The Campaign by Leila Sales

Author:Leila Sales
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 2020-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

THE LAWRENCEVILLE GAZETTE

ONE MONTH REMAINS IN RACE FOR MAYOR

After a quiet start, newcomer Janet Teneman’s campaign for mayor of Lawrenceville is picking up momentum. A series of well-attended rallies have expanded her base, and she has put together a coalition of supporters with a broad range of backgrounds.

“Janet says she’s going to hire more guys for waste management,” said longtime sanitation department employee Martin Gregory, age sixty-two. “That’s enough to get my vote, because do you even know how many hours a day I have to work? It’s crazy. Honestly, why am I even talking to you right now when I still have so much garbage to collect today? I have to go.”

“I’ve never voted before,” said Pedro Hernández, a twenty-one-year-old student, “but I’m going to vote for Janet because I think it’s cool that she’s basically my age and she’s already running for office. I met her at an event last week. She really listened to me.”

For other voters, however, Teneman’s youth is more of a hindrance than an asset. “She’s inexperienced,” said Rhianna Binker, a real estate agent, age forty-five. “Lucinda Burghart has been working in city government for years. Sure, she’s not perfect, but she’s a known quantity, and I trust her.”

Although Teneman is gaining ground, Burghart is still polling significantly ahead. “We don’t need to talk about Janet,” said Burghart’s campaign manager, Richard Langston, who has run many local and statewide political campaigns in years past. “She’s a distraction, nothing more. The real story here is all the money that Lucinda Burghart is going to save the taxpayers of Lawrenceville.”

The two candidates will go head-to-head for the first time at a debate, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.

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