The Charlestown Democratic Town Committee (CDTC) is pleased
to announce that it unanimously voted to endorse Second District Representative
Jim Langevin for re-election. “We are also proud to note,” said CDTC Chair
Cathy O’Reilly Collette, “that we are the first municipal committee to endorse
Rep. Langevin in 2014.”
Members cited Mr. Langevin’s long service to the Second
District and to the country, helping to bring programs and businesses to the
community that create jobs and enhance the economy. The Committee praised him
as a champion for working families, for open access to health care for all, and
for his stalwart assistance to the elderly and veterans.
“It also made a difference that he actually asked us for our
endorsement,” said CDTC Chair Collette. “He cited an anecdote told by former
Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill about not taking people for granted. The story
is from early in O’Neill’s political career when he was running for
re-election. He recalls being told by one of his former teachers that she
intended to vote for him ‘even though you didn’t ask me to.’”
O’Neill said he was shocked and asked his former teacher
why, after all the years he cut her lawn and shoveled her snow, she would even
consider not voting for him, to which she replied, “Let me tell you something:
people like to be asked.”