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An Attack on New Hampshire

by: Dean Barker

Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 18:46:18 PM EDT
Pindell gets the Gov's reaction to the out-of-state intolerance brigade's media swarm:
"I'm disgusted with it. I think it's an attack on New Hampshire."

The ad, paid for by the National Organization for Marriage, is running on WMUR and cable television outlets. The group said they are spending $200,000 to air the ads

This is exactly right, and exactly the way to treat Maggie's out-of-state, ethically dubious front group.

In the comments to my earlier post on this, Douglas made an incredibly perceptive observation:

No other Governor is in the position Lynch is in with respect to marriage equality.  Vermont's Governor (a Republican) vetoed it and was overruled.  Maine's Governor signed it, but it was repealed by referendum before it had the chance to take effect.  Every other state that has it got it by a judicial ruling.

John Lynch is the only executive in this country who has ever signed a law that granted marriage equality.  And that deserves some serious support from the progressive community.

I couldn't agree more.
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An Attack on New Hampshire | 8 comments
I couldn't agree more, too! (4.00 / 1)

Me 3 n/t (4.00 / 1)




"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    
Live Free or Die. (0.00 / 0)


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Hope 2012

@DougLindner

beat me to it Doug (4.00 / 1)
out of the mouths of babes...Douglas if you are of majority age I'm buying at the Bash. Governor Lynch had the courage to make NH a small l libertarian beacon of freedom in a an increasingly freaky world.

for transparency sake ~I represent Union print shops
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So close, but... (0.00 / 0)
While Governor Lynch is the only Governor to have signed a law that granted marriage equality, he was merely the first executive.  Apologies to Mayor Adrian Fenty of Washington, DC.

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Hope 2012

@DougLindner

As I Recall (0.00 / 0)
it took some pretty serious arm-twisting, and being a progressive takes a lot more than being reluctantly right on one issue.  A lot of people deserve more credit than John lynch for marriage equality.  

Let's consider, for instance, who and what we tax in order to fund our government?  Now there's an issue to define a progressive by.

Sure, I voted for less government and less government spending...just NOT the parts that I benefit from!

My point is (0.00 / 0)
not whether the Gov is a "progressive" or "not a progressive."  Lord knows I have profound disagreements with him on some things, and one major thing.

Rather, the point is that when he easily could have vetoed or, more easily, walked away from the bill, he signed it and stood by it.

Because of that, I stand strongly by him against attacks driven precisely because of his signing of it.
 

birch, finch, beech

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Yes, (0.00 / 0)
I will agree on that point.  

Sure, I voted for less government and less government spending...just NOT the parts that I benefit from!
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