I response to my stated position HERE in favor of killing CACR-12, a Republican state representative Spec Bowers has responded as follows:
“Do you seriously believe that anytime in the foreseeable future we will have a legislature willing to do that? Do you really think that the voters would approve such an action?
We could not even pass HCR 26, declaring that the Claremont case’s mandates that the legislative and executive branches define an adequate education, determine its cost, fund its entire cost with state taxes, and ensure its delivery through accountability, are not binding on the legislative and executive branches. A huge majority voted to Interim Study rather than pass it. (I was one of just 115 who voted against IS because we thought it should be passed, not studied.)
That was a simple declaration with no teeth. There is zero chance that we will elect in the foreseeable future a legislature that would actually impeach judges. And if somehow we did, the voters almost certainly would not support us – and hence the Senate would not vote to convict.
Your hope to stop judicially mandated centralized curriculum and centralized funding is nothing but a fantasy. When the court decides Claremont 3 are you going to respond with a woulda, coulda, shoulda?”
My response to the otherwise excellent and admirable Rep. Bowers was sent this morning, as follows:
Spec, I will respond with only two points that need to be emphasized:
1. This is a generations-long struggle. New Hampshire is the only state—the designated state, in fact—with a chance to actually implement the original ideal of the Founding Fathers, that is, the maintenance of an actual “small and limited” government that will neither tax nor spend in order to aggrandize its own power and size. It will take many decades to fully realize that vision. So the answer to your question is that I agree with you, in the near term. There is little chance that enough liberty-minded representatives and senators will be elected this year to do what needs to be done in order to ensure constitutional, limited state government. That does not, however, mean that we should abandon the field of battle, and leave the day to the statists, who will always be with us. Victory ultimately goes to those who strive and struggle endlessly for what they believe in.
2. Why is Gov. John Lynch—a “moderate statist” who helped guide New Hampshire into a billion-dollar structural state budget deficit between 2006 and 2010—so much in favor of CACR-12? Is it just that he “likes compromise”? Is is it a means to an end? No. The fact is that Lynch, and the socialist leadership in his party, understand that CACR-12 will be a boon to a state takeover of education…the real purpose of which is to pave the way for a broadbased statewide tax in New Hampshire that will ensure a steady flow of funds from the state’s subjects…errrr, citizens…so that it can grow endlessly without the hindrance of low taxes that it now suffers.
The RLCNH today has sent out a press release explaining why CACR-12 should be defeated in the upcoming vote. I commend it to everyone on this list, and to you Spec, and hope that you will join us in defeating this Trojan Horse amendment that our Democrat governor is so strongly and eagerly supporting.
