There were 20 of us scheduled for the mid-August Monday meeting with our NH Representative’s staff member. We wanted a meeting with our actual representative, but were relegated to meeting with staff.
Our group consisted of doctors, teachers, veterans, a former state representative, a farmer, the founder of the Carolina Freedom Center, a college student, an investment manager, a marketing manager for the Department of Defense, an artist, a member of the board of the Fihri Foundation, and a professor who volunteers teaching online at medical schools in Gaza. A diverse representation of NH’s population.
Late afternoon, the Friday before our meeting, it was abruptly canceled due to a “sudden conflict,” and I, alone, was invited to “grab a coffee sometime.”
Requests to reschedule were either ignored or referred to an online forum.
Our current NH representatives don’t meet with constituents. They don’t hold Town Halls. Instead, they tour nursing homes and day care centers — safe venues where they will not be challenged by either the very elderly or the very young for their lack of representation of the people who voted for them.
They avoid voters like the plague. Why? The positions they have taken on major topics are wildly unpopular with the vast majority, and they know it. But their hands are tied as they have accepted either PAC or AIPAC money, binding loyalties to donors, not voters.
This coming election season, let us spurn those in service to their PAC Masters and vote for leadership that rejects PAC money and swears loyalty to the people.
Who? Vote Karishma Manzur for Senate, Heath Howard for NHCD-01, Paige Beauchemin for NHCD-02.
All three decline PAC money and stand for peace, prosperity, and planet. Isn’t that what voters want?