When it’s time to campaign, he tries to leave the office around 5 p.m. on weeknights, which gives him two hours to canvass neighborhoods and knock on doors before it gets too dark and cold to be out.
But earlier this week, he walked to the front door of an elderly couple living in a two-story condominium in Guilford, Conn., and rang the doorbell. He wasn’t making it to another house that night.
“Hello, THE Bill Bilcheck, running for probate,” he said to a woman at the door.
“Hey! You gotta come down here,” she screamed to her husband upstairs.