Serendib Politics

My mother, Jacintha Mohanraj, was 18 when she married, 19 when she had me, 22 when we moved from Sri Lanka to America, arriving on a cold Christmas Day in New England. Jacintha had two more daughters after me; while my father worked long hours as a doctor at New Britain General Hospital, she kept […]

Hello, local peeps who would like to support my campaign! I have a yard sign design, woohoo!, and will be ordering signs tomorrow, to distribute hopefully by the end of the week. If you’d like to host a sign in your yard, let me know now? It’ll help me know how many to order tomorrow!

– asked Jed to fix my campaign website address – wrote apologetic note to campaign volunteer saying super sorry for being super slow – told her yes I am committing to the postcard mailing costs – waffled and then sent her some potential text for postcards – sent her photo for postcards (All of the

DPOP candidate forum done — we definitely got some questions that were a little different from the Democrat party peeps, than we’ve been getting from the general populace. Nice to have new questions to answer, though in general, much of what campaigning is, really is answering the same question over and over and over again

In DPOP candidate forum right now on Zoom, listening to the questions for the Village President candidates (my turn will come). They were talking about economic recovery and the budget, and I suddenly wondered whether, in the same way the federal government passes economic stimulus packages, that ever happens at a local municipality level. For

Hey, folks, I could use some legal / financial advice / help. I think I’m going to spend at least a little money on my campaign, which means I need a campaign bank account, and they’re requiring I have an EIN, I think? (And a form, that I have to find online and fill out…I

12:40 p.m. on a Tuesday night and I am finally trying to get the graphics for my yard signs sorted out, and did I mention that the election is in less than a month! Eep. Pandemic makes time seriously hazy. But I spent a little while looking through old files hunting for my library board

I’m the only woman running for the D200 school board. 6 candidates, and 5 of them are men. Today, I invite you to think about what systemic barriers prevent women from running for office, and what that means in terms of women’s voices and influence in our government. School board is an unpaid position here.

Another meet-and-greet I’ll be at, if you can’t make tomorrow’s and would like to come ask me political questions. https://fb.me/e/22PIk8j7S

I wanted to take a moment to talk about why people might want to go to candidate meet-and-greets. They honestly weren’t on my radar before the last election cycle, when Trump’s election got me much more civically engaged on that front. I suspect a lot of my friends (and readers here), even if they care