I will undoubtedly get told to repent if I say this, but I’m going to say it anyway. My least favorite part of the Bible is Timothy. I don’t care for wives being told to submit (Ephesians) to their husbands, either, but I’ve been able to keep that issue irrelevant by staying single. Timothy, however, wants women to be silent. Timothy hasn’t been much of a squatter in my mind over the years, even when Erica Layon addressed the rest of the House on the matter of silencing women, until now. And speaking of silent women, how many readers have heard of a restaurant in Maine called “The Silent Woman”?
As far back in time as my memory serves, I recall a plaque on the kitchen wall in my grandparents’ house. It had a painting of a decapitated woman standing up. It had to be around the same time that I learned to read that I learned that decapitation equals death. I had questions, lots of them, and one of them had to do with a dead person being able to stand up. I exhausted my grandparents with my serial questioning of things. One day, in response to my asking why she was decapitated and why a restaurant was named after her, my grandmother said that the silent woman talked too much. She talked so much that decapitation was the only way to get her to stop talking.
You might be wondering where I’m going with this, and you deserve an explanation, though it might not wow you. When I learned that Tim McGough was going to be the senate candidate for Gary Daniels’s seat, I said, “Ugh, the senate ALREADY has too many Tims.” With more and more dirt on Tim McGough surfacing, I thought about how both Tims came from the “other side of the wall.” Then I thought of other bad actors named Tim(othy) that were and/or are in that chamber.
Tim Cahill was one of the original members of the Concord Corner group that formed several weeks before the executive council arrests. He got elected as a member of the Resolve slate and drew plenty of attention to himself in an unflattering way while in office. Saying the collapse of the Old Man was akin to the Twin Towers falling in a speech to the rest of the House in March 2023 was one of those moments. He has also been called out for stolen valor by some veterans.
Rep Timothy Horrigan is an enemy camp swamp rat known for his lunacy and ubiquitous presence at the state house and LOB. If there’s a committee hearing for any bill of public interest, it’s almost as certain as death and taxes that Horrigan will sign up to speak his gibberish into the mic, and most committee chairs shrug it off as par for the course.
I could expand the scope of this article beyond our state house because Tim Scott has proven himself a RINO more than once by preaching unity from the podium at the Manchester Doubletree Hotel in 2021 and later endorsing the Damn Emperor’s brother in this year’s federal senate race. Instead of looking to DC, I could point to city hall, where the mayor’s favorite henchman, Tim Cummings, regularly runs interference when Laurie Ortolano, Laura Colquhoun, or any other critic of Nashua’s ruling class members utilizes public comment to rightfully vent.
I could also point out that there are good Tims, like the host of Timcast. There’s also my former coworker, Timothy Chandonnet, who happens to be a constituent of Tim McGough and Bill Boyd. I did tell that Tim that Bill Boyd should NOT get his vote just because they have the same hairstyle, but I digress.
Bringing the focus back to our legislature, I have an idea for a plaque to display in each chamber. It’s a decapitated man at a mic, and the caption says “The Silent Tim.” Any reps reading this care to sponsor a bill for that at LSR time? I suggest that they be placed at the podiums of Queen Sharon and the Speaker so all members of both bodies, whether or not they’re named Tim, can see them from their seats.
