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Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand is, as he himself put it, "an avid reader of Blue Hampshire since its inception." I know this to be true, not just because he started posting here back in early April, but also because one of the first emails I ever received about BH came from him in late 2006. In other words, Steve gets the netroots, and when a local outpost of it cropped up in the Granite State, he interacted with it intuitively for his (at the time) nascent senate run.
It's hard to believe how much has happened since then. Steve outperformed my expectations, winning me over in support and picking up a slew of endorsements, including another favorite of mine, Gary Hirshberg. And true to his pledge, he withdrew from the race when Governor Shaheen entered a few weeks ago.
It's clear to me that Steve's tireless work on the senate race has done much to bring Sununu's failed record to more Granite staters, and, more importantly, before the nonsense of silly season campaigning kicks in. If we end up replacing the Sprinter, a great share of the thanks will go to Steve for this work.
So now that the fundraising quarter has ended, and you've given to the active candidates, I'm asking you to dig deeper still and consider helping Steve out by retiring his campaign debt. This is from a supporter letter I recently received:
The majority of our debt is in unpaid salary to my outstanding campaign staff. We owe nothing to big-name consultants or advertising companies, just an honest debt to dedicated people that have worked tirelessly to ensure that our message of fiscal and social responsibility resonates across New Hampshire.
I can't tell you how much debt is left to retire, because I have no idea, but you can give to Steve through his former campaign site, SteveMarchand.com, to help get rid of it. I just did.
Oh, and one more thing: Thanks, Steve.
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