At a recent event in Rye, U.S. Senate candidate Chuck Morse gushes about bringing “the 603 to DC.” Maggie Hassan has done the reverse, he adds, bringing “DC to the 603.” Sounds promising, right?
I wait to hear that Hassan supported Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandates. Or that she wants to eliminate the Electoral College, which would make New Hampshire irrelevant in presidential elections. She also voted against the 2017 Tax Cuts and Job Act, which benefitted nearly every taxpayer in our state. She even supported the multi-trillion, inflationary “Build Back Better,” which is just a repackaged Green New Deal.
Morse doesn’t mention any of this obvious evidence that Maggie has abandoned New Hampshire values and embraced the DC swamp.
The Q&A portion arrives and still we don’t know what his issue is with the unpopular Hassan, or what he means by bringing “the 603 to DC.”
Then, responding to a question, Morse finally explains his beef: Maggie hasn’t brought in enough pork! New Hampshire got the smallest goody bag from the 2021 infrastructure deal, so why is Hassan bragging about it? This is true, of course, we did get less than any other state, but I thought Republicans are supposed to be against taxpayer boondoggles. Against increasing government spending in regular times, but especially during the worst inflation in 40 years. Does Morse aspire to be the next Senator Robert Bird, dubbed “King of Pork” even by those who ignored his KKK past?
A resident asks about the Executive Council’s buckling to pressure to accept federal funds to push COVID shots and establish a privacy-busting vaccine database in New Hampshire. Morse shrugs as if the answer is self-evident: “The State of New Hampshire lives on federal money,” he says. He doesn’t get why the audience is surprised, much less horrified.
Another resident then asks why Morse hasn’t pushed Governor Sununu harder on the GOP’s congressional maps. Does he see how Sununu’s “smell test” comments will be used against candidates, including Morse, who voted for the maps?
“You don’t know how much arguing there is behind closed doors,” Morse answers defensively. However, he adds, after any “debate” he supports the outcome.
That, we finally find out, is what he means by the “603 way”— arguing in private and accepting defeat quietly. And nabbing as much pork as possible along the way.
No fight. No win. No thank you.