The Liberty-Right is losing its mind with good reason. Kevin Landrigan is reporting that Governor Sununu just extended the State of Emergency (SOE) 14 more days while asking for a swift end to the state of Emergency. Say, what?
.@GovChrisSununu extends state emergency for only 14 days (not 21 per usual), urges lawmakers to endorse emergency power reforms. "I call on the House and Senate to move swiftly…so that we can move out of a state of emergency as quickly as possible.” #nhpolitics
— Kevin Landrigan (@KlandriganUL) May 28, 2021
Not extending it would have been about as swift as you can get, so what’s up?
You can see he is asking the legislature to move us out of the state of emergency and urging lawmakers to enact emergency power reforms.
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Again, he doesn’t need the legislature to end the SOE. He doesn’t even need the Constitution. So, again, why make this pronouncement in this manner.
Some folks call it gaslighting, and it looks like that, but I think this ass has other cards in his hand.
He’s been colluding with the State Senate to massage all the great work done by the House.
Many of the “reforms” would not affect the current state of emergency (SOE), only a later one. So, does it make sense that he extended it so the reforms – reshaped to his liking – are enacted before this SOE ends?
If he ends it now, and the bills do not end up to his liking, he loses the abusive power he has learned to love. There’s no going back.
And the legislative session will be over before the State of Emergency ends.
I may be overthinking it. It could be that he’s shifting the burden from his shoulders to a legislature that did not dare vote to rescind his SOE even when they could. If it becomes their problem, the legislature and people allow him to get away with that – and the press lets him – he can pretend he wasn’t the asshole he most assuredly is.
And this, after the spinless morons in the state Senate more-or-less watered them down. Took the teeth out.
I’d take it as a personal insult as a Senator, having that responsibility heaped on me after 14 months of King Sununu and taking the heat off.
Dump the bargains, all of them, and force Sununu to either veto these bills and explain why or sign them without his suggested compromises.
Or, and this is my prediction, continue to be his whipping boy because his future is more important to you than New Hampshire’s.
