Yesterday the Republican Legislators in the New Hampshire House of Representatives elected their Speaker. The election was between former Speakers Bill O’Brien and Gene Chandler. Laurie Sanborn had also been in the race but dropped out due to family health issues. This was the race in which Senator Kelly Ayotte decided to (for the first time anyone can remember) throw her support behind one of the candidates. Former Governor and Senator John Sununu did as well. Unfortunately for them, they picked the losing candidate.
The results are in and Bill O’Brien will be the new Speaker for Republicans in the House. Since Republicans hold a majority in the House, this also means that O’Brien will be the official Speaker of the House once the entire legislature votes. Apparently this has Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat Party Ray Buckley’s head spinning a little. Buckley sent out a fundraising email shortly after the announcement which of course, is filled with lies.
Is it finally becoming clear to Democrats that they are going to continue go be “Grubered” (aka lied to and treated like they are stupid) by Democrats as they have been for years? Below is the fundraising email Buckley sent out yesterday after the vote:
BREAKING: Bill O’Brien back as Speaker.
Friend:
It’s official – Republicans just voted to return Bill O’Brien as New Hampshire Speaker of the House. They’re going back to the future and we can expect the same extreme, Tea Party agenda:
Draconian cuts to higher education, but cheaper cigarettes. Right-to-Work for Less. Repeal of Marriage Equality. Block Access to Women’s Healthcare.
We’ve worked too hard to let the extreme ideology of Bill O’Brien stop the progress we’ve made. We’ve stood up and stopped him before and we’re going to have to do it again in 2016.
If you’ve saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation to stop Bill O’Brien will go through immediately.
— Raymond Buckley, Chairman
New Hampshire Democratic Party
Let’s just rip Buckley’s statements apart a little. There were no draconian cuts to higher education. Yes, there were cuts in order to balance the budget because when Democrats controlled the legislature they left an $800 million deficit. If they didn’t want cuts to higher education, they should have been more responsible in their spending when they had control. And once again, the public university system never bothers making cuts to their own internal budgets. They simply continue to ask for more and more money from Granite Staters rather than curbing their own spending. Funny, Democrats wanted to provide in-state tuition to illegal aliens last session which would have seen less money go to higher education.
What Buckley really means by “cheaper cigarettes” is that O’Brien wouldn’t raise taxes on them again. In typical Democrat fashion, Buckley is upset that more taxes weren’t raised so his party could spend more of the taxpayers’ hard-earned money. Note that the people the tax would hurt the most are poor and working class. So much for Buckley’s pretend care for these people.
Right-to-work for less has been debunked over and over and over again. Right-to-work states are faring much better than New Hampshire when it comes to jobs and the economy as are residents in those states. New Hampshire has lost businesses because it is a forced unionism state yet this doesn’t stop Buckley from grubering his supporters. He’s got to shill for the unions that buy Democrats into office and pay big money to keep him as the talking head for the Democrat Party.
Apparently Buckley didn’t get the message that O’Brien wouldn’t be taking up any gay marriage repeal. In an interview with Granite Grok, O’Brien specifically states that it was a fight that Republicans lost and there is no point in rehashing it. So much for that lie.
Women’s health care access has never been blocked by O’Brien or Republicans. You know who has blocked access to women’s healthcare – Democrats. When Obamacare kicked in, women lost their health insurance plans they liked; their doctors and even the hospitals they could visit. That literally blocked women’s access to healthcare. That can 100% be laid at the feet of Democrats who lied to women about Obamacare from day one.
Buckley has continually lied to his supporters so this is actually nothing new; however, it should wake some Democrats up that it’s the entire mantra of the Democrat Party from Obama on down to “Gruber” them. Democrat leaders can’t lie to Republicans or Independents who actually seek out the truth but they continually treat their supporters as “Stupid Voters”.
Cross posted from Examiner
