Neither Mike Bordes nor Travis O’Hara should be allowed to go back to Concord, and while they’d be better than most Democrats, you’d actually have to show up for that to work, which makes this rather amusing.
Bordes wrote an Op-Ed for the Laconia Daily Sun, pimping O’Hara as prepared and present for County Delegation Meetings. Attendance? O’Hara? He had the second worst attendance record of NH House Republicans in 2024, but here is Mike Bordes telling you to write in O’Hara on September 10th because he shows up at County Delegation Meetings.
Tireless advocate. Commitment to community. Meanwhile, back in the real world, we just happen to have Travis’ attendance record for roll call votes in the NH House, which suggests he was too tired to bother to show up. He missed 208 Roll Call votes. That means he missed all the voice votes on those days as well. It means that he is not representing the people of Belmont. That on every one of those session days, something was more important than casting votes as part of a very slim majority that might have passed good bills or killed bad ones.
Now, it may well be he had great reasons: an ill family member, helping disabled children learn to read, doing welfare checks on the homeless, assisting local veterans in getting to the VA or a pharmacy for medication, and while those are excellent priorities, I doubt any of them apply. It also doesn’t matter. If getting to Concord is not your priority, it makes you ill-suited to represent the insert of constituents in the legislature.
Travis might be the best member of the County Delegation who ever lived (and I say that without knowing what he supported or opposed or what the county budget ended up looking like). But his first job as your legislator is representing you in Concord, and he’s not good at that.
