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There's a strange phenomenon going on right now in Merrimack.
Many people, especially the Republicans, are taking their lawn signs down.
This isn't just the people who have lost their primary and had to have taken them down by yesterday under RSA 664:17, strangely enough, some of those are still up.
In the end, the lawn sign purge made some people I talked to think that the election season was over, that the primary was in fact the election itself.
It's an interesting phenomenon to be sure. I cannot discount the saavy and work ethic of the Republicans for a second, but I don't think this will make a big impact.
However, if you know someone who voted in the primaries who thought that was the big enchilada, please tell them to vote on November 4th.
Now that the Primary is over, I figured it would be a good time to report stats so far.
To date, my campaign has identified 915 voters at 491 different homes. I was aiming for 1,000, but including the random contacts on the 4th of July as well as occasional knocks on doors without recognized registered voters, i've probably reached that goal.
In the fundraising department, i've hit my goal of $1,000, raising $1,007.85 from 35 different people, an average contribution of $28.79, 17 of those donations were $25 or under, and only one of them came from someone who did not live in New Hampshire, although since they have moved here.
However, that may change since I haven't asked anyone in my extended family for campaign contributions yet. If my aunts in New Jersey aren't a special interest i'm beholden to, i'll never hear the end of it at Christmas.
In terms of visibility, i'm up to 67 signs on lawns and businesses across town. My goal before election day is 100, which seems within reach.
Those lawns share space with signs from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Kenney, John Lynch, Jeanne Shaheen, John Sununu, Carol Shea Porter, John Steven, Bill Boyd, Deb Pignatelli, Mike Kaelin, Jim O'Neil, Kim Kojak, Pete Hinkle, Peter Batula, Bob L'Hereaux and Dick Hinch.
It might seem strange to share critical campaign benchmarks like this in fear that my opponents will see that I have not reached my goals or it will give them something to gauge their own internal efforts by.
However, that's part of the beauty of being at the bottom of the ticket as well as the complexity of Merrimack politics.
Of my 15 combined opponents in both major parties, so far five of them have my sign on their lawn, including a Republican. I'd probably be able to get that sign on another three or four if it weren't for the fact that they live in Condos.
Each one of my opponents is a saavy campaigner and cannot be underestimated, but my biggest opponent is myself.
I wanted to take a break from feverishly calling people and stapling signs into pieces of wood on this primary's eve to thank Committee to Elect House Democrats chief Kevin Hodges.
Anybody can run just one political campaign, but over the past few months, he's run nearly 400.
I'm sure I can speak for the other Democratic state rep candidates in stating how valuable Kevin has been to us. He's a veteran campaign staffer, I still remember him from his time during the Richardson campaign, but he's also a local, setting down roots here in the Manchester/Nashua area.
So, when he heard that there was going to be a slot open for his district of Goffstown/Weare, he took up the call and became a candidate to help the rest of us candidates.
If you get a chance, please stop by and help him get written onto the ballot tommorrow at one of the three polling places in the district.
From Manchester: Go across the Queen City Bridge, then turn right on S. Main and Left on Varney and head straight.
From the West: Go up Rte. 13 through New Boston, take a right at Rte. 114 at Goffstown Center and keep on straight for a few miles.
Goffstown Village: Goffstown High School, 27 Wallace Rd. Goffstown,NH
From Manchester: Continuing from Mast Elementary School, continue straight until just before Goffstown Center, it's on the left.
From the West: Go up Rte. 13 through New Boston, take a right at Rte. 114 in Goffstown Center, and take a left onto Wallace Rd.
Weare: Center Woods School 14 Center St. Weare,NH
From Manchester: Head straight across the Amoskeag Bridge onto Goffstown Rd. Keep straight as Goffstown Rd. turns into Center Street, the school is near the beginning of Center Street.
From the West: Go up Rte. 13 through New Boston until Goffstown Center, take a right onto Rte. 114, then take a left onto Henry Bridge Rd.
Center Street is on the left at the end of Henry Bridge Rd.
Fifteen of New Hampshire's one hundred State Representative districts have contested primaries on Tuesday, with five of them right in Manchester.
The day's biggest free for all takes place for the nomination in Hillsborough 17 with eleven filed candidates vying for eight slots, and only returning incumbents in Jane Bealieu, George Katsiantonis, and Joel Winters.
Hillsborough 17, consisting of Manchester's wards 10 through 12, comprises all of the demographically diverse West Side of the city. It is the only race of the day that has an excess of more than one candidate fighting for the Democratic Party nominations.
Elsewhere in Manchester, contested races are being held on the North Side in Ward 1 and 2 , as well as on the far east side of the city in Ward 6 , and the areas near Gill Stadium and Queen City Avenue in Ward 7 and 8. Each of these Wards contains its own State Rep District, Hillsborough 8,9,13,14 and 15 respectively.
Three races have seen procedural questions arise.
In Merrimack 11, consisting of all of Concord west of the Merrimack River as well as the area stretching from the State House to White Park to Cavalary Cemetary, Klee Dienes has dropped out of the race due to obligations in the National Guard.
In Coos 2, which stretches from Whitefield to Randolph up to Stark, saw tragedy with the untimely death of Bill Cowie by electrocution in upstate New York, Cowie filed along with three other candidates.
In Hillsborough 3, consisting of Peterborough, New Ipswich, Greenville and Sharon, one candidate has stated that he is no longer a part of the party which he seeks the nomination of. 9/11 conspiracy theorist Mike Casnerstated in the August 23rd edition of the Keene Sentinel that he does no longer considers himself a member of the Democratic Party, changing his affiliation to the Green Party after the filing deadline.
Casner went on the state that incumbents should be replaced due to "hush money" making them ineffective.
Other contested races around the state will be held in Portsmouth and Newington (Rockingham 16), Cornish, Grantham and Plainfield (Sullivan 1), Hopkinton, Warner and Webster (Merrimack 4), Bradford and Henniker (Merrimack 5), Amherst and Milford (Hillsborough 6) and the neighborhoods surrounding Crown Hill and Rivier College in Nashua making up the city's 7th ward (Hillsborough 25).
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Alright, let me get out of my reporter voice and get back into my politician voice. Apparently writing inverted pyramids are like riding bicycles.
Those are the Democratic State Rep primaries, but i'd be remiss if I did not mention the Republican State Rep primary in my own town of Merrimack, also known as Hillsborough 19.
All of the GOP incumbents except for Maureen Mooney will be running along with former selectmen in Dick Hinch and Tony Pellegrino, a former state rep from the Seacoast in Bob Dodge, and CEO Peter Jennings.
Any one of them is a formidable opponent, but unless there is a large turnout from the anti-tax base that unseated Hinch from the town's last board of Selectmen in 2006, my assumption based on signage, name recognition and what i've been hearing is that all six incumbents will win the nomination along with Hinch and Pellegrino.
So far I have seen one sign clearly on a lawn or business for Dodge and none for Jennings. To contrast, currently I have 61.
However, I may be biased since i've met the other eight candidates, and because when I told a good friend of mine that Peter Jennings was running, he asked me how and why a Canadian newscaster would return from the dead to run for State Representative in Merrimack, New Hampshire.
I am %99.99999 sure that all the candidates in town are indeed not deceased network anchors, but if that or anything else unusual happens from Merrimack, you'll hear it from me first.
There was a woman I met while canvassing who had an interesting idea.
Institute an Income Tax, and anyone who owns property can send in a copy of their Income Tax payment and pay $0 for property taxes.
Would it work? Would property taxes stay at $0? I'll leave that for you all to decide.
I don't want to see an Income Tax, but the bottom line isn't which tax is in place, but reducing the amount that people have to pay while making sure public services are still provided.
Hopefully this sad story will have a happy ending.
During one day's canvass, I knocked on the door of a man who was a former enlisted man in the Air Force.
He had served several decades ago, he didn't go into detail except for the fact that he had no healthcare coverage and he figured that hopefully the VA could get him something.
A few years ago, this wouldn't have mattered, but the job he had as an engineer was sent overseas to someone who could be paid far less. Even though he's in his early 60's, and not eligible for Medicare, he needed help with his prescription costs as well as saving up for retirement.
His desire was to be an engineer again, but even with A+ certification and other job training enhancements to his resume, he could not find a job in the area that paid nearly as much as before. He now works part time as a janitor in a local church.
His wife is a lifelong Republican but will be voting for Obama due to the plight of her husband.
Due to Carol Shea Porter's expertise with helping Veterans, I recieved his permission to pass along his info to her congressional office. I had met a guy in a similiar situation from Manchester in 2007.
This story comes not from Merrimack, but from Manchester, although i've heard the story from others in Merrimack, and i'm sure it has been repeated elsewhere.
Me and my friend had just pulled into a parking lot when another guy pulled in next to us. He was going to a store within the strip mall next to the parking lot and saw my friend's battered windshield.
The other guy worked in window glass replacement, so intruded and mentioned his profession; offering a deal on replacing the windshield, my friend agreed and they began talking for several minutes. Eventually somehow the conversation went from windshields to politics.
For the windshield guy, his biggest issue was child custody rights. He told me and my friend that without any apparent reason, the courts gave full custody rights of his 8 month old son to his recently divorced wife. He had to wait another 8 months before even having a chance to see his son again, but he said again the courts did not hear any evidence before granting him no visitation rights to his son.
I did not ask the man's name. I did not know if he was lying or if there was domestic abuse of some kind or any number of other factors.
All I knew is that looking at that man's eyes, I could tell that he wanted to see his newborn son.
My friend's windshield is going to be fixed in a few days. If only the windshield repairman could be given the chance to fix his family so easily....
I've listened to some of my fellow candidates in Democratic safe districts complain about the lack of a straight ticket. I don't get what their problem is considering that the straight ticket made little to no difference to them, but has destroyed any chance for Democrats to win in Republican or swing districts in the past.
The partisan enclaves are still there even without the straight ticket, and candidates in those parties will still have an edge, but not an edge so great that people who don't work hard from the opposite parties won't have a chance.
This improves the race on both side, because perhaps the only thing worse than a candidate who doesn't think they can win is a politician who doesn't think they can lose.
Before 2006, we had no data to prove this, but thankfully the Secretary of State's office counted Straight Ticket ballots just in time for them to be rightfully removed, and those in the enclaves would not have seen their margins changed for the most part.
On the Democratic side, the Upper Valley wouldn't be touched. Grafton 9 (Hanover/Lyme), the safest State Rep District in the State for Democrats, had no Republicans run; and Grafton 11 (Lebanon Wards 1-3) would have seen the Democrats lose 863 votes, leaving a margin of 332 votes between the lowest vote getter among the Democrats and the highest vote getter among the Republicans.
In Keene, the same rings true. There still would have been seven Democrats taking the seven seats there, only with the margin of victory between 7th place and 8th place being 413 rather than 1656.
The same thing happens again and again throughout the Democratic strongholds, which is to be expected since 2006 was a Democratic year anyway, but what about the Republican strongholds?
If there was not a straight ticket vote in 2006, Democrats would have won even more seats.
Hillsborough 18 (Bedford) was the opposite end of the spectrum from Hanover, with Republicans receiving 665 more straight ticket votes than Democrats, but it would have taken another 629 votes for any Democrat to get past the GOP sweep there.
Likewise in with the GOP 7 seat sweep in Belknap 5 (Alton, Barnstead, Belmont and Gilford), where no straight ticket would have netted Democrats 73 votes, but there was a difference of 260 votes between 7th place and 8th place, but that's about it.
There still would have been a recount in Rockingham 11 (East Kingston and Newton), as Mary Allen(r) won the seat by one vote, she only got an extra 16 votes from straight ticketing according to SOS figures.
The GOP sweep in Rockingham 3 (Windham/Salem) would have changed. In that district, Republicans gained 428 votes from straight ticketing, but there were three Democrats who were within that margin.
There were also two Democrats within less than 70 votes in Rockingham 5 (Derry), but Republicans got a bonus 556 votes from straight tickets.
The only district where Democrats would have lost ground is in Hillsborough 14 (Manchester Ward 7), and that was one seat.
Here in Merrimack, we've been a conservative town in the past, but we're becoming a swing town. In '06, there were 18 more Democratic straight tickets than Republican straight tickets believe it or not. I'm not going to weep over losing those 18 votes in exchange for the peace of mind in knowing that in districts like mine, even in bad years, Democrats can win if they work hard.
This essay is dedicated to Roy, the biggest Obama fan in Merrimack
My journey in politics began in the Spring of 2003 volunteering for Howard Dean at Keene State College. That year and that campaign made me believe that anything was politically possible, and eventually led me to come back to my hometown to help assail what seemed to be the impossible task of getting Democrats elected here in Merrimack.
While the core of what being a Deaniac meant never left, as the weather grew colder that year, so did I. The fatigue and tedium changed my focus that year changed from helping elect Dean to helping elect a Democrat that would defeat Bush, no matter who it was. By December of 2004, I became jaded towards Presidential Politics.
During this presidential primary cycle, the ambivalence hadn't worn off, but the scale and scope had changed. I must've went everywhere and saw everything that all of the campaigns on both sides had to offer across this great state and beyond.
But even that couldn't bring me back to the summer of 2003. Whenever I heard the candidates speak, what I heard wasn't what they said or what their words meant, but the substance between the words: how those words were said and perceived by potential voters.
I've begun blogging about my travels along the campaign trail here at the bottom of the ticket because so much attention is given to the Presidential campaign that you would think it's the only race being contested this year.
However, the campaign for President is so large that even us small fries get caught up in it, and that happened the other night at a small convention watch party the Merrimack Democrats had at our town chair's house.
Obama's speech was pleasing because of how he said it, he was finally attacking the attacks of McCain, but other than the tone of what Obama said, I honestly couldn't tell you a single thing other than a single part that resonated with me...
"...You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time..."
I have lost track of how many times I had heard Barack Obama speak, either to an audience I was in, or even to my own face. (in Hampton he told me he didn't like stickers on his suit, in Nashua he told me I had asked him too many questions and that somebody else deserved a turn, etc.) Each time I heard him speak, it was in that hardened mold that was born in the Fall of 2003, not caring what he said, but how everybody perceived what he said.
But for that paragraph at Invesco Field, I was transported back to Jack Spratt's farm in Walpole listening to Howard Dean tell us we could change the world, because it captured why the hell I was here better than I could say it myself.
It may seem cliche, but we are at a critical moment in our history where a new way of thinking must replace the old ways, where new leaders challenge the beliefs of the established elite in order to make sure our entire way of life does not collapse from a tired complacency of failed tactics.
The voters of Merrimack are sick of those failed tactics in Concord, whether they be constitutional amendments on education, the 150,000 residents across the state without healthcare, taxes rising without seeming to return any immediate value, or here in Merrimack the endless failures from proposing doomed legislation to bring us a just toll system.
That change isn't going to come from Concord, it is going to come to Concord.
Several days now after he spoke those words, their essence is still rattling around my mind.
These words may sound unusual since I am a Democrat, and both houses of the legislature and the Governor's office are Democratic, and what may sound more unusual is that there are many talented people on both sides of the aisle currently serving in Concord.
Those public servants are like the words in the candidates' speeches, what is the issue is the substance between the words: the actions that trickle down to the average person who is not as politically involved as we are to help them believe that things can get better, that solutions can be obtained.
That is not going to change from the inside, it will take new people.
And that's why four years later, i'm still here in Merrimack, trying to come to Concord.
Here in Hillsborough County, we have eight candidates running for Register of Deeds. However, considering that just about nobody knows what a Register of Deeds does, the big campaign issue has been whether it's spelled "Register" or "Registrar". Some candidates spell it "Register", some candidates spell it "Registrar".
RSA 478 says they're registers, not registars. However, Webster's says that a Register is an object or a verb, wheras a Registrar is a person.
With pressing issues like these determining our choice of Register or Registrar of Deeds, why the hell this position is elected and not appointed, I do not know.
The other day I knocked on the door of an older Republican couple. The man answered the door, and his wife then came over.
They were friendly, fair, and forthright; we had a good conversation, and I think we stuck up a good rapport.
For the most part, it was a pretty average conversation, whether it be from the perspective of a Merrimack voter (they talked about toll booths), a Republican voter (they talked about taxes), or an average voter (they talked about politicians suck).
However, there was one thing that caught me, and that was how the wife asked me why the state of New Hampshire doesn't drill for oil off Hampton Beach.
I was a little perplexed, considering there is no oil off the shores of Hampton Beach, but she swore she saw an oil drilling platform out there. Considering I haven't been to Hampton Beach in around a year, and that was at night, I decided to be diplomatic and try and change the subject gingerly.
Since it's a Federal rather than a State issue, i'll let the big wigs discuss the issue considering there isn't any oil off the shores of New Hampshire. In the meantime though, if anyone knows what the oil drilling platform this woman is talking about actually is, please let me know.
I was in a business that I frequent here in town the other day and the owner asked me about what I thought about the presidential race.
That question has generally bugged me considering there are so many other races on the ballot in November, and was part of the reason why i'm blogging about what it's like to be running a campaign at the bottom of the ticket, but I figured i'd tell him what I really thought and tell him that it's only on the periphery of my focus right now and that I was focusing on myself.
He replied to me "Good, in economics there are things we can control, and things we can't control. It's best just to worry about the things we can control and forget about all the rest."
Barack Obama wasn't going to put Hillary Clinton as the VP just because somebody might have asked him out of fear that the Hillary voters weren't going to show up at the polls for me. Nor should we fear the zombie narrative that these tidal shifts are going to be the deciding factor, and i'm talking to Republicans too on that. This will be a Democratic year, generic Democrats are consistently polling 5 to 10 points better than their generic Republican rivals, but the races will be decided on the ground everywhere, regardless of anything else. Whoever works harder will win.
I may be wrong, but if I am, there's nothing I can do about it, so why worry about the things out of our control? I am working hard and that's all that I can control.
I want to apologize to all of you reading these journals from the campaign trail.
I knew that the transition from pre-convention campaigning to post-convention campaigning would be a jarring one, but it still caught me off guard.
I didn't expect anyone else to start up seriously until the last week of August, and here we are. I'm just glad I took my opponents seriously enough to start six weeks earlier than the traditional state rep campaign in Merrimack has begun in the past.
Even though we're a swing town, old habits are hard to break, and many people still don't believe a Democrat can win unless they have been politically active for decades, so I need to work harder than anyone else.
Even if I didn't have the stigma of the partisan version of the Curse of the Bambino to fight, the candidates I face are all incredibly formidable, so I knew i'd have to go above and beyond what is considered traditional campaigning for a state rep in Merrimack.
I wish I had gotten a picture of the grass in front of Zyla's, a really cheap retail store here in town, and a local landmark of sorts, particularly when it comes to gauging who is seriously campaigning.
At the beginning of August/end of July, my signs were the only ones up along with Pamela Coughlin for Registrar of Deeds.
Right now, there are signs for me, Coughlin, John Stephens, Jeb Bradley, Deb Pignatelli, Stephen Stepanek, Peter Batula, Jim O'Neil, Arthur Beaudry, and I believe one or two more. By the end of September, you won't be able to see the ground on that tiny strip of grass and dirt.
Some people have asked me why I got my signs up so early, and to that I now quote Pedro Martinez...
The answers to my Nashua Telegraph questionaire are up, you can see it here by typing in your address in Merrimack
In it, I mention information about our state budget, which i'm going to be discussing here on my website, continuing with the evolving discussion on the state budget a few weeks ago.
To kick off this restart of the discussion, here is an excel spreadsheet overview of the six major parts of the state budget from 2006 to 2009 and where the money for it according to the New Hampshire Legislative Budget Assistant's office.
Merrimack is part of State Senate District 9, which consists of Merrimack, Bedford, New Boston, Lyndeborough, Mont Vernon, Lyndeborough and Greenfield.
I can understand Bedford, but the only thing Merrimack has in common with any of the other towns is that we're in the same county and we share a State Senator. I don't think i've actually been to Greenfield before, but I came close the other day when going to Representative Mike Kaelin's house in Lyndeborough.
Mike lives way out in the middle of nowhere. If you don't believe me, ask him for an invitation to his house sometime, but before you go, make sure you have really good shock absorbers.
I had heard alot about him, that he was an accomplished polka accordionist, that he lived in a solar powered house, that he had a black belt in Aikido, but one fact that came up in conversation really floored me.
His site for his house was originally too mountainous to build anything, so he had to clear several tons of rock.
Ignoring all the great legislation he's sponsored as a state rep, whether it's trying to make the state legislature paperless, trying to get incentive payments to people who produce renewable energy, or fighting predatory lenders, just think about what he had to do to build his house for a second.
He literally moved a mountain.
Isn't that someone who we deserve in the State Senate?
You can do your part by contributing to him through Act Blue.
In 2006 when I was running for state rep, there was a guy who came out of nowhere at the polls and started yelling at me.
"Oh, you're Andy Sylvia? You got a D from the NRA! You don't deserve to be a state rep, you don't know anything about guns, you need to learn!"
And he was livid, out of the blue he just walked over yelling. "What did I ever do to this guy?" I asked myself, perplexed at what had transpired.
Then a conservative friend of mine starting talking about guns, and strangely enough I began to understand it the same way I, and many people on the left see abortion rights, which in itself is enough for an entire article.
That conversation, along with seeing the degradation of our Constitution* gave me new respect for the Second Amendment of the US Bill of Rights as well as Article 2a of the New Hampshire State Constitution, which is almost identical in its scope.
I probably construe the the Second Amendment/Article 2a differently than that guy who yelled at me that day since I don't construe shooting people as part of bearing arms or defending yourself(in 2a) except in a militia (which now I assume means the National Guard).
Fortunately, word had gotten to him that apparently I don't bite, and we had a good discussion at Deliberative Session a few months ago. He's never shot anyone, but on top of that he's a proud union member and is just as angry at run of the mill Republicans for trying to harm labor rights that affect him as a blue collar worker as he is at run of the mill Democrats for trying to deny his Second Amendment rights.
Since we talked back at Deliberative Session, we've talked a few more times, and I figured this time i'd ask for him to teach me about gun issues while doing the NRA questionaire again considering he made such a big deal about it in 2006.
I honestly don't know if i'll submit the NRA questionaire this year irregardless of my new friend's help. There are many people I trust who have told me just to ignore it, and that i'll be downgraded just because I am a Democrat, as it seemed with some other voter guides.
In the end though, the grade from the NRA if I decide to submit the questionaire isn't as important as hearing his views as well as the views of people in Merrimack who favor gun control so I can hopefully be part of crafting solutions to issues that reflect the views of Merrimack in the legislature.
He said I got his vote and he's going to put my sign on his lawn.
*-Ambiguity of "Free Speech Zones" breaking the 1st Amendment, The FISA Vote breaking the 4th Amendment, many cases of ignoring the Geneva Convention among other treaties ratified by Congress and signed by past presidents breaking Article VI, abuse of Executive Signments breaking Article I, etc. etc. etc.
It's always refreshing when you knock on a door and you don't get someone screaming at you or completely indifferent to state politics.
I've had a few instances like that, but one in particular has really stuck in my mind. There was a little old lady a week or so ago that saw that I was running for office and out of the blue gave me three dollars. She was just so grateful that someone asked for her vote it seems.
She's asked me not to reveal her name, so if you think you know who i'm talking about, it's somebody else. Still, I wanted to thank her publically even though I know she might feel embarrased that I am thanking her.
She shouldn't. It'd be nice if we could all try to be nicer to each other, and if at all possible, perform a kind deed like she did.
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