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Many people who visit this site regularly already know who I am. For those who do not please allow me to give a proper introduction.
I am Jeff Ballard of East Wakefield, New Hampshire, which is located in southern Carroll County. Have not heard of it? Trust me, the first time I heard of Wakefield I had no clue where it was. It is home to the Poor People's Pub, which is a Moose Mountain Area Democrats favorite! (Locally owned by a Democratic family)
I work as an Emergency Department RN at Wentworth Douglass Hospital in Dover. This past cycle I ran for the New Hampshire Legislature and came up short in our heavily Republican district.
My point of giving you this introduction is to highlight what I think was my own shortcoming in the past election, over networking. I now know Democrats from Lancaster to Nashua, from Portsmouth to Keene, from Maine to California, but I only know twenty or thirty from my own hometown.
In today's electronic age where we have invaluable networking tools such as Facebook, Myspace and friendly hosts such as Blue Hampshire it becomes much too easy to seek refuge from the world by spending too much time on these sites and not enough time engaged in your local communities.
After all who does not prefer spending time with like minded people, and though we might not always agree with each other, it is comforting to know we have some place to go where the people "Get it".
So my challenge to all of you is to look out how many Facebook friends, or email contacts you have which live outside of your hometown, and now go meet that many people right in your own town.
I know personally if I do that in the next election cycle I will be able to win a seat in the New Hampshire House. What could it do for you?
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