HILLSBOROUGH SHERIFF CANDIDATE SZABO APOLOGIZES FOR, RETRACTS UNACCEPTABLE STATEMENT

With Comment About Arresting Abortion Doctors, Candidate Says He Let His Imagination Get Out of Control

 

GOFFSTOWN, N.H.—After reflecting on the unacceptable public comments he made yesterday, Frank Szabo, a candidate for Hillsborough County Sheriff, retracts the idea that he would use deadly force to stop an abortion doctor and apologizes to the people of New Hampshire for so carelessly losing track of what he was saying.

 

“I want to be clear to the people of New Hampshire that I made several comments about the use of deadly force against abortion doctors that I regret, that I apologize for and that I fully retract,” Szabo said. “Clearly, I feel very strongly about life beginning at conception, and that will not change. But, in making comments yesterday, I let my passionate stance against abortion get the better of me.

 

“What I said was inexcusable, and as sheriff, I would not use lethal force against an abortion doctor,” Szabo said. “To explain my misstatement, however, I want to point out that for someone as adamantly pro-life as me, walking in on an abortion is the equivalent of walking in on someone who is in the process of stabbing someone else. When caught off guard by questions about using lethal force, I answered based on that understanding. While I maintain that abortion is unlawful because it strips the right to life from a helpless unborn child, I recognize it is legal, and for that reason deadly force against an abortion doctor is not justifiable. 

 

“As someone who has such a passionate respect for life, I also respect the life of abortion doctors, even if I don’t respect what they do,” Szabo continued. “As sheriff, when the moral waters are murky, I would always air on the side of prudence. This isn’t the 19th century, and I am a man of peace. I honestly can’t imagine a situation where I would want to use deadly force. In fact, I would use every possible peaceful and lawful tool at my disposal to execute the job of Hillsborough County Sheriff, and the people of the county should have confidence in that.”

 

In a press release several weeks ago about abortion, Szabo said he would use the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office to arrest abortion doctors for murdering innocent life. While Szabo stands by his statement that a sheriff could do that, he admits that it was a bad example of a larger point he was trying to convey, which is that the county sheriff’s job is to enforce the law of the land, which is spelled out in the state and federal constitutions. While abortion is legal, it is not lawful because it violates a pre-born child’s natural right to life.

 

However, in the system of checks and balances that America’s founders set up, a sheriff would not have the final word on this matter. Conceivably, a county prosecutor could choose to side with the sheriff and press charges following an arrest. The sheriff could also call a citizens’ grand jury to press charges. Even then, the case would be heard in a court of law, and a judge or even a jury would not likely convict the abortion doctor. The abortion doctor might then file a counter suit against the sheriff on any number of complaints.

 

“With government’s increasing encroachment on citizens’ natural rights, particularly their right to own and control their own property, the abortion doctor example was really a poor choice to prove a point about the sheriff’s potential role as a constitutional officer,” Szabo said. 

 

“In retrospect, I should have focused on issues like those highlighted in my press release earlier this week,” Szabo added. “In one example, an Oregon man was arrested for harvesting rain water on his own land. In another, the owners of family farms in Michigan were ordered by government agents to kill their heritage pigs as an ‘invasive species.’ It’s legal abuses such as these that a county sheriff can and should stop using his inherent constitutional authority. It’s legal abuses such as these that I would stop as Hillsborough County Sheriff.

 

“I truly hope the voters of Hillsborough County will give me another chance to prove my qualifications for office so I can help restore natural law, which is protected by the state and federal constitutions,” Szabo said.

 

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About Frank Szabo

Frank Szabo, who lives in Goffstown with his wife Madeline and family, is running for Hillsborough County Sheriff to protect citizens’ rights and property as a constitutional peace officer within the county. The longtime businessman has owned and operated a successful limousine service and obtained a high-level of expertise in financial management and health care administration. Besides his practical life experiences and real-world common sense, Frank will bring to the sheriff’s office his knowledge of court room legal proceedings, how to read and interpret laws, and his well-earned executive-level skills, including analysis and problem solving, financial management and business administration, personnel recruitment and training, and public speaking. Paid for by Citizens With Szabo. Frank Szabo, Fiscal Agent. For more information, visit www.SzaboForSheriff.com.

FRANK SZABO WILL BRING NEEDED CONSTITUTIONAL FOCUS BACK TO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE

Hillsborough County Sheriff Candidate Will Protect Citizens’ Natural Rights to Life, Liberty and Property 

 

GOFFSTOWN, N.H.—As a successful businessman with executive-level skills and a knowledgeable citizen who cherishes the system of checks and balances set up by our nation’s founders, Hillsborough County Sheriff candidate Frank Szabo is well positioned to revitalize the importance of the constitutional sheriff role in New Hampshire’s most populous county.

 

“A county sheriff is not doing his duty if he simply transports prisoners, guards the courthouses or helps other law enforcement agencies with their arrest warrants—this is very basic level work that should be done at a minimum,” Szabo said. “Unfortunately, most elected sheriffs ignore their most important duty, which is to serve their constituents by protecting their natural rights, including their rights to life, liberty and property. As sheriff, my first duty will be to the citizens of Hillsborough County and to defend the state and federal constitutions from all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

 

Szabo, who decidedly does not have law enforcement experience, considers his business-executive background an advantage over his primary- and general-election opponents. In New Hampshire, the Legislature designed the qualifications for county sheriff—that he be a registered voter 18 years or older—specifically so any citizen could get elected who understands the law and the constitution enough to gain the confidence of voters.

 

“Currently in the law enforcement community, there is a general spirit of cooperation among officers at different levels of government, whether local, county, state or federal, and officers are generally conditioned not to question supposed higher-level authorities,” Szabo said. “This status quo understanding is dangerously incorrect and responsible for many of the more troubling abuses of authority in our country today, and it is the reason why a county sheriff is at a disadvantage with a law enforcement background. As sheriff, I will work within Hillsborough County to uphold the supreme law of the land—the state and federal constitutions—regardless of what any other law enforcement agent says to the contrary.”

 

According to Justice Antonin Scalia in the majority opinion he wrote for Printz, Mack v. United States (1997), “States are not subject to federal direction.” Quoting James Madison, Scalia added: “The local or municipal authorities form distinct and independent portions of the Supremacy, no more subject within their respective spheres, to the general authority than the general authority is subject to them, within its own sphere.” In other words, the county sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in his county, and it is his job to enforce the supreme law of the land, even when that contradicts the legal opinions of local, state or federal agents, Szabo said.

 

Unfortunately, in today’s ever-growing police state, there are too many instances of legal abuse to list them all, but here are some clear examples: In April, Michigan authorities used SWAT teams, guns drawn, to order farmers to kill the heritage pigs their family farms had raised for generations by classifying them as an “invasive species.” This effectively ended their family businesses. In July, an Oregon man was sentenced to 30 days in prison and fined $1,500 for collecting rain water on his own property.

 

“Neither of these property-rights abuses had to happen; the county sheriffs should not have allowed it,” Szabo said. “The first thing I will do as sheriff is notify federal agencies that they will not come into the county unless they go through the office of the sheriff.

 

“While some level of civility is necessary to get along in society, a sheriff should be directly opposing the work of federal, state and local regulators and law enforcement agents when they are violating the constitution like this,” Szabo added. “I have no other political aspirations and I owe no political favors. As such, I will use the office of Hillsborough County Sheriff to protect citizens’ rights from any unlawful act perpetrated under the color of law by rogue local, state or federal agents.”

 

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About Frank Szabo

Frank Szabo, who lives in Goffstown with his wife Madeline and family, is running for Hillsborough County Sheriff to protect citizens’ rights and property as a constitutional peace officer within the county. The longtime businessman has owned and operated a successful limousine service and obtained a high-level of expertise in financial management and health care administration. Besides his practical life experiences and real-world common sense, Frank will bring to the sheriff’s office his knowledge of court room legal proceedings, how to read and interpret laws, and his well-earned executive-level skills, including analysis and problem solving, financial management and business administration, personnel recruitment and training, and public speaking. Paid for by Citizens With Szabo. Frank Szabo, Fiscal Agent. For more information, visit www.SzaboForSheriff.com.

Bob Burns Announces Run for Executive Council

Hillsborough County Treasurer, Robert “Bob” Burns of Bedford filed paperwork today to form a political action committee and announced plans to run for the District 4 Executive Council seat being vacated by Raymond J. Wieczorek. Confirming he would not seek reelection as County Treasurer Burns said, “Serving as County Treasurer has given me valuable experience and insight that will be an asset while serving as an Executive Councilor.” 
 
Burns previously was a selectman in Manchester’s Ward 12. He is a Bedford business owner and lifelong New Hampshire resident.  Bob Burns is running for Executive Council because, “It is imperative that we have strong fiscal conservatives on the Executive Council. I bring many different types of business experience to the table, having spent over 10 years in manufacturing industry. I look forward to running against Chris Pappas again this November.”
 
Burns also announced that State Representative Shaun Doherty has signed on to be his campaign manager and treasurer. He said, “I am honored to have someone with Shaun’s experience join my team; Shaun has a proven record of winning elections.”

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Shaun Doherty Bio
 
Shaun Doherty is a lifelong resident of Pelham, serving his second term in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. While a student at Rivier College, Doherty was elected to the legislature in 2008 at age 20. He serves on the Election Law committee and sponsored numerous pieces of legislation, including bills to bring financial literacy education to every high school student in the state and a bill to honor a local fallen soldier. In the 2010 election, Doherty was the second leading vote-getter in the state legislature, only behind the Majority Leader. Doherty has had a lifelong interest in politics and government. In 2004, he was the youngest town chairman in the nation for President Bush's reelection campaign. For each election since 2004, Doherty served as a town chairman for Executive Councilor Ray Wieczorek's campaigns. Doherty served as a staffer on Frank Guinta's 2007 successful reelection campaign for Manchester Mayor. During the 2008 Presidential campaign, he was the Youth Chairman for John McCain.  In 2010, Doherty earned a B.A. in Communications from Rivier College. He is currently the Southern Regional Vice Chair of the New Hampshire Young Republicans.

NHDP - Chair Ray Buckley's Statement on Democrats' Victory in Tonight's Special Election

Concord, NH - New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair Ray Buckley issued the following statement on Democratic candidate Peter Sullivan's victory in the Hillsborough District 10 special election.  

"Peter Sullivan's victory tonight is yet another example of New Hampshire voters' complete and total rejection of the reckless Republican agenda that Bill O'Brien has been forcing upon Granite Staters. New Hampshire voters turned out in historic numbers to oppose this out of control and out of touch Republican majority and its relentless attacks on women, seniors, students and workers. This election has taught us that guns in schools, the elimination of public kindergarten, and attempts to undermine the separation of powers of New Hampshire government are not Granite State values," said Buckley   

"Tonight, as in three previous special elections, New Hampshire voters have sent a clear message that right to work for less, slashing of funding of public education, putting corporations before people, and the rest of the radical Free State agenda is fundamentally at odds with the values of the people of this state."

County Treasurer Robert Burns Considers Executive Council Run

Local business owner and Bedford resident Robert “Bob” Burns has announced his intention to explore running for the Executive Council seat currently held by the retiring Raymond Wieczorek. Burns is the current Hillsborough County Treasurer, a seat he won after beating incumbent Chris Pappas in 2010. Burns formerly held the position of Selectman in the 12th ward of Manchester.  Burns is also the Treasurer of the Bedford Republican Committee.

He attended Bedford public schools and graduated from Manchester High School West. In 2002 he earned a degree in Business Management from Keene State College.  Bob has had a lifelong interest in New Hampshire Republican politics. From an early age he attended legislative sessions in Concord with his mother, Rep. Leslie Burns, who served three terms as a New Hampshire State Representative from 1982 – 1988. Bob’s work with the 2008 Mike Huckabee presidential bid earned him an Alternate Delegate spot at the Republican Convention in St Paul MN.

He is also actively involved in the New Hampshire Young Republicans (NHYR) serving as their National Committeeman since 2008.  Burns has received both National and Local Awards for his involvement with the Young Republicans.  In 2010, he was presented with the Gipper Award by Congressman Paul Ryan. The Gipper Award is given each year at the Annual Convention to an outstanding NHYR who has worked hard to spread the message of Ronald Reagan..

On why he wants to run for the Executive Council Burns says, “I think it’s important for Republicans to continue the great work done by Councilor Ray Wieczorik.  Councilor Wieczorik served District 4 with such strong leadership by expanding the Airport into a huge economic generator for Southern NH, bringing us the Version Wireless Arena, and standing up for life by opposing Planned Parenthood’s state contract.  I believe the most important responsibilities of the Council are the confirmation of executives to head New Hampshire’s departments, judicial appointments, and the approval of state contracts. We need to ensure the next Governor of New Hampshire has the counsel of wise people who will carry on the proud New Hampshire traditions of liberty, justice, and the promotion of our unique economic advantage.”