This article — if you could even call it an article — is based on pure, unadulterated hearsay.
I’d like to go on record with my impression of the House race for Congress District 1.
Ten Republicans vied for the primary nomination on September 13, 2022 (Prescott, Rondeau, Towne, Alciere, Baxter, Huff Brown, Killbane, Leavitt, Maxwell, and Mowers.)
I put on a small campaign with zilch money and ended up with less than a thousand votes. Karoline won, with 15, 290. She got about one-third of the total of 45,737 Republican votes. (I am relying on Ballotpedia’s numbers here.) Mowers came in second.
The Democrats cast 41,990 votes for Chris Pappas, the incumbent, who was unopposed.
Karoline then campaigned for the November election against Pappas. She got 126k, he got 146K. So where’s the hearsay? It’s from me. When I talked to folks in the First District (Conway, Portsmouth, Exeter, Manchester, Meredith, Bedford, etc), I often heard people say “Pappas is hopeless.” Some said even worse than that.
I never heard a word of praise. I heard many words of praise for Karoline. Her age — she is a lass of 25 summers — would have attracted many young voters.
I am, therefore, surprised that so many Dems went for Pappas again. Do they love him? Did they think Party loyalty demanded that they not cross the floor for Karoline? If I recall correctly, polls had predicted her the likely winner.
If there was cheating, I don’t know how it was done. Please see my article of November 14, 2022, at Granite Grok, where I argue that cheating has been massive for decades. Frankly, I now doubt every elected politician’s authenticity. I don’t ask you to go that far. Anyway, just sayin’.
Maybe one could do a belated exit poll and ask pappas’ voters to own up.
Candidate Mary Gets Special Treatment
Whoops, something funny just happened. I went to see that Ballotpedia had correctly reported my primary votes for the midterm House race. They show me as having gotten 468 votes. I am sure I got 671 votes.
Ah, here is the Washington Post’s count after 98% of the votes were in (September 15, 2022) – I retrieved this on November 16, 2022:
I have no idea why Ballotpedia is misreporting me in such a simple case.
Now let me tell you how I got cheated on during the 2022 primary, by Wikipedia. Please recall that I ran for president of the United States in the 2020 “First in the Nation Primary” in New Hampshire. I came third of the 18 Republican hopefuls. Trump came first with 129,000, Gov Weld came second with 13K, and I came a far third with 929 votes. Still, it WAS a third, and I have the screen shots to prove it.
As you see, I got 103 more votes than Tom Walsh.
In late August 2022, while I was still a hopeful in the primary for the House, I checked Wikipedia to clarify my winnings in the 2020 presidential. Wow, now it showed:
I was not mentioned at all. The bronze medalist has disappeared! Luckily, though I still have the printout from NY Times:
Let me tell you, I feel good about this. It means the Powers That Be feel a need to squelch Mary. And it gets even better. Now see what the PTB got up to, in regard to my numbers when running for the House. In late August 2022, when I checked on the Wiki for this race, I discovered that I had, so speak, passed away:
- Tom Alciere, former state representativeand perennial candidate[14]
- Tim Baxter, state representative[15]
- Gail Huff Brown, news correspondent and wife of former Senator from MassachusettsScott Brown[16]
- Mark Kilbane, businessman
- Karoline Leavitt, former Office of the Press Secretarystaffer[17]
- Matt Mowers, former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Partyand nominee for this district in 2020[18]
- Russell Prescott, former Executive Councillor[19]
- Gilead Towne, sales associate[20]
So they have omitted Maxwell and a man named Kevin Rondeau. Is that amazing?
(Don’t tell me it’s a typo, OK?)
WMUR and St Anselm’s
Both WMUR and St Anselm knew me from the presidential race, as I took part in the debates of the lesser-known candidates. I am still on C-Span for that occasion (me on far right):
So you’d think St A’s might call on me to be in the debates for the 2022 Congress job. Nope.
Here are four debaters in a different venue (not St A’s):
(By the way, I could debate the pants off of any one of them.)
Also, the state committee and the RNC never contacted me in any way when I ran for president or for Congress. Needless to say, The Concord Monitor did not mention that a Concordite was running for president — possibly the first Concordite who had ever done so. “Not interesting enough.”
As for WMUR, they must have written to every candidate but me in 2022. I say that because, as you can see below, they sought answers to questions by each candidate, and when it mentions one man, Rondeau, it says: “This candidate has not responded to our requests. WMUR will post the responses when we receive them.” Thus the readers will surely think that the list in front of them is a complete list of candidates. I must ask WMUR’s political director, Adam Sexton, how he decided to leave me off.
Finally, I will mention another way I got cheated. I was eager to answer Ballotpedia’s questionnaire. I filled it out but was not allowed to upload it until I furnished an FEC number. The law requires candidates to obtain an FEC number if their donations top $5,000 or if their expenses top $5,000. Mine didn’t. A delay of 2 weeks ensued while I obtained a number. I re-uploaded my answers, but they have still not appeared. Someday I may print them at GraniteGrok, but right now, it is hardly worth anyone’s time. (Note: I am poor at computer tasks. I may have uploaded it incorrectly.)
Anyway, as I said, I think Leavitt won. I think Pappas lost. Amen.
