I first met Peter Harrison in 2015, when I was starting my run for this same seat.
He contacted me and asked to meet me for coffee (something I would come to learn was one of his favorite things to do). I thought that I’d be interviewing him to join my team. Turns out, he was interviewing ME to decide if he should support my race.
I’d like to say he gave me wholehearted support after that meeting, but it wouldn’t be true. He went with another candidate. For good reason. I had good ideas and a lot of energy, but I just didn’t have the right background and support team in place to make me the right candidate. That was a lesson it took me well over a year to learn.
But learn it I did. So after my state primary in August 2016, when I got just under 5,000 votes but didn’t advance to the general election, I went looking for a candidate to support in 2018.