Colin Van Ostern Refuses To Answer The Tough Questions

New Hampshire’s Union Leader invited Democrat gubernatorial candidate Colin Van Ostern to participate in their Voters First series, something even Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley took part in. But instead, Van Ostern decided to skip the interview, leading the Union Leader to correctly ask if he is unable to answer the tough questions.

Van Ostern’s effort to hide from the voters begs multiple questions: Is he afraid of voters learning the truth about his career as a partisan political operative? Or perhaps Van Ostern now wants to downplay the fact that he was the deciding vote to bring Obamacare to the state. Or why does Van Ostern believe that Washington knows whats best for New Hampshire? If Van Ostern refuses to answer basic questions about his campaign, how can voters trust him to lead? Voters deserve answers from Colin Van Ostern.

Van Ostern declines Union Leader interview: Afraid of tough questions?
Union Leader; 10/8/16

The Democrats’ gubernatorial candidate has declined to participate in the Union Leader and Sunday News Voters First series. If at this point you are wondering just who IS the Democrats’ candidate for governor this year, you are not alone. Colin Van Ostern is his name, at least at the moment. He had another name back when he was representing a conservative, pro-life Republican congressman in Texas.

The fact that he is relatively unknown is one reason why it would have been in his interest to sit down for a recorded and broadcast interview with editors and reporters from New Hampshire’s largest and only statewide newspaper and one of its most-read websites. The fact that national Democrats like Gov. Martin O’Malley and left-leaning independents like U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders have participated in our series and emerged unscarred should allay any concerns young Van Ostern might have about conservatives playing fair.

To be sure, we don’t serve up softball questions. But how are voters to determine a candidate’s fitness to handle New Hampshire’s difficult issues if all he or she is asked are “golly, gee” questions about their favorite pet? (In a call declining to participate, Van Ostern also complained that we were not covering him enough!)

Our co-sponsor for the Voters First series is AARP of New Hampshire, which is interested in Social Security and related retirement/pension issues. We also seek questions from our readers. Van Ostern is dissing them, too.

It puts us in mind of a presidential candidate who once stood in front of this newspaper and was overcome by emotion, ostensibly by something written about him by our newspaper.

Our publisher at the time, the late William Loeb, said that if a candidate for the White House could become so unstrung by what a mere newspaper said of him, such a candidate should not be let anywhere near nuclear weapons.
Is Van Ostern afraid that we would make him cry?

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