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Eyes Forward: Debbie Hecht on Her Landslide and Staying Above the Fray

Episode 62: Eyes Forward: Debbie Hecht on Her Landslide and Staying Above the Fray

Debbie Hecht on her 76% primary win, many doors knocked, and why she never went on the attack. The analog campaign that took Rhinebeck.

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Two days after winning the Democratic primary for Rhinebeck Town Supervisor with 76% of the vote, Debbie Hecht sits down with Emily Sachar to break down how she did it. She credits an old-fashioned ground game, what she calls an analog campaign, with campaign manager John Rossi at the wheel and nearly 2,000 voters reached one conversation at a time. Hecht talks about the stories she collected at the doors, from violet pickers to a woman whose family has been in town for 300 years, and how they shaped the way she wants to govern. She also gets candid about the parts the public never saw: the campaign finance flap she owned and fixed within the hour, the attacks that reached her daughter, and her decision to never punch back. It is a conversation about kindness as strength, holding your values under pressure, and what four months on the trail teaches you about your own town.

Produced by Emily Sachar, Walter Mullin, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud at the Radio Free Rhinecilff studio

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