Now in the Permanent Public Record
After gathering sixty-two signatures, ensuring my name would be on the ballot, I knew I’d be invited to Candidates’ Night. I also knew the event would be recorded by LCVT, making it part of the permanent public record of the Town of Littleton.
My blog and my Substack are not part of the public record, and the people I’ve written about have dismissed much, if not all, of what I’ve shared, encouraging people to “ignore her.”
Last night, I made myself unignorable.
I did this so that I could put into the permanent public record our town’s open secret of a decadeslong cover-up of a rape, committed by a Littleton police officer, and the Board of Selectmen who did nothing to stop that man from becoming Littleton’s police chief in 2014.
Today, and since September 11, 2024, a memorial bench to this rapist has been sitting right outside LPD, and it must be removed. No future victim of rape should have to walk past that when seeking the help of our police, and no person of conscious, including the good cops out there, should tolerate the bench’s ongoing presence outside a house built to protect and serve the people of our town, most especially the future victims of violent sexual crimes.
That was only reason* I got into the race: to get a seat at Candidates’ Night to advocate for the removal of the rapist’s bench and to put into the permanent public record what happened in 1997, in 2014, and what is happening right now. Two hundred nineteen days and counting.
People in positions of power, pointedly the police and elected officials, have known about the rape and the cover-up since 1997, and now, after Candidates’ Night, the rest of you know as well.
The recording can be found HERE. You can start at 55:30.
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* I have since come up with various other policy objectives.
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My name will appear on the ballot for a seat on Littleton’s Select Board.
Election Day is May 10, 2025.
My eighth policy objective: Double down on my first policy objective.