Losing GOP House candidate blasts winner: 'If they had met you they never would have voted for you'
Eric Rottenecker won’t be attending the Republican unity breakfast. The Navy veteran from Bristol was one of three Republicans competing to represent Grafton District 9 in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. He came up short in the primary, losing to incumbent Jeff Shackett and Free Stater activist Robert Hull.
In a letter to the editor of the Laconia Daily Sun, Rottenecker blasted Hull and declared his intent to wage a write-in campaign for the seat. “Just pick up a pen on Nov. 4,” he wrote. “Mistakes can be corrected:”
Bob Hull, the man nobody knows without those signs, or mailers, or full-page advertising, is a free-stater from the town of Grafton. He lives in a commune of free-staters sharing the same address. For those of you who did vote for him and don’t know what a free-stater is, I’ll clue you in: they had unsuccessfully pushed for a resolution to get Grafton to secede from the United Nations, arguing that the U.N. could potentially obtain the authority to impose its own taxes or invade the town. They don’t believe in government. They would like to do away with the Constitution, and are very big on guns. […]
One question I would like to ask of Mr. Hull: why did you sit in your car in the corner of the parking lot all day at the Bristol polls Tuesday and not stand and greet your voters? I’ll answer it for you. If they had met you they never would have voted for you.
One more thing, as soon as the polls closed he ran inside to see what the count was, picked up his signs and beat feet out of there. This is going to be our next Republican representative for the Newfound Lake Region. People, the next time you vote for someone, if you don’t know anything about the candidate then pass over them. Stop wasting your vote on lawn signs.