Sununu taking pages from the McConnell playbook
With the passage of his new budget, Granite Staters got a reminder of what has been clear for years: far from being a moderate, Gov. Chris Sununu is an extreme, right-wing partisan. Sununu jammed extreme, ideological measures through our state’s budget process, like siphoning money away from our public schools and interfering with the relationship between a woman and her doctor with extreme measures like mandating ultrasounds, jeopardizing funding for women’s health care, and threatening doctors with jail time.
This isn’t new territory for the governor though. In February, he opposed the American Rescue Plan and with it, the Child Tax Credit, a tax cut currently providing relief to 90 percent of New Hampshire families.
If that kind of extreme, partisan politics practiced by Sununu sounds familiar, it’s because we have seen it practiced for over a decade in Washington by Mitch McConnell. By jamming through these extreme and polarizing policies with no regard to the consequences to people’s lives, Sununu is clearly taking his cues from McConnell.
New Hampshire doesn’t need McConnell and his brand of partisan, obstructionist politics. We deserve leaders who listen to Granite Staters — we don’t need them taking pages from the McConnell playbook.
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