Sununu Flack Does Kathy Sullivan Impression. - Granite Grok

Sununu Flack Does Kathy Sullivan Impression.

The Union leader is reporting a complaint filed against the Hemingway campaign.  Some names were omitted on their campaign finance report and a local attorney has asked the AG to investigate.

The complaint has been filed by Sheridan T. Brown, a local “government and public affairs” attorney whose full time occupation prior to 2010 (for the better part of a decade) was working for John E. Sununu.   Since that time he has worked proudly to “[intercede] on behalf of entities and individuals to resolve problems with government agencies, [and] has helped secure millions of dollars in funding for community projects.”

Sounds to me like he has brokered his experience in big government and his connections to the Sununu’s and their backers, to tap into the taxpayer funded ATM machine.  Lobbyist?  He’s also got a soft spot for green projects.

But I digress.  These are insignificant matters compared to the test of character we’ve been handed by this Sununu flunky doing his impression of Democrat Kathy Sullivan.

The actual complaint, as reported…

Sheriden Brown, a one-time aid to former U.S. Sen. John E. Sununu, said Hemingway’s report show “willful concealment” of certain campaign donors including Aaron Day, the NH Republican Liberty Caucus chairman, and Michael Gill, a mortgage company owner whose signs have draw attention for their profanity against politicians and judges.

Willful concealment.  Oooooh, that sounds willful.  But  you know what, that would be hard to prove even for a flunky lawyer doing John H. Sununu’s dirty work.  So I think asking the Hemingway campaign about the missing names is an excellent idea.  It will provide us with an opportunity to (again) debate the character issue between the two Republican candidates for governor, much to the irritation of the Havenstien water carriers.

Contrast.  I think Hemingway will resolve the stated concern in days, if they have not done so already.  Contrast that to the behavior of Mr. Hemingway’s opponent, particularity on the question of being ‘willful’–since Sheridan T. Brown brought it up…

 

Home is where the tax break is, until it isn’t.

Walt Havenstein retained his New Hampshire residency while simultaneously claiming residency in Maryland.  Both of these acts are deliberate, or should I say willful?

To the latter, Walt felt entitled to a tax break in Maryland which he deliberately sought.   When he signed on to run for Governor he deliberately staked a qualifying residency claim in New Hampshire.  Deliberate.  Willful.

While the recent tax bill flap is clearly a Democrat hit job, that makes no difference on the question of Character or the act of being willful.   Walt took a tax credit to which he was not entitled and is now being boorish and dismissive when called on it.

A real man of character would have simply paid it back to Maryland when NH declared his residency in NH so he could run for office, knowing he had taken it improperly and made a show of contrition and character.

A man of character could still call the current tax bill “political” but he could also admit the wrong (regardless of whatever politically contrived excuse his handlers constructed) and promptly make amends.

We are still waiting for Walt to do the right thing, while his handlers point fingers, distract, try to message it, or is that all so one of his lawyers looks for a loophole.

 

Medicaid Expansion

Mr. Havenstein told a room full of Republican primary voters in Belknap County what they wanted to hear.  He said he’d veto any future expansion of Medicaid as governor in NH.  About a month later he told WMUR News Nine’s audience that we could not let that program sunset.  Charges of flip flopping resulted in a rant about his sterling character.

Do we add arrogant to boorish and dismissive?

 

Tea Baggers

Walt made what might have been an offhand slur calling TEA Party activists TEA Baggers a while back.  He could have just said he was sorry.  TEA Party activists gave him several opportunities to do just that.  They even gave him the chance to do so on camera, for the record.  Apologizing might  have attracted more support from the grassroots.   He refused repeatedly,

 

Arrogant, boorish, and dismissive.

These are not the traits of a man of character. Maybe Walt left his character in Maryland with the affidavits of residency, or maybe he sold it in the board room, I do not know.  But Sheridan T. Brown has been asked by the same group of establishment incompetents who can’t manage to consistently defeat Ray Buckley and the New Hampshire Party, to allow Andrew Hemingway to shine, by filing this request with the AG.

If Hemingway resolves the claim promptly, or even if he does not, the establishment political nag, Walt Havenstein, gets to spend the remaining weeks of the campaign distracted by questions surrounding his factually  willful acts of contradiction, for which he has no clear exit strategy.

Good to know the establishment GOP is as equally bad at taking on Republican’s for Governor in New Hampshire as they are Democrats.

I’m almost embarrassed for them.  almost.

 

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