Frugal Republican John Stephen

by: Dean Barker

Sun Sep 05, 2010 at 07:01:34 AM EDT

Fiscal conservative John Stephen knows how to run a frugal campaign!

WHEN A QUESTION comes up about Republican John Stephen's campaign for governor, it usually goes to Greg Moore for an answer.
But Moore's name does not appear on Stephen's campaign finance reports as having received a paycheck -- yet.

..."I have not received any compensation from John Stephen or from anybody else for the purposes of work I have done for the campaign. None. Not one dollar," he said.

Frugal, I tell you!:

Some of [then HHS Commissioner] Stephen's other moves struck State House observers as galling. For instance, he added a former campaign aide, Greg Moore, to the health department's payroll as his public affairs director. Moore described his mission at the time as "to communicate all the good things we do." But the hiring seemed little more than political patronage to some.
"That was a standing joke in the State House," former Republican state representative Elizabeth Hager said of Moore's position.

Moore is now a spokesman for Stephen's gubernatorial campaign.

Whether it's using the state money to create a position for former campaign help, or secretive $300,000 payoffs to clean up after the mess made from a partisan resume building exercise, New Hampshire Republican candidates for higher office are frugal!

Must be a Benson thing.

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