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Rules, Decorum, Respect (One Year Later)

by: Dean Barker

Thu Sep 15, 2011 at 19:21:35 PM EDT


Candidate for House Speaker Bill O'Brien, August 2010:
Reforming the House

With respect to process, there can be no favorites and no violation of rules. That must end. Decorum and respect for each House member must be a hallmark of the New Hampshire House. The next Speaker must focus on what can be done to improve the capacity for each and every member of the House to best serve his or her constituents.  It must process the people's business in a more efficient, but more open and respectful manner.

House Speaker Bill O'Brien, September 2011:
NH House Speaker William O'Brien puts bill before House after GOP leaders assured vetoes would not come up Wed.
and:
A defiant, House Speaker William O'Brien, R-Mont Vernon, said it's up to him alone to decide when matters come up.
(Tuck's got more.)

(find me > 140 on birch paper; on Twitter < 140)

Dean Barker :: Rules, Decorum, Respect (One Year Later)
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I feel certain (4.00 / 1)
that we can look forward to seeing this on the front page of the UL.  

We just have to get used to the fact that Republicans have a (0.00 / 0)
memory deficit.

Telegraph Editorial (4.00 / 1)
The Nashua Telegraph has an editorial on the subject of the veto override here.

I think the fact of the Speaker is now telling the press one thing and then doing another has gotten their attention.  

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Marcus Aurelius, courtesy of Paul Berch



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