The politics of personal destruction have come to roost here in the Granite State. After considering expert testimony, Superior Court Judge David Ruoff ruled that the state was not meeting its constitutional obligation to provide an adequate education by providing districts with $4,100 a year, per pupil. Judge Ruoff called it like it is. There is no responsible way to educate our young people on this modest sum and the balance to do so is born by local property tax payers. Rather than address a historically broken system of school funding, Gov. Sununu and his sycophants attacked Judge Ruoff. Gov. Sununu suggested Judge Ruoff should no longer serve as a judge, stating: “That judge is a political activist that I think has no place on the bench . . . I even voted for the guy when I was on the (Executive) Council.” Grow up, governor!

If you don’t like the decision, appeal it, which is being done. If you’re concerned about the fate of our precious young people, as many are, turn to investing in their future. However, demanding the job of a hardworking civil servant and suggesting they should be beholden to you for your vote is the tactic of a thoughtless bully. Judge Ruoff is a NH native, a father, a husband to a healthcare worker, a product of our public schools and served as a county prosecutor, public defender, homicide prosecutor and law professor before being confirmed as a judge. To level a personal attack of this sort devalues his service and only highlights your inadequacies to tend to the fate of our children.

James Rosenberg

Concord