Sununu: “Election sends clear message to Governor Lynch”

How should Granite State political obsessives interpret Tuesday’s election results?

As “a clear message to Governor Lynch and the radical leadership in the House and Senate that New Hampshire is fed up with the lack of fiscal discipline that has been displayed by the Democrats,” according to GOP Chair and former Gov. John Sununu.

Sununu was speaking specifically of Lynne Blankenbeker’s surprise win in a special election to fill a vacant seat in the State House of Representatives.

But Sununu may just as well have been speaking about the bulk of Tuesday’s results. Republicans rarely—almost never—win in Concord. Meanwhile, Republican Ted Gatsas won the mayor’s race in Manchester—another Democratic city—by a wide margin. And the local tax cap passed in Manchester despite the fact there was no organized campaign pushing for it.

“The voters of the city of Manchester have shown that they want smaller government, lower taxes and reduced spending. Their support for the tax cap reminds those who think New Hampshire has lost its conservative commitment that this is still a state that demands fiscal discipline from its elected officials,” said Sununu.

When he took the reigns of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee Sununu promised to turn the fortunes of the state’s embattle GOP around. Tuesday’s election results show he means business.