Let’s talk some more about Mrs. Jake Sullivan, more commonly known to low-information voters as Maggie Goodlander. After Annie Kuster announced her retirement and endorsed Colin Van Ostern to take her place, Goodlander announced her candidacy as “Maggie Tamposi Goodlander” to throw around that Nashua household name. Dear readers, out of respect for the cherished Marjorie, do NOT ever refer to Goodlander as “MTG.” Please and thank you. And as not to confuse her with her senior ilk, our ex-governor, I will refer to the junior Maggie as just “Goodlander.”
Much has already been written about Goodlander, the most recent Grok piece being Arlene’s about her DC swamp superiors, but please also share Andy Schaalman’s meme collection and my gay parade report, and ask about Goodlander’s stance on women’s sports.
For those less familiar with the history and geography of Nashua, I’m here to bring you up to speed on some of Goodlander’s favorite remarks. For the larger WMUR audience with fewer ties to the city, she likes to say things to Adam Sexton, such as, “No one ‘does democracy’ better than here in NH.” However, when trying to play up her Nashua ties, she often mentions her great-grandfather, Nasi Nicholas Tamposi (1891-1957), and his alleged employment at a nearby shoe factory. Goodlander can be observed referencing him in videos of Thursday’s WMUR debate while grasping at straws and being crushed by Lily Tang Williams.
Goodlander regularly invokes her privileged Tamposi pedigree yet makes comments that aren’t easily fact checked. What is the name of and where in Nashua(seen from 44 High Street, where she rents) was this SHOE factory that her great grandfather, Nasi Nicholas Tamposi, allegedly worked? If she is referring to nearby Clock Tower, that was a TEXTILE MILL known as the Nashua Manufacturing Company from the 1820s until its closure just after World War 2. The only shoe company that local historians regularly mention is McElwain at the corner of Temple & Spruce, which was several blocks away from the other side of Main Street from 44 High Street.
She also repeatedly talks about seeing her birthplace, Memorial Hospital(not the monster amorphous architectural blob that Southern NH Hospital is today), from “her living room window”(of that dummy rental dwelling). Another part of that rehearsed tale is that she was “born on an election day,” which would be 11/4/86, and that Betty Tamposi gave birth to her before voting that day.
Maybe she should have an open house on Monday 11/4/24 in that living room and provide binoculars to guests for viewing the roof of today’s Southern NH Medical Center.
