As Skip wrote here, "the protestations have begun", with a number of candidates for the New Hampshire Legislature NOT being included in the "Extreme 16" bracket, established by Mary Jane Wellner and Marjorie Smith, who head the Committee to elect House Democrats.
I wrote a letter to Mary and Marjorie, thanking them for highlighting a crop of our Conservative Patriots, who value the principles of small government, fiscal responsibility, individual liberties, and Constitutional adherence! I also mentioned that they should have called it the "Extreme 300", since there are SO many folks out there running for the NH House and Senate, who qualify for this bracket. I listed a handful of candidates that I could think of, off the top of my head, not meaning to include them all. Well, a few people that I did miss replied and said "Hey!, I should be on that list too!".
One of them was Andrew Manuse, who responded to Mary and Marjorie, in the fashion of Ed Mosca. Here is Andrew’s fine letter to them: (after the jump)
Dear Mary Jane and Marj:
I, too, am utterly insulted that you excluded me from the Extreme 16. Remember when Barry Goldwater said, "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the defense of justice is no virtue."? I try to live by that statement every day, and I will certainly legislate the same way.
I believe in limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility and free enterprise to the extreme. To ensure that these principles always guide New Hampshire government, we should:
- Audit our state departments so we know where they’re spending money and cut out all the excessive, redundant and unconstitutional spending that we find.
- Implement zero-based budgeting to force department heads to start from scratch with their budgets and justify every expense.
- NEVER spend more than we have.
- Change the state pension system so it is fully contributory and more like a 401(k), and cut state worker salaries so they are more in line with their private-sector counterparts.
- Reduce the number of state employees so New Hampshire’s number of state employees is below the national per capita average, not above it like it is now.
- Eliminate public sector unions, since they simply create a thugocracy that only serves the government, leaving the people struggling to keep up with their way of life (they also give the people a disadvantage at the seat of government).
- Opt-out of Obamacare and get rid of government mandates on health insurance in New Hampshire, so people can have affordable access to quality health care again.
- Open our health care markets to the nation and allow other insurance companies from out-of-state to sell their products here.
- Get the state out of the education business all together and let parents and local communities set the agenda for their children’s education.
- Get the state out of the child-snatching business and acknowledge that children are almost always better off with their parents.
- Secure the idea that parents are innocent of any wrongdoing until proven guilty in a court of law.
- Acknowledge that everyone should be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
- Recognize individuals’ right to own and bear all types of rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state, and secure their ability to exercise their right to self defense without punishment of law.
- Honor and respect the constitution of the state of New Hampshire as the Supreme Law of the Land, which limits state government and sets up true government authority under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
- Punish every government official who violates the inalienable rights of the people in the same way that a citizen would be punished for doing the same thing.
- Make sure the government is accountable by securing citizens’ U.S. First Amendment right to record everything the government is doing all the time by any manner the citizens see fit.
In short, I think that your list of "extremists" is far too short. There really are at least 134 candidates who believe in many of the same things that I do. They also believe in all of the same things as our Founding Fathers, who were "extremists" in their own day and fought for the good and the rights of the individual.
And by the way, individual rights always result in the best for the public good.
I do hope that you consider changing your hearts and minds so that you too can be an extremist in the pursuit of liberty, peace and justice for all of New Hampshire. Perhaps when you do, you can rejoin me in the majority that controls the New Hampshire Legislature.
Sincerely,
ANDREW J. MANUSE,
Republican Candidate for State Representative
Rockingham District 5
andrew@andrewmanuse.com
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