New Hampshire
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9:21 p.m.
One of the biggest stories this week was Susan G. Komen's decision to cut funding for breast cancer screenings from Planned Parenthood, and their subsequent decision three days later to restore funding after the internet blew up with outrage and people across the country donated $3 million to Planned Parenthood in the space of 72 hours. I am glad Komen reversed course, but I think they have perman...
Blue Hampshire - 7:47 p.m.
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 
At the end of the day, by long House tradition, Unanimous Consent is given to individual House members to talk about, well, pretty much anything. Today, we had one member give a remembrance of a former member of the House who passed away recently. Another member detailed some Civil War history. In between, there was this remarkable speech, given by BlueHampshire's own Marj...
Blue Hampshire - Wed 5:06 p.m.
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
Free Stater Rep. Seth Cohn, who portrayed himself as a Republican to the voters of my district, Merrimack-06, has a new bill. It would abolish the sobriety checkpoints that catch drunk drivers . Last year our state suffered the fewest highway fatalities in 51 years. Considering the difference in population between then and now, that is quite an achievement. Rep. Cohn's bill empowers drunk dri...
Blue Hampshire - Sun 6:29 a.m.
We've been taking a look at some of the proposed legislation for 2012. Here are some of the 175 bills that were withdrawn: 2026 establishing a permanent state defense force. Poor Itse. That he couldn't get this bill through THIS legislature must be breaking his heart. 2045 prohibiting state courts from using a foreign law or legal code in any ruling. Because this happens all the time...
Blue Hampshire - Fri 9:26 p.m.
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
HB 1285 AN ACT repealing the state art fund. SPONSORS: Rep. D. McGuire, Merr 8 Apparently Dan McGuire doesn't want any tainted National Endowment for the Arts money coming into NH, and doesn't want NH tax dollars invested in art. Undoubtedly he wants us to think this is a heroic money saving measure. Some of us remember that last year he cosponsored a bill that called for NH taxpayers to spen...
Blue Hampshire - Jan 25
Carroll County House District 2 covers the towns of Albany, Eaton, and Madison. This district used to be represented by the hard working and well respected Representative Bob Bridgham of Eaton. In 2010, a toxic red tide swept through our state, and anyone who had an "R" next to their name was elected. Such was the case in this district. The toxicity was at such an extreme level, that voters in thi...
Blue Hampshire - Jan 24
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
Rep. Robert ( Biblical Literacy ) Kingsbury has been busy coming up with a bunch of nuisance bills. Job creation isn't big on his agenda, but social engineering certainly is: CACR-24: A constitutional amendment stipulating that no person shall be eligible to become a judge until they're 60 years of age. Apparently I have a second career to look forward to. In a few years. Kingsbury is the so...
Blue Hampshire - Jan 24
Another bill making its way through the legislature this session is HB1560, which has the innoucous title, "The Interstate Health Care Compact". This bill would have state law supersede federal law regarding health care within the state. This may sound like "just" another effort to do away with health care reform, but it goes deeper than that. This bill would require the federal government to bloc...
Blue Hampshire - Jan 23
HB 1147 is an act proclaiming March 31 of each year as a day to remember Teri Schiavo. Intent. The general court hereby establishes March 31 as a day to remember Terri Schiavo who died tragically on March 31, 2005. The general court recognizes that her death occurred as a result of the failure of the state and federal court systems to uphold the words of the United States Declaration of Indepen...
Blue Hampshire - Jan 22
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
