Betty Gay: Candidate for GOP Delegate from Salem

I am running for Republican Delegate to the NH Republican State Convention. I’m not a career politician, as everybody knows, but I think it’s important for a voters to be represented who are religious, but don’t require everyone to share their dogma. For example, I would not support overturning Roe vs. Wade. I have seen many circumstances that warrant abortion even if it is a horrible form of birth control. There are many forms of effective, affordable birth control. Likewise, I don’t think everybody’s health insurance needs to pay for birth control.

Obviously, I hate what the rising cost of Obamacare is already doing to our economy. I support substituting better ways of making healthcare affordable to the millions of workers who get no medical insurance at work. Changing the tax laws could cover that expense without this ridiculously huge bunch of new Federal employees hired to try to make Obamacare work. And to put the IRS in charge of our medical insurance? Obviously, Congress was trying to please the big shot politicians rather than their constituents.

A few years ago I asked Maggie Hassan, not yet governor, why the President she supported had broken his promise to keep legislation “transparent” so that bills didn’t get passed in back rooms. She looked me straight in the eye and said, “If Congress had waited to review the Affordable Health Care Act [Obamacare] it would have never passed.” So throw out principles to get an inferior law?

I also can’t stand the current NH law that allows people to vote without ID proof simply by signing affidavits that “I am who I say I am” and “I live where I say I live.” And he current definition of “domicile” allows college students to vote even though they aren’t residents. Aren’t they smart enough to vote absentee?

As a woman, I experienced the work prejudice that women suffer when they do the same job as men but get paid less with a lower title. It does Republicans no good to pretend the issue has been solved with the current laws.

The issue that raises my ire the most is the Republicans who insist on denying gay people equal rights and equal respect. Claiming to be “Christians,” they unknowingly insult many fellow Republicans who have gay family and friends, who understand and treat gay people like non-gay people. The courts are slowly making laws equal, but we Republicans should be advocating for fairness, not just being dragged into it.

Like me or leave me. I always try to be honest.

Betty Gay