeLauro, who's been in office at Least since I was in middle school (when she came to school and spoke, and I was in Jazz band, so I had to hear the whole thing twice- ugh, boring), a Republican by the name of Elser, and Ralph Ferrucci, running with the Green party, last I heard. DeLauro, of course, won by quite a bit- 70-something%, and Elser came in next, but Ferrucci got about 3% of the vote: more than independant/third-party candidates have been doing in general. Now, I'm perfectly happy with how things came out- but it interests me on a personal level, as I've met Mr. Ferrucci a few times, and he's a pretty unusual candidate for elected office: a nice guy, and very good about miscommunications (I coordinated his coming to speak at my high school, sort of, and the guy whom I worked through didn't quite get all the info back and forth right- so we rescheduled, and he was very good about it, even though his audience ended up being, I think, 3 of us), and decidedly honest (he told me not to vote for his party, basically, on a higher level, since I didn't like some of their policies: that takes honesty). The man went to the local semi-applied art school, and has been working driving trucks and stocking grocery store shelves and similar things for the last several years. He ran for New Haven alderman a few years ago and lost. It must have taken a lot of gumption to run for state representative with no experience whatsoever.

For A Change of Pace

While we're all angsting about the Presidential election, a piece of local election news from home (well, my home). My district had 3 folks running for Representative this election: the long time Democratic incumbant, Rosa DeLauro, who's been in office at Least since I was in middle school (when she came to school and spoke, and I was in Jazz band, so I had to hear the whole thing twice- ugh, boring), a Republican by the name of Elser, and Ralph Ferrucci, running with the Green party, last I heard. DeLauro, of course, won by quite a bit- 70-something%, and Elser came in next, but Ferrucci got about 3% of the vote: more than independant/third-party candidates have been doing in general. Now, I'm perfectly happy with how things came out- but it interests me on a personal level, as I've met Mr. Ferrucci a few times, and he's a pretty unusual candidate for elected office: a nice guy, and very good about miscommunications (I coordinated his coming to speak at my high school, sort of, and the guy whom I worked through didn't quite get all the info back and forth right- so we rescheduled, and he was very good about it, even though his audience ended up being, I think, 3 of us), and decidedly honest (he told me not to vote for his party, basically, on a higher level, since I didn't like some of their policies: that takes honesty). The man went to the local semi-applied art school, and has been working driving trucks and stocking grocery store shelves and similar things for the last several years. He ran for New Haven alderman a few years ago and lost. It must have taken a lot of gumption to run for state representative with no experience whatsoever.