Gosh, and I thought it was only the TEA Party candidates that lost Republican races.... - Granite Grok

Gosh, and I thought it was only the TEA Party candidates that lost Republican races….

From DiStaso:

In a memo to party leaders, NHDP communications director Harrell Kirstein notes the party won six of the seven contested mayoral or special elections, including a 19 percentage point victory by Latha Mangipudi over former House Republican Majority Leader Pete Silva in Nashua’s Ward 8.

The party says that candidates with strong ties to the Republican State committee or national Republicans “went down in flames,” including former state GOP chair Fergus Cullen in his bid for the Dover City Council and conservative Phil Greazzo and state Rep. Will Infantine in Manchester.

OK, let’s face it: hardly anyone pays “The Fringe” Cullen much mind any more.  To say that Fergus has “strong ties” is like saying that NH House Minority Leader Gene Chandler is a Free Stater (the current nom du demonization by the Democrat Party here in NH – they say it so often about everybody that doesn’t have a D next to their name, it’s like Harrell calling me a racist or homophobe or some other silliness (like that old saw that goes “it makes him look like an ass and the donkey just gets mad”)).  In effect, it doesn’t mean much (nor him – this former NH GOP Chair didn’t even win a seat to the NH GOP State Committee either this go ’round).

But it still is an interesting turn of events – nary a TEA Partier is mentioned by Harrell “Jersey Shore” Kirstein.  For once, we’re not being blamed for something?

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