Karen Burnett-Kurie: It’s time to take back our New Hampshire government

To The Daily Sun,

It has been an effective strategy. And we’ve allowed it to infect our politics, our votes and our laws. At what point do we realize it for what it is? A strategy to garner votes through misrepresentation, misinformation and cover-ups.

Misrepresentation because they aren’t really Republicans — they call themselves that because the majority of New Hampshire citizens have traditionally been Republicans. Instead, they are Free Staters, Libertarians, Christian nationalists and extremists. But don’t bother asking them — they won’t admit it. That would undermine the strategy.

Misinformation because they tell readers a bill is for one purpose when in fact they are pushing it for another reason. For example, this bill is to improve public education when in fact it undermines public education. Don’t bother to ask them — they won’t admit it. That would undermine the strategy.

Cover-up because if they get too much public pushback on a bill, they simply choose a different method to get it passed. They control the votes tightly and then punish legislators who don’t vote correctly. We know this is true — it has happened to two of Wolfeboro’s representatives.

They hide the action by amending it to another bill. We saw this several times this session with the Open Enrollment legislation. They slip it into the budget. We know this happens because they did it to achieve universal EFAs, vouchers.

New Hampshire's majority is not extreme; it's our government's policies that are. Is this what we want?

We need to encourage different candidates to step up. And we need to elect different representatives. This is critical to taking back our New Hampshire government.

Karen Burnett-Kurie

Wolfeboro