NH-Sen: 20 Questions

#19 is a sore point (0.00 / 0)

Ayotte may have trouble with #19.

19. Do you agree with state Sen. Peter Bragdon and Republican Party Chairman John Sununu that the proposed use of the surplus from the JUA to help balance New Hampshire's budget was an attempted theft?

Regardless of how the JUA court case turns out and regardless of what happens with the state budget, the Republicans are going to be complaining about the JUA funds transfer.  And Ayotte was Lynch's Attorney General at the time.  


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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 07:21:30 AM CDT

DeRosa's "Loser" video does not mention Ayotte (0.00 / 0)

Tom DeRosa over at our opposite color web site put an anti-Lynch video up, all about the JUA thing.  He does not mention the fact that Ayotte was the AG at the time:

http://www.redhampshire.com/lo...

(I seriously doubt he paid for the rights to use 56 seconds of the Beatles music.)


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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 07:48:46 AM CDT

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the video itself, which may not stay up for long: (4.00 / 1)

It is ironic that the NH GOP thinks it's such a disgrace to be a loser, given their many defeats over the past several years.

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 07:56:00 AM CDT

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Um, Mr Sununu? (0.00 / 0)

Is this meant to be subtle?

She was a girl in a million, my friend.
I should have known she would win in the end.

It isn't.

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by: JimC @ Thu Aug 13, 2009 at 11:27:54 AM CDT

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There's a story (4.00 / 1)

in the Concord Monitor about Ayotte's teevee-less roll-out in Wolfeboro. Bad timing when you're competing with the POTUS, but maybe they wanted it that way.

She's strictly law and order:

"One of the important ways we're going to keep our nation safe is by vigilantly protecting the individual right to bear arms so that we can protect ourselves," Ayotte said.

When asked by the Monitor, Ayotte said she is pro-life. She later clarified that she would support abortion in limited cases, such as rape, incest or medical emergency. Ayotte said she is against same-sex marriage and believes marriage is between a man and a woman.

Ayotte criticized the federal stimulus plan even though she helped the state set up the cold case file using stimulus money.

It seems she is a rather bland re-incarnation of the Rs who went before.

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by: Jennifer Daler @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 07:31:49 AM CDT

The Slaughter of Children (4.00 / 1)

"One of the important ways we're going to keep our nation safe is by vigilantly protecting the individual right to bear arms so that we can protect ourselves," Ayotte said.

The CDC disagrees with you, Ms. Ayotte.  

The rate for firearm-related deaths among children in the United States (1.66) was 2.7-fold greater than that in the country with the next highest rate (Finland, 0.62)

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/previe...

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 08:54:11 AM CDT

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well actually (0.00 / 0)

"Ayotte criticized the federal stimulus plan even though she helped the state set up the cold case file using stimulus money."

In all fairness to Ayotte, the cold case unit was originally going to be funded primarily out of regular dollars.  The stimulus idea came up after the bill was going to be killed on the premise that this was great idea which we couldn't afford.

On the other hand, it is interesting that the stimulus czar, Bud Fitch, was and still is the Deputy AG.  He is doing a fine job and is a nonpartisan career public servant who has served under AGs and governors from both parties.  But, if the Ayotte was so adamantly opposed to the stimulus, why did she willingly go along with assigning her top aide to the stimulus czarship?

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 11:15:21 AM CDT

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What's your point? (4.00 / 1)

That's true of most state stimulus dollars: the states would have funded them if they had the money.  

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by: elwood @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 20:40:22 PM CDT

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Fairness? (0.00 / 0)

This is what she said previously:

While Attorney General, Ayotte made strong endorsements of President Obama's Recovery and Reinvestment Act.  She told the press that a stimulus bill was necessary to stem a rise in crime during the economic downturn, saying: "in times of economic uncertainty and with the potential for increasing crime, we need to continue to support these programs."

http://www.nhpoliticalreport.c...

She encouraged county, local and non-profits to apply for federal stimulus grants, she did not just look for money for the cold case squad.  She wasn't worried about deficit spending then. As for the cold case squad, if she really felt the way she says she feels about the stimulus funding, she would have said, no, we'll just have to go without this program.  Elwood is right on this.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 22:06:18 PM CDT

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scorecard (4.00 / 3)

So, we now have some answers to some questions (with some reading between the lines):

3. Roe v. Wade should be overturned
4. Well, I want to look moderate, but I don't want to annoy John Sununu, so I'll agree that global warming is "real", and maybe human activity  contributes, but let's not anything about it.
9. I really don't agree with her on anything, but Judd Gregg voted for her.
11. No, even though I worked really hard to get stimulus money before, now that I am running in a Republican primary I have to flipflop.
17. No - why should gay people have the same rights as me?

 



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 07:56:28 AM CDT

oops (4.00 / 2)

#4 should have said "lets not do anything about it".



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 08:10:03 AM CDT

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New Hampshire is now a marriage equality state. (4.00 / 1)

That means that to support the Defense of Marriage Act is to support the federal government abdicating its and other states' Constitutional obligations to respect New Hampshire law.

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by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Wed Aug 12, 2009 at 22:51:06 PM CDT

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