Brogan Launches Bid for Concord Mayor

If you didn’t think there would be a competitive mayoral election this year, think again.

Paul Brogan, a long-time resident of the city, filed to run with the city clerk this morning, ensuring another competitive citywide race this year.

The award-winning author said he was running because it was time to change the direction of the city and that he “loved the community” and had been talking about running for long enough.

“I’ve hinted at it enough years that I felt it was finally time to either shut up or actually step up and do something,” he said.

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Brogan said if elected, the first priority would be to change the negative perception that some residents and voters have of their elected representatives and the public policy created by the council. He said that he would work to calm and relieve the anger and hostile he has been seeing and hearing from others in the community for many years.

“We need to make it so that people don’t think everything is a done deal,” he said.

Other priorities would be working to solve the homeless issue and tackling the increasing heroin and opiate problems that he called “an epidemic,” he said.

“I want to use my deep seated belief, of what Concord is to me and has been for nearly 60 years, to try to attract others – businesses and people – to the community to make it all I believe it can be,” he said, “and balance the past and the future in a way it that pleases and enriches.”