A look at those who would be NH GOP Chair
By Shawn Millerick
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The New Hampshire Republican State Committee must now begin the difficult task of rebuilding. If history is any guide, they will use this opportunity to install someone as Chair who has little practical experience, limited fundraising skill or capability, no nose for talented staff and precious little message discipline and a penchant for ideology over [...]
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Opinion
We let Democrats define the terms of our defeat
By Carolyn McKinney
When Democrats set the terms of the 2012 campaign for state and federal offices, Republican leaders blew their horns about jobs and the economy and counted on their position of strength and the glaring weaknesses in their enemy’s lines to secure victory. Republicans lost because they forgot to tell the troops about the Democratic weaknesses. [...]
Will NH Republicans learn the lessons from Tuesday?
By Fergus Cullen
The New Hampshire Union Leader originally published this column on November 9, 2012: There is no education in the second kick of a mule. In 2006, New Hampshire Republicans suffered their worst defeat ever. After recovering in 2010, this week the Republican Party finds itself back in 2006, facing the same existential questions about why [...]
Editorial: Maggie Hassan’s only clear position is that she can’t be trusted
By Shawn Millerick
Driving through scenic Portsmouth several days before the election, one can spot a large 4×8 Romney-Ryan sign with the words ‘flip flopper’ scrawled across it in spray paint. It’s an epithet Democrats have long tried to tie to the Republican presidential nominee but haven’t been able to make stick. Why? Because when Romney has changed [...]
Buckle up for Maggie Hassan’s latest flip-flop on individual liberty
By Andrew Hemingway
Democrat Maggie Hassan’s now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t answer on a question about instituting a seatbelt law during Thursday’s WMUR-TV gubernatorial debate is enough to make you wonder if she’s ever heard the Granite State’s ‘Live Free or Die’ motto. During the debate’s lightening round – where candidates were asked to keep answers to a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ [...]
Lamontagne: The Paradox of the Good Person in Politics
By Fergus Cullen
Lamontagne’s been a leader in Easter Seals, Catholic Charities, Court Appointed Special Advocates, the Boy Scouts, and the list goes on. These causes are a more personal commitment for Ovide and his wife, Bettie, than many may be aware. After getting married at age 21 – the Lamontagnes have been married 33 years – the couple adopted their first child though Catholic Charities. Two years later, they were approached privately on behalf of a young woman who was pregnant, and in time they adopted a second baby. And in between, a foster child came into their lives.
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Boehner: No tax rate boost to avert fiscal cliff
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans want to cooperate with President Barack Obama on reducing federal deficits, but not by raising income tax rates. Boehner spoke soon after Obama told reporters the GOP-run House should let taxes rise on the richest Americans. Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said that would hurt job creation. [...]
NBC names new top producer for ‘Today’
By Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC News is staying in-house in its effort to turn around the “Today” show. The network on Wednesday appointed a 23-year veteran of the morning news show as its new executive producer. Don Nash began working for “Today” as a production assistant in NBC’s Burbank office in 1989 and will now [...]
Obama wants ‘conversation’ on climate change
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday that his administration has not done enough to combat global warming but said he hopes to begin his second term by opening a national “conversation” on climate change. Obama said at a news conference that he took some steps in his first term to slow global warming, [...]
House GOP picks woman for a top leadership post
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans have elected a woman to a top leadership post after the GOP suffered double-digit losses among female voters in last week’s election. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner says Republicans chose Washington state congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers for the fourth-ranking spot in the House Republican leadership in the Congress [...]
California debuts landmark cap-and-trade system
By Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California has begun auctioning permits for greenhouse gas emissions, launching what is expected to be the world’s second-largest carbon market. The California Air Resources Board says it began selling pollution “allowances” for the first time Wednesday as planned, in a closed, online auction. The board says the results of the auction [...]