BROCKTON —
Linda Balzotti said she’s not taking a
day off after being elected the city’s first female
mayor on Tuesday — at least not yet.
“I will be around for the remainder of this week,
and most of next week,” she said in a phone
interview Wednesday. “I do hope to go away next
weekend, to re-energize and get rest away from the
phones.”
Balzotti said she got four hours of sleep after the
election win Tuesday, and the phone started ringing
at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. She said she attended an
event at the Council on Aging building and came back
to find her answering machine full.
“The main line has been ringing, the e-mails have
been crazy — I couldn’t keep up,” she said.
Balzotti, a city councilor for 12 years, said she
will soon start working to put together a transition
team to prepare for taking over the mayor’s office
in January.
“In the next couple of days I’m going to start to
make a list of some individuals who I hope will help
me, and ask for their participation,” she said.
Balzotti defeated two-term incumbent Mayor James E.
Harrington on Tuesday, with 56 percent of the vote
to 43 percent for Harrington.