It's funny because they can't get rid of him.

Hobbes · 05-01-2001 1:56pm #1

They had it on the news this morning, a lot of the people who voted for him didn't realise what he stood for.

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NUT POL: I'LL BE TOUGH TO CRACK
Thursday,January 4,2001
By TRACY CONNOR (New York Post)

A newly elected member of the New Hampshire state
Legislature who has advocated killing cops and beating
women defended himself against calls for his resignation
yesterday.

"I am not a nut," Tom Alciere, 41, said at a lunchtime news
conference after lawmakers convened a new session.

Alciere, a Republican who won election by 55 votes, kept his
bizarre views to himself during a low-key campaign - but he'd
aired them on the Internet and in letters to newspapers in the
past.

His rantings include:

* The comment that "nobody will ever be safe until the last
cop is dead," on a cybersite in 1999.

* A letter to the editor that said, "A woman needs to be
dragged by the hair and either threatened with a bat or hit
with a bat once in a while," according to police.

* A reference to slain state troopers as "enemy officers, in a
1997 letter to the editor.

* His analysis that he was elected by a "bunch of fat, stupid,
ugly old ladies that watch soap operas, play bingo, read
tabloids and don't know the metric system," posted on a Web
site after the election.

Since his opinions and 1990 bust for resisting arrest became
public Sunday, politicians and police have lambasted Alciere
and demanded he step down.

But New Hampshire has no procedure for recalling state
representatives, and the married factory inspector is
expected to serve.

"As despicable as the ideas are, the complaints against him
are for his ideas," said Peter Burling, the House Democratic
leader.

Alciere said flatly that he won't resign, and insisted that his
"harmless rantings" won't influence his work.

Asked how he managed to keep his views under wraps
during his fourth campaign for public office, Alciere had a
simple explanation.

"Nobody asked," he said. </font>