Many of you are shocked and dismayed by the national results but we have been here before and we just have to pick ourselves up, lean into our values, listen harder to the anger that drove this election and make this community and this country the just place it needs to be. We at the Old Saybrook Democratic Town Committee are already hard at work on plans for next year. We will work with organizations across the region and state to oppose the most unqualified Trump nominees and resist the most egregious policies. We will source the most qualified candidates to run for office at the local level. Tomorrow’s candidates for representative, senate, even President might be winning a seat in 2025 on the planning commission or Board of Education. Remember, the first elected office Chris Murphy ever won was for the Zoning Commission in Southington.