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Calling Out Republican House Rep. Susan Emerson

missing in actionLarry Cleveland (who is on a mission to save Rindge, NH), writing in the Keene Sentinel, observes that Rep. Susan Emerson’s ‘recent record’ is not conservative. It’s not. After her second term, she went native.

Larry has made a note of this and said as much and Emerson, who is incapable of accepting criticism, doesn’t care for Larry’s accounting.

According to the website House Republican Alliance (nhhra.org), her rating in 2008 was at 100 percent. I supported her then, and voted for her. In 2012, her rating got as low as 37 percent. Now, in 2016, it is 48.1 percent. This means she votes against the party platform 51.9 percent of the time. Maybe more important is her attendance. In the last session, there were 114 bills. She voted on 27 of them, for an attendance of 23.7 percent. How can we count on her to represent us when her attendance is that low?

Emerson’s thin skin is legendary. Back in 2012 Emerson sponsored HB 1533, which I dubbed the Boo Hoo Towel Bill. It was “AN ACT prohibiting bullying in the state house and legislative office building.”

(a)(1) “Bullying” means a single significant incident or a pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another member which:

(A) Physically harms a member;
(B) Causes emotional distress to a member;
(C) Interferes with a member’s legislative opportunities;
(D) Creates a hostile environment; or
(E) Substantially disrupts the orderly operation of the general court.

Social Justice Warrior Powers, Activate.  From of, a cry baby!

Cleveland reminds us that eight years in the legislature have done nothing to thicken her defenses.

According to Rep. Susan Emerson, (“I stand by my positions and constituents,” Sentinel Aug. 15), I “attacked” her fitness to serve. Apparently she believes that when someone calls out an elected officials voting record with factual evidence, it is an “attack.”

This is not the first time she cried “bully.” It is not only our right, but it is “We The People’s” civic duty to keep an eye on our elected officials.

With an HRA Attendance of less than 24%, she isn’t standing by much of anything unless it’s the coach while she scans the landscape for the remote. Typically, representatives with attendance scores that low were either injured, had a family emergency, surgery, or got elected to not vote to keep the other party from electing someone who would. Not sure if Absentee Emerson was any of those but based on Larry’s remarks I’m guessing, not. But to her credit, even though her votes increasingly sucked after 2011, she was still showing up and vote.

Larry also references a few of her bad votes including her opposition to constitutional carry and support for other anti-2A legislation. Here at GraniteGrok, we’ve noted a few ourselves.

Emerson voted against defining domicile for voting purposes, so she protects the drive-by voting by non-residents that robs Rindge of its voice, votes, and tax dollars.

She voted for an unconstitutional gas tax bill.

The far-left SEIU endorsed her in 2012, and 2016, and probably in 2014–don’t have that link.

She voted against Right to Work, costing NH Jobs and revenue.

And she is a complete tool for progressive leadership. A puppet for the political class, even here in the citizen legislature of New Hampshire.

Emerson is probably doing us all a favor by staying home, but Rindge has as much right as any other town to representation in the legislature, which Susan Emerson has been unwilling or unable to provide. Taken alongside her embrace of the political class and increasingly progressive positions–which she stands by–there are better “Republicans” to send up to Concord.

 

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