By Mike Atherton of Dover
“Hypocrite” is an ugly word, but it fits Gov. Sununu. Repeatedly he and his economic cronies use our tax money to benefit themselves. Examples come easily to mind.
Governor Sununu accepted a $31,000 pay increase after he twice vetoed minimum wages that would have benefited millions of workers. Notice, he uses our tax money to benefit himself while he denies help to Granite Staters who are fighting hard to make a living. He befits himself while he lets other suffer: Hypocrite!
Governor Sununu opposes loan forgiveness, unless it’s his own. He received forgiveness for a $3 million PPP grant but opposes student loan forgiveness: Hypocrite!
Governor Sununu remembers his wealthy friends. He used taxpayer money to appropriate $10 million to bail out his wealthy friends after they were dumb enough to be bilked by an FRM Ponzi scheme. Sununu supports welfare for the wealthy, but no one else: Hypocrite!
Governor Sununu supports the $9 million school voucher plan. He wants to give our tax money to those who choose to keep their kids in private schools. Taking public money to support private schools is no better than using public taxes to benefit the wealthy, but I repeat myself. When he bleeds public schools in order to support private schools he breaks his oath of office to protect the whole state: Hypocrite!
Granite Staters can’t afford a government headed by a Hypocrite in Chief.
Mike Atherton was born in Chicago, spent four years in the Peace Corps (Eswatini, southern Africa), then met and married his wife during graduate work at University of Chicago where we both have Ph.Ds. We have two daughters and four grandchildren and live in Dover, N.H. to be near the grandchildren.
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