About
Learn More about our progressive online community for the Granite State.

Create an account today (it's free and easy) and get started!
Menu

Make a New Account

Username:

Password:



Forget your username or password?


Search




Advanced Search


The Masthead
Managing Editor
Mike Hoefer

Editors
elwood
susanthe
 William Tucker
The Roll, Etc.
Prog Blogs, Orgs & Alumni
Bank Slate
Betsy Devine
birch paper
Democracy for NH
Granite State Progress
Mike Caulfield
Miscellany Blue
Pickup Patriots
Re-BlueNH
Still No Going Back
Susan the Bruce
New Hampshire Labor News
Chaz Proulx: Right Wing Watch
Defending New Hampshire Public Education

Politicos & Punditry
The Burt Cohen Show
John Gregg
Landrigan
Pindell
Primary Monitor
Scala
Schoenberg
Spiliotes

Campaigns, Et Alia.
NH-Gov
- Maggie Hassan
- Jackie Cilley
NH-01
- Andrew Hosmer
- Carol Shea-Porter
- Joanne Dowdell
NH-02
- Ann McLane Kuster

ActBlue Hampshire
NHDP
DCCC
DSCC
DNC

National
Balloon Juice
billmon
Congress Matters
DailyKos
Digby
Hold Fast
Eschaton
FiveThirtyEight
MyDD
Open Left
Senate Guru
Swing State Project
Talking Points Memo

50 State Blog Network
Alabama
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin

Correction and Apology to Representative Bates

by: Lucy Weber

Thu Jan 26, 2012 at 22:35:42 PM EST
It has been brought to my attention that in a comment I made here, I attributed to Representative Bates  a statement  I am told was made by a different representative.  On rereading the comment, I was wrong to have associated a remark with a specific person's name without being absolutely certain that the association was correct.  To have neglected to check the facts was sloppiness on my part,  and I am posting this diary to clear up the record and to apologize to Representative Bates.  

I will be more careful of my assertions in the future.
Lucy Weber :: Correction and Apology to Representative Bates
Tags: (All Tags)
Print Friendly View Send As Email

Correction and Apology to Representative Bates | 4 comments
Doubtless ... (4.00 / 3)
... Rep. Bates will also apologize for his attempt to enshrine discrimination against the citizens of this state into law. And for attacking the loving relationships of thousands of his fellow New Hampshire citizens.

For make no mistake, Rep. Bates is committed to one and only one legislative goal: Stopping a law that has harmed precisely no one and has brought joy not only to those married, but to their families and children.

He is the one who must apologize. Someday, perhaps quite soon, he will be ashamed by his actions.

Hampshire, You Summarize It Well: (4.00 / 3)
Stopping a law that has harmed precisely no one and has brought joy not only to those married, but to their families and children.

I can't believe that any New Hampshire Legislature of the "live free or die" state would for the first time ever take rights away from our citizens.  We just don't do that here.  Not in New Hampshire.  Not in America.  

[I'm a former has-been House member and State Senator, but I keep "Rep." on my ID name for easy reference of previous posts.]
[ Parent ]
Apparently, there are some (4.00 / 3)
in the current legislature who don't agree with you Jim.  The part of the bill that creates civil unions for any two consenting adults is a slap in the face of loving gay couples, both male and female, saying to us that our relationships aren't as valuable as heterosexual relationships, and I think, deep down, that's the whole point of this exercise, as well as to terrorize gay families once again threatening to undue their rights.
[ Parent ]
This seems as good a place as any (4.00 / 2)
to mention that Rep. Bates and Rep. Shawn Jasper -- whose last known public comment to Rep. Bates was "I have lost all respect for you, sir" -- have kissed and made up.

(Metaphorically only, thank God. The humor value of the hypocrisy were it to be otherwise would be swamped by the mind-shattering horror of the aesthetics.)

Correction and Apology to Representative Bates | 4 comments

Connect with BH
     
Blue Hampshire Blog on Facebook
Powered by: SoapBlox