Thank You For Your Signatures

Thank you to everyone who gave up part of a summer day to visit us at the Charlestown Mini Super on July 5 or 8 and signed 7 different nomination papers for the Independent candidates the Charlestown Citizens Alliance is supporting in the November election.

Thank you especially to the Mini Super for generously allowing us to set up our nomination papers in front of the store!

We collected over 818 total signatures for the 7 candidates! We surpassed the requirement of a total of 350 (7X50) signatures for all our Independent candidates to qualify for the November election ballot. Some signatures will get disqualified (usually for legibility), but each of our candidates got over 100 valid signatures in our 4 hours of gathering signatures.

Also thank you to everyone who called or wrote to say they wanted to sign, but couldn’t make it to the Mini Super. The candidates appreciate every offer to sign and would have been honored to have your names on their papers, but we got more than we needed and bringing more papers to town hall would just make extra and unneeded work for the members of the Board of Canvassers. Your offers mean just as much as an actual signature!

Your time this past week was well spent. This is an accomplished and qualified slate of candidates and we are honored to endorse them.

Town Council: Bonnie Van Slyke and Sasha Puchalski

Planning Commission: Coleen Galvin Yaroshenko, Ruth Platner, Frances Topping, and Gordon Willcox

Town Moderator: David Wilkinson

We are also supporting Holly Eaves, Linda Lyall, and Craig Louzon for Chariho School Committee; supporting Cynthia Drummond for Town Council; and giving qualified support to Stephen Stokes for Town Council. The School Committee candidates and Cynthia and Steve are running as political party candidates rather than Independents and they gather their signatures differently. Political party nomination papers put all party candidates together on one sheet.

You’ll hear more about these candidates in the coming weeks, but for now, we just want to say Thank You!