Methinks the governor doth protest too much. Governor Sununu’s huffy responses to the Executive Council’s rejection of $27 million of federal funds for COVID vaccination support strike me as laughable, demonstrably hollow hypocrisy. This is the bed the governor has made. Let him lie in it. He appointed a secretary of education who’s against state education. He never dared to speak out against the last guy who was president. His own limp support of COVID vaccination has sung the Free Stater chorus of individual choice. He has just recently come out in favor of Maine’s institution-burning wanna-be-governor-again LePage.
When has he not shown himself an enthusiastic backer of individuals, causes and behaviors opposed to any institutional, state, or, horror!, federal support for broad community benefit that carried even a whiff of cost to the individual? (Taxes, perhaps?) Over and over he has danced away from anything other than “Live Free of Die” drum-beating. So now, after watching the Executive Council’s meeting (like local school boards?) be disrupted by those dancing to his own beat, he wants us to believe he’s appalled. He protests that their subsequent decision to make NH unique, the only state to refuse the funds in support of vaccination, is “a total disservice to the constituents” and “shows a reckless disregard for the lives that we are losing.” Hah! The Council was merely walking the line he’s defined. If it leads off the end of the plank, well, too bad.
Chip Morgan
Hopkinton