When my brother Kevin interned for Senator Warren Rudman in the early 90s my family was invited to visit his office in Washington, DC. This senator represented everything I considered to be standard characteristics of the Granite State: independence, integrity, and bipartisanship. The story I remember most from office staff was summarized in the Washington Post on Nov. 20, 2012: “When Mr. Rudman graduated from Syracuse in 1952, he was denied his diploma because he would not pay an $18 fee for the college yearbook. He claimed that purchasing the yearbook should not be a requirement for a diploma.” This is a legitimate example of “stopping the steal” unlike the shameful, manufactured version about the 2020 election.
We need our elected officials to recognize the blatant difference. Further, from the Washington Post article, Senator Rudman, a moderate Republican, stood up to a very popular Ronald Reagan in 1987 regarding the Iran-Contra affair: “Turning against his own party, Mr. Rudman called on Reagan to apologize to the American people for what he called ‘an act of folly.’” New Hampshire needs this level of bipartisan conviction now more than ever. To all voters and candidates I ask that you read some articles about the Honorable Warren Rudman before Nov. 8th. His name is on the federal courthouse in Concord because he embodied everything New Hampshire stands for.
Matthew Onge
Concord