Dartmouth Junior (Democrat) Wins County Election

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Vanessa Sievers, a Dartmouth College junior, was not content to wait tables or make coffee as a side job. Instead she ran for treasurer of Grafton County, N.H., and won, unseating the incumbent and unleashing a war of words.

The current county treasurer, Carol Elliott, 68, called Ms. Sievers, 20, a “teenybopper” in an interview with a local newspaper, The Valley News, and said she had won only because “brainwashed college kids” had voted for the Democratic ticket.

Ms. Sievers beat Ms. Elliott by 586 votes out of about 42,000 cast, and won big in Hanover, home to Dartmouth, and Plymouth, home to both Ms. Elliott and Plymouth State University.

The part-time treasurer’s job pays $6,408 annually and oversees the investments and payroll of the county, which is home to about 85,000 people.

“Carol Elliott and I have never met, and I personally don’t have anything against her,” Ms. Sievers said in a telephone interview. Ms. Elliott did not return calls seeking comment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/us/13hampshire.html?th&emc=th

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1. Good for her!

I'm impressed that she was able to unseat somebody like that. Usually the farther down-ballot you get, the harder it is.