New Hampshire's First-in-the-Nation Primary Redux

    In October 2009 I posted an impassioned plea for the abolition of New Hampshire's First-In-the-Nation Primary.
    Unfortunately, my well-reasoned catalogue of lies and exaggerations fell on deaf ears or, perhaps, no ears at all.
    In any event, with another upcoming First-in-the-Nation Primary currently enveloping the citizens of the Granite State like a toxic fog, I feel it altogether fitting and proper to repost the post (or, if you prefer, republish the publish). Everything in the article remains as invalid as the day it was written.
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   The First-in-the-Nation New Hampshire Primary: Time for Change  

    There is a non-existent groundswell of ill-informed opinion among New Hampshire residents (you can see the ground swelling in back of my house where a leak in the water main is seeping into the soil) demanding that New Hampshire’s First-in-the-Nation Presidential Primary status be destroyed or repealed or whatever (assuming a status can be destroyed or repealed or whatever).
    With this goal in mind, a Community Action Group called ME, headed by me and consisting of me, has been formed to pressure our representatives in Concord, whoever they are, to take immediate action on this matter and also to have Nancy Pelosi earmark funds in her next appropriation bill naming ME as an organization entitled to regular injections of Federal stimulus money and recreational drugs.
    A resolution has been drafted by some of the finest legal minds at ME. It will soon be submitted to whomever it was I didn’t vote for in the last election as soon as I find out who he or she or it are or is. The Resolution follows

NEW HAMPSHIRE RESOLUTION BS-123456789-PDQ

Section I — WHEREASES {Acts of the Legislature, also known as Articles of Stupidity, are required to be prefaced with as many "whereases," as the lawyers can think of]

    WHEREAS the voters of New Hampshire have increasingly shown a tendency to select losing candidates in the Presidential Primary
        and
    WHEREAS the population of New Hampshire is ridiculously small compared to California, Massachusetts, and almost every other State
        and
    
WHEREAS the population of New Hampshire is excessively white and heterosexual and therefore incapable of empathizing with people of different hues, facial features, literacy rates, sexual orientations, and congenital diseases
        
and
    
WHEREAS New Hampshirites are sick and tired of having their roadsides defaced every four years with thousands of red, white, and blue placards bearing the names of people they never met and probably wouldn’t invite into their homes if they did meet them
        
and
    
WHEREAS no one has ever been known to have been swayed from voting for someone like Chauncey Milkswonger because someone named Mary-Jo Frauncelot lined Route 101 in Keene with 1,000 expensive plastic pieces of crap while Milkswonger only sprang for 150 cheap cardboard pieces of crap
        
and
    
WHEREAS the citizens of New Hampshire are an aging population suffering from a variety of age-related illnesses such as baldness, ingrown toenails, bushy eyebrows, heartburn, Restless Leg Syndrome, and a tendency to shop at Walmart
        and
    
WHEREAS said Elderly People do not wish to be interrupted at their dinner tables night after night by auto-dial phone calls from candidates hawking push polls
        
and
    
WHEREAS it is cruel and unconscionable to encourage politically active ladies from Peterborough to parade in front of Town Hall in inclement weather in their support hose, Murray Space Shoes, and bulky-knit sweaters carrying signs proclaiming their solidarity with the Taliban
        
and
    
WHEREAS all right-thinking New Hampshirites are already known to be in favor of Peace, Polar Bears, and Cheap Sources of Renewable Energy Through Magic, and are opposed to Wall Street, Big Oil, Windfall Profits, and the late President Bush
        
and
    WHEREAS said Politically Correct New Hampshirites do not wish to be constantly interrupted, while they are watching Sex in the City reruns or the Woman With a Five-Hundred-Pound Tumor on the Discovery Health Channel, by commercials featuring Jean Shaheen speaking out in favor of Peace, Polar Bears, and Cheap Sources of Renewable Energy Through Magic, and condemning the evils of Wall Street, Big Oil, Windfall Profits, and the late President Bush
        
and
    
WHEREAS we have now run out of whereases

Section II — THEREFORES AND MOREOVERS

    BE
IT THEREFORE highly resolved, that WE, the duly elected Senate and Legislature of New Hampshire meeting in Concord or someplace warmer, do hereby Proclaim that The Sovereign State of New Hampshire will henceforth and forever be the LAST state in the union to hold primaries
        
and
    
MOREOVER Should another state in this union or any other union have the audacity to attempt to horn in on our turf, the Secretary of State of New Hampshire (not Hillary Clinton; asshole), shall delay the New Hampshire primary further and further into the future to ensure that the New Hampshire Primary is the LAST in the Nation
        
and
    
THEREFORE AND MOREOVER Such action or actions shall be taken notwithstanding if such action or actions result in said primary occurring after the election ITSELF is DONE AND FINISHED.

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    Friends and fellow Americans! You can help ME in this fight. Send your contributions to ME, care of me, Norm Mack. Please make your checks out to "Cash" so there won’t be any awkward questions from the Feds. Any contribution no matter how small will be appreciated in these difficult times. (However, $100 would be a nice round sum. Feel free to send more if you’ve hit the lottery or are drunk or feeble-minded.)
    If you’re feeling lucky and FairPoint is having one of its good days, you can reach ME (me) at dog@myfairpoint.net. (I wish to hell they hadn’t stuck that "my" in front of "fairpoint." They are not my FairPoint and I don’t like them making me say that they are.)

Norm Mack, Peterborough, dog@myfairpoint.net

 

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