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Walk-Out

Roadblock Republicans Walk Out

by: Jennifer Daler

Wed May 13, 2009 at 10:01:37 AM EDT

The Republicans on the State House Judiciary Committee walked out of their executive session yesterday to protest--being the minority party! Ostensibly it was to protest marriage equality, but that wasn't even one of the bills they were supposed to have been voting on. What they can't handle is the fact they are in the minority. They do not set the agenda any longer. They can't take it. They can't work constructively for the State of New Hampshire if they can't always have their way, so they took their balls, so to speak, and went home.

From their "statement":

It is with a great deal of concern and sadness that the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee  are taking the extraordinary step of walking out of today's executive session of the Judiciary Committee, leaving only Democrat members in attendance.
 
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