March 9, 2010Amos Tuck
So in the U.S. House today we can consider the end for Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.). Consider the play by play. Leadership was notified of accusations a few weeks ago. They forwarded to the Ethics Committee, which is now investigating. The House Speaker and House Majority Leader don’t have his back, nor does the White [...]
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March 9, 2010Matt Suermann
Today, fmr. Gov. John H. Sununu, John Stephen, candidate for Governor, and Ovide Lamontagne, candidate for US Senate, commented on the passing of former NH First Lady Gale Thomson.
Gov. John H. Sununu:
Sununu Statement On The Passing Of Gale Thomson
CONCORD – Former New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu released the following statement today on the passing [...]
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March 9, 2010Matt Suermann
Last week was a bad one for Democrats on the ethics front. In New Hampshire, a Lynch appointee and senior House Democrat Leader are now under investigation and Democrat Members of the Congressional Delegation are under fire for taking campaign funds from disgraced Congressman Charlie Rangel. While some have dumped the dirty cash, Paul Hodes [...]
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March 8, 2010Amos Tuck
On early Sunday night “the people” may have been having dinner with their family, watching the Red Carpet coverage of the Oscars or the clever counter-programming of the Godfather on AMC.
But “man of the people” Democrat Paul Hodes did it the populist way. He spent his Sunday night in liberal utopia — Portsmouth’s Market Square [...]
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March 8, 2010Matt Suermann
Today Ovide Lamontagne, Manchester attorney and US Senate candidate, issued the following statement in support of a one year moratorium on earmarks.
Lamontagne Statement in Support of One‐Year Earmark Moratorium
Lauds Leadership by Senator DeMint and Calls
for Permanent Ban
(Manchester, NH) – Ovide Lamontagne, candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, today issued the following statement in support [...]
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March 8, 2010steve vaillancourt
Ready for a dollop of sarcasm.
Manchester Democratic Representatives took a fine day to revert to their old tactics of disenfranchising voters by not showing up in force. Last Wednesday, the very day the House was voting on an education funding bill which would have taken no less than $29 million away from Manchester, both needed [...]
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March 8, 2010Matt Suermann
The now simmering controversy with Rep. Daniel Eaton and state liqour Commissioner Mark Bodi appears to be close to boiling over. Today, the NHGOP callled on State House Dems to investigate Rep. Eaton and remove him from his leadership position until the outcome of the ethics investigation for his role in allegedly interfering with an [...]
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March 7, 2010Amos Tuck
I have read a lot online about this editorial Sean Mahoney wrote for his BusinessNH Magazine where he claims to have all these things in common with the Tea Party movement.
There is significant discussion about whether and how to define the Tea Party movement, including those from the inside who claim that the movement shouldn’t [...]
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March 7, 2010Karl Zahn
Seems simple enough, doesn’t it? You don’t even need aviation experience and you know what that means. That clearance, delivered by a youngster to a commercial aircraft, has unleashed a storm of complaint across the country.
Days ago, an Air Traffic Controller at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, brought his young [...]
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