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Andrew Hemingway – Unwilling To Play By ‘Their’ Rules

Andrew Hemingway For NH GOP Chair!Real Clear Politics has an interview with New Hampshire Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Hemingway.

With his ardent small-government views and outsider bona fides, Hemingway brings a distinctive perspective to the governor’s race here. And as a candidate born during the Reagan administration, he is offering a glimpse at how a new generation of political contenders may soon be campaigning with a different mindset than the one that often prevented their predecessors from saying much of anything interesting. (…)

He is running against fellow businessman and political novice Walt Havenstein, 65, in a two-candidate Republican primary. Christie — the chairman of the Republican Governors Association — recently traveled to the state to endorse Havenstein, who was recruited into the race by influential New Hampshire Republicans.

 And here’s why…

Instead of first running to become one of New Hampshire’s 400 state representatives or working his way up the Republican Party ranks in the traditional manner, Hemingway simply declared his candidacy for the state’s highest office. 

That rubbed many longtime New Hampshire GOP power brokers the wrong way, according to Hemingway. 

“I didn’t ask for anyone’s permission to run,” he said. “The absolute deciding factor of why they don’t like me is because I’m unwilling to play the game by their rules.” 

The question Republican (and undeclared) primary voters should ask is… was it playing the game by “Their rules” that lead to a Republican majority State Senate attacking the first amendment, second amendment, supporting ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion, increasing taxes, breaking all those planks in the party platform, and State party leadership not saying a word about any of it?
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