Recently, I decided to try to check into the woman in one of Kelly Ayotte’s ads. As I researched I realized why the ad which had run so often suddenly stopped. The ad in which a woman says we had better listen if Joyce Craig says she’ll do for NH what she did for Manchester. Actually, I had never heard Joyce Craig say that but I did find that the woman in that ad, Brittany LeClear-Ping, is a member of the Free State Project and Moms for Liberty. Moms for Liberty is an odd name for a group that is against so many things. The group has been labeled as extremist by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In NH they were the ones who offered a reward to the first parent who would turn in a teacher for teaching “divisive” concepts (A law since struck down as impermissibly vague). The group as a whole is also very active in banning books and would discriminate as opposed to showing empathy for young people who realize that they are LGBTQ. It seems strange that a candidate who pledges to work for all of us would seek affirmation from a member of such a group. If we have any hopes of state government ever becoming more cooperative and bipartisan, electing Ms. Ayotte does not appear to be the way to do it.

Susanne Whitbeck

Pembroke