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Ovide Lamontagne: O'Brien Agenda "Just the Beginning"

by: William Tucker

Mon Sep 19, 2011 at 15:18:20 PM EDT

Four days after Gov. John Lynch announced he will not be a candidate for re-election, Ovide Lamontagne today launched his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.

"We know that there is such important work to be done right here in New Hampshire, and the rest of the country is looking to us for the message we send," Lamontagne told the Bedford Republican Committee during a fundraiser breakfast at the Manchester Country Club.

Here's a small sample of the important work Lamontagne wants to accomplish:

  • He supports federal legislation to make English the official language of the United States.
  • He would abolish the Department of Education.
  • He supports a constitutional amendment overturning Roe v. Wade, which limits a state's right to outlaw abortion.
  • He calls the U.S. tax code a book of "tyranny and oppression" and says "it has to end now."
  • He called for a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between one man and one woman.

    Lamontagne would rubber stamp the agenda advanced by Speaker O'Brien and the extreme Free State/Tea Party elements of the GOP. In fact, he says, the damage inflicted by the GOP-dominated legislature thus far is "just the beginning." 

    "Right here in New Hampshire, [we have a] new Speaker of the House, new Senate President, a Republican conservative majority in both houses and it's just the beginning."
    William Tucker :: Ovide Lamontagne: O'Brien Agenda "Just the Beginning"
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    Ovide Lamontagne: O'Brien Agenda "Just the Beginning" | 9 comments
    Lamontagne candadacy begins (0.00 / 0)
    "And in it's bowels it carries the inquisition."

    "We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet
    Horrifying. n/t (4.00 / 2)

    Wow (0.00 / 0)
    n/t
    I shouldn't watch the news while eating (4.00 / 1)
    I almost choked on my food when I heard Lamontagne say "I want to bring people together like John Lynch."

    After I finished nearly gagging I laughed really hard.

    "We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet

    He supports federal legislation to make English the official language of the United States. (0.00 / 0)
    Would we have take down the highway signs that say "Beinvenue!"
    That'll sink him like a stone (0.00 / 0)
    Did he hire Bill Binnie's consultants?!
    [ Parent ]
    So Kevin Smith will run to Ovide's LEFT??? (4.00 / 2)

    Heh. (0.00 / 0)
    Nat'l Journal, 1997, on Ovide's first Gov run:

    As voters moved beyond the tax issue, they apparently saw Lamontagne as an extremist; free-and-easy New Hampshire has never had much of a religious right.



    birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker
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    Beating Up On Others (4.00 / 1)
    It's amazing, and so sad and unAmerican, that some candidates think that the way they can get votes is to beat up on people, such as gays and lesbians, the poor, those in need, our newest citizens-to-be, or women.  

    I think as America matures, many of our future citizens yet not born will look back with shame on some of their fellow Americans of long ago.  

    Ovide Lamontagne: O'Brien Agenda "Just the Beginning" | 9 comments

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