Anti-Marriage Gov Candidate Wants More Marriage

My favorite part. . . . (4.00 / 3)

She also said New Hampshire's government was bloated with "redundant positions" and waste. Asked for some examples of those redundancies, Testerman said, "I can't really give specifics. But I've got ideas about where it might be."

I'm thinking about trusting her.  Then again, I am also convinced that Bristol and Levi just could be the love story of the 21st century.

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 06:35:06 AM CDT

They all have "ideas" (4.00 / 1)

about waste and redundancy.  They just aren't specifics.  It's a disease of the mind.

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 14:05:34 PM CDT

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Is she a member of (4.00 / 4)

the American Taliban?

Perhaps if the young women in our state were conscripted to marriage at 16 we would not need our scant social services.

Scary stuff.

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by: Mike Hoefer @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 07:25:38 AM CDT

Marriage... (4.00 / 2)

...or else!

A photo from the campaign site, titled "Karen won a Glock at the NRA Banquet"

(h/t a reader)

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 17:59:36 PM CDT

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You Are BAD, Dean (0.00 / 0)

...neat find!

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 19:45:02 PM CDT

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A Very Interesting Interview (4.00 / 2)

It shows a mind a work.  I guess.  

I accept her challenge about getting married, and I thank her for wanting more of us to do that and to make a commitment to share our love and commitment with one another.  

If she knows of a nice man she would like to recommend who I meet, I'd appreciate that too.  We would go through the dating and romance stage first, of course -- some movies, lots of talk, walks on the beach, maybe a ride on a Ferris Wheel and Roller Coaster, go swimming, maybe some camping, checking out each other's cooking skills -- but I do like the idea of marriage.  I guess on that we agree now.  

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 07:29:27 AM CDT

She doesn't know the NH Constitution (4.00 / 2)

One of her major planks is to call for a referendum on marriage equality. She apparently is entirely unfamiliar with the New Hampshire constitution, which places sole legislative authority in the state legislature. The New Hampshire government is not permitted to abdicate its legislative role and ask the rest of the population to pass laws instead. It would require a state constitutional amendment to change that situation - and even if it did, as far back as 2003 a UNH poll found a 54-42 majority in favor of marriage equality in New Hampshire.

So, basically, Testerman wants the state to waste time and money doing something it's not allowed to do and that would very likely affirm current law anyhow if it was put to the test. Give it up, radical righties - New Hampshire is a state of tolerance.

Only the left protects anyone's rights.

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by: RealNRH @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 09:57:17 AM CDT

I'm so tired of these out of state haters... (4.00 / 2)

moving here and immediately setting out to force their wackadoo ideas on the Granite State.

2012 starts today.

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by: Ray Buckley @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 10:53:23 AM CDT

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How? (0.00 / 0)

HOw do we get the information out that holding a public position is not an opportunity to tell people what to do, but an obligation to serve -- i.e. do what the public wants?

On the other hand, people looking out for each other is good and fifty-one percent of American adults being single is not good news.  And denying that some people are married is not going to improve that number.

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by: hannah @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 12:54:19 PM CDT

Dartmouth Dem (0.00 / 0)

Loved your comment, Dartmouth Dem.

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by: chrisv @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 13:22:29 PM CDT

Thank you :) (0.00 / 0)

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 14:44:27 PM CDT

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When (4.00 / 2)

When will Kelly Ayotte endorse Karen Testerman?  They sound like they're from the same mold.

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by: mevansnh @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 15:34:53 PM CDT

Speaking of marriage (4.00 / 2)

Did anyone else notice during all the legislating in the past year-plus that thirteen year olds can get married?  (At least if it's a hetero marriage, 18 is the marriageable age for same sex marriage.)  I'm surprised that anti-marriage advocates haven't seen fit to address this amongst everything else in bills like HB1590 from the beginning of the year.

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by: Vis Unita Fortior @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 19:00:44 PM CDT

Yes, And We Discussed It Considerably... (4.00 / 3)

...that's been in NH law for many years, and it's with parental/guardian permission.  The reason being that some religions are very negative on birth without marriage, so the State law allows for remedy if pregnancy occurs, if they wish to have a marriage under 18.  In that way, that statutory provision is a positive thing.  

In House Bill 436 I chose, and others agreed, not to address the matter to keep it from being controversial for same-gendered marriages, which have a requirement of 18.  

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Fri Aug 06, 2010 at 19:50:28 PM CDT

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It was once a question (0.00 / 0)

on Hollywood Squares in the 1970s.

2012 starts today.

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by: Ray Buckley @ Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 06:29:50 AM CDT

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And BTW, (0.00 / 0)

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by: Lucy Weber @ Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 07:47:47 AM CDT

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yep (0.00 / 0)

I noticed that too.  I think the issue came up during the hearings, although the Judiciary Committee wisely chose to sidestep it.

BTW, maybe this is the place to ask: how come marriage bills get sent to Judiciary and not to Children & Family Law?  

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 08:43:26 AM CDT

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And BTW, it's only girls. (0.00 / 0)

Boys have to wait til they are 14 to marry.

The rationale, such as it is, has been explained to me that girls can get pregnant at 13, and therefore their parents should have the ability to hustle them into marriage.  The logic (!) behind this, and behind the determination that for boys, the age is 14, leaves me breathless.

(I have no idea why some posts take flight and post themselves before I have completed them, as did the one above, not can I determine why, as in my first attempt at posting this completed comment, it vanished and did not post at all.)

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by: Lucy Weber @ Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 07:58:06 AM CDT

the reality behind the logic (0.00 / 0)

is simple. According to Guttmacher, 2/3 of teens who get pregnant are impregnated by adult men - men over the age of 18.

A thirteen year old girl is probably not getting pregnant by a 14 year old boy.  

member of the professional left  

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by: susanthe @ Sun Aug 08, 2010 at 19:47:39 PM CDT

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Newt Gingrich (0.00 / 0)

weighs in on marriage.

Hilarity ensues.

birch, finch, beech

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by: Dean Barker @ Sat Aug 07, 2010 at 08:45:44 AM CDT