{"id":2105,"date":"2010-02-17T20:33:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2010-02-17T20:35:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T00:35:05","slug":"crybaby-legislators-feeling-bullied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/02\/17\/crybaby-legislators-feeling-bullied\/","title":{"rendered":"Crybaby Legislators Feeling ‘Bullied’."},"content":{"rendered":"

Since when does listening to voters amount to being \u201cbullied\u201d?<\/strong>
\nToo many politicians these days treat their voters like jilted lovers.<\/em>
\nCitizen Link Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

During the campaign, they\u2019re more than happy to court them and tell them what they want to hear. But once they\u2019re elected to office and things are cushy and there\u2019s power to be wielded\u2014the average voters find themselves treated like an annoyance, something only to be dealt with when absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n

That appears to be the mindset of some liberal politicians in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n

After hearing a loud outcry from voters who didn\u2019t want a politicized bullying bill to be used as a tool to promote homosexuality to public school children, the legislators changed the wording in the bill. Thankfully, there is no longer a mandate in the bill forcing every single public school in New Hampshire to teach about things like \u201csexual orientation\u201d and \u201cgender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

But now the liberals who changed their vote are actually complaining that they were \u201cbullied\u201d into it by voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a telephone interview Friday, Rep. Burke cried as she describe feeling \u2018intimidated\u2019 into believing opponents would defeat the anti-bullying bill if she didn\u2019t vote to remove the controversial language,\u201d reported the New Hampshire Union Leader in the Sunday, Feb. 14 edition (not available online).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re being bullied by a small group,\u201d said Rep. Charles Yeaton, D-Epsom, who voted against changing the wording, told the paper.<\/p>\n

Wait a minute. Being \u201cbullied\u201d is now defined as having to listen to what your voters think ? Isn\u2019t the whole idea of elections to keep representatives accountable to the people who put them in office? I guess we can now expect to see \u201celected official\u201d added to the long and growing list of specially protected classes<\/p>\n

This pitiful response also brings to mind what we\u2019ve heard at the national level\u2014when certain Democratic leaders actually accused the Tea Parties of being \u201cneo-Nazis, militias, secessionists and racists\u201d and said they need \u201cpolice protection\u201d against them.<\/p>\n

Anything\u2014to avoid the voters.
\n—<\/p>\n

In a related story in the Union Leader<\/a>, Rep. Anthony DiFruscia, R-Salem, is quite upset about the fact that some of his constituents used their telephones to call him about an issue upon which he was set to vote…<\/p>\n

He is so angry about it, he might even file a lawsuit. Say what? What is even more amazing is that Deputy Attorney General Bud Fitch said his office is in the early stages of an investigation. This is the same Deputy AG who regularly does nothing about the rampant voter fraud that has been going on in NH of late.<\/p>\n

According to the UL, “DiFruscia already has obtained a subpoena for telephone records that will trace the calls back to their source.” <\/p>\n

Earth to Tony: why no let us solve this mystery for you right now — these are your constituents! For you to pursue constituents for calling you, their Representative, quite legally on a phone number you openly advertise on your state website, is pure baloney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since when does listening to voters amount to being \u201cbullied\u201d? Too many politicians these days treat their voters like jilted lovers. Citizen Link Blog During the campaign, they\u2019re more than happy to court them and tell them what they want to hear. But once they\u2019re elected to office and things are cushy and there\u2019s power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinions","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}