Jackie Cilley Running For NH Governor

[Peadar O Suileabhain]

MANCHESTER, N.H.—Promising to protect the rights of women, gays and workers, former Democratic state Sen. Jackie Cilley announced a run for New Hampshire governor on Tuesday.

The 60-year-old Barrington Democrat said she knows the value of education, having grown up in a tenement and gone on to teach at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire for 20 years. She pointed to her grandfather, Elwood Currier, who carried a silver lunchbox to work for years at the former Brown Paper Co. in Berlin as setting an example for her on the value of work and the opportunity his work provided for his children and their children.

"So, here is my commitment to you: to give you bold leadership rather than simplistic pledges; to give you candor and plain talk rather than sound bites; and to work tirelessly in the interest of the citizens of New Hampshire in a way that Elwood Currier would be proud of," she said.

Cilley said she would not take New Hampshire's traditional pledge to veto general sales or personal income taxes.

"Pledge politics is not leadership," she said.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_ham..._governor/

[PoliticalTiger]

If I lived in NH she'd have my vote!

[jaxx]

Good luck to Jackie Cilley, she sounds a little like Elizabeth Warren.