Kathy Sullivan was the NH Democrat Party Chair and long-term mucky-muck within the Democrat National Committee apparatchik. She also has had a columnist slot at the Union Leader for quite some time.
I generally chuckle over what she thinks is a truism at the core of her rantings. However, pigs flying, cows and moon, and stopped clocks and all that – I actually have to say what she wrote is almost true. Two points were off, but she had the main gist of the story correct (emphasis mine:
Kathleen Sullivan: Who was happier to learn Mowers voted twice?
WHO WAS happier to learn Matt Mowers voted twice in presidential primaries in two different states in 2016? Gov. Chris Sununu, or the field of candidates competing against Mowers for the Republican nomination in the 1st Congressional District?
Actually, she missed four other “constituencies – herself (for “Column fodder,” Ray Buckley (current Chair, NHDP, for purposes of ridicule), Chris Pappas (a bit of relief, maybe), and then the rest of the Democrat Party. So that’s one point. I’ll let you choose the priority list (please, do so in the comments – I’m interested in what you have to say between her priorities and mine!).
Her Sununu slag was just shoehorned in there, but I can’t find anything wrong with the logic and that Mowers took Baby Huey off the front page news cycle (for now). Her inclusion of Frank Guinta was “kinda” correct as an example but for the absolutely wrong reason:
Frank Guinta, the last Republican to hold the seat, also was a New Jersey transplant. He lost following a campaign finance scandal. No matter how much the district boundaries may change, it is doubtful that 1st Congressional District voters will want another representative with character questions.
The DEMOCRATS wanted that scandal over and over again. Democrat Carol Shea-Porter even tried to make another point to call him a liar about not having to take out student loans to get through college. She was aghast that he kept on saying he didn’t. I agreed with him – I paid my own way, sometimes working four or five part-time jobs to make it through my junior, senior, and first year of graduate school. It can be done, but it is the harder way to do so.
No, the second point that was the real scandal of more importance to his voter base at the time was that Guinta lied to we who were in the TEA Party movement here in NH. He promised that he would NEVER vote to increase the national debt by any means. Period. No way and no how.
He lied.
I, and GraniteGrok, spent the next year and a half reminding people of that, over and over again. He lied – and he lost.
So the latter scandal was corrected by voters – will they correct the first one?
