WMUR said:
Former New Hampshire state Rep. Stacie Laughton pleaded guilty ...
Let me remind non-Americans that a "state Rep." is NOT what is commonly meant by a "Rep." There are about 1000 top politicians in Washington who rank as a "Rep" (Representative to Congress) or higher. There are 50 states, so 50 batches of "State Reps" and, while not quite "a dime a dozen," politicians of this importance form a MUCH larger pool than the top 1000 Feds.
New Hampshire is not a large state: it ranks #42 out of the 50 by population. And the N.H. legislature has 424 members (400+24 for the two Houses). California -- a state which dwarfs New Hampshire -- has only 120 legislators (80+40).
IOW, Derec is "scraping the bottom of the barrel" to come up with a sex offender, supposedly on a par with Speaker Dennis Hastert, a rapist whose position was so high he would automatically have become President if Clinton-Gore both died during 1999-2000 or Bush-Cheney both died during 2001-2007. Hastert molested at least four boys as young as 14 years of age during his time as a high school wrestling coach.
This article does not mention it, but Laughton is a Democrat.
Yes; Derec really would comb through newspapers, and then research party affiliation to find a counterpart to Repugnants like Hastert. The fact that he was satisfied to find a STATE Rep tells us all we need to know. And we don't know how many state Reps he had to pass up before extra Googling found one with the dreadful "Dem" label!
From an earlier article:
NH Chronicle said:
Laughton, 41, of Nashua, became a star attraction in the state Democratic Party as New Hampshire’s first transgender person elected to the legislature.
Transgender too! "Two birds with one stone" for the haters of Dems and queers. Congrats to Derec, I guess. Try using ChatGPT: With precise instruction it can probably find another handful of state Reps as "evidence" to support your "same same" delusion.