WESTWOOD, N.J. — The age of #MeToo activism and anti-Trump hyperbole has Republicans running scared (rightly or wrongly) in many of New Jersey’s bedroom suburban enclaves.
Can a group of new millennial GOP candidates affect a reset?
One such candidate is 24-years old Alyssa Dawson, a former scheduler for Kim Guadagno. She’s running for Westwood Council this year alongside incumbent Councilman Ray Arroyo following Councilman Peter Grefath’s decision to retire and, if elected, she’d become the youngest female elected in state.
The youngest-in-New Jersey distinction presently belongs to a friend and former Guadagno colleague: Sarah Neibart of Mendham.
Dawson told Save Jersey that she’s ready and able to serve hercommunity notwithstanding being at the very early stages of what she hopes is a successful public tenure.
“At just 24 years old, I have 3 years of experience at the state level of government,” Dawson explained. “Not only did I get to work alongside Lt. Governor Guadagno during her bid for Governor, but I spent more than a year working to solve the everyday problems of New Jersey residents in my time in the Governor’s Office of Constituent Relations. This experience has afforded me knowledge that I know I can use to solve the problems that Westwood residents face everyday. At a time when millennials are running from New Jersey, I am choosing to stay and fight.”
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