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The so-called deadly force bill (SB 88) will be dealt with today in the Senaate. The NH media predictions are pretty much the same.Fahey:
SB 88 passed 19-5 along party lines in the Senate. That is more than enough for a two-thirds vote to override the veto. It would take four defections from Republican ranks to sustain Lynch.
All levels of law enforcement are opposed to this bill, and have been lobbying all of the Senators, and speaking out in the press.
Turning four Republicans in the face of pressure from pro-gun groups and from legislative leaders will be tough. Working in Lynch's favor is the fact that every law enforcement group makes endorsements at election time. Memories will be long on this issue.
and then there's this:
The veto of SB 129, which will require all voters to present a photo ID for the November 2012 elections, is more likely to be sustained. The bill lacked a two-thirds majority when it passed the Senate 14-9. The missing vote that day was Sen. Lou D'Allesandro, who supports Lynch. Two of the five Republicans who voted against the bill would have to switch sides. Sens. John Gallus of Berlin, Bob Odell of Lempster, Jim Forsythe of Strafford, Ray White of Bedford and Russell Prescott of Kingston, who recently editorialized against the bill, were the Republicans voting against it.
Governor Lynch vetoed some bills this week. One was a bill to expand the use of deadly force. From the Monitor
In the House, where the bill passed 283-89, Speaker William O'Brien and Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt characterized the veto as a rejection of the rights of gun owners.
Oh?
The leaders of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police and the New Hampshire Sheriffs Association asked Lynch to veto the bill in a letter last week. They said the legislation would alter a careful balance between the right to use deadly force in self-defense and the safety of innocent bystanders.
Because O'Brien and Deej know more than the state's law enforcement agencies.
