Race for Gardiner City Council District 3
Ms. Marron offered the following information about her race:
We searched for a long time before choosing Gardiner as our home. After several years of research, we chose Gardiner because of its community, commitment to revitalization, and a quaint downtown. We purchased a building on Water Street and are making it our home.
I have lived in Washington, D.C. for the better part of the last 20 years. For 15+ years, I have worked for Appalachian Spring, a retail company with five stores and a website that specialize in American Handcrafts. My responsibilities over those years ranged from managing stores to developing and implementing training programs. I have managed budgets and staff, trained managers, written product descriptions and organized inventories. I continue to work as a consultant on their website and email campaigns. I also worked as a Community Organizer on environmental issues while working as a Canvass Director for Clean Water Action and the Alaska Center for the Environment.
I have decided to run for City Council because I want to be an active participant of the community. I look forward to being a part of the growth and change of our home.
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Let me put it this way. Clare is the only person my mother would let me live with off-campus when we were in college together in DC. At that point I remember telling her once I didn't know if I was a democrat or a republican. Shows you how political I was. She said, simply, what are the issues you care about? And that was that. I'm a republican through and through. KIDDING!!!
She's smart, sensible, honest, reliable, funny, confident, and real. I don't call her Sally Sensible for nothing!
Anything Clare throws herself into she does with great passion. I was rooming with her when she was canvassing for Clean Water Action, and remember the crazy hours she kept. The miles she walked, rain or shine. And I remember she rarely, if ever, complained. About anything.
Clare is one of the few people I know whose grass is greener on her side of the fence because of the positive attitude she has on life.
She would make a wonderful City Council member.