It seems that one of this city’s best-kept secrets is the Nashua Republican City Committee, which I have been chairman of for the past year. People urged me to run for the position because of my lengthy business background and reputation for being a consensus builder. Like any other political organization, we study proposed legislation and how both sides ultimately vote on a bill.

It’s been fairly predictable in the New Hampshire House lately, and by and large most representatives follow their party lines. Such is the case with state Rep. Debbie Stevens of Nashua’s Ward 7, who voted for a state income tax, voted to weaken voter laws, voted to raise taxes on New Hampshire employers and voted to give New Hampshire driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. There’s a longer list of this absurd voting pattern here with the various legislative ID numbers: nh.gop/democrats/stevens.

But her absurdity is truly exposed by a post that she made at quarter of 2 in the morning a couple days after Christmas in which she says if the president “loses in 2020 that all these people who’ve been stockpiling ammo and amassing weaponry are planning to start a Civil War.”

Look, you can’t make this stuff up, and understandably this sort of warped logic hits the nerves of many political hacks. But when her fellow Democrats are reaching out to this organization for help in getting her to resign, then that says it all and we agree; this type of thinking, this posting of hateful violent and venomous diatribe by ANY elected official is cause for that person to either resign or be removed from office by the House leadership.

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