In an adjoining column, Hawaii U.S. Rep. and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard makes a strong case for the harm her party’s national committee is doing to the democratic process.
Perhaps it is from her own combat military service that Gabbard draws the courage to take on her own party brass on how it is attempting top-down control of the presidential nomination process.
It is not that Gabbard is an outsider looking in. She has, in fact, qualified for the next DNC debate. But unlike others in that select group, she dares to criticize the process. In fact, she was a DNC vice chair in the last election but resigned, she says, when she saw how the system was flawed.
“The DNC,” she argues, “needs democratizing itself. It’s a centralized, national organization with an elite, 30,000-foot flyover culture.”
Gabbard understands and appreciates the role New Hampshire’s primary has played many times.
Our primary is not just open and inclusive, “it gives voters on the ground open access and a long, up close and personal look at all the candidates, before the national media hype and big party apparatus go into high gear, so they can make up their own minds about who connects.”
History shows that this process allows candidates with a message, if not the money, to “catch fire in New Hampshire.”
The DNC, however, “is working to replace New Hampshire’s brand of retail politics and direct democracy with a kind of virtual national primary filled with reality TV-style debates and dominated by establishment donors, party operatives and media elites.”
How ironic that the party trying to select a challenger to the reality-TV President would try to stifle a truly open contest.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had many pols, pundits, and news media swooning or, in some cases, in need of the Heimlich maneuver during her first news briefing for the Trump White House last Tuesday.
The terrible mid-air collision and resulting loss of life over Washington, D.C., a few nights ago tend to put into perspective what is really important in all our lives. That young athletes and military personnel were among the victims only serves to underscore the point.
The fact that President Trump has issued pardons and clemency for those found guilty in the Jan. 6 rioting should surprise no one. The fact that he did it so broadly, with seemingly no exceptions for the most serious crimes, is a very bad sign.
In reviewing state government spending, Gov. Kelly Ayotte should include how state agencies react to legitimate requests for public information.
New Hampshire has little to gain but potentially much to lose in a proposal to dilute its small but strong voice in the Electoral College. We might have suspected such a move from liberal Democrats, who are pushing to completely scrap a key element of our republic’s process. But this is comi…
Big clout from small places isn’t just for New Hampshire’s voice in the Electoral College. It also pertains to standing together on other fronts.
The now-approved sale of Manchester’s Catholic Medical Center to a national for-profit company represents “a thoughtful approach that both addresses the insurmountable financial challenges CMC is facing and ensures that the health care needs of New Hampshire residents continue to be met.”
Jane Young is about to step down as U.S. Attorney for New Hampshire, a position she served honorably and diligently.
Having had sewer costs increase 4% a year since 2019, Manchester residents and businesses are now being told those rates will more than double in the next five years.
Perhaps it is serendipity that this page today reflects on both Jimmy Carter and Alex Ray. They have in common a phenomenal desire, and ability, to help others, both here and abroad.
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