The Dartmouth, that college rag selling itself as a form of journalism, has accidentally done us all a public service. It has announced the candidacy of another out-of-state college student running for elected office in New Hampshire.
Emphasis mine.
Former College Democrats president Miles Brown ’23 announced his campaign for New Hampshire state representative on Instagram and Twitter on Thursday. Brown, a government major from West Hartford, Conn., will campaign over the summer leading up to the state Democratic primaries on Sept. 13 and plans to focus on student voting rights and mental health.
Student voting rights? Riddle me this, Miles, name one student who cannot vote by mail to the precinct assigned to the address on their driver’s license or other official State Issued ID?
The answer is none. They can all vote that way. The student voting rights issue in NH is a lie, a lot like your residenccy (if I’m not mistaken). Miles Brown is the thing and he is a pasty white West Hartford kid. And he is from West Hartford.
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Nowhere in The Dartmouth’s glowing report do they mention that Miles is not eligible to legitimately run for elected office unless New Hampshire is where he lives. West Hartford, CT – Still not in The Granite State.
Shacking up over the summer to campaign doesn’t define residence not that it would matter in Belknap 12. The only way Mr. Brown loses that race is if four “someones” bluer than he runs making it a Democrat primary.
Democrats in and around Dartmouth who are sticklers about where you are from when it matters (money, power, influence) not so much when it comes to NH election law and plucky sprouts dipping their big blue toe in the political waters to pad their resume.
So, ignoring the residency laws and allowing out-of-state students to elect (as in vote for) out-of-state Dartmouth Democrats to public office are almost too common.
Garrett Muscatel was the last Dartmouth student to hold a seat in Belknap 12. Garrett was from Thousand Oaks, California, and it was all going swell until COVID, and he had to return “home.” Sadly, the Campus residence at Dartmouth when he filed to run was not where he landed. He had to go home…to California.
After we made a stink and it became national news he resigned and the school coughed up Riley Gordon (he lost in a five-way primary to four other Democrats). And now we’ve got Miles Brown.
Miles is not from New Hampshire, but he’ll run from his dorm address and bunk up locally “over the summer” (at least a few weekends), even though I’d bet money his driver’s license says Connecticut on it and New Hampshire is not the place he calls home. Not for real.
If Dartmouth had to close the Campus and send students home, Miles would have to leave the state. And maybe they should put that on the paperwork when you sign up to run for the NH House.
‘When forced to quarantine “at home,” where is that?
If it’s not in New Hampshire, you have the right to vote there, not here, and you should not be occupying seats in our people’s House.
