* "You can do that job !"

Representative Chuck Bohi addresses listeners.

                                Service



I'm not running AGAINST any one. 

I'm running to fill a vacancy. 

I'm not debating anyone. 

I'm offering to serve my community in the closing years of my life.

When our faithful servant, Chuck Bohi,  announced at Hartford Town Meeting that "my doctor and  I have decided that I should not run for " another term as Hartford's representative to the Vermont legislature, a bolt of lightning shot through my brain with these words:

                           "You can do that job!"

I have just ended my professional career after 25 years as a Vermont school teacher and 17 years obtaining four college degrees. 

I will be 68-years-old when the new legislature meets in January. 

If the voters of Hartford want me to use some of my remaining time on this planet to work for them in the legislature, I will gladly do so. 

But I will not spend any money, twist any arms, kiss any babies, or criticize any other candidate to earn this office.

I simply put my name in the ring and use free social media to make myself known to the voters.

By the way, I have been  writing letters to the Valley News for 27 years* and have taught 3000 kids at Hartford High over the last 25 years---two pretty intense ways of  making myself known, and of getting to know the families of Hartford.

So, that's my campaign.  It is not to "oppose" anyone.  

It is simply to offer myself in service.


PK

*http://pkvermonter.blogspot.com/2012/05/letters-to-editor.html

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