Jay Doyle tells podcast host Frank Knapp why he recently ran for the Mayor of the City of Georgetown as the Forward Party candidate and how he successfully defeated the GOP incumbent. Doyle, a retired small business owner, says that did not have a lifelong goal to be a politician but somebody needed to stand up to challenge his city’s direction.

The City of Georgetown has experienced a massive economic hit from the closure of the local paper mill and its nearly 700 employees. Additionally, the city-owned electric utility had just shut off power to over 3,000 residents due to non-payments. These and other issues convinced Doyle that the city needed new leadership.

Doyle shares his specific goal of developing new manufacturing that would also use the state’s timber resources that had been instrumental to the local and state’s economy.