New Hampshire Republican House Representative Steve Vaillancourt posted recently in his blog that incumbent Democrat Annie Kuster will lose to challenger Marilinda Garcia because she is “too ugly“.
He cites a study that claims that attractive candidates are more likely to win than their less attractive counterparts.
This follows on the heels of his performance in House chambers. On May 15, 2012, Vaillancourt was temporarily suspended from the House floor after stating “Sieg Heil” in the direction of the Speaker, Bill O’Brien. The action came after Vaillancourt objected to limitations on debate over a voter ID bill, only to be ruled out of order by the Speaker. An apology committee of three (Rep. Shawn Jasper, R-Hudson, Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, and Rep. David B. Campbell, D-Nashua) was formed in order to compel Vaillancourt to form an acceptable apology to the House; Vaillancourt offered two unaccepted apologies, one offering never to mention any German words on the floor, until his third apology was finally accepted by the House. Vaillancourt was the first member of the New Hampshire House to be ejected from the chamber in over two decades.
He was a longtime friend with Democrat Raymond Buckley, and in the middle of Buckley’s campaign for chairmanship of the NH Democratic Party in 2007, leveled accusations that Buckley was in possession of child pornography, causing Buckley to temporarily suspend his campaign. Vaillancourt later admitted that he had no proof to back up his allegations, and Buckley went on to win his bid for chairmanship.
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