How to Fix Election 'Buyer's Remorse' [VIDEO]

By Mark Wilson

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the held in the beautiful spacious gardens at Toni and Jim Trotzer's home on Mill Road.

That morning knowing the picnic was just up the road, somebody placed more than a dozen Romney signs illegally on public property in the little triangular park at the intersection of Winnacunnet and Mill Road. Just another example of the unneighborly acts we now sort of expect from the other side.

The event was well attended by guests filling 100 seats and left what looked like a couple dozen spread around the garden in groups. We were privileged to hear from Gov. Dan Malloy of Connecticut and Carol Shea-Porter, who served two terms with dignity in Congress and is looking to return to her seat in Washington. 

Frank Guinta is part of the problem in Washington, not the solution. His votes against women's rights, against job programs, against the popular Affordable Care Act even after it became the law of the land, against middle class tax cuts and for tax breaks for the super wealthy show that the shrinking middle class are of little concern to him. 

We heard from an excellent slate of candidates for offices within the Granite State too. Maggie Hassan and Jackie Cilley, both former state senators who served with distinction and Bill Kennedy, a retired military officer are seeking to follow the strong lead of popular outgoing Gov. John Lynch. Bill Duncan of Newcastle, candidate for the Executive Council. That seat should serve the people of New Hampshire rather than corporate interests as it has since 2010. Bev Hollingworth with her years of tirelessly advocating for the citizens of New Hampshire is stepping up again to return to the State Senate.

We heard too from an excellent slate of candidates for New Hampshire's famously huge State House that's been crippled by the tea party. How can we keep the New Hampshire advantage while gutting budgets for public school education and public University education, allowing guns into public buildings, cutting funding and understaffing police and fire crews statewide, and refusing federal funds to make political points?

We can do better. The Seacoast needs to send Elaine Ahern, Robert "Renny" Cushing, Dick Desrosiers, Mike Edgar, and Chris Muns to Concord to advance intelligent policy legislation to the benefit of the people of the Hamptons.

Want to feel better about buyer's remorse over those you've elected in 2010 when they promised jobs but didn't deliver? Send the Democrats back to Concord and Washington. Support the middle class.