Second New Hampshire Republican Wins Special Election

  Another week in New Hampshire and another Republican wins a special election in New Hampshire. Last week Jeb Bradley won a special election to fill a vacant state senate seat and this week Marilinda Garcia won a special election to fill a vacant state house seat.

  Much like Jeb Bradley’s win last week this vote wasn’t even close, she received twice as many votes as her Democrat opponent. Also much like Jeb Bradley’s win this isn’t going to change the makeup in the House of Representatives, but it represents a slow change that I feel happening to New Hampshire.

  The voters are finally getting sick and tired of the outrageous spending and rising taxes and they are beginning to look at the Republican party once again. These two victories are just the beginning in New Hampshire. 2010 is right around the corner and Governor Lynch, Carol Shea-Porter, and Paul Hodes are next.

  People can scoff at the Tea Parties if they want to but we are not laughing and neither should the politicians here in New Hampshire be laughing. There is real discontent in the voters with the state budget and with spending, that was the theme behind the Tea Parties and that discontent is growing.

  These two special elections were just baby steps, but they were just our first steps and we are not going to go away. By the time the 2010 elections roll around the baby steps will be a sprint.

 I smell change (real change) in the air.