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"The House Is Now Controlled by a Dictator and His Henchmen"

by: William Tucker

Thu Apr 07, 2011 at 13:18:20 PM EDT
Rep. Laura Pantelakos (D-Portsmouth) has been serving in the New Hampshire House since 1978. In 32 years as a State Representative, she has seen it all. But, as she writes in a fiery letter to the editor, she has never seen anything like the antics of the current House leadership.

I have been elected to the General Court for 17 terms. I have never until this year felt such a combative group of people in the House of Representatives. The speaker is very rude to people; the new members are rude. Always before, there was a two-party system. The speaker talked to the other party. That does not happen this year. They say we have the votes, we will do it our way. I continuously read e-mails about the union thugs. Well, I will tell you the thugs were in the General Court.

[T]he House of Representatives is now controlled by a dictator and his henchmen. The kind of man who takes a woman into a room and screams at her so bad he brought her to tears - all because she brought in an amendment to put back some of the programs for the poor and elderly. ... Not allowing a representative of your own party to propose amendments that they believe in certainly lends itself to a dictatorship, in my opinion. "My way or no way" is his motto. He is the speaker of the House, and for that reason I have to respect his position as speaker. However, I could never respect him as a man.
William Tucker :: "The House Is Now Controlled by a Dictator and His Henchmen"
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"The House Is Now Controlled by a Dictator and His Henchmen" | 4 comments
Who is responsible for this? (0.00 / 0)
The voters of New Hampshire.  We are all reaping they hell that they have sown.  Are they happy now?
We're all responsible. (4.00 / 5)
It's no longer enough to sit at home, think noble thoughts and hack them out on BH.  We need to organize, organize, organize, and practice the social model of the values we hold.

Those in the trenches on a daily basis are in dire need of reinforcements - financial, emotional, intellectual, and also with time.  If you're not actively working with a group, find one, get involved (not you specifically, unhhockey, all of us.)  There's no time to waste, and plenty to do.

"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." A. Einstein

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The Congressional (0.00 / 0)
Republicans, especially the teapartiers, like Guinta, are just as bad if not possibly worse.  He'll be getting his paycheck during the shutdown but soldiers will not.  Nice going, Frank.
Frank (0.00 / 0)
takes whatever paycheck he can get, whether he earns it or not.  He's courting the presidential candidates to make sure when he leaves the US House there will be great job waiting for him.
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