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Landrigan Uses Splaine to Predict HB436 Loss

by: Dean Barker

Sun Mar 22, 2009 at 14:41:26 PM EDT
Did you hear?  The marriage equality bill is going to lose in the House. Kevin Landrigan told me so:
The House will likely vote later this week to reject legislation (HB 436) that would legalize same-sex marriages.

Rep. Jim Splaine, D-Portsmouth, appeared to signal so in a Friday commentary.

"House Bill 436 should be adopted because, in fact, it is OK to be as we are and who we are," Splaine wrote.

"It may still take a while, but every time there's a story about voices speaking out for equality and fairness, we're touching lives and very likely saving a few."

Now, where have I heard those words in the last graf before? Oh yeah, the same place where Jim also wrote this:
House Bill 436 took a step toward approval by surviving on a tie vote during a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee.  What it means now is that the bill will go to the House floor next Tuesday "without recommendation."  It's a position from which we can win.
Don't let the pundits bury this bill before it's been voted on.

Call or write (politely) you legislators today.
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Landrigan Uses Splaine to Predict HB436 Loss | 5 comments
I Always Hedge My Predictions On Bills... (4.00 / 2)
...I'm better projecting election results.  And I don't want to scare anyone away, or scare anyone up.  

Besides, seems I used that same stragtegy leading up to the successful passage of the Civil Unions Law two years ago.

A lot of good people are working hard to make this bill pass.  And House Bill 415 to prohibit discrimination on gender identity is important too.  Let's fight for both, until the vote!

(The whole commentary is published in today's Nashua Telegraph and appears on their WEBSITE.  There are a few less-than-kind "comments" on the issue -- so BueHampshire readers might go to the article and say something gentler.)

Linky (0.00 / 0)
here.

birch, finch, beech
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if the leadership got behind it... (4.00 / 1)
The Democrats could get HB436 passed easily if the leadership got behind it.  But they tend to ignore these types of issues. I am baffled as to why two seemingly sensible members of the Judiciary committee crossed party lines to force a 10-10 vote: the cynics in me says it was so they wouldn't have to let either side place a blurb in the calendar.  Although happily, thanks to some last minute parliamentary manuvering, blurbs ended up being in the calendar.  

An even sadder case is HB415, a gender-rights bill which has been misleadingly nicknamed the "Bathroom Bill"--- even though it has nothing to do with plumbing.  The leadership has done nothing to counteract the lies coming from the other side.  

Sununu Senior (0.00 / 0)
has decided to use HB415 as a 2010 campaign theme.  He has no problem using the transgendered as a whipping post for that.

I wonder if that bears any relationship to D leadership's inattention (as you put it; I'm not privy to what attention either 436 or 415 are getting).

birch, finch, beech

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Check your local grocery store. (0.00 / 0)
New Hampshirites don't drink the Haterade.
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