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ID: 420991
Title: Somebody's Gotta Do It: Why Cursing at the News Won't Save the Nation, but Your Name on a Local Ballot Can
Author: Adrienne Martini
Narrator: Adrienne Martini
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:26:17
Language: English
Release date: 03-03-20
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Biography & Memoir, American Politics, Women
Summary:
A humorous (and instructive) memoir about a progressive woman who
runs for very small-town elected office in a red countyand wins (yay!)
and only then realizes the critical importance of the job
Back in the fall of 2016, before casting her vote for Hillary Clinton,
Adrienne Martini, a knitter, a runner, a mom, and a resident of rural Otsego
County in snowy upstate New York, knew who her senators were, wasnt too
sure who her congressman was, and had only vague inklings about who her
state reps were. Shed always thought of politicians as oily. Then she spent
election night curled in bed, unable to stop shaking, texting her husband, who
was at work. And after the presidential inauguration, she reached out to Dave,
a friend of a friend, who was involved in the Otsego County Democratic Party.
Maybe she could help out with phone calls or fundraising? But Daves idea was:
she should run for office. Someone had to do it.
And so, in the year that 26,000 women (up from 920 the year before)
contacted EMILYs List about running for offices large and small, Adrienne
Martini ran for the District 12 seat on the Otsego County Board. And became
one of the fourteen delegates who collectively serve one rural American
county, overseeing a budget of $130 million. Highway repair? Soil and water
conservation? Child safety? Want Wi-Fi? Need a coroner?
It turns out, local office matters a lot to any government by the people for
the people.
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