Pubdate: Thu, 27 Mar 2008
Source: Rochester Times (NH)
Copyright: 2008 Geo. J. Foster Company
Contact:  http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ROCNEWS
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4729
Author: Dan Steinbach

STATE GOING TO POT

To the Editor:

Timothy Leary's dead. No. No. No. No. You elected him to the New Hampshire 
legislature.

As if kids are not exposed to enough drug pushers. Now parents have to 
contend with our legislature telling kids there's no consequences for 
smoking dope.

The Doobie Brothers in Concord seek to decriminalize marijuana law. It's 
cool with them if your kids get stoned. Is that what you voted for in 2006? 
The "Lucy in the Sky" legislature says anything goes, man. These 
ultraliberals stumble on toward a society devoid of personal responsibility 
and respect for the human body and soul.

Parents keep trying to develop good citizens. The Democrat-controlled 
government seems to be saying, "If it feels good, do it." I believe 
Strafford County voters did not intend its representatives to mimic the 
website that sounds like "Dems Gone Wild." From a personal responsibility 
perspective our legislature seems to be emulating Roman Emperor Caligula.

The Democrat-controlled government's assault on parental responsibility and 
authority is unacceptable.

Their magical mystery tour includes repealing the Parental Notification Law 
that once ensured a parent's right to know if their adolescent child was 
getting an abortion. At the same time they're working to ensure 
17-year-olds who commit major crimes are prosecuted in the juvenile justice 
system instead of as adults. They are a confused group and it appears 
purple-haze is all in their brain.

Financially they act like a teenager with a credit card. They've increased 
the state budget seventeen and one-half percent and the Strafford County 
budget fifteen percent. The State budget is fifty million dollars in the 
hole with a projected deficit of another one hundred million by 2009. Such 
is your self-proclaimed fiscally responsible Democratic leadership.

Their ride on the horse with no name continues as they push to impeach the 
president, assault charter schools and expand gambling. The list is endless.

In Strafford County 37 of 38 seats in the House are filled by Democrats. 
Mercifully, we can soon fire this crop of pot promoters. Let's put them 
into a flower power van and point them toward L.A.

Go to http://www.nhstaterep.com and get involved. Raise your voice!

Dan Steinbach

Milton

(Editor's note: The pros and cons of HB1623 can be viewed in Roll Call 
Round Up (C) below.)
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