BELLOWS FALLS-I ask you to re-elect Leslie Goldman as one of the two Windham-3 representatives to the state Legislature.
Leslie has a tremendous background in health (nurse practitioner with a master of public health degree), and education (12 years as a Bellows Falls Union High School board member and founding member of The Compass School.)
She has done extensive work in the community (three years on the Rockingham Selectboard, founding member of Parks Place and Rockingham Help and Helpers, and board member of the Nature Museum.)
Leslie's background speaks of a life dedicated to improving the situations of those around her. Add this to her three years of experience in the Legislature, and this makes her the candidate most able to understand, and care about, the complexities of the issues facing the people of Vermont.
As a proud lifelong Democrat, Leslie supports health care for all, reproductive liberty, affordable housing, and child care, racial and social justice, and finding methodologies to deal with the climate crisis.
As an experienced legislator, she knows firsthand that the path forward in dealing with Vermont's problems is not easy, nor does she expect it to be, but she is willing to do the hard work involved in translating beliefs and values into the laws that affect our lives.
Maryann McArdle
Bellows Falls
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