ELECTION DAY : August 2010 Archives
Laconia Daily Sun August 6, 2010
To the editor,
This is a response, and correction to Marty Valengavich’s July 30 letter in The Laconia Daily Sun. I finally got to talk to him on the phone (nice guy) to find out where he ever got the idea
that I was in anyway opposed to anybody being allowed to vote. Even he couldn’t recall when I ever wrote such trash, but, eventually we related it to a letter I wrote supporting SB-2 in
Moultonborough. Seems that Marty had the idea that SB-2 was a way to block people from voting, when in fact, it is exactly the opposite of that: SB-2 is a way to conduct local voting
in a fair way with secret ballots, with greatly improved ways to educate voters about what they are to vote on. ALL of the opposition to SB-2 comes from those few local politicians who
don’t want the voters to know what those politicians are trying to sneak through! With SB-2 you get the usual Town Meeting (informational session) with discussions of issues, but only as an educational exercise, with chances to correct errors (accidental or intentional) THEN, before the final vote later (that’s the part the political thieves oppose). The actual vote comes much later, AFTER everyone has time to checkout all that was said at the informational meeting (“old
Town Meeting”). THEN every voter has a chance to vote SECRETLY over a full day, whenever they can (unlike the antiquated “Town Meeting” which eliminated those who couldn’t get to
or endure a late night of many hours of boring meeting). Sneaky politicians HATE that freedom for the electorate! Obviously we need that system at the state and federal level, where they
routinely pass bills they never read! NONE of Obama’s bills would have ever passed if all who voted for them had to prove they read and understood them first! Marty tried to exceed my humor about idiot ways to block illegals, and I think he won with the hiring of I.N.S agents. He should have stopped when he was the winner! Canadians are not a major problem to the USA, BUT, it does seem that many of the worst enemies of the USA come in legally through the Mexico and Canada borders. They are very few compared to the masses of Mexicans invading
our southern border with the aid of the Mexican police and army. Okay Marty, the old duck joke is often correct: in your case, it indicates you are a radical left wing socialist opposed to the U.S. Constitution, looking for Obama to take over the USA as Hitler did Germany. Any truth in that? I doubt it. Sorry, but I see you as a nice guy, upset with the crap our government has dumped on you, wishing that somehow the government can fairly take care of major long-term medical problems (a valid function of government). Many years ago Teddy Kennedy gave an excellent speech about government medical care (which everyone totally ignored, despite being the best
speech he ever gave). Talking about current medical problems, he noted that the super rich Kennedy’s could afford their outrageous medical costs, but most other can’t. He correctly suggested that the Feds must cover ALL major medical costs that might exceed the person’s annual income (please, someone get the actual numbers on that). With a provision like that, medical insurance costs will drop to under 10-percent of current prices. A good local person like Marty deserves at least that much from our government!
Jack Stephenson
Gilford
The MCA thanks the citizens of Moultonboro for their support and trust on our 3rd Anniversary. We filed paperwork with the NH Dept. of State as a nonprofit corporation and were certified July 13, 2007. This corporation’s information has been available on the State of NH’s website since then.
The object for which this corporation was established is:
An informal alliance of citizen volunteers promoting the ideals of an informed citizenry, protection of voters’ rights, sensible spending, and limited government.
We have been successful in this short period of time in these areas:
A. Select Board Meetings and some major meetings are available on our web site www.moultonborocitizensalliance.org and www.moultonborocitizensalliance@yahoo.com .
B. We have been a major promoter of the Right to Know Law RSA 91-A and sponsored a seminar to make the Right to Know Law clearer to our town boards and surrounding communities.
We are promoters of Senate Bill 2 (SB2) in our town. As times change, and populations grow, the Town Meeting format becomes outmoded and impractical. SB2 allows all voters a vote on Election Day from 7am to 7pm in the privacy of the voting booth. It eliminates having to raise a hand or stand and be counted. Absentee ballots can be used when voters are unable to attend.
We all do this for no wages, only pride in helping to improve our community. We always welcome new supporters and financial help.
We proudly are the MCA at Box 678, Moultonboro, NH.
Officers: Linda Punturieri-President, Terence Jatko-Vice President, Jim Morrison-Treasurer, Al Hume-Secretary.
