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popeye1250 -> RE: What's Romney doing in your state? (1/7/2012 12:00:52 PM)
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Since moving from Hampton, N.H. here to Myrtle Beach seven years ago one thing I miss is those town hall meetings.
It was fun to talk to congressman John Sununu Jr. at a town hall meeting in Exeter, N.H. with only about 30 or 40 people present.
(They didn't have coffee and donuts like the ones in Hampton.)
(senator Judd Gregg was very dry and boring.)
And I'd look at the people and think, "boy, Norman Rockwell would love this gathering!"
And the people would come dressed in their working clothes, (many of them) and not dressed up.
Also, those people were not impressed with congressmen and senators. You'd hear "John" as often as you'd hear "congressman." And I think that's a good thing.
John Sununu went on to become a senator and was bumped out by that Jean Shaheen and it looks like she's going to go her next time at bat.
She doesn't "ask" people what they want done, she "preaches" to them about what the govt. is doing, (not) a good thing. She was an awful governor before that! *Taxes went up almost immediately* when she went to the state house! Listening to her you'd think it was the 1,600's and you were wearing one of those big black Pilgrim hats with the buckle on the side!
She was elected because many people from Massachusetts moved to New Hampshire and brought that "democrat" type of thinking with them.
You know, if you move to N.H. from Mass. I'd think you'd want to leave all your old politics and predjudices behind you.
Massachusetts is notorious for taxes (among many other things) and many businesses have moved there from Mass to avoid the heavy tax load.
I know that when I moved to N.H. from Mass I wanted out and away from the things Mass imposed on their citizens and the type of thinking that existed there. I adapted to living in N.H. very quickly!
Sorry for rambling.
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