A six-hour meeting was scheduled by The Resolve to begin at 4 pm last Friday, August 5, with the goal of slimming down the list of legislative candidates for the Sept 13 primary. You might think that only the very dedicated would travel to Wolfeboro for such a grueling session, but I counted 150 in the audience.
And it wasn’t grueling after all — it was a hoot and an inspiration.
Many candidates got to sell their wares. Their pitch was augmented by truth bombs wherever there’s an incumbent in Concord whom The Resolve desires to remove. This required Regina Barnes to come out onto the stage and read to us a tasty morsel of the incumbent’s past sins. (Nothing defamatory, you know — the truth bombs were straight from the record, usually in the unfortunate person’s own words.)
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Another character who made several appearances was a guy wearing a tee shirt marked “NHGOP.” Pretty sure it was our current governor. Couldn’t tell absolutely, as he was wearing a full face mask of a rhinoceros. Oh, speaking of rinos and dinos, The Resolve claims it is non-partisan, but I did not see a whole lot of democrats there.
It would be good if the Dems would eavesdrop on The Resolve’s plan to turn back any federal funds sent to NH for “education.” The result would be a NET GAIN for our state’s coffers. Yes, it doesn’t even have to be ideological to kick the feds out of schools. It’s fiscal!
Let me tell you if you missed the Wolfeboro meeting, you really missed something. I was deeply moved as I had not thought it possible for competitors to get together and form a united front. But when Terese Grinnell takes the microphone and speaks, you suddenly feel that uniting is normal, every day, baseline human behavior.
At 7 pm we were treated to The Debates, with four persons who are on the Republican ballot, challenging the aforementioned “Mr. Su-no-no.” Questions were thrown at the four by Attorney Dan, who clearly hoped for constitutional answers — and was not disappointed. (The state constitution seems to be another baseline human behavior with this lot. “Article 10” got some mentions, discreetly, of course.)
The four gubernatorial wannabes are the dead-serious Karen Testerman, Thad Riley — a father of five who thus is at the coalface every day, Jay Lewis — white-bearded as befits any decent Granite man, and Julian Acciard, who, when the chips are down, has the vocabulary of a sailor. I longed to vote for all four of them.
Mary Maxwell is author of Prosecution for Treason (aimed mainly at Congress) and is herself trying to break into the Capitol, by your vote in District 1, on September 13.
