Many Thanks for Your Support!
Dear Supporters:
Many, many thanks for all your help and support during this long campaign. Whether it was hosting a coffee, accepting a lawn sign, writing Dear Friend cards, making a donation, or any of the other activities that were so important to my campaign, I cannot express how much I appreciate it. Without your support, I would never have made it through two long years of campaigning.
While I wish I could thank you all individually, I do want to single out just a few people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in my campaign with their constant support and valuable assistance and advice: Ellen Gibson (my campaign manager), Ira Morgenstern (my campaign treasurer), Nathan Gibson, Susie Heyman, Anne Larner, and Gerry Chervinsky. And of course I could not have spent one day on the campaign trail without the unconditional and unwavering support of my husband, Chris Hill, and our children, Sophie, Althea, and Lucy.
While I am disappointed that the majority of voters did not choose to elect me to the School Committee, I do want to congratulate my opponent, Matt Hills, as well as the other members of the new School Committee: Geoff Epstein, Reenie Murphy, Kurt Kusiak, Jonathan Yeo, Sue Rosenbaum, Claire Sokoloff, and Margie Ross Decter.
As for my future, I expect to continue working throughout Newton for parents and children to improve public education in Newton, and encourage you all to stay involved in our schools and be informed of the difficult choices we must make in the next few years. I hope to continue as a source of information, especially since we are beginning another budget season.
Just some logistics to help us wrap up the campaign: if you have a lawn sign, please leave it either standing as is or lay it flat on your lawn. Our sign team will be by in the next two days or so to pick it up.
If you held a sign at the polls or some other event and still have the sign, please let me know so that we can pick it up at your house.
Please accept my sincerest thanks for your vote and for all you have done to help with my campaign. I look forward to working with you all in the future!
Sincerely,
Sue