Grassroots effort begins to draft Ovide Lamontagne to run for governor of New Hampshire

  As many of my regular readers may remember from the 2010 election cycle, I am a huge Ovide Lamontagne supporter. I endorsed Lamontagne while he was a longshot to beat the Republican “establishment” candidate–Kelly Ayotte–during the senate primary in New Hampshire. As the most conservative candidate in the field of senatorial candidates in 2010 Ovide Lamontagne–through a true grassroots campaign and with very little money–rose from relative obscurity to come within 1,600 votes of winning the Republican nomination.

  After losing his primary bid Ovide Lamontagne showed his true character by dropping his bid and showing up at Kelly Ayotte’s victory party when most candidates would have asked for a recount, stating that the people are the sovereign and he would support the decision made by the people. Since that time Ovide Lamontagne has remained active in local politics and has set up a PAC to help elect Republicans in the 2012 election cycle, and he will be hosting many Republican presidential candidates in his home when the 2012 election campaigns begin.

  There is now a grassroots effort to draft Ovide Lamontagne to run for governor in 2012 taking on the still popular Democrat Governor John Lynch. A new Facebook page has been created called “Draft Ovide for Governor 2012” with the goal of recruiting Ovide Lamontagne to run for governor.

Parent said that during their campaigns last year, “I had the opportunity to meet Ovide Lamontage and get to know him as a person. I really liked what he stood for and his core values. He’s very fundamentally-based, which I appreciate. I share the same values and convictions.”

Parent said that in talking to local activists, “There are many people who would like to see him run for office again, who think he would be a great governor.”

Parent said he came up with the idea six weeks ago, thinking, “Maybe if we can get enough people behind this, maybe he’ll see it. He has nothing go do with the Facebook page.”

  Ovide Lamontagne remains committed to the presidential primary and in helping to elect conservative candidates to office and is unaffiliated with this movement. Hopefully enough support can be gathered through this effort–and hopefully many more as well as time runs on–to convince Ovide Lamontagne to run for governor. He will no longer have to worry about obscurity and name recognition by the time the 2012 election season is here and if the conservative movement continues to gain steam over the next year I think that he stands a very good chance to become our next governor.

  If he decides to run he will have my full support and I hope that he starts to think seriously about this proposal in the next several months.

  Run Ovide, run!