Seems as though this is a click-bait headline. While this woman may be a whackjob, (despite living in NH, I’m on the other side of the state and frankly don’t pay overmuch attention to state politics generally) and we do have some doozies, it sounds as though she is actually proposing simply that de jure line up with de facto. Unless her unicorn is actually a Trojan horse for some nefarious bullshit. Sorry for the pasture-full of metaphor, I got carried away by a news ‘story’ not involving Drumpf ,bloodshed, or Republican chicanery/sex scandal/idiocy/asshattery.
I recall some dude who ran for Reichs Chancellor who ran on the same platform: that of eliminating democracy
fair move … would enjoy be able to run for something and get paid $100 to do basically nothing … veeps and lieutenant governors get paid a lot more to do not much more (official duties)
“Her platform? Eliminate the obscure, essentially meaningless position.”
She could run as a GOP candidate for US Congress on the same platform.
So what’s up with 400 Representatives, or in other words 1 Rep. per 3300? And why are all your retirees playing in state government?
I saw today that Republicans rate Congress at a 12% approval rate. Hah. And they run the both Houses of Congress! They are in serious trouble this November…Even their own base hates them.
Finally! A Republican proposal to shrink the size of government that I can wholeheartedly support!
Grover Norquist is gonna have his organization put up some of the money to get this done, right?
I guess one could argue that the NH House is a truly representative body. You stand a fair chance of actually knowing your rep(s), who, incidentally, are also paid a hundred bucks a year, with a per diem for the time they’re in session. As with many aspects of local government, at least as it’s practiced here in the Northeast, retirees have the time to devote to (trying) to run things. I’ve only known one House member in my twenty-odd years living here, and he was a very reasonable, thoughtful guy - a true moderate Republican. Last time I saw him a few years ago he was ruing the growing number of unreasonable people in the House, and had decided to pack it in - probably to the detriment of his constituents and the state.