Gov. Chris Sununu owes me an apology for the deeply inaccurate way he represented me at his State House rally last weekend and the lies he told about Senate Bill 1. This bill is the paid family and medical leave bill (officially the Granite Caregiving Act of 2019) and not the “income tax bill.” It has passed the House and the Senate with bipartisan support. Instead, the governor lied and ridiculed me and others by saying: “A group of young people, maybe about 30 of them, a group of paid volunteers from the Democratic Party, all came to my office to give me a pen to sign SB 1, the income tax bill (laughter). . . . Here’s the funny part. So they bring in all these pens, and they quietly put them in a box and quietly go away. Again, half of them were probably paid staff; I don’t think there was a lot of passion there. But I think the message is getting through because I couldn’t help but notice (no joke) they were all red pens (laughter) . . . clearly asking me to veto the income tax bill.”
All lies. I was one of more than 100 unpaid constituents who waited an hour to deliver a handwritten postcard I wrote with my blue pen. I wrote you about the death of my brother-in-law and you clearly didn’t take my story seriously or compassionately, instead you mocked us and SB 1 on the steps of the State House for laughs. Shame on you. I await my apology.
KERYN ANDERSON
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