This story is too much.
“I am sorry for the people that can’t let my past go,” she wrote on her public Facebook page.
I suppose some let the past go easier than others.
In addition to the conspiracy to commit fraud charges, Laughton was charged with slashing the tires of a neighbor’s car in 2006. The same year, Laughton reportedly admitted that she faked illness to gain an ambulance ride for herself and her now ex-wife, Lisa Laughton, also a Gate City selectman, from Weirs Beach back toward their home.
Laughton’s felony conviction stems from a 2007 incident, the Laconia Daily Sun reported Saturday, when Laughton and her ex-wife reportedly opened a credit card in a former neighbor’s name, using it to purchase electronics and pay bills.
Laughton was indicted on one felony count of conspiracy to commit fraudulent use of a credit card; one count of conspiracy to commit identity fraud; and one count of falsifying physical evidence, for disposing two computers, two cellphones and a printer after learning of the police investigation.
Ed Donegan 
Carl W
I am ok with the public’s decision on this one, especially since electoral fraud does not seem an issue.
There are two point I would make. Actually three.
1) Thanks for all your great work and book authorship “Injustice.”
2)His crimes, using a phony credit card trying to keep the lights and the heater running, faking an illness to get a free (and expensive) ambulance ride are precisely the kind of social ills that frequently cost a great deal to society. I have heard ambulance abuse is a huge cost to society. I hope his confession can lead to that being addressed by policy makers.
3)It never hurts to know who is around. The great thing about free speech is that we get a sense for people we may not otherwise know anything about. People airing their virtues and vices and then working it all out is part of the process.
We should not be allowing convicted felons to hold office at any level. No way – no how. Period. End of story.