What a way to NOT provide a contrast. What were these three erstwhile “NH GOP Elitists” thinking? From a tactical and strategic standpoint, none of you should have opened your mouths.
Instead, you three decided to test the idea that “Awe, the RNC will NEVER take the First In The Nation Primary” away from us here in NH! So self-assured, these three. And make no mistake; they just showed a lot more hubris than they know.
Now, they couldn’t leave well enough alone. Instead of making it EASIER for Republican candidates, these youngster Repubs, all full of themselves, decided to BE the DNC effectively in making sure that only THEIR KIND of Republican candidates could reach the ballot thresholds they wanted to set with HB116. They actually thought they could get away with this nonsense:
(a) For governor and United States senator, [
$100] $10,000.
(b) For a representative to Congress, [$50] $5,000.
(c) For executive councilor, $25.
(d) For state senator, $10.
(e) For county officer, $10.
(f) For state representative, [$2] $0.
Still discriminating against a person’s color, just like the DNC, except it’s in your wallet and not the skin over your body. After all, we just can’t allow ANY rabble run for Governor, Senator, or Congresstwit, can we? Oh, and to be “gracious,” if you don’t have green skin for our game, let’s stymie them the other way by making it all but impossible for them to get petition signatures in place to get on the ballot:
- The number of primary petitions to be filed for each office shall be as follows: for governor and United States
senator, [200] 25,000; - for representative in Congress, [100] 12,500
Yep, and lest I forget the other comic book Mouseketeer, Alexander, who decided that THEY have the absolute right to determine who are the “correct” candidates for the NH Grassroots to pick from.
Manipulators. Elitists. How are they any different in results than the DNC? It’s clear that they decided that ONLY THEY know who the “right kind” of candidates are right for NH. And they think the rest of us are stupid:
Sweeney said voters are often confused on primary day to learn that while only three or five candidates actively campaigned for an office, as many as 12 or more got their names on the ballot due to the low filing fee.
“Running for office is not a vanity project,” Sweeney said.
That’s NOT your mission nor your responsibility, Sweeney – that’s up to the voters to decide! And so WHAT, if it is a vanity project? That’s your call as a lowly State Rep to make? As a former NH GOP Exec Dir (so, how’s that record of yours in cracking the lock of the Dems’ witches coven on the Federal Delegation?), was THAT your role as well – determining who the Party should or shouldn’t allow to run? You, too, Berry – you were an Exec Dir.
‘Cept now you both can bend the Law to your own purposes.
Tell you what, BOYS, instead of making it free to run for State Rep, how about you lead from the front and voluntarily pay that $10,000 – each? Show people that none of the High and Mighty amongst us is exempt from your financial shenanigans. Remember, there is that phrase “don’t ask others to do what you’re not willing to do yourselves’; you ARE familiar with that, right?
No, I don’t think so, and I think that, in no small measure, why all three of you have skulked away with your tails between your legs on this one. You decided to slip this one through, thinking that the DNC was giving you larger cover (“snicker, they’ll never take notice of our trying to punish the Ordinary Joes and Janes thinking they could run.”
Totally opposite to the ethos of the State, where anybody could try and beat the odds. This is known at the little State where people COULD upset the Establishment apple cart and win.
You didn’t like that, did you? You tried to make yourselves the Gatekeepers and patted yourselves on the back for doing so.
Ray Buckley will finish the year as the Biggest Political Loser. But you three will be holding up the corners of his cape as second in line. NOBODY, except a few GOPe-ers like yourselves, liked this. At all.
Which tells the rest of us exactly who you are and where you stand.
Obnoxiously so.
Glad to see that someone beat some sense into you. After all, making it harder for Republicans to run just might have caught the eyes of the RNC, and they just MIGHT be starting to listen to the bigger states that have been gunning for the NH GOP’s position.
Stability. S-T-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. An offshoot of “stable” – “it ain’t gonna move.” These three are like novice skiers at the top of Tuckerman, pounding their ski-boot-clad feet into the snowpack and going “looks good to me” and not worrying about the underlying structure of that rather unstable snow ledge. Couldn’t leave well enough alone, eh?
It seems to me that with the racist views of the Democrat National Committee (yes, they are discriminating against the NH DP on the grounds that NH’s population isn’t melanin sufficient). Sure, it doesn’t help that revenge in politics is a thing, and it’s not like Ray Buckley & Co haven’t been giving the rest of their Party angina for years and shaking them down to set themselves up for this fall. But really, having the DNC do to the NH Democrats, instituting a racial quota system, wasn’t enough for Sweeney, Alexander, and Berry? Sure, laugh all you want at the DNC’s antics of publicly embarrassing the NH Dems by instituting impossible demands upon them to change the NH First in the Nation Law and essentially vote-by-mail, KNOWING that the Republicans in the majority wouldn’t lift a finger to help them.
After all, the RNC wouldn’t DARE to do the same to the NH GOP that the DNC was doing to the NH Dems, right? RIGHT?
Sidenote: I’m not as convinced as Michael Graham that the NH GOP FITN is as firmly ensconced in Granite as King Arthur’s sword in the stone was.
Er, yeah, they would – and may well do so sooner than later with the Sweeney/Berry idiocy. At the same time that the DNC is making it all but impossible for the NH Dems to HAVE a primary (most likely the loss of their delegates AND punitive retaliation against those candidates willing to disobey their masters and campaign in NH – even if only by proxy?
You didn’t help. At all.
