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From the Globe: Republican House Leader Rep. D.J. Bettencourt of Salem introduced the House Republican agenda Thursday. Bettencourt said the House was focusing on changes to economic and education policy that would bring job creators to New Hampshire and put citizens back to work. Hot-button social issues like gun rights, immigration and labor laws were all absent from the agenda. The most no...
Blue Hampshire - Thu 5:24 p.m. - 13 clicks 
Yesterday James O'Keefe put out a press release. It begins: PARAMUS, N.J., Jan. 30, 2012 PRNewswire via COMTEX -- On New Hampshire Primary Day, Project Veritas, while violating no laws, exposed the ease in which voter fraud can occur in states lacking voter identification requirements. That's a bare-faced lie. New Hampshire law is clear: 659:34 Wrongful Voting; Penalties for Voter Fr...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 3:26 p.m. - 13 clicks
This morning Governor John Lynch will deliver his final State of the State address to the General Court. His record-setting eight years in office have been characterized, perhaps, by cautious steering between ideological extremes. As his era ends, New Hampshire (like the nation) is slowly recovering from the national recession, having suffered a bit less than other states. He leaves the st...
Blue Hampshire - Tue 4:05 a.m. - 16 clicks
Neal Kurk gets on the social engineering train. From Boston.com: A New Hampshire lawmaker wants the state to stop rewarding women who have babies after going on welfare by raising their monthly cash grant -- a move opponents say would penalize the infants for actions by the parents. Rep. Neal Kurk, a Weare Republican, told the House Finance Committee on Thursday that the average monthly incre...
Blue Hampshire - Jan 27 - 18 clicks
New Hampshire House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt (print only UL): "The [health care compact] bill was absolutely not written by ALEC," Bettencourt said. "It is a classic tactic of the Democrats to demonize every piece of legislation that they don't like as the product of an 'out of state group' to avoid a substantive discussion on the real issues facing New Hampshire. It's a completely dishone...
Blue Hampshire - Jan 24 - 3 clicks
HB 1712: An act relative to teaching the Bible in public schools. Sponsored by Bergevin, DeLemus, Itse, Tremblay, and Kingsbury. There's a bag of mixed nuts. The text contains a grandiose justification: Intent and Justification. The general court finds that New Hampshire Republicans are united by our belief in God, individual liberty, personal responsibility, places of worship, communities, ...
Blue Hampshire - Jan 21 - 2 clicks
