The NHGOP is a noxious, dysfunctional amalgam of Rockefeller Republicans (or RINOs, if you prefer), Corporatists, Koch-bots, Free-Staters (or libertarians choosing to run for political office as Republicans, if you prefer), and a shrinking number of real Republicans.
Outlawing single-family housing, one of the goals of imposter-Republican Koch-bots like Jo(k)e Sweeney and Ross Berry, would further shrink the number of real Republicans.
Sometimes it is the person who raises the Bible the most who practices what he preaches the least. According to Jo(k)e Sweeney single-family zoning is anti-Biblical. I kid you not:
This principle, supported by libertarian thought and the teachings of the Bible, underscores the sanctity of private property rights. …Let us not be swayed by those who bear false witness against prosperity. My Bible teaches me the value of truth and the importance of bearing witness to it.
Who knew! Single-family zoning is the work of the Devil. And, as a corollary, those who seek to turn single-family zoned neighborhoods into a sea of “accessory dwelling units” (in effect turning every single-family lot into a three-unit apartment-complex), such as Jo(k)e Sweeney, are doing God’s work!
And this is just some of the pretentiousness in Jo(k)e Sweeney’s Manifesto. Thomas Hobbes and John Locke would, according to Jo(k)e, see single-family zoning as the antithesis of freedom. Yeah, right … you bought a single-family home in a neighborhood precisely because it was zoned single-family and you want your neighborhood to remain that way, and somehow that makes you a feudalist.
And speaking of “bear[ing] false witness,” Jo(k)e Sweeney is not proposing to outlaw single-family housing as a substitute for apartment-complexes. To the contrary, Jo(k)e wants to eat his cake and have it too. Turning single-family neighborhoods into seas of “accessory dwelling units” is IN ADDITION TO all of the new apartment complexes that Jo(k)e and his ilk want to build.
And I bet you did NOT know that single-family housing is what has turned New Hampshire blue!
Exclusionary zoning and strict regulations on who can and cannot build is turning our state blue.
Yeah, right. It is not the NHGOP’s obsession with cutting business taxes, while refusing to institute measures such as a hard-cap on local property taxes that is turning New Hampshire blue. It’s not the NHGOP refusing to ban DEI (that lovely euphemism for anti-white racism) that is turning New Hampshire blue. It is not the NHGOP going along with the “diversity is our strength” canard that is turning New Hampshire blue. It is not that Sun-King Sununu’s COVID-policies were indistinguishable from Blue States’. It is YOUR FAULT for wanting to maintain single-family zoning in your neighborhood that you moved into precisely because it was zoned single-family.
Just look at how many Democrats are supporting Jo(k)e Sweeney’s jihad against single-family housing if you want to know whether Jo(k)e’s agenda would help or hurt real Republicans.
Indeed, Jo(k)e Sweeney’s Manifesto reads at times as if it were written by the Democrats. Schoolchildren are “investments” that the State can only cash in on if we outlaw single-family zoning:
We have over 250,000 Granite Staters under the age of 18 here in New Hampshire. On average, we will or have spent roughly $240,000 per student in public education. Where are these investments supposed to live upon their graduation and entrance into adulthood? Both bills are about … ensuring that the investment we’ve made in our youth pays dividends right here at home rather than being exported as our young people leave for lack of affordable housing.
Real Republicans do NOT see children as the equivalents of stocks and bonds.
If Jo(k)e Sweeney’s jihad against single-family housing succeeds, New Hampshire will be nothing more than a mini-me Massachusetts.
