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."