No further proof is needed of the loooong road the GOP under Trump has in order to travel to reach out to voters of color than this photo taken earlier in Aug. at the opening of the Black Voices for Trump office in Tallahassee, Fla. From left, there’s NH’s own political genius Corey Lewandowski, Evan Power, the ‘chairman of chairs’ of the Fla. GOP, and former Fla. AG Pam Bondi.

School daze

Guv Sununu raised a really interesting point th’uther day when he gave a full-throated endorsement of making sure special ed students in NH receive the education they’re entitled to under the law.

In essence, despite disruptions in school due to the coronavirus pandemic, the guv said he won’t waive those legal requirements. And his stand came despite the apparent recalcitrance on the part of some school dists. who are worried about the financial costs of complying in the era of covid.

Always a NH concern when it comes to schools, no?

The guv, in announcing his decision, acknowledged that fact: “Will it be easy to meet the needs? No, it’s not, but I think we understand we need to get out of our comfort zone and do whatever is necessary because it is about these kids.”

Hmmm … “we need to get out of our comfort zone and do whatever is necessary because it is about these kids.”

Wow.

Just for a moment, imagine what would happen if an avowed proponent of a broad-based tax were to utter those words in support of funding education for all children.

Sounds just as convincing, don’t it?

MAKING THE ROUNDS

Has anyone else noticed that John shea – the accidental exec councilor of 2006-10 – is on the ballot again in the dem primary for Exec council dist 2?

Trump’s endorsed the two carpetbaggers/outsiders in the GOP Senate and CD 1 primaries. So why hasn’t he meddled in cd 2? after all two of the candidates there are from away too.

Yes, there is a Log Cabin Republicans group in NH. So why haven’t they uttered even a sound bite after GOP US Senate wannabe don bolduc’s TV ad/emission excoriating “liberal, socialist pansies”?

Of course, the NHGOP wouldn’t think of trying to gin up some fraudulent votes in the upcoming election, even though sending absentee ballot applications to dead voters sure seems like something they’d do in Daley’s Chicago.

Professional discourtesy?

While there’s usually little to notice in most Executive council races, especially ones taking place in districts so tightly gerrymandered that one party has a stranglehold on the seat, things are perking up in Dist. 2 – and it’s one of those you-can’t-make-itup issues.

Remember, this is the seat that Dem andy Volinsky is giving up to run for guv. And, it goes without saying, it’s pretty likely that a Dem will succeed him in Nov.

To begin, remember that AV, a slightly well known attorney in these parts and elsewhere (trigger alert: that was an ironic statement), was among the councilors voting down the guv’s nomination last year of AG Gordon MacDonald to be the state’s new Supreme court chief justice. The opposition voted him down over the issue of GM’s record on abortion rights, which, shall we say, is hazy.

And, to further refresh, the rejection led Guv Sununu to throw a snit and refuse to nominate anyone else for the seat. and here we stand.

So we have abortion rights – an almost unanimously supported Dem mainstay in NH – a GOP aG with that hazy record and a GOP guv who’s using the rejection of GM as an issue in his campaign.

So then, why is one of the six (6) Dem wannabes taking on an issue boosting the GOP guv and his GOP AG, and at the same taking potshots at aV – with relations with women’s groups and Planned Parenthood the very obvious collateral damage?

Actually, the damage is more than collateral – it’s also selfinflicted. that’s because the very same Dem wannabe, Jay Surdukowski, actually has taken to referring to one of the women attorneys who voiced opposition to GM as a “failed associate” and has actually tried to imply that almost the entire membership of the NH Bar backed and still backs GM – who JS refers to as the “tom Brady” of NH lawyers, BtW.

Sure, there are plenty of lawyers in concord and the surrounding areas of Dist. 2, but not that many compared to, let’s say, anti-Sununu Dems. So why would a wannabe try to sew up that vote at the expense of a somewhat larger pool of voters? Must be a Bar thing.