Hudson - Litchfield News October 29, 2010 - 3
The Word Around Town... Letters to our Editor
Supporting Tom DeBlois for State Senate
I’m sure most people have heard by now that
Litchfield is losing over $2 million in State Education funding next year. The School Board has been holding meetings at the local schools to discuss options for making up this loss with the community. To make up the loss, we’re looking at cutting a number of items, including teachers, paraprofessionals, maintenance staff, and busses, while also adding fees for things like sports and activities. The bottom line is the town of Litchfield is looking at increased taxes, increased fees, as well as decreases in services and benefits in our schools. Now, let us forget for a moment about how we are going to deal with our unfortunate situation, and remember how we got here. Back in March 2008, the NH State Legislature passed Senate Bill 539 that defined what an adequate education was and how much it would cost to fund it. As a result of this, Litchfield lost over $2 million in State Funding; $2 million represents around 33 percent of our total State funding, making Litchfield the single largest loser percentage-wise under the new plan! Astonishingly, Litchfield’s State Senator, Betsi DeVries, voted in favor of this bill. This “Education Funding” bill was supposed to define the cost of an adequate education, but instead resulted in sending more tax money to property-rich towns that do not need more education dollars, while small towns like Litchfield lost out dramatically. In addition, SB 539 raises the state education costs roughly $100 million per year without providing any means for paying for it. The end result for Litchfield is higher taxes and fewer benefits.
When Senator DeVries cast this vote, she clearly aligned herself against Litchfield. After supporting the bill, she claimed she would work to address shortcomings in the funding formula and work to get Litchfield’s funding restored. However, over two years have passed and Litchfield still has nothing to show from Senator DeVries. Litchfield residents can, literally, no longer afford to let Senator DeVries represent us. I urge everyone to vote for Tom DeBlois for State Senate on November 2.
Derek Barka - Litchfield Know Your
Independent Choices Unless we do something, when our children or
grandchildren hear Democracy, they will think of those outrageous mailers, vicious attack ads, us vs. them partisan warfare, and a political system that makes the future worse. We have three choices:
• Continue to push the partisan seesaw while the country gets torn apart by the political extremes
• Wait for a disaster that will need to be bigger than the financial meltdown, this recession, 9/11, Katrina, and the BP oil spill to force us to change
• Start now by taking more responsibility for our government I like the third choice, but do New Hampshire and our country have the courage, fortitude, and patriotism required to save our democracy? Conventional wisdom says Americans will not choose to invest the time and individual effort required to stop our downward spiral. I want to be proud of our government and our
Nation. I want to see everyone in our government working together to bring us the most value for what we pay in taxes. However, with the billions of dollars partisan groups spend to maintain the influence from the extremes, I do not see the Republicans and Democrats delivering better government year after year any time soon.
NH has some choices on November 2, but it requires
all voters make the time to get to know about their Independent Candidates. We quickly assembled www.
bornefor4.com as a central place for you to find out who your Independent choices are. There are a few videos from the Media day, links to Websites, and instructions for the write-in independents. Don’t complain about your choices until you know your independents and have no fear of spoiling a situation that is already rotten. The Bornefor4 write-in for Governor campaign is an un-official referendum vote to make it easier for Independent and un-declared candidates to be on the ballot in 2012. We need more people with the skill sets to best represent us without the strings of other people’s money or the ideology of the extreme left and right. While you need to show up at the polls, you do need to be informed (which is different than misled) before you leave your house on November 2. For U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress, you need to go to
www.opensecrets.org to understand where candidates’ money comes from. For one-stop information on the candidates, go to www.
livefreeordiealliance.com or www.
frontpagepolitics.com.
Steven Borne - Rye
Consider the Children When Voting
I am a former two-term State Representative who has
lived at Gilcreast Farms in Litchfield for over five years, after moving here from Hudson. This is an appeal to all of those who live in over-55 communities in our towns to vote for Republican candidates on November 2. We have seen a lot of changes over the years, but the upheavals of the last several years by Democratic leaders, on both the state and federal levels, are astounding. You are no doubt familiar with the infamous litany that attaches to leadership by the Democrats, so I will not repeat it here. As we look at our children and grandchildren, we
can’t avoid considering what our legacy to them is going to be. A load of government debt and overreaching government is not something we should leave behind for them to deal with. It’s up to us. We can start on the road back to sanity by voting Republicans in on the state and federal levels on November 2. I will be joining others in holding signs for these fine candidates at the Litchfield polling place, and look forward to seeing some of you there. This election really is “for the children.” Our children. Our grandchildren. Please speak for them with your vote.
Dave Buhlman - Litchfield
Supporting Sharon Carson for State Senate
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A recent letter to this newspaper shows exactly what is wrong with today’s party politics. Instead of talking about what we can do as a community or a nation, the letter writer chose to pull imaginary issues from the darkest regions of their anatomy in an attempt to portray a candidate as somehow evil for having more people interested in having her represent them in Concord than her opponent. Let’s remember that the voters and the taxpayers are one in the same and when there is a friend to the taxpayer; people outside the district, realizing that it takes more than one vote to accomplish a goal, will contribute to candidates in hopes of spreading a message of fiscal responsibility and an understanding of the plight of working men and women. Senator Sharon Carson has been recently deemed
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by opposing party politicals as evil in the sense she has a wide range of support from both individuals and businesses that fear for their very survival. In an attempt to dissuade voters from looking at the facts, the writer notes contributions coming from all over and deems contributions from those in business to be an evil deed that the public should use as a reason to support the opposition’s candidate. Said candidate who, by the way, cannot find enough people to agree with her positions to fund any furtherance or dissemination of her ideas to the general public. The idea of a free election system includes allowing for those who support a message to also support that message’s ability to reach all the people. A bad message, a bad plan for the state of NH, gets little, if any, attention and little, if any, financial support to broadcast that bad idea.
Sharon Carson has worked hard as a legislator in the House and even harder as a Senator for the district. She has asked local constituents to donate to a local charity rather than her campaign on many occasions, and the local community has done just that. For Senator Sharon Carson, it’s about the issues, about the people, and about doing what is right for NH. People who believe she is fair, open, and honest have contributed to her campaign. They believe integrity is as important to the process as the ideas that will be debated. Sharon has the highest level of integrity one could ask for. You may not always agree, but you can never deny she is open and honest, making her decisions in the light of day. Her work on behalf of the people she serves, both locally and statewide, is well known and very much appreciated.
No person running for a voluntary job paying $100
a year should ever have to be subjected to the party politics that seem to creep into every
election at the last minute. Sharon Carson deserves to be respected for her record as a veteran of our armed
Sharon Carson deserves our support and she deserves our thanks as someone we have been able to count on to serve with honor and distinction whenever the call for volunteers has been made. I will be voting for Sharon Carson for Senate. She demonstrates the kind of leadership we need to work together to find our way.
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hope you will look at what Sharon Carson has done over the years and join me in asking her to serve by voting for Sharon Carson for Senate in November.
Senator Bob Clegg - Hudson
What’s In a Name? What’s in a name? Apparently,
a lot.
In the last General Election (2008), Rep. Valerie Hardy got 1,257 votes in Litchfield, where she resides. She garnered 2,084 votes in Pelham, where she is virtually unknown—apparently connected by name with our good Sheriff Jim Hardy. I suspect a connection was also made to the venerable Hardy family known to generations of Hudson residents. Make no mistake, voters of our district (Hillsborough 27: Hudson, Litchfield, Pelham). Rep. Hardy is just as ultra-liberal as the Knowles duo. Just a heads-up.
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