Endorsements

I am proud to endorse Rebekah Brooks for Woodstock Town Clerk for the Town Clerk position. Woodstock has a real choice this year, and it is an important one. After more than 20 years with our now-retired Clerk, Jackie Earley, this office is entering a new chapter.

As Town Supervisor, I have had the opportunity to see and work with all candidates, to understand their strengths, approaches, and the skills they would bring to the office. This endorsement is not a statement against anyone. It is a statement about what I believe the Clerk’s Office needs at this moment.

The Clerk’s Office is central to town government, public access, communication, recordkeeping, transparency, and the daily experience residents have with Town Hall. Rebekah brings skills that are desperately needed in that office.

She brings vision, professionalism, creativity, and practical problem-solving. She has demonstrated an ability to balance conflict with grace, listen carefully, and offer solutions beyond the standard we have seen in local government in recent years.

Her plans reflect what other towns are already doing to modernize operations, improve communication, increase transparency, and use resources more effectively. That forward-thinking approach will help not only the Clerk’s Office, but the work we all need to do for Woodstock.

My son went to California, met a girl from Virginia, and brought her home to Woodstock. Since she moved here, I have discovered her helpful nature. I am an artist and artists are not grant writers or website designers or publicists. We need help with those things. Over the last four years, Rebekah Brooks has helped me write three gallery and grant applications. She designed a website for the unveiling of my two love knots after I had them recast last year and helped me to publicize the events to the public. She has helped me digitize and organize my extensive body of work, and anytime I have a problem with my computer or my phone, she has been there for me.

So. I’m not surprised she is running for town clerk in Woodstock, a town I love since I came here in the late 90’s. Rebekah Brooks is a helper. Let her help Woodstock.

Woodstock has a lot of issues that need a highly skilled and collaborative team that has the capability and acumen to clean up the mess left from the past and the vision and capability to multitask on not just their favorite issue or linear topic of interest, but the 50+ issues that face a local government every day. Our current supervisor and newly elected majority town board members have been working their butts off to find concrete solutions and meaningful changes to make this happen. I think it is important to listen to them when I asked: “Who do you want to work with to accomplish this uphill challenge?” This was their answer:

1. Daniel Gallant for town councilperson on the town board (replacing Reginald Earls, who is not seeking to be elected, but just helping us out till the end of the year — thank you, Reggie!).

2. Rebekah Brooks for town clerk.

When you look at their resumes — since this is a job that taxpayers will pay for and we should all be looking at their qualifications — you can quickly see they are well-equipped and actually bring additional skills and background knowledge needed to help the town board majority succeed. Moreover, both of them have already been working their tooshies off helping our town for free for over six months, showing us they care and are willing to pull up their sleeves and get the work done with the current administration.

I will be voting for them because it is imperative that we have a well-oiled machine fixing our town and rebuilding our community!

We are writing to convey our wholehearted support of Rebekah Brooks for Woodstock Town Clerk, running in the Democratic primary this month. Rebekah brings so much to the table that will help our community and town government today and far into the future. She has shown exceptional skill with technology, writing, research, logistics, analysis, web and graphic production — coupled with her experience in management in nonprofits and government programs, organization and collaborative problem solving.

We feel so fortunate that she has joined our community. Rebekah moved to Woodstock three years ago and her family has deep roots in the community: her husband has been coming here for over a decade and her father-in-law is a local artist. As long-time residents in the Town of Woodstock, we have seen firsthand the impressive skills, character, dedication Rebekah has already brought to Woodstock. She jumped right in, volunteering for the housing committee where she has provided invaluable input, assisted with community outreach and committee strategic planning and organization. She helped out Complete Streets with logistics and hands-on support of the March 2025 public meeting, including both live and public access, as well as creating a website, promotional materials and event logistics for the wonderful Woodstock’s Earth Week program.

Moreover, with her fresh eyes she has the requisite skills, experience, personality and vision that lend themselves perfectly to this vital position of town clerk. She will be a friendly and approachable public face, bringing head and heart together to the benefit of all in our town, who can deliver the services needed with rigor and excellence. We believe that Rebekah will make an exceptional town clerk. We urge all registered Woodstock Democrats to vote for Rebekah Brooks in the upcoming primary – early voting starts June 13th and election day is June 23rd.

Disclosure: I am a member of the Woodstock Democratic Committee; however, the committee did not endorse a candidate in the town clerk race. This endorsement reflects my personal views alone.

After attending the Woodstock candidates forum last Thursday, I decided to cast my vote for Rebekah Brooks for town clerk.

What impressed me most was Rebekah’s genuine commitment to serving the people of Woodstock in new and creative ways. She has taken the initiative to connect with town clerks in neighboring communities to learn what is working well and how they are improving services for residents. That willingness to listen, learn and bring new ideas to Woodstock speaks volumes about her approach to public service.

I am excited by her vision for modernizing the clerk’s office. Improvements such as online and credit-card payments would make town services more convenient and accessible. I also appreciate willingness to seek funding opportunities to bring additional resources to our community. My husband and I are particularly excited about her ideas for reviving the public access station.

Perhaps most importantly, Rebekah brings a fresh perspective. She is not tied to the way things have always been done and approaches this role with energy, optimism and creativity. I believe those qualities will serve Woodstock well.

I am voting for Rebekah Brooks because I believe she will serve Woodstock with integrity, embrace innovation and create a town clerk’s office that is modern, responsive and unmistakably Woodstock.

Rebekah is a badass whose campaign "strategy" is actually just to be and do who and what she is rather than talk about what she'll do and when....This makes me beyond excited! 

As a long-time member of the Housing Committee in Woodstock, one of my biggest pleasures has been working with Rebekah Brooks.  Her  communication and organizational skills and her friendly and incredibly smart personality make her an ideal choice for Town Clerk.