Rye City Councilwoman (D) 2008 – 2011 is a resident of Rye’s Greenhaven section that is 450 feet from Hen Island offshore. Ms. Gamache was one of Mayor Steve Otis’s most silent but reliable voting bloc members, who defended the city’s position on controversies such as Schubert’s Destroyed Wetlands, Hen Island and soaring city hall spending. After Mr. Otis’s defeat in the 2009 election, Ms. Gamache transitioned into a loyal albeit more outspoken supporter of republican Mayor Douglas French, was soon rewarded with a Deputy Mayoral appointment for her reliable party line voting pattern.

Ms. Gamache claimed repeatedly that Hen Island was a fictional environmental crisis claiming in a pre-election interview that it was the “one issue that gets more than its fair share of attention … the agenda of a disgruntled shareholder who is not a Rye resident, cloaked in a veil of purported concern for the environment, has had more than enough air time.” Ms. Gamache was soundly defeated for reelection signaling increasing voter awareness and intolerance for crony business as usual at Rye City Hall. (Catherine Parker, who likewise ran for reelection with Ms. Gamache, won reelection over an unknown candidate by literally a handful of votes.) Ms. Gamache is a financial industry consultant.