{"id":873,"date":"2020-06-24T08:19:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/?p=873"},"modified":"2020-06-24T08:19:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T12:19:38","slug":"diverse-candidates-should-be-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/2020\/06\/24\/diverse-candidates-should-be-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Diverse Candidates Should Be Celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 23, 2020
\nCONTACT: joe@nhgop.org<\/strong><\/p>\n

CONCORD – NHGOP Chairman Stephen Stepanek released the following statement after Eddie Edwards withdrew his nomination to serve as Director of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification. After the mistreatment of Ryan Terrell, the Democrat Executive Council’s treatment of African-American nominees cannot go unnoticed:
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\n\u201cThe Democrats on the Executive Council, led by Andru Volinsky, have once again disappointed the people of New Hampshire by failing to hold a public hearing for Eddie Edwards\u2019 nomination as the Director of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification. In an era where the nomination of diverse and qualified candidates should be celebrated, Democrats like Andru Volinsky, Debra Pignatelli, and Mike Cryans ought to be ashamed of themselves for dismissing the qualified nominations of candidates of color as \u201ctokenism\u201d for no reason other than for their own political agenda.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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BACKGROUND:
\nLetter from Eddie Edwards to Governor Chris Sununu withdrawing his name for consideration after the Democrat Executive Council refused to schedule a hearing.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I’m not sure if there has ever been a better example of structural political racism. This is text book discrimination; delaying, redefining, denying, moving the goal post or using a different set of standards.”<\/em><\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Union Leader: Council rejects nomination of black businessman for state ed board <\/a><\/p>\n

Rogers Johnson, chairman of the Governor\u2019s Advisory Council on Diversity and Inclusion and president of the Seacoast chapter of the NAACP, called the council\u2019s vote \u201ctone deaf.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it is really disheartening of a person of any race, creed, color or age to want to serve New Hampshire citizens and to be met with personal feedback on my character,\u201d<\/em> Terrell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am saddened by the fact that my wanting to be on the board has translated into a conversation about race.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 23, 2020 CONTACT: joe@nhgop.org CONCORD – NHGOP Chairman Stephen Stepanek released the following statement after Eddie Edwards withdrew his nomination to serve as Director of the Office of Professional Licensure and Certification. After the mistreatment of Ryan Terrell, the Democrat Executive Council’s treatment of African-American nominees cannot go unnoticed: \u201cThe Democrats […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrollcountyrepublicans.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}