Fergus Cullen to Step Down as NHGOP Chairman
Fergus Cullen, NHGOP chairman will not seek re-election this January. This comes as welcome news to me as I don’t feel that he gave Joe Kenney the support that he deserved in his bid for governor.
Perhaps I should give Fergus Cullen the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he just felt that the gubernatorial race was a loser from the beginning and decided to focus on other races instead. If that was his strategy than he faired better that I give him credit for. Republicans managed to quietly pick up 17 seats in the state house and held onto 10 others that were considered in jeopardy. But I just can’t. I believe it is time for a change at the leadership level.
John H. Sununu appears to be the man who will take over the chairmanship of the New Hampshire Republican party. Here is what John H. Sununu had to say about his bid for state Republican chairman:
“My biggest concern is trying to help rebuild the party in terms of clear definition of issues, recruitment of good candidates and raising sufficient funds to support some solid campaigns,” he said.
He said that with Democrats in the governor’s office for 10 of the past 12 years and now controlling the Legislature, there has been “a tremendous explosion of spending, loss of local control, passing costs to the cities, towns and counties and a failure to live up to New Hampshire’s traditions.”
He said if elected, he will speak out for “Republican traditions of low taxes, local control, community involvement and the rights that individuals have. The Republican Party has to keep the Democrats from destroying the state.”
What the New Hampshire Republican party needs is clear leadership and a strong message. Hopefully John H. Sununu will provide just that.
Now if we can just get his son to run for governor we will be all set.
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Sorry but this is a pattern and Cullen should take credit for NOTHING, NADA, ZIP, ZERO. He failed to support the GOP candidate for governor in 2006 as well. There is something fishy there. How much is Lynch paying off these people? The NH GOP is in for a surprise. The grassroots is stirring.
Also, the people responsible for the 17 new Rs were GRASSROOTS and local GOP groups, the state party had NOTHING to do with getting them elected, NOTHING.
It was the Republican Liberty Pac, the RLC-NH, and Reagan Network and other groups that accomplished this as well as the 4 new Rs in Strafford County being elected due to the hard work of Phyllis Woods.
(See this nonsense article here where Cullen just goes too far: http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081205/GJNEWS_01/812057980)
Julie Brown should talk. Her HRA score is around 55%. We have Democrats who stick to the GOP party platform better than she does!
And THAT my friend in the inside story.
Kenney, a perfect candidate, would have had a great chance (he got 38% with no effort) had the NH GOP supported him and put aside their petty differences. Same for John Stephen who could have beaten Porter because he is a real conservative. Bradley was a losing proposition from the start… and they never should have supported him (and neither should you have)
There are Republicans in the NH party who sided with Lynch and and Obama and for that ought to be sent packing…. the RINOs have run this state for too long. Sorry but I am not Democrat lite….
We need to get rid of these quislings.
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Joe Kenney was the only one to stick his neck out and try to stop the ‘view’ tax.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2067376889167964074
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