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Dear West Hartford residents,

I applaud Tiffani McGinnis and Philip Tummescheit for their Candidate Debate – State Representative – 18th District, hosted by the League of Women Voters and available on WHCi’s YouTube channel. Watch before you vote. We deserve to know what we’re signing up for.

“But I already know who I’m voting for.” Do you? Voting strictly along party lines is like shopping on Amazon: convenient until the competition disappears. Then we lose our choices – and our leverage. No competition, no accountability.

An election without a choice is not a healthy democracy. When we show up to vote, shouldn’t we always have a real choice?

Heidi Swanson, PhD
West Hartford
Former faculty member, Trinity College