I’m certain Fergus Culllen and I disagree on a great many things, but I have to admit — I like this editorial in the Union Leader: Liberal Jackie Cilley, Progressive Zombie. He writes some unknown truths about Democrat Candidate for Governor Jackie Cilley, the accidental State Senator, offering up some insight into things she says on the stump, and then closes with (my favorite part) this.
In Concord, Cilley was a liberal zombie, voting with the pack. Her priorities were unions, Obama-style health care and radical environmentalism. One of her first acts as senator was joining a union protest against Frisbie Hospital for using construction contractors who didn’t guarantee health insurance for workers. She sponsored a bill requiring annual emissions testing of Zambonis. She tried to create a state director of climate change position. She attacked Walmart, celebrated Earth Day and wished her constituents Happy Kwanzaa in a letter to the editor.
Cilley voted to raise taxes some 84 times, including voting for the LLC tax and extending the rooms and meals tax to campgrounds. When the resulting uproar prompted Democrats to repeal those taxes, Cilley tellingly proposed increasing two other taxes — on life, fire and property insurance premiums and on Seabrook — to pay for the repeal instead of cutting spending.
Sad truth: Maggie Hassan, not much different, definitely no better, equally bad for New Hampshire.
H/T Fergus Cullen – Union Leader
