Tuesday, September 26, 2023
One of the best things that I took from my years in politics was the experience of working with George Poulin.
I met George in the 1990's when I was the Democratic Party's nominee for Congress running against a long entrenched Republican incumbent who always won every town in her district. George became my principal mentor, defying the conventional wisdom that campaigns like ours were hopeless and not worthy of support. He brought us resources of every kind and he was our smartest strategist. Predictably, we didn't win the seat, but we won many towns, and came close enough to victory to demonstrate the value of running a real campaign in a long-shot race.
Years later, George and I took what we learned from this experience and put together a project that supported Democrats running long-shot Congressional races in other parts of the country. I considered it my great good fortune to be working with George again.
George had a long and full life. He will be missed.
