Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Election Results
Complete Election results from Merrimack are available at the Concord Monitor website.
Monday, November 3, 2008
My First Kept Campaign Promise
99 days ago, I said I was going to write 100 articles about my stories from the campaign trail, and this article makes 100.
To see them all, please head to http://www.andrewsylvia.com and head to the news section.
Vote Tallies from Merrimack will be up on the news section as soon as they are available and I have access to write them down on my site.
Hopefully I will be able to provide a voice like this as a Representative in Concord.
To see them all, please head to http://www.andrewsylvia.com and head to the news section.
Vote Tallies from Merrimack will be up on the news section as soon as they are available and I have access to write them down on my site.
Hopefully I will be able to provide a voice like this as a Representative in Concord.
Everything's Going To Be Alright
One thing i've learned over the past few months is the infinite wisdom of Bob Marley. The world lost Marley far too soon, but before he left, he left his knowledge in the form of music, and tonight I had to take one of piece of that wisdom to heart from the song No Woman, No Cry, and that is...
"Everything's going to be alright."
Over the past day or two, I don't know if you all have been seeing it, but i've been seeing and hearing of a few Republicans freaking out, fearing what we had to go through in 2004.
And even though it felt like the world ended in 2004, it didn't for us, and we even though we must work as though it will if we lose, we must remember, and we must remind our colleagues on the other side, that it will not no matter what happens.
Everyone's going to be on edge on Tuesday, and we'll need to rely on each other to get through it in one piece, just as we will need each other, both Republicans, Democrats and Indepdents, to govern our nation afterwards.
"Everything's going to be alright."
Over the past day or two, I don't know if you all have been seeing it, but i've been seeing and hearing of a few Republicans freaking out, fearing what we had to go through in 2004.
And even though it felt like the world ended in 2004, it didn't for us, and we even though we must work as though it will if we lose, we must remember, and we must remind our colleagues on the other side, that it will not no matter what happens.
Everyone's going to be on edge on Tuesday, and we'll need to rely on each other to get through it in one piece, just as we will need each other, both Republicans, Democrats and Indepdents, to govern our nation afterwards.
Friday, October 31, 2008
John Sununu for (state) Senate
Today during visibility, I was standing next to volunteers from Mike Kaelin's campaign for State Senate.
Somebody driving by yelled "go back where you came from, go Sununu!"
That guy is right. I strongly encourage any Republicans out there to help us replace Sheila Roberge by voting for John Sununu for State Senate in District 9. That way, we can get Jeanne Shaheen to Washington and get a special election because Sununu is not legally eligible unless he has a secret mansion in Bedford he can use as a domicile that I don't know about. Besides, the guy in the truck is going to vote for him for that position.
Once you get the endorsement of the guy in the truck, you're a lock.
Somebody driving by yelled "go back where you came from, go Sununu!"
That guy is right. I strongly encourage any Republicans out there to help us replace Sheila Roberge by voting for John Sununu for State Senate in District 9. That way, we can get Jeanne Shaheen to Washington and get a special election because Sununu is not legally eligible unless he has a secret mansion in Bedford he can use as a domicile that I don't know about. Besides, the guy in the truck is going to vote for him for that position.
Once you get the endorsement of the guy in the truck, you're a lock.
Why I've Blogged
I've found that for a candidate for any political office, blogging is good for four things
1. Getting your message out in a non-traditional way
2. Finding potential supporters if you say the right things or talk the right way.
3. Relieving stress
4. Pissing everybody off and/or giving your opponents fodder to use against you.
Before I started the goal to write 100 columns in 100 days (Garth, don't worry, i'll slap them up on the NHYD site after the election, i'm just a little tight for time right now), #4 was a really big concern for me. It still is, but in the end, it isn't as big as the fifth reason i've found.
The stories I tell are unlikely to be told by anyone else, but they need to be told, and they need to be told by more people from their own experiences.
Let's be perfectly honest, the attention for individual New Hampshire House races is microscopically small.
Even though the people who are elected to the House affect our lives in incredible ways, very few people bother to learn who they are or care what they do or even know which ones represent them.
The national, and probably even the state news outlets, do not care what happens in Hillsborough 19. Probably nobody working for either presidential campaign will ask what the results were. Even the winners are still small fish, the closest a state legislator will get to the oval office due to their position is the White House Gift Shop.
Yet, it matters. Talking to mothers who compare schools to spaghetti sauce, wrangling future constituents' sheep, asking if it's spelled "Registrar" or "Register", and the scores of other things I have not been able to write about due to a lack of time getting out and talking to voters.
The stories of these and many others are not being told, and I hope more than anything I can bring these silenced voices a megaphone. It's at the heart of why I've run.
I hope my efforts have at least given a bit more volume to those voices if not a megaphone just yet.
This is my 93rd Tale From The Bottom Of The Ticket. I hope you all look forward to the next seven, hopefully they won't be the last.
1. Getting your message out in a non-traditional way
2. Finding potential supporters if you say the right things or talk the right way.
3. Relieving stress
4. Pissing everybody off and/or giving your opponents fodder to use against you.
Before I started the goal to write 100 columns in 100 days (Garth, don't worry, i'll slap them up on the NHYD site after the election, i'm just a little tight for time right now), #4 was a really big concern for me. It still is, but in the end, it isn't as big as the fifth reason i've found.
The stories I tell are unlikely to be told by anyone else, but they need to be told, and they need to be told by more people from their own experiences.
Let's be perfectly honest, the attention for individual New Hampshire House races is microscopically small.
Even though the people who are elected to the House affect our lives in incredible ways, very few people bother to learn who they are or care what they do or even know which ones represent them.
The national, and probably even the state news outlets, do not care what happens in Hillsborough 19. Probably nobody working for either presidential campaign will ask what the results were. Even the winners are still small fish, the closest a state legislator will get to the oval office due to their position is the White House Gift Shop.
Yet, it matters. Talking to mothers who compare schools to spaghetti sauce, wrangling future constituents' sheep, asking if it's spelled "Registrar" or "Register", and the scores of other things I have not been able to write about due to a lack of time getting out and talking to voters.
The stories of these and many others are not being told, and I hope more than anything I can bring these silenced voices a megaphone. It's at the heart of why I've run.
I hope my efforts have at least given a bit more volume to those voices if not a megaphone just yet.
This is my 93rd Tale From The Bottom Of The Ticket. I hope you all look forward to the next seven, hopefully they won't be the last.
Lit Drops Are Better On Halloween
God, I wish every day during the home stretch of the campaign could be halloween.
Normally going door to door is a difficult task, and as the election goes on, voters get more and more ornery at having to talk to yet another person (i.e: you, mr./ms. candidate/organizer/activist)
But on Halloween, instead of yelling at you, they give you candy!
Unless you are diabetic, how can anybody not like that. Heck, even if you are diabetic, just put the candy in your pocket and feel good about the fact that political activists have one night of the year where they don't mind talking to people, but embrace it.
Even the most difficult part of the holiday, the costume, was easy, I just said I was dressed up as a politician.
The highlight was when one woman asked me to leave her neighborhood because I was "soliciting", to which I told her: "yeah, somebody's gotta tell all these kids dressed up to stop soliciting", to which she realized she was being rude, smiled...and gave me candy.
God I love Halloween.
Normally going door to door is a difficult task, and as the election goes on, voters get more and more ornery at having to talk to yet another person (i.e: you, mr./ms. candidate/organizer/activist)
But on Halloween, instead of yelling at you, they give you candy!
Unless you are diabetic, how can anybody not like that. Heck, even if you are diabetic, just put the candy in your pocket and feel good about the fact that political activists have one night of the year where they don't mind talking to people, but embrace it.
Even the most difficult part of the holiday, the costume, was easy, I just said I was dressed up as a politician.
The highlight was when one woman asked me to leave her neighborhood because I was "soliciting", to which I told her: "yeah, somebody's gotta tell all these kids dressed up to stop soliciting", to which she realized she was being rude, smiled...and gave me candy.
God I love Halloween.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Info On Voting In Merrimack
For more information on how and where to vote in Merrimack, you can find out everything you need to know on this page at the town website, or you can visit www.voteforchange.com to get a map on where to go.
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