I’m hearing the closing, summing-up remarks by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, one of the impeachment hearing managers. We live in a weighty time. Our president may be the recipient of a Republican Senate’s gift of new norms that are without precedent, being norms unbound by laws.
We need a surge of support in election time (independents and Democrats and dismayed Republicans) for a leader who can defeat Donald Trump and then begin the hard work of mending the breaks he permitted: environmental regulations broken; health care coverage broken; troubles with refugees at our southern border handled in a breaking and broken way; given-away federal dollars that went to tax breaks for the super rich, giving us the highest debt we’ve had. We see broken friendships abroad, with Trump preferring dictators to our past allies.
In a Sunday Monitorpiece Steve Duprey, a very decent New Hampshire Republican, suggested a Biden-Klobuchar ticket. But the New York Times, the Union Leader and the Keene Sentinel have all endorsed Amy Klobuchar for president.
I heard her speak in Henniker at New England College. I signed a card that I’d vote for her in our Feb. 11 primary. She has the intelligence, legislative successes in her past and a good heart (she can laugh) that I think we need.
I’m pleased, pleased that Steve Duprey put his thinking cap on about this, and that he’s a New Hampshire Republican who never accepted Trump’s so-low character. He’s a stepping-down Republican but his caring and leadership (writing his op-ed) give me hope.
LYNN RUDMIN CHONG
Sanbornton