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Eastwooding The New Hampshire State Senate On Roll Call Votes

Eastwooding The NH Senate- Where are the Roll Call Votes?
Eastwooding The NH Senate- Where are the Roll Call Votes?

If party designations connote principles, and party pledges imply performance, and we extend that assumption to the relationship between electoral action and legislative response, then it should not be beyond the pale to expect the elected to provide proof of individual effort toward securing the principles and pledges upon which their election to office was presumably based.

And why do I care?  Apart from an obvious and general interest in politics, as a conservative, I’d simply like to see some regular and consistent evidence that those people in the state legislature who style themselves as conservatives are, in fact, voting like conservatives, without necessarily having to go through some other groups filter (or here-say) to arrive at a conclusion, one way or the other.

In the New Hampshire House, for example, there are a small number of actual conservatives who regularly stand up and demonstrate a willingness to go on the record by requesting a roll call vote.  Their action will be documented, their vote recorded.  It will be available for as long as such records survive.  And we can see whether or not they are true to their word.  We had and have the documented “proof of individual effort toward securing the principles and pledges upon which their election to office was presumably based.”

Effort that would serve to measure them up for these or other offices.

So isn’t it time the folks claiming to be Conservatives in the New Hampshire Senate did the same thing?

The New Hampshire State Senate is notorious for its unwillingness to hold roll call votes.  Yes, they’ve got a lot of excuses, none of which I will waste your time on because that is what they are–excuses.   But real Conservatives are always willing to be held to their principles.  They do not make excuses.  They are willing to go on the record, and to be held to account.  And at the end of the day you can look at what they said and what they did and make a comparison.

The only obvious reason not to provide evidence of this nature is if you are either saying things which you have no intention of doing or are doing things that might contradict what you have said.

Should or can we infer from the persistent lack of evidence coming out of the New Hampshire Senate that this barren womb is indicative of either one or the other?  Is the absence of documented transparency or accountability evidence of a serial deception?  Can we presume there are no real Conservatives in the New Hampshire Senate?

I’ll leave that for you to decide, but I will say this.  Despite the prodigious number of (potentially) progressive leaning “career” Republicans in the New Hampshire Senate, which, by the way does not make you  a conservative simply because you are less of a risk to liberty than anyone else in the room,  has not been nearly as abysmal as I had estimated after last years elections (the very enabling SB11 being one huge, inconsolable, and very un-conservative exception).   But I could not actually tell you why or who was responsible due to the lack of roll call evidence available for study.  The only proof would  be from the same mouths which made the principles and pledges we seek to measure, corroborated by like-minded mouths having achieved a metaphorical ride into office on the very same bus.

As the session winds down, and moving into the next one, I’d appreciate it, as would a great many others, if the people claiming to be good Republicans and or conservatives in the New Hampshire  State Senate, would do us all a great service and make it a habit to request roll call votes often, and almost always.   How could that not be a useful tool for the electorate to use as they seek to measure principles and party pledges with actual performance?

Being good Republicans and conservatives, they should have nothing to fear from going on the record unless of course their record would suggest something else altogether.

 

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