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Originally Posted by SAMIAM
If Bruce Heald wants to represent us,he should abide by the decision that has been already passed rather than be an advocate for a new law that suits his personal agenda
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Then he'd be representing the State Senate in that case...
On the brighter side:
I think he has every right to push an agenda (that's kinda the point of the NH House) and it's good that he's up front about it prior to the election. It takes passionate people to get laws passed and we like to have lots and lots of passionate people in our house. If this is what people really want, they will vote for him; if not, oh well.
If he is voted in and his ideas prove to be popular, but bad; the Senate is there to prevent them from becoming law. This process worked perfectly, once already, with HB162.
The best part about the whole system is that reps make pretty much no money ($200 a year, I think) to do this kind of work. We don't have to pay them to push their own agendas, like we do at the national level.
NH is pretty unique in that we have 400 Represenatives, which makes our State House of Representatives the world's third largest English speaking Parliamentary body. This does, of course, really pare down the true power of each Representative, since there's so many; but that's why we can easily tolerate (perhaps encourage) passion at this level of government.
Be thankful. We live in a remarkably unique state where our people are far better represented than perhaps anywhere else in the world.