On a recent evening in Walpole, as the sounds of Little League baseball wafted through the open windows of a meeting room in City Hall, Patrick Roath made his pitch to members of the town’s Democratic Committee. The 38-year-old attorney from Jamaica Plain is running for Congress, hoping to knock off fellow Democrat Stephen Lynch in next year’s primary.
Roath launched his campaign early — some 16 months before next year’s vote — arguing the sooner Democrats understand the need for change, the better.
“It’s just so obvious,” Roath told the small gathering of about a dozen local Democrats. “We need some new people and new leadership and new thinking and new ideas to solve some of the really serious problems that our country’s facing.”
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