Yesterday the New Hampshire capitol witnessed the largest rally it has seen in 25 years, where people from all walks of life came to protest the nightmare House budget, which, in addition to abolishing collective bargaining, decimates funding for the mentally ill, the poor, and public unviversities, to name just a few innocent targets.
It was a sign of how united the Granite State is in the face of this radical right takeover in the statehouse that Bishop Gene Robinson and Catholic Bishop John McCormack appeared together at the rally to rail against what this budget will do to the poorest among us. McCormack said, in part:
"Only after funding our foremost obligation to the poor should budget writers proceed to address the needs of the various state departments,"
Well, 26 year old GOP House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt didn't take too kindly to that. This morning he lashed out, calling a Catholic bishop a "pimp":
House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt this morning wrote on his Facebook page that Catholic Bishop John McCormack is a “pedophile pimp” with “absolutely no moral credibility to lecture anyone.”
McCormack spoke yesterday at a State House rally where thousands of demonstrators criticized the state budget proposed by the House of Representatives. McCormack criticized the budget for failing to protect people in need and called caring for the poor “the fundamental requirement of our religious heritage.”
He's unapologetic, too.
I think this tops House Speaker Bill O'Brien calling public safety workers "thugs." when he unconstitutionally shut the people out of the People's House yesterday.
Worse than House Finance Committee Chair Ken Weyler too, who justified his decimation of mental health service budget money, on the basis of no evidence, that mental health professionals mistreat their patients for profit.
I think Bettencourt's entering GOP Rep. Marty Harty's "eugenics" territory here. Will he be wise enough to resign before he's forced to?
(modified for nat'l context from birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker)