The 2022 NH House campaign has really leaped out of the starting block. Already, political signs are sprouting all over for county and State level races and folks are trying to build name recognition. The problem for some is that they are already going for the negative campaign. Like Democrat Justin Borden here, running in Belknap County District, who just put an LtE into the Laconia Daily Sun.
He’s working to unseat Mike Sylvia, a Liberty/Freedom guy, who is also the Belknap County Delegation (made up of all the NH State Reps in Belknap County) Chair. In no small part, I’m betting that he’s connected with the Kiedaish/McLear/Tim Lang “gang” trying to get rid of both Mike and Norm Silber as being PIAs in stopping them from their “reimagining” (to use a Leftist word) what Gunstock should be.
Sidenote: The Gunstock Mountain Resort Sr. Management had to eat crow as the newer Commissioners said that Gunstock’s Stockade Lodge should remain as is while Kiedaisch et al said it should be a sitdown restaurant. Then they had to admit that the newer Commissioners (Ness, Strang, Wood, and Lambert) were right after doing a poll of skiers who said they wanted it as is.
To The Daily Sun,
I am Justin Borden, and I am running for state representative for Belmont — 4th District. I have lived in the Lakes Region for over 24 years. I graduated from Belmont High School with honors, and have since worked in business management and development — what is truly notable is that unlike the majority of my classmates, I stayed in New Hampshire.Our beautiful lakes, towering mountains, and idyllic communities appear at a glance to be a perfect place to settle and raise families, and to build solid foundations for success.
And if he had left it at that, it would have been fine but down that slippery slope he starts:
However, New Hampshire is troubled by legislators dedicated to pursuing the overtly partisan and the divisively radical.
We on the other side of the aisle say the same thing about the Socialists and Progressives that have taken over the Democrat Party. Let’s be truthful here: one Party mostly honors their oath to protect, defend, AND FOLLOW the US and NH Constitution (many Establishment Republicans can be real iffy so don’t take it that I’m a “Republican’s Republican for the sake of the Republican Party. The other, whose largest caucus is generally the Democrat Socialists (and you can drop the “Democrat” modifier and become even more accurate) who despise that oath.
Doubt me? Their own words:
- NH State Rep Laura Pantelakos (D): “I don’t care about protecting peoples’ Liberty“
- NH State Rep. Sandra Keans (R, now D): “I don’t try to justify anything by the Constitution, it’s not my job and I don’t want to do it”.
So much for their oath. So let’s continue with Democrat Borden:
Fiscal responsibility which once assured competent use of taxpayer funds and kept our state offices, sheriff’s departments, schools, and nursing homes operating efficiently — has been pushed aside in favor of cheap government, strangling our institutions and crippling their ability to perform. Many of these costs are forced onto the towns and cities who are left with choices such as defunding and harming their schools or raising property taxes to maintain a quality education for their children.
So, he’s in line with the thinking of “EVERY Dollar is sacred – why won’t you fork it over to Government?”. Well, that’s in line with Socialist thinking that “Government is the only thing that we all belong to” and not like it’s a “club” – it’s used in a Possessive manner (It owns us).
Fiscal responsibility is not a phrase that I generally associate with Government – at ANY level. I was on my town’s budget committee for almost 10 years and I can tell you from experience that when an expense was a want rather than a need, EVERY Democrat (for the most part – there were some surprises now and then) voted against me when I either tried to reduce the expense or zero out the line altogether.
That outlook is that government ALWAYS gets the first fruits of your labor. WE may have to take a haircut when times are tough in less income and lower standards of living but have to pay more in taxes for increased costs of Government?? Government workers generally go unscathed – and then complain when their RAISES don’t met their expectations. Borden fits right in.
Propose a 5% cut in Government expenses, which many businesses in extremis take in stride, and you’d think you took all their money away? Government workers yell and scream and so do those in Government. ESPECIALLY loud are those “charities” that raise little of their income from individuals but depend on large sucking on the Govt teat to “help others”. Strangling, Justin? Crippling, Mr. Borden? TELL me when that happens to the extent that it does in the private sector. Or is Government “entitled” to our money??
How about the proper recognition that Government SHOULD suffer the same haircuts as the private sector is getting…
…unless your outlook truly is that Government ALWAYS comes first! I’m betting that he’s all about “Government should push Society around contra the Founders’vision of Civil Society telling Government ‘stay in your lane‘”.
Expenditures: I guess a lesson that Mr. Borden has NOT yet learned that “pushing costs down” from one level of Government to a subordinate one is irrelevant. Why?
Because all of us at the bottom level (dare I say in the basement) have to pay it ALL. Whether it is the Feds sending costs down to the State, the State to the Counties, or further down the line. It ALWAYS ends up with us paying for ALL levels of Government above us. If you want to help US, Justin, cut Govt spending and let us have our own money back!
As to this other chaff:
Mismanagement has brought our county nursing home to the brink, and the pursuit of unnecessary vendettas threatens the stability and future of Gunstock, racking up legal bills well above budget
Show us the budget items, show us the expenditures – PROVE your exhalations about the nursing home! Or is it a case that a government agency should NEVER take a hair cut? Tell me, Justin, have you EVER been in the mangerial / owner situation where you have to sign the FRONT of a paycheck? Balance your budget by foregoing a paycheck so that others would?
I have. And with your whining that Government should never have a penny less, I doubt you have.
— with vital information and correspondence denied to the public,
I have much of that posted here now on GraniteGrok. Has the Daily Sun offered up the same information? Have you BOTHERED to see how the Delegation’s legal expenses came about – that Gary Kiedaisch used GMR as his personal piggy bank with President Tom Day blithely signing off on every legal bill that came in? I have, three times gone through the unredacted legal billing that Gunstock had to pay for Kiedaisch’s “vendettas”.
Which, I add, PretiFlaherty, the law firm reviewing all this, said it was baseless. So where is the vendetta coming from?
who are instead offered incendiary rhetoric, deflections, and excuses —
And you haven’t been either listening at the meetings (or watching the video on GraniteGrok)
while some of “their” representatives attempt to secede from the United States, all an affront to the interests, patriotism, and loyalties of their constituents.
As I write this, I dryly note that July 4th is just five days in our rear view mirror. Isn’t that the day, Justin, that we seceded from England? And have you not seen the polls, becoming more and more plentiful, displaying that more and more citizens on BOTH sides of the aisle agreeing with the notion that it could happen again? It did once and if one truly is honest about reading history, it can happen again.
Heh:
I am running for state representative so that a measure of respectability, integrity and a commitment to public service might return to Concord, and that our government may again reflect favorably and honorably on our incredible state and people.
Biden ran on the same platform. So do most other Democrats. Once, having taken up Powers, all that just disappears. After all, you’re in the Party of King Ray who brooks no dissent.
