Board of Aldermen 11-10-2020 Page 30
But in terms of parliamentary procedure, Robert’s Rules, | think the meetings are generally run effectively. |
do think that’s important; | think that all transparency is important particularly right now where we have
elections in the National Level where a small group is trying to portray a different reality than is a matter of
public record. And that groups kind of needs to be ashamed of itself. | think we can be proud of all the
people who are working to make sure that there’s a fair and transparent process that everyone has access to.
So | want to thank Sue Lovering, | want to thank Barry Cardin, | want to thank all the people who dedicate
themselves to making sure that the public has access to representation that is representing them rather than
just manipulating politics or any other unfortunate thing. | also wanted to mention a loss and express my
condolences to the friends and family of Kristen Wolf. The mural that | use as my background here is the
second Hearts & Minds Mural that Positive Street Art did; it’s called Thank You. And Kristen was a huge part
of this, unfortunately she passed away very recently and her loss will be felt. But | just wanted to tell her
family that her loss may be felt but her spirit will live on because her work is in the walls of Nashua now. It’s
part of the community and it brightens everybody’s day. So my condolences but my gratitude for all that she
did.
President Wilshire
Thank you Alderman Lopez. Alderman Clemons?
Alderman Clemons
Thank you, Madam President, | just want to, like many others here, thank Sue Lovering and all of the election
workers here in Nashua. You did a wonderful job. We had the most people come to vote than ever before if
you are in Nashua, which was great. And even before that with the early voting center that we established
here in Nashua, we were the only City to do it. We should continue that and have discussions about doing
that in the future because | think it was a huge success.
The other thing is, | wanted to wish all the Veterans out there a Happy Veterans Day and finally just
acknowledge the historic fact that we have elected a female Vice President who is also black and Pacific
Asian and | think that is fantastic for this country and | look forward to President Elect Biden and Vice
President Elect Harris to move this country forward and in a positive direction. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you. Alderman Tencza.
Alderman Tencza
Thank you, Madam President. So again thank you to Clerk Lovering and her staff, all the poll workers, it
really was a full election season. They came through it and served us all very well. If there is a silver lining in
this election it’s maybe we will have a number of other people who are going to be helpful and want to
continue to serve as poll workers going forward.
| will echo Alderman Clemons’ comments that | hope we can, as a City, work with folks at the State to make
voting easy and accessible going forward because | think what we proved here and across the country is that
there’s a right way to protect the vote and to make it so that people have more options rather than just
showing up on Election Day. And then secondly, Happy Veterans Day to all the Veterans, thank you for the
sacrifices that you’ve made on behalf of the rest of us in our country. | think it’s important to remember that
there are many families in our community in Nashua who have active duty service members who are away
from them right now, two families that | know of, the Levesque Family and the (inaudible) Family who are both
in the National Guard serving — luckily they are serving Stateside but still they are away from their families for
an extended period of time. We should thank those active duty service members as well. Thank you.
