Vote For Emmett Soldati For NH Executive Council 2024


 

LETTER TO THE EDITOR:
 
I’ve been vocally supporting various NH candidates, both Republican and Democratic, in this important election year. I was going to quietly vote for Emmett Soldati to represent the North Country in the Executive Council—mostly because the incumbent (Joe Kenney) has been low-energy disinterested in the environmental problems we’ve been facing from a ruinous landfill project and the docile state agency trying to greenlight it.
 
But Kenney’s party has just today—at the last possible moment—mailed out an attack ad on Soldati that should disgust any warm-blooded human. Emmett is a London School of Economics grad, an activist helping subsistence farmers adapt to climate change, and yes, the owner of two cafés that also present music and comedy at night.
The mailer reduces his entire accomplishments to the term “drag show host,” and stokes fears that he would somehow (?) “mandate drag shows for everyone.”
 
Here in Coös, we finally see the light at the end of the Carrie Gendreau tunnel—two years of demonizing everyone trying to live free in ways that bother the bigoted, and seeing our area embarrassed in newspapers worldwide. This mailer lets everyone know that Joe Kenney is fine with that kind of character assassination, against his opponent but implicitly against countless NH citizens trying to enjoy life without prejudice.
 
Soldati already deserved serious consideration for his fresh ideas and talent—but now I urge voters to send a message to the NH GOP, that hateful actions have electoral consequences.
 
Dr. Adam M. Finkel
Dalton