To the editor:
While attending Constitution Day at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge last month, I thought about the Constitution. Documents come and go except for two truly extraordinary documents, our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Created nearly 250 years ago, they still work as intended – to provide the framework for a democratic form of government and system of justice and laws to sustain it. To this day, these documents unite each and everyone of us as Americans. Truly remarkable.
Sadly ideals contained in these documents are threatened – under siege by a political party led by ideologues. A party so bankrupt of anything to offer this country that it has fallen from governing to the politics of backlash and obstructionism as its reason to exist. For the past eight years we watched Republican Party leaders bring federal and state governing to a near standstill. As representatives of the people, each took an oath of office to act in their representative positions. But shamelessly and illegally, they flat out refuse to do their jobs.
Example: Our Constitution states that when there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the president will put forth a nominee to the Senate. The Senate will hold hearings on the nominee. But the Republican leadership refuses to schedule any such hearing. What are they waiting for? It’s their job to hold hearings and confirm nominations. For the benefit of children, families, and communities, this must change.
We must elect people willing to represent the people and get the job done.
I am running, as a Democrat, for the N.H. House of Representatives in District 14 – Dublin, Fitzwilliam, Harrisville, Jaffrey, Rindge, and Roxbury.
I ask for your vote to keep New Hampshire moving, not ground to a halt, and moving in a forward direction toward the benefit of all, not just a few.
Les LaMois
Harrisville