Just when you thought you have heard everything and seen
about everything you get surprised.
This past week in the legislature the speaker out did
himself and got into an argument with Rep. Steve Vailancourt from Manchester. Steve is a very popular Rep. in his area and
his well known for his intelligence, flamboyance, and fierce defense of right
from wrong and people’s rights. This
past week a democrat got up to speak and was cut short by the speaker. Then one of the speaker’s friends got up to
speak and was allowed. Then Steve got up
to speak and challenged the speaker on what he just did and a shouting match ensued.
You
can never win an argument with a bully holding the hammer and Steve was told he
was out of order and to sit down. In a
set of circumstances like this, Steve is not inclined to do either and the
speaker ordered security to escort him to his seat. Steve started to walk away and the speaker
said something else and Steve walked back to the mike and said, “sieg heil”,
and the speaker ordered him removed from the house.
I never took offense of what Steve said, bad choice of
words, but no offense. I knew Steve was
paying tribute to someone acting like a German dictator and nothing else. The speaker’s cult quickly jumped on this and
made it sound like Steve was a Nazi sympathizer which is the furthest from the
truth.
Steve went back to his seat to sit down when house security
and state police arrived to escort him out.
What was interesting was several legislators started yelling at security
to leave him alone. At that point
Representative (attorney) Soltani from Epson, who has been thrown off the house
floor for arguing with speaker on prior occasions, went and sat down with Steve
for a legal chat.
Things quieted down and Steve made his apology and the house
started to get back to normal. An
interesting side note is when Tony tried to speak about this incident; the house
(cult) started booing him which is a big taboo.
Tony asked the speaker “if you’re going to throw rep. Vailincourt out he
needs to throw out all the people booing”.
The speaker couldn’t do that because they were mostly his supporters.
I then find out that this incident went global and was
reported in a number of other countries.
This whole incident was avoidable and showed the world what the NH House
is like; this wall the house and press talked about for the rest of the week.
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