Chicken Ala Goley

Jeff Goley is afraid to debate David Boutin.  He has been offered three different opportunities to face off against his Republican opponent and refused them all.  WMUR offered to host a debate, as did WGIR, and a third could have been held at Saint A's.  But Goley has refused all three.

You would think that the man Ray Buckley and the NHDP described as a guy who "has a proven record of fighting taxes and building a job friendly New Hampshire,"would want to stand up and defend his positions.  A man who could prove that in this economic and political climate could bury an unworthy opponent in a debate.  And then all the  money the NHDP spent on those mailers for Goley would be justified.

So why is Chicken Goley running scared?  He's a committed liberal tax and spender, and he can neither defend nor support one single claim the NHDP made.  And I think it would come up.

So he has been directed by Ray Buckley to lay low and keep his mouth shut becasue the only hope he has of getting elected is to fool the electorate.  How do you feel about that District 16?

You are expected to beleive that Jeff Goley can stand up for New Hampshire tax payers and small business, when he just can't do it in public, in front of a camera, or into a microphone.  Again, comforting?

The NHDP is lying for him so he can have plausible deniability.  But he's the same  grow government first, job crushing, business taxing liberal spendaholic he has always been.  And now he smells like chicken.

Vote for David Boutin.

Comments

[Steven J. Connolly]

"Vote for David Boutin."

Why?

Just because a candidate doesn't want to have a debate turns him into a chicken? Not that any of these debate venues would be biaed either. Thought WMUR agreed to have two seperate candidate interviews. I think this is fair. A controlled environment where the questions can be and define what is important in this race, the issues.

I think both of the candidates are lacking in substance but more so on the Republican side.

But I will say this at least the candidates didn't go overly attack or negative or at least standing on the outside this is what appears. And I'm surprised, especially from Boutin.

[NH]

@Steven J. Connolly : Are you seriously ill-informed?? Lacking in substance I would say is someone who won't even defend his record -- a record that is right there on the General Court website for all to see.

As for going on the attack it was Goley who we now know 'doth protest too much' because everything he said to the public hiding behind master trickster Buckley was a complete lie.

Didn't you get those two mailers? You shouldn't be surprised that it was Goley who lacks the substance and truth and that is why it was HE, Goley who INDEED went on the attack.

[Steven J. Connolly]

"@Steven J. Connolly : Are you seriously ill-informed?? "

This might be the case. I live in northern New Hampshire so I didn't get the mailers. Actually, my only real expereince with this whole race was my experience with one of the candidates serving in the NH House.

I think District 16 deserves alot better than what its going to get. Former Rep. Terry Pfaff would have been an example of this.

[Steve Mac Donald]

Steven,

Goley's campaign or more likley the NHDP sent out mailers that were attack mailers and more or less lied about Jeff's record, and smeared David Boutin by projecting Goley's actual record on Boutin.

That would help you understand why I wrote the post the way I did. He is being presented as anti-tax and pro small business. Claims his record contradicts. So refusing to debate makes him a chicken (I could have used more offensive terms) because he knows he can't back up the claims under scrutiny.

[Captain Morgan]

Say no to Goley who is a proud owner of a DWI.

[Steve Mac Donald]

Really?

[Geroge Franklin]

The media has been very gentle with their treatment of the reasons why Boutin won and Goley lost. The stories the next day picked up on Goley's assertion that the Democrats "didnt get their message out". this is really very shoddy reporting. Their message was very well broadcast and voters heard it loud and clear; the voters just simply didnt believe it. For Goley it was a campaign of attempted deception; he wanted people to believe that he was an anti-taxer; that he was not part of the Democratic machine's back door strategy to implement an income tax - by calling it something else. What the media should be doing is givng the voters a hearty congratulations for seeing through the deplorable lack of integrity of Goley and inflicting the appropriate punishiment.