Everyone, I recently wrote about a "resolution" that will be offered up at the annual GOP state committee meeting—coming up on Saturday, April 17, 2010, to be held at Bow High School—which would condemn traitorous RINO’s ("Republicans In Name Only") who publicly support and work for Democratic candidates against Republicans running in the same race. I have been informed that it’s not a resolution, but rather a proposed change in the state GOP by-laws. It was originally proposed at the state committee meeting in 2006 as a result of a full-page newspaper ad in the Union Leader that ran just before the 2004 election. The ad featured a large number of self-identified "Republicans" (many of whom were actually Democrats, it now comes out) who urged Republicans to vote for John Lynch against Republican Gov. Craig Benson, the last good governor who held office in New Hampshire. A copy of the disgraceful Union Leader ad is attached to this email.
The ad worked, and John Lynch won in a squeaker. Gov. Benson left our state with a large budget surplus. Now, five and a half years later, Gov. Lynch and the Democrats have given us and our children a historic $600 million budget deficit (the Democratic being the responsible party for this disaster). This is the legacy that three-term Gov. Lynch and the RINO’s who appeared in the Union Leader ad have given us.
Time for some house-cleaning: Here’s a copy of the proposed state GOP by-laws change that will be taken up on April 17th:
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Any registered Republican who, at the same time joins or allows his or her name to be used in support of a political committee or a defined group of individuals that in title or effect is intended to be understood by the public to be a committee or group comprised in whole or in part of members of the Republican Party endorsing a candidate for elected office from another political party, when there is a candidate nominated by the Republican Party for that office, shall be disqualified during the then present and the next biennium from holding an office of the State Committee or any County or City Committee, from being a member of the Executive Committee, and from being a member of the State Committee.
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Astoundingly, when the above common-sense by-law change was proposed by Rep. Paul Mirski at the 2006 state committee annual meeting…it was blocked (!). I have no idea what the reasoning was of the GOP leadership at that time for tabling the proposal, but the leadership since then has significantly changed. Accordingly, I urge every member of the GOP state committee to vote in favor of the above by-law amendment at the upcoming annual meeting on April 17th.
I also commend Republican stalwart, former and future Rep. Paul Mirski—a candidate for the state House of Representatives in Grafton House District #10 in the upcoming election—for drafting and bringing the above by-law proposal before the state committee for a vote.
A partial scan of that ad (top of page, cleaned up) can be seen after the jump:
The PDF of the actual page (no touch up, may be a tad difficult to read) can be seen here.
The names:
- Former Governor Walter Peterson
- Betty Tamposi
- Carl Robertson
- Robert Scott
- Alan Cleveland