Richard Littlefield: It’s so important to support the candidates who show up

To The Daily Sun,

I never went in to a candidate forum thinking that I was going to impress everyone or gain enough votes to win.

I was also never naive enough as a 20+ year established Republican to think that those events were going to be anything but lop-sided.

With that being said, I never opted out of selling myself and my vision to residents of my hometown.

How are we ever going to know what a candidate is going to do about homelessness, lowering taxes, lowering heating bills, or whether they stand with big waste or Granite Staters who are environment first; if they choose willfully not to show up?

Seeing things like this let me know I made the right decision leaving the GOP and going about my own way.

I would personally like to see debates become a norm. They allow for a constructive back and forth and always start with up to a minute where each candidate can give an opening statement.

That way there's no skirting of questions or word salads that piggy back off of something someone else said.

Whether we get a more robust system of forums and debates or not isn't for me to decide. I also can't control candidates who prefer to skip chances to reach out to voters who work hard and pay plenty of attention.

We see who cares and who doesn't. Now we just need to vote like it.

Vote for Marcia Hayward, Lois Kessin, Denise Riley, Eric Hoffman to fill Charlie St. Clair's position heading into November for state rep., and Kurt Webber for state senate.

They show up.

Richard Littlefield

Laconia