No Rose Colored Glasses Here

I would like to announce that I am running for the District 11 Senate seat to represent the towns of Amherst, Merrimack, Milford and Wilton. I asked for your support in 2012 when then Senate President Peter Bragdon was the only other candidate and the author of the newly drawn Senate District that separated Merrimack from Bedford. The Democrats were so intimidated by the Senator that they didn’t even field a candidate that year. Now with his resignation and an open seat many names want to join the race and I say, let the games begin.

I am a candidate that will lay it on the line, I will share my beliefs with you and in doing so hope that many of you feel the same way and will cast your vote for me on September 9th. I believe these are depressing times, I run with a heavy heart, not with hope of changing it but of at least trying to put the brakes on the madness that has become our government. Concord is not a competent place of work, it is a minefield of special interest and agendas that does not serve the people of New Hampshire well. Law makers seem to care more about what the insurance industries think, what the Hospitals think, what PSNH thinks and not what the men and women of NH think.

Let me tell you what the residents of NH think. They think the current politicians in Concord are mad, crazy, void of any common sense. They know lawmakers don’t even write their own bills, they let bureaucrats and lobbyist do it for them. They take money out of highway accounts and spend it on other programs. They pass laws that do not carry a financial cost (such as the MET medical enhancement tax) and therefore they do not know or care about the ramifications to their own budgets. They borrow money to pay bills and let interests payments go on for years. I could go on but I believe you get the point.

Unfortunately the Republican establishment doesn’t get it either. They refuse to understand that a large part of their base has dropped out. The people do not trust anyone in government today and that type of feeling does not send you out to the polls on Election Day. There will be no ground swell of voters rushing out to vote for anyone in particular come voting day, which means winners and losers will be decided by hundreds or even dozens of votes because this State like the Country is divided between two camps. One camp seeks to preserve and expand what’s already happening the other can only try to reign in the Madness. I can only hope you can guess what camp I belong to.