Vineyarders Participated in Romney Campaign in New Hampshire

Jim Powell, chairman of the West Tisbury Republican Town Committee is no stranger to helping Mitt Romney get elected to political office.

Romney won Tuesday's Republican Primary for U.S. President in New Hampshire.

Powell, along with Islanders Carolyn and Tom Flynn, members of the Edgartown Republican Town Committee, and Linda Mott Smith and her husband Greg Martin from the Oak Bluffs Republican Town Committee, helped with fundraising and getting the vote out for Mitt Romney.

The group worked at Romney headquarters in Boston and New Hampshire.

"My first contact with Romney was in 1993 when I was out in Salt Lake City," said Powell. "I was a member of the Salt Lake Community Council and Romney was fundraising for a Senate bid against Ted Kennedy. I was involved in the Winter Olympics and it was magic what he pulled off there."

"When he was governor in Mass. we reconnected, added Powell. "Romney  appointed me to be on the State Workforce Investment Board's  Education Committee. I was a teacher at the time."

Powell said he liked meeting the people of New Hampshire.

"There is such a warm feeling when you go into stores [to campaign]," he said. "The number one concern is putting people back to work."