Hillary Clinton had a testy exchange Sunday with a heckler who later revealed herself to be a New Hampshire state representative.
“You are very rude, and I’m not going to ever call on you,” Clinton said to the woman who later identified herself as GOP Rep. Katherine Prudhomme-O’Brien.
Prudhomme-O’Brien repeatedly stood up and demanded to be called on. She said later that she wanted to question Hillary Clinton on Bill Clinton’s sex scandals.
The state legislator defended herself after the incident on Facebook.
“Yes, that was me and yes, I am fully aware of how impolite I was,” she wrote. “According to a little sign in Hillary Clinton’s Salem, N.H., office; ‘Well behaved women rarely make history.'”
New Hampshire comes close to direct democracy as one will find in the United States. The state has 400 state representatives, almost as many legislators as whole U.S. House of Representatives.
With a population of 1.3 million, the 41st largest state by population in the union has one state representative for every 3,300 citizens. The lawmakers also earn almost no salary. The result is a state with an obscure, at times kooky group of local lawmakers.
It stands to reason that Clinton didn’t know who State Rep. Prudhomme-O’Brien was.
Prudhomme-O’Brien is in her first term in the New Hampshire House, and represents the town of Derry.
