She does it time after time after time. It’s rather clear – that if duly elected Representatives of the People of New Hampshire make decisions she hates, she will do what it takes to overrule them from her perch in the Federal Government. This has been especially true when it comes to sexual morality. If a Republican majority NH Exec. Council…
Sidenote: For those of you outside of NH, the Exec. Council, made up of five state-wide elected officials, is a check on the NH Governor’s office (which is amongst the weakest such position in the US). They not only must approve all contracts in the Executive Branch, but they also serve as a brake on the Governor’s appointees to any judgeship or high-level executive position within his Administration. In these cases, the Executive Council can override what the Governor WANTS by simply voting no. There have been a few times when Baby Huey (aka Chris Sununu) has brought forward contracts to fund abortion abattoirs (i.e., slaughterhouses) to the E.C. only to have them voted down. Such monies were reallocated to other-than-abortion-suppliers “women’s health centers” instead. HOWLS of malfeasance and cries of “you’re might kill women by denying them ‘healthcare’!” were heard as the Republicans were merely representing what their voters were telling them to do.
Sidenote to the Sidenote: no howls or cries are EVER heard about all the babies who are killed by the success of such “healthcare”.
…votes something in this area down, here comes Jeanne Shaheen marching angrily from the halls of the US Senate to override that decision with fistfuls of Federal tax money.
It also is the same situation with sex education. The Republican E.C. members, as Ann Marie reported (Executive Councilors Rejecting Taxpayer Funds for Radicalized and Politicized Sex Ed), on the E.C. decided that spending taxpayer monies on this Get Real program explicitly graphic sex education was just a ploy for other Leftist/Democrat agenda items:
Get Real references the organization SIECUS [Sex Ed for Social Change] for the frameworks it says it aligns with. That organization’s stated purpose is to “spark large-scale social change.”
SIECUS also (1) asserts that “Sex Ed sits at the nexus of many social justice movements – from LBGTQ rights and reproductive Justice….” The motto for the Get Real publisher (ETR) is “advancing health equity.” That purpose is decidedly different to educating young children (middle school age) and informing young adults (high school age) about biology and healthy sex behaviour. What is the social change they want to effect? I doubt parents of prospective students know of this focus for the program, nor the single viewpoint of the authors and presenters. Does the Executive Council want to endorse these objectives? ( 1 https://siecus.org/about-siecus/our-history/).
…The program says it seeks to highlight the role of parents in their children’s care but also asserts that the materials and activities used by participants will be private within the classroom.
Yes, Parents, that means you aren’t invited to know what is being taught. (“…parental rights could be ignored completely.”). Jeanne Shaheen doesn’t care and is most likely upset that parents “won’t get with the program – you bigots and knuckledraggers stuck in the Victorian Age and reading your Christian Bibles”.
So once again, she gathers up her feminist skirts, her our moneybag in hand, and heads off to the North with a yell of “I’LL SHOW YOU, MY PRETTIES”!
From the UL (reformatted, emphasis mine):
CONCORD — U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., is working to deliver federal money directly to two providers that offer sex education services to at-risk students after the Executive Council repeatedly rejected these grants, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
The Republican-led council voted 3-2 Tuesday against $682,000 in federal grants for Amoskeag Health in Manchester and TLC Family Resource Center in Claremont. Youths up to age 19 at a higher risk of pregnancy and at risk of sexually-transmitted diseases are the target population for this instruction, including those in foster care, girls who have been pregnant before, or victims of sexual trafficking, state officials said.
“It’s outrageous these programs are on the brink of shuttering because of the Republican-controlled Executive Council’s extreme ideology and poor understanding of reproductive health,” said Shaheen spokesperson Sam Paisley in response to the council’s action.
“These programs help adolescents stay healthy by providing essential sex education, and they shouldn’t be politicized.”
So much for the Constitutional philosophy of Federalism. It’s obvious that Shaheen has forgotten (or hates, or both) that the Federal Government was a creation of the colonies/States – and not the other way around. But this is how Democrats roll – they always push for all Power (Governments have Powers, Individuals have Rights (or are supposed to have and have inviolate) to be centralized and then pushed up from whatever level to the next higher one:
- From people to the towns or cities
- From the towns or cities to the counties
- From the counties to the State capital
- From the State Capitals to Washington, D.C.
And this IS the mindset of Jeanne Shaheen. Take that Power, remove it from People, and make it as hard as possible to override decisions made in DC where they SHOULD be made locally.
First off, Sam Paisley knows that once Government gets involved in something, that IS a political action. More so when money is involved.
And look at his sleight of hand – she blames the Republicans (ok, how does Paisley know it is “poor understanding” – did he ask? NO; furthering the politicization) for politics even as SHE is doing the politics from the next higher level.
Sorry, killing babies is extreme. What is even more extreme and dangerous has been the decades-long effort to de-personalize a developing human simply because its development process is still in the womb. It’s just a “clump of tissue” and “not viable” – making the statement that a new baby is not even worth mentioning in polite (or is that “Democrat political) life?
Thanks to E.C. Members Dave Wheeler, Ted Gatsas, and Joe Kenney for voting it down.
And Shannon McGinley said it well of this program:
“We object to our tax dollars being used to promote pornography addiction and promulgate gender ideology,”
Shaheen ought to be ashamed of herself for using her political power from “above” to override valid decisions made here in NH. Unfortunately, she sees NH as simply a vassal state to be done with as she pleases.
