Is Victoria Sullivan’s Dream 2B Queen of the Queen City or of an Independent New Hampshire?
Mayoral Candidate’s Ally’s Goal is For the Granite State to Secede from the United States — OPINION
Manchester Ink Link carried a story today on New Hampshire State Senator Denise Ricciardi (R-Bedford) endorsing Victoria Sullivan for Mayor of Manchester. The article quotes Ricciardi as saying:
“We desperately need her leadership in the Corner Office in Manchester.”
A reasonable person may ask, “Where the hell does someone from rich bitch Bedford come off interfering in Queen City politics, and why is Victoria Sullivan publicizing the opinion from someone who is not from Manchester?”
Is there something deeper than the dearth of Manchesterites with substantial reputations endorsing her that makes State Sen. Ricciardi’s endorsement of Victoria Sullivan more significant? Let’s take a look.
Gerrymander + Secession
Rumors have it that the Republicans in Concord plan to gerrymander Senate District 20, now represented by Lou D’Allesandro from Ward 10 on Manchester’s West Side, to throw Bedford into the district in order to defeat the incumbent and flip it to the GOP.
Senate District 20 comprises Manchester Wards 10 and 11 on the West Side and Manchester Wards 3 and 4 across the River, plus Goffstown. The thoroughly Republican Goffstown was added to the District by Republicans during their last gerrymander, in order to give a Republican candidate a chance to defeat D’Allesandro.
So far, that hasn’t happened. The State GOP is hoping that putting Republican powerhouse Bedford into the mix in lieu of Goffstown will improve their chances of unseating the Lion of the New Hampshire Senate.
As I have said, I’m sure this is A-OK with Victoria Sullivan, for a Republican from Bedford to represents one-third of Manchester in the Senate.
In Sullivan’s ramblings on Tammy Simmons’ MancTalk show (when they weren’t both running down French Canadians), she equated living in Goffstown to living in Manchester. She was pissed that long-time Manchesterites considered her an outsider for having only lived in the Queen City for about a baker’s dozen years, and ignore the fact that she had lived in Goffstown.
Victoria Sullivan seems to lack an understanding not only of geography and civics, but of basic political psychology. Goffstown is NOT Manchester. Hell, most Queen City people on the east side of the Merrimack River act as if the West Side isn’t a part of Manchester!
So I guess in Victoria Sullivan’s mind, if Gofftown = Manchester then Bedford is Manchester, too. Perhaps in Victoria Sullivan’s mind, this State Senator from Bedford actually DOES represents Manchester, as Kentucky’s own Rand Paul represents New Hampshire.
We are talking about the Republican fantasy Manchester that Victoria Sullivan as “Mayor of Manchester” lords over, kind of like the Republican fantasy that Donald Trump still is President of the United States.
Think of that incredible slogan on her sign, which should have been just a slugline throway. Her signs don’t say “Victoria Sullivan for Mayor,” they say “Victoria Sullivan — Mayor of Manchester.”
Essentially, her signs state that Victoria Sullivan IS “Mayor of Manchester” and did so during her 2019 campaign that led to a landslide loss to Mayor Joyce Craig. I guess in her mind…. Well, we all have our dreams and daydreams, don’t we? Is there a secret Manchester that Victoria Sullivan lords over?
One can understand Rich Girard day-dreaming he is Mayor of Manchester (and doing so for — oh, say — the last 30 years), but not his really believing it. He after all suffered a landslide loss of his own to Bob Baines.
Queen Victoria of New Hampshire
Victoria’s sign slugline — Mayor of Manchester — suggests an imperial mindset. (One can imagine the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s warhorse Kathy Sullivan terming it “Delusions of Grandeur.)
But bear with me — if Victoria Sullivan is Mayor of Manchester in her heart, doesn’t that make the perceived newsworthiness of the Senator Ricciardi endorsement more understandable?
For myself and the vast majority of Queen City voters, what some Republican from Bedford thinks isn’t worth [EXPLETIVE DELETED]. Honestly: What Manchesterite cares what some politician from Bedford thinks about who should be mayor?
Perhaps Victoria Sullivan — seemingly no fan of the West Side’s older more established residents that stand in the way of her Free State Project allies politically taking over Wards 10 & 11 — in her heart of hearts sees herself not just as Mayor of Manchester but President of New Hampshire.
On Tammy Simmons show, she expressed her support for an organization linked to the Free State Project, the wife of whose spokesperson — Tammy Simmons’s pal, South Africa-born Carla Gericke (who was defeated by Lou D’Alessandro )— is an advocate of the Granite State seceding from the United States.
Perhaps, in an independent nation of New Hampshire, Victoria Sullivan could actually be Queen!
If we can dream the dreams along with the dreamers, dream this:
The new Nation of New Hampshire laying siege to the Portsmouth Navy Yard (which a dastardly and now unrecognized U.S. Supreme Court seceded to Maine, a foreign state within a foreign state whose lobster beds the New Hampshire libertarians’ spiritual godfather Mel Thomson coveted, along with nuclear weapons for the New Hampshire National Guard). The new Naton of New Hampshire succeeds to take the Navy back, and backed by new New Hampshire Navy vessels built at the Portsmouth Navy Yard patrolling the Connecticut River, revives old territorial claims on Vermont, sort of akin to Hitler wanting the Corridor to Danzig back. Half of Vermont is returned to New Hampshire , and with New York State threatening to revive ITS old territorial claims on the Green Mountain State, the rump of Vermont secedes from the United States and joins the Nation of New Hampshire. — And if one narrows one’s eyes to little slits and squints at the Isle of Shoals and sees them as some off-shore dependency —shades of Napoleon III — might not New Hampshire declare itself an Empire and Queen Victoria an Empress?
A gal can dream, can’t she?
And that’s just what Victoria Sullivan is doing, if she thinks she can defeat Joyce Craig. She lost by a landslide last time, and will lose by an even bigger margin this time. Which means an independent country of New Hampshire likely is her best bet to obtain political office higher than a $100/yr. state rep.
The truth is, her chances of becoming Mayor of Manchester in fact are about equal to those of her becoming Empress of New Hampshire.
Close your eyes, and dream on.
