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minority party

Blech

by: JonnyBBad

Sun Nov 14, 2010 at 10:34:56 AM EST

Many on this this site, with few exceptions, have bashed Landrigan, Andy Smith, the UL corporation, NH Trad Med, the Hearsts etc., as maintaining an old outmoded idea of NH as a Republican bastion. Old ways die hard. I happened to read his column today to find out we are no longer a majority party. Blech.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Democrats poured money into races and watched it disappear
Kevin Landrigan
Cleaning house
State Democrats aren't waiting for official terms to end to assume their minority role.
The party's website got scrubbed last week, with reference to "N.H.'s majority party'' deleted and the smiling faces of still-sitting Congressmen Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter removed from their top right billing on the home page.
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The NH GOP Nanny State

by: susanthe

Fri Jan 08, 2010 at 10:40:19 AM EST

This was published as an op-ed in the January 8, 2010 Conway Daily Sun newspaper.

I've had a complaint about the way the text came out in this diary. My computer died just before Christmas, and I'm using my late husband's laptop, which does not have a word processing program in it. I spent half an hour trying to fix the text - to no avail. I'm sorry if it's annoying, but I assure you, it's not intentional.

During last year's NH legislative session, the minority party frequently accused the majority party of wasting time on unimportant issues, instead of focusing on jobs and the economy. They wailed and gnashed their teeth over the time spent on the issue of marriage equality - even though that was an issue of justice and civil rights. In looking over the bills ready to be worked on this year, it seems that the minority party has chosen to actually do exactly what they whined the other guys were doing  all last year.  

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