Eric Taussig: Leavitt's loyalty to Trump, lack of constitutional understanding makes Pappas best choice

To The Daily Sun,

Recently I commented as an independent, undeclared voter on the candidates for the Senate, stating that I would vote for send my campaign contribution to Sen. Maggie Hassen based upon my evaluation of Gen. Don Bolduc.

This week I examined Congressional District 1 candidates to determine my selection and recommendations to family and acquaintances. In reaching my decision for District 1, I have examined candidate platforms, voting history (if they exist), conformity to electoral norms and most importantly honesty/consistency in recent public positions on critical issues.

As the Laconia Daily Sun limits letters to 300 words, I am only addressing this one contested election and that is the Senate contest between Karoline Leavitt and Chris Pappas. While I can be critical of quite a number of positions that  Pappas has taken during his past terms as well as inconsistencies, I have reached the conclusion that Leavitt’s positions (1) pledging allegiance to Trump; (2) failure to acknowledge and call out the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, (3) coupled with a primary campaign against Matt Mowers advocating election decertification and adherence to Orange Jesus’ lies and misrepresentations makes her an entirely unacceptable candidate.

While I would not penalize Leavitt for her youth, her schizophrenic experience under Kayleigh McEnany, totally unregulated Second Amendment position and her extreme positions on absolutely no personal privacy in the bedroom and elsewhere show a clear inability to understand the Constitution.

For all the above reasons, I will be contributing to and voting for Rep. Pappas for reelection and urge all thoughtful voters to do likewise.

Eric Taussig

Moultonborough