“
@ewarren
is kind and truly listens to people. She will not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. She’s also single-minded when she believes she’s right. Anybody who believes that is an offputting quality in a woman can take the next bus back to 1950.”
After a damning case laid out by former teacher Rep. Sue Mullen, HB1431-–a “don’t say gay” bill masquerading as a parents’ rights bill—dies a well-deserved 171-176 death.
#NHPolitics
Despite knowing that passing a bill prohibiting the enforcement of federal vaccination requirements could jeopardize Medicaid and Medicare funding, NH House Republicans pass it anyway.
#NHPolitics
Fun fact: New Hampshire has no state law restricting machine guns. So if
@GovChrisSununu
signs HB1178, state and local police would be unable to enforce or assist federal agents with arrests like this.
#VetoHB1178
#NHPolitics
“He talks a tough game, but Trump has never stood up to anyone in his life. He bows down to dictators, gets his marching orders from CEOs, and hides in his bunker when things get tough.”
1. Democrats have a moral and political obligation to make Trump's plans to be a dictator on "day one" a centerpiece of the 2024 campaign, but how we talk about matters A LOT:
The case for undecideds, independents, and disgusted Republicans to vote for
@ewarren
: “She believes in a market economy. She just wants it to work for everyone.”
@NHforWarren
@GovChrisSununu
On a day when NH set a new record for COVID hospitalizations, gloating about a decision made to please pandemic deniers that takes a tool away from hospitals that can help them reduce risk of infections shows you simply don’t care.
So much for “red sky at night, sailors’ delight.” One of the most gorgeously sunsets of the season tonight as the NH Seacoast readies for whatever
#HurricaneLee
Lee brings.
Once the primary is in NH’s rearview mirror, perhaps we can focus a bit more on the ongoing GOP effort to defund public education and shower private and religious schools with your tax dollars.
#NHPolitics
NH Free State libertarians keep saying it out loud—their end game includes getting rid of public schools. Maybe instead of “decoupling government and public schools”, a better idea might be decoupling as many of them as possible from elected office in November?
#NHPolitics
Public hearing Wednesday on HB1027 submitted by two GOP members of the NH House of Reps that would apparently make President Biden guilty of a felony for “colluding” with OSHA to enact rules which bypass the legislative process under a “false claim of an emergency.”
#NHPolitics
@DaveSolomon72
@NHHouseofReps
@MomsDemand
@NRA
The display of pearls and other partisan symbols by legislators at a public hearing shows contempt towards the public and that you’ve simply stopped listening. Those wearing them continue to disgrace themselves and those they serve.
#Nhpolitics
NH House drives a stake through the heart of the GOP’s Trojan horse attack on NH trans kids and their teachers. SB272 indefinitely postponed 195-190.
#NHPolitics
The fact that a NH GOP rep who runs a casino wound up as chair of a commission studying the impact of new charitable gaming laws tells you everything you need to know about House GOP leadership and which party actually works to rig the system.
#NHPolitics
His legacy of self-promotion over problem solving would leave NH with an abortion ban; crises in housing & child care; a worsening opioid epidemic; and an energy “policy” beholden to fossil fuel interests. Don’t let the🚪hit you on the way out.
#NHPolitics
Of all the things Sununu and Edelblut have done to undermine public education, opening school house doors to the Prager propagandists is one of the worst.
#NHPolitics
One of the most striking things about today’s NH House session is the sheer number of unmasked, older GOP legislators who don’t seem to realize that the Fox News reality distortion field won’t protect them from COVID.
#NHPolitics
@GovChrisSununu
Words matter. Actions matter more. In 2019 you had a chance to make NH a safer place. Instead, you hid behind “freedom” as you caved to firearms fetishists and the gun lobby.
NH women woke up this morning with fewer rights than they had when they went to bed last night. They also woke up with a governor and over 200 GOP legislators in bed beside them, ready to make their 2022 reproductive health care decisions for them.
#SununuAbortionBan
#NHPolitics
I spoke to
@deehan
about the NH abortion ban & ultrasound mandate that goes into effect today:
“It is a law that really dictates how providers deliver health care in a way that isn't consistent with best medical practices”
#NHPolitics
@ConnieSchultz
@realDonaldTrump
The reporter who asks him if he can name a single one of the 205,000+ American victims of the virus would also be a hero.
For the record, these are the members of the NH House who turned their backs on Granite Staters by voting not to override
@GovChrisSununu
’s veto allowing dumps spewing contaminated garbage juice to be built next to NH waterways.
#NHPolitics
Imagine: a NH governor with a medical degree, a string of key legislative accomplishments, and no delusional fantasies about running for president.
#NHPolitics
News today in the
#NHGov
race:
@TomShermanNH
is forming an exploratory committee as he considers a run for Governor. "My goal is to bring us back together."
#NHPolitics
#WMUR
Bolduc is one of handful of Republican officials across the country that keeps citing false and debunked claims about children identifying as cats or using litter boxes in schools. Where does the Republican Party find these people?
#NHPolitics
It’s ironic that someone so practiced at crossing the line when it comes to taunting supporters of reproductive freedom and gun safety is whining bigly because he thinks others…wait for it… crossed the line.
#NHPolitics
In an echo of the dumbest anti-public health post-pandemic GOP grievances, the NH House passes HB1093 by a tight 187-184 margin. The bill prohibits local school boards and administrators from adopting or enforcing a mask policy—even during a public health emergency.
#NHPolitics
Rep Dan Wolf’s advocacy and sponsorship of a bill repealing the criminal penalties of Sununu’s 24-week abortion ban is a NH Profile in Courage. HB224 passes 205-178.
#NHPolitics
While our governor and others like to crow about a bogus right-wing think tank ranking NH
#1
for “freedom’, it’s worth noting that abortion rights are absent from its list of “personal freedoms”. Hard to be “free” when elected officials restrict a fundamental right.
#NHPolitics
I’ll show up masked-up, primed to do my duty to bring down some very bad bills, and will take every precaution to avoid having COVID hitch a ride home with me. But no remote access for immune-compromised and disabled reps is simply inexcusable.
#NHPolitics
Instead of waging the war on inflation, ⚡️prices, and 🏠 costs they promised, GOP pols chose to fight a culture war with people they thought wouldn’t fight back. On Monday they found out trans kids and those who love and support them fight back.
#NHPolitics
Photos lining the hallways of Portsmouth Hospital of all the medical professionals who jeopardized their own health and peace of mind during the pandemic to make sure others got the help they needed. Thank you.
“New Hampshire has had a long history of Republicans, Democrats and independents coming together to find common ground. It’s time we rally together, stop placating the extremists, and do that again.”
#NHPolitics
This is a wake-up call for all members of the
@NHHouseofReps
. It’s time to rethink wearing symbols during public hearings. When citizens testify, they should never face reps wearing flair that says “I don’t care what you think. My mind is made up.”
#WeCanDoBetter
#NHpolitics
Great to see years of hard work by
@Cassandra4NH
finally pay off with a hard won victory as the NH House passes her bill raising the marriage age in NH to 18. The bill already passed in the Senate and now it’s on to the governor.
#NHPolitics
It’s time for the AG’s office to launch a complete investigation into GOP House leadership’s actual role in the cover-up. This isn’t our usual rough-and-tumble NH politics. It’s the cover up a criminal act that tipped the balance on key votes.
#NHPolitics
NH is the biggest EV charging dead zone in the northeast—largely because GOP elected officials have stood in the way of expanding charging stations. More pre-election damage control from Sununu.
#NHPolitics
Rochester overwhelmingly rejects Sen. Jim Gray’s proposed book ban. "There has never been a community that banned books that we didn't look back on as the bad guys."
#NHPolitics
Independent spirit? Absolutely. Independent nation? Hell no. Too many Americans have fought and died for our country in too many places to let a group of malcontent NH GOP anarchists split us apart.
#NHPolitics
The Freestaters no longer can be shrugged off as a fringe element in
#NHPolitics
. They are full partners in the Republican/Liberty Alliance wars against public health, public schools, local control, and reproductive freedom for women.
#VoteThemOut
Saying the quiet part out loud. Free State Project board member Jeremy Kauffman describes NH's school choice program as "a stepping stone towards reducing or eliminating state involvement in schools" and acknowledges that "the entire program is run by Free Staters."
#NHPolitics
@GovChrisSununu
How about
#SleevesUp4Heroes
and
#MaskUp4Heroes
? Docs and nurses aren’t dealing with a shortage of pretty lights. They are dealing with a surge of unvaxxed sick people thanks to a pol who hit the snooze button on the pandemic and won’t take on his party’s anti-vaxxers.
#NHPolitics
Croydon’s successful rebellion against the Free State effort to kneecap public education shows the importance of fighting back against a group that puts twisted ideology before community every time.
#NHPolitics
When it comes to public officials like this, the outrage part is easy. The hard part will be sweeping him and his fellow GOP gundamentalist/secession backers out of office in November. But that’s exactly what’s needed to make NH NH again.
#NHPolitics
How normal NH people rose up and trounced
@FreeStateNH
extremists trying to kneecap their public schools. “Showing up. That’s the big lesson.
And not just showing up, but also knowing what’s going on.”
#NHPolitics
@WMUR9
@MonicaWMUR
Out of state college students are being excluded from receiving the vaccine in NH. How does that even begin to make sense from a public health perspective with nearly every NH college battling outbreaks?
@GovChrisSununu
Right move. Way late on the timing. This was needed months ago. You ignored the science, ingratiated yourself with people hostile to public health, and sat back while NH communities struggled to pass their own mandates when you could have settled it with a stroke of a pen.
The Globe’s re-entry into a local NH news scene where many important stories go uncovered or under-covered was one of the best developments of 2023. Now if the Speaker’s Office can only remember to invite them to “last word” press conferences...
#NHPolitics
Not a great look for NH’s GOP House Majority Leader to be doing more to protect his out-of-touch tweets than he’s ever done to protect NH school children or members of the public from pandemics, gun violence, or his fellow GOPers when they go after public school $$$.
#NHPolitics
“I am profoundly sorry to say that if we want a New Hampshire that is kind and decent, where we work together to achieve our goals and meet our needs, we cannot return the present Republican legislature to power in 2022.” #
#NHPolitics
@wmarshcc8
With the average age of a NH state rep somewhere in the mid-60s and many of us with health conditions that compromise us even further, a dose of straight talk at this point may help almost as much as a vaccine. Thank you for providing it.
Voters beware. Freestaters are libertarian extremists who generally run for NH office as Republicans. They were behind the 2022 secession effort in the legislature, the Gunstock mess, and the attempted knee-capping of the Croydon school budget.
#NHPolitics
Leave it to Trump apologists like
@GovChrisSununu
to criticize the timing of the investigation rather than the actions of an irresponsible ex-president who apparently treated America’s secrets like used Big Mac wrappers.
#NHPolitics
It’s not “Human Capital Day”. It’s not “Celebrate Our Billionaires Day”. It’s Labor Day. So if you like paid vacations, time off, and safe workplaces, enjoy a beautiful day in the 603—and thank union members for decades of fighting the fights so many others have benefited from.
This from the same self-promoting fraud whose “ability to lead” has led NH into a housing crisis, a childcare crisis, and a complete surrender to out-of-state interests seeking to defund public schools, codify discrimination, and turn NH into the Alabama of the north.
#NHPolitics
Rep. Linda Harriott-Gathright honors NH’s first Black state representative, Rep. Henry Ward Richardson, and all Black state reps who have served since in a unanimous consent speech as part of Black History Month.
#NHPolitics
.
@GovChrisSununu
condemns
@Maggie_Hassan
for saying she'd only do 3 general election debates. "This is absolutely bogus. You have candidates picking and choosing how they are going to be involved in debates."
#nhpolitics
Proof that New Hampshire can serve up a primary election winner under ages 77-80. Congratulations to
@JenMandelbaum
on a smart, high-effort, against-the-odds victory in a state rep primary election race that less than two months ago she had no idea she’d be running in!
#NHPolitics
Starting off the year strong with a super win from
@JenMandelbaum
! We're so excited to see the amazing work Jen will do in the House and know this is only the beginning of so many fantastic
@NHYoungDems
victories in 2024!
#NHPolitics
When you’ve had complete control of the State House for 4 years
and the housing and childcare crises have worsened, you bellow about walls, borders, and brown people—and hope people won’t notice the fact you’ve have come up empty on two of the biggest issues NH faces.
#NHPolitics
As Kelly Ayotte and Chuck Morse toss rocks in the general direction of the Mass border, it’s great to see both Dem candidates for governor focused squarely on NH issues, like housing and the assault on public education.
#NHPolitics
Happening now: NH voters—
#NotAPaidVolunteer
among them—gather at the State House and in
@GovChrisSununu
’s office to let him know they show up every day because they care about issues like paid family leave. Not because they are paid.
#NHpolitics
One of the best things about electing Tom Sherman governor? Short, concise, and thoughtful answers to questions. No more oxygen-consuming, fast-talking, stream of consciousness riffing from the governor’s office.
#NHPolitics
Good for Concord Superintendent Kathleen Murphy for doing her due diligence, but ultimately refusing to knuckle under to the “parents rights” lynch mob.
#NHPolitics
Another empty gesture from a bored, feckless governor with a long history of choosing guns over people. Mass shootings, gun violence, and firearms suicides are Republican—and
@GovChrisSununu
’s—policy choices.
#NHPolitics
With every passing day, the “inevitability” of a Sununu 4th term gets shakier and shakier. If you’ve had it with
#GovernorSelfie
and are ready for a leader whose actions 100% match his words when it comes to being pro-choice—please support
@TomShermanNH
.
#NHPolitics
Shout out to House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee Clerk
@alissandra4mht
for keeping track of hundreds of testimony pink cards during hearings on the 9 gun bills today at Reps Hall!
#NHPolitics
In Sept., NH was ranked as the hardest state to vote in. Our current Sec of State wants to “stay the course”. His opponent—frm. Sen. Melanie Levesque—supports automated voter registration and online registration. It’s time to put voters first.
#NHPolitics
“The problem here is not that Sununu disagrees with the verdict…The problem is that our governor is willing to publicly discredit and disrespect our criminal justice system and our rule of law to further his own perceived political needs.”
#NHPolitics
While the 3 GOP candidates drive their clown cars around in circles, madly tooting their horns and trying to out-Trump each other,
@SenatorHassan
quietly gets things done for the people of New Hampshire.
#NHPolitics
Rep. Hope Damon argues in favor of HB572, which raises the eligibility cap for free school meals for NH kids from 130% to 300% of the federal poverty level. The bill passes 201-177!
#NHPolitics
Not everyone gets a mom who takes your 8 year old self to vote, listens quietly to your dad harangue her all the way over to vote R—and then takes you into the booth, flicks switches for every D, pulls the lever, smiles, and says “shhhhhh.” Happy
#MothersDay
moms of
#NHPolitics
“If NH is serious about attracting and retaining young people who can contribute to the workforce, the state should increase financial support of public education at all levels. For too long…we have normalized the practice of underinvesting in education.”
Speaking of conspiracy theorists, isn’t
@GovChrisSununu
the same guy who made national news in 2016 for baselessly claiming that Massachusetts voters were being bussed across the border to vote in NH elections?
#NHPolitics
“I have had a 35-year history of building trust with my patients, my families and my colleagues, and this is no different. The people of New Hampshire need a governor they can trust, and there is no question that Sununu has lost their trust.”
#NHPolitics
So glad the Seacoast has a congressman who fights for science, voting rights, and reproductive freedom, while doing the day-to-day constituent service that makes a real difference in peoples’ lives. Thank you,
@RepChrisPappas
#NHPolitics
“It’s very simple. Everything you need to know about voting is everything you need to know about driving. If you want to go forward, you put it in D. If you want to go backwards, you put it in R.”—
@Jamie_raskin
at today’s
@NHDems
convention.
#NHPolitics
@SenGillibrand
in Portsmouth discussing PFAS contamination issues: “The biggest challenge we have isn’t with pollution. It’s with the greed in Washington that drowns out everyone else’s voices.”
#NHpolitics
What NHGOP pols won’t tell you: Killing the alleged “parents rights” bill (SB272) will have no impact on actual parents rights because 90%+ of its provisions are ALREADY in NH law. What’s not? Cruel measures designed to “out” trans kids—because cruelty IS the point.
#NHPolitics
This funding has nothing to do with abortion and everything to do with preventive health care for women. All five councilors know this. Yet
@CindeWarmington
is the only one who has consistently voted to approve them.
#NHPolitics