Just some of our winning candidates |
To the
Editor:
Most of Dave
Pepin’s February 16 article, “Republicans trying to revive party in Charlestown,” was quite accurate, as well as interesting
reading, but as Chair of the Charlestown Democratic Town Committee, I must
correct the mistaken impression that our Committee only managed to get two
Democrats elected to office in 2012.
The CDTC endorsed ten
candidates and five of those candidates won. Topping our ticket was Rep. Donna
Walsh who won by the widest margin of her political career. She was also the
highest vote-getter in Charlestown. Ironically, she won over Tina Jackson who
features in the article as having been recruited by state GOP chair Mark
Zaccaria to somehow “reorganize” the town Republicans, without even consulting
them.
We also provided the winning
margin that elected Cathie Cool Rumsey as the new State Senator representing District
34. She defeated two-term Republican incumbent Frank Maher.
We elected Paula Andersen to
the Town Council with the second highest vote total, Brandon Cleary to the
Planning Commission and Henry Walsh as Town Moderator.