Phil Elmer is running for an at large seat for the City Council. We are voting for him.
In this age of politicians hunched down in angry disagreement, we need voices that are in conversations, based on facts, seeking solutions. Phil Elmer is one such voice.
We know this from personal knowledge as acquaintances and from these words about his work with Time Magazine: “Closing a weekly news magazine on deadline is as intensely collaborative an enterprise as any I know. For nearly 30 years, I worked calmly and collegially with people of sharply divergent political persuasions. Every story in Time had its stakeholders: correspondents, researchers, reporters, writers, editors, top editors, fact-checkers, copyeditors, libel lawyers — each with their own strong ideas about what the story was and how it should be told. I worked nearly every job in this system, from temporary secretary to executive editor. I wrote more 500 stories for the magazine, including a dozen that made the cover.”
We are voting for Phil Elmer because we know our future depends on intensely collaborative work on both the local and the national level. We believe in identifying difficult areas together and working together to find solutions. Together we are smarter. In addition, Phil, specialized in science and technology, and has lots of ideas about how to grow the economy of Greenfield and “some might even work,” he says.
Ruth Charney and Jay Lord
Greenfield