Meet Your Councillor: Calvin T. Brown, Who Keeps Winning by a Handful of Votes
Five votes in 2021, six in 2025, a hand recount both times. No seat in Chelsea is held by a thinner margin,…
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Meet Your Councillor: Manuel Teshe, Who Came From El Salvador at 13
He arrived from El Salvador at thirteen. He now spends his working days getting immigrant children legal status, in a city that…
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Meet Your Councillor: Giovanni Recupero, District 6 Since 2012
He has held District 6 since 2012, raised thirteen children, and runs unopposed. He also argued that affordable housing alone does not…
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Meet Your Councillor: Lisa Santagate, Journalist, Teacher, Food Pantry Founder
Forty years teaching and reporting across several countries, four degrees, a mediator's training. She called the housing proposal one-size-fits-all in April, and…
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Meet Your Councillor: Tanairi Garcia, Who Farmed Off the Grid in Puerto Rico
She left Chelsea at 26 to live off the grid on a farm in Puerto Rico. A hurricane took her greenhouse, earthquakes…
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Meet Your Councillor: Deron Hines, Who Beat a Vega and Then Won 6-5
He unseated the daughter of the most powerful figure in Chelsea, and six months later won the vote that rewrote the city's…
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Meet Your Councillor: Todd Taylor, the Republican Who Says He Leaves Politics at the Door
He is a Republican state committeeman who ran for state representative, and he says national politics have no place in City Hall.…
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Meet Your Councillor: Kelly Garcia, Who Says Chelsea’s Schools Are in the Bottom 10 Per Cent
She grew up poor in Chelsea, one of five children, and was told her mother's accent meant college was not for her.…
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Meet Your Councillor: Leo Robinson, the Longest Memory on the Council
Chelsea High class of 1968, Army during Vietnam, three city manager searches, thirteen years coaching girls' basketball. He wrote the housing rule,…
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Meet Your Councillor: Norieliz DeJesus, Who Started Organizing at 14
She started working for Gladys Vega at fourteen and has been organizing ever since. She ran the council for two years, and…
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