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Legislator who suggested that the "ret*d" should be sent to Siberia resigns
Monday.
A New Hampshire lawmaker resigned Monday amid criticism for suggesting to a
constituent that the state ship people with disabilities to Siberia.
Rep. Martin Harty, a 91-year-old first-term Republican in the state’s House of
Representatives, drew fire after it became public that he told a constituent
that “the world is too populated” with “too many defective people.”
“I wish we had a Siberia so we could ship them all off to freeze to death and
die and clean up the population,” Harty continued, according to the
constituent’s account. He specified that he was referring to “the mentally ill,
the ret*d, people with physical disabilities and drug addictions.”
When questioned about the comments last week, Harty was unapologetic and told
the Concord Monitor that he was “just kidding.”
But on Monday Harty submitted his letter of resignation to state House Speaker
William O’Brien.
“With all the slightly unfavorable publicity I’ve been getting the last few
days, I’ll never be an effective lawmaker,” Harty wrote in the handwritten
letter. “Sorry my big mouth caused this furor.”
Harty’s resignation will become official Tuesday when his letter of resignation
is read on the House floor.
Cathy Bedard, PLA
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