Letter: Kelly Ayotte is unfit to be governor

Published: 10-15-2024 11:41 AM

We can’t be fooled by Kelly Ayotte’s smiling demeanor and her claims that she’s a reasonable person. She doesn’t care about making people’s lives better. Kelly Ayotte has demonstrated that she can’t be trusted. She pretends that she’d preserve women’s rights to choose their own health care, but she’s simply not telling the truth. In fact, she voted for national abortion bans and she voted to defund Planned Parenthood. She also showed her true colors by going all in to support Donald Trump. In 2016, Ayotte (correctly) called Trump unfit for office after we all heard him on tape bragging about grabbing women by the genitals. Donald Trump has demonstrated his disdain for women (among others) many times over the last eight years.

Nevertheless Ayotte now fully endorses Trump for the highest office in the country. And her rationale for excusing Trump is truly frightening. She says she opposed Trump in 2016 because her daughter was young then and needed protection; but now her daughter is in her 20s so she can take care of herself. How craven is this? Apparently, Ayotte doesn’t care one whit about all the other young women who need to be protected from Trump’s misogyny. Nor does she care about the adult women whose rights Trump still plans to destroy. Ayotte would leave them all to fend for themselves. Don’t fall for Kelly Ayotte’s ads or her smiling façade. We can’t trust her to protect the interests of the people of New Hampshire.

Ken Barnes

Contoocook

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