The New Hampshire House today overwhelmingly rejected CACR22, even after millions of dollars and 12 lobbyists worked the legislature and the state for months to push the constitutional amendment.
284-51 is quite a beating.
Governor Sununu, who is reportedly a big fan, is said to have also been lobbying for the measure.
Someone might want to see who in the Sununu clan or connected to them has an interest in Broadcom or its CEO Henry T. Nicholas III, who has spent nearly 30 million dollars pushing this agenda in states across the country.
Because even though they say they’ll be back, taking a beating like that is gonna leave a mark. Somewhere.
Quick side note. Somewhere today I saw an article (somewhere online) promoting the sort of lobbying being used to organize support of Marsy’s law. I can no longer locate that so if anyone else saw it please let me know. After today’s vote, it deserves a proper fisking, (along with this, which the ML folks claim wasn’t them).
Here is a list of links to articles posted on the Grok about CACR22.
Finally, the 51 NH House Reps who were swayed (by the noise, the money, the power, or ignorance) to advance a constitutional change that violates the constitution in a state with more rights for victims in statute than Marsy’s law would provide, without any of the pitfalls.
| House Rep | Party | County | District |
| Altschiller, Debra | Democrat | Rockingham | 19 |
| Ayala, Jessica | Democrat | Hillsborough | 31 |
| Beaulieu, Jane | Democrat | Hillsborough | 45 |
| Burton, Wayne | Democrat | Strafford | 6 |
| Cali-Pitts, Jacqueline | Democrat | Rockingham | 30 |
| Chandley, Shannon | Democrat | Hillsborough | 22 |
| Cloutier, John | Democrat | Sullivan | 10 |
| Connors, Erika | Democrat | Hillsborough | 15 |
| Cushing, Robert Renny | Democrat | Rockingham | 21 |
| Ellis, Donna | Democrat | Strafford | 8 |
| Fields, Dennis | Republican | Belknap | 4 |
| Frost, Sherry | Democrat | Strafford | 16 |
| Goley, Jeffrey | Democrat | Hillsborough | 8 |
| Grassie, Chuck | Democrat | Strafford | 11 |
| Hagan, Joseph | Republican | Rockingham | 4 |
| Ham, Bonnie | Republican | Grafton | 5 |
| Harvey, Cathryn | Democrat | Cheshire | 1 |
| Harvey, Suzanne | Democrat | Hillsborough | 29 |
| Herbert, Christopher | Democrat | Hillsborough | 43 |
| Hinch, Richard | Republican | Hillsborough | 21 |
| Jeudy, Jean | Democrat | Hillsborough | 10 |
| Ladd, Rick | Republican | Grafton | 4 |
| Lerner, Kari | Democrat | Rockingham | 4 |
| Long, Patrick | Democrat | Hillsborough | 10 |
| MacKay, James | Democrat | Merrimack | 14 |
| Maes, Kevin | Democrat | Grafton | 6 |
| Malloy, Dennis | Democrat | Rockingham | 23 |
| Martin, Joelle | Democrat | Hillsborough | 23 |
| Martineau, Jesse | Democrat | Hillsborough | 42 |
| Massimilla, Linda | Democrat | Grafton | 1 |
| Morrison, Sean | Republican | Rockingham | 9 |
| Myler, Mel | Democrat | Merrimack | 10 |
| O’Brien, Michael | Democrat | Hillsborough | 36 |
| Rodd, Beth | Democrat | Merrimack | 6 |
| Rogers, Katherine | Democrat | Merrimack | 28 |
| Schuett, Dianne | Democrat | Merrimack | 20 |
| Schultz, Kristina | Democrat | Merrimack | 18 |
| Schwaegler, Vicki | Republican | Grafton | 3 |
| Shurtleff, Stephen | Democrat | Merrimack | 11 |
| Smith, Suzanne | Democrat | Grafton | 8 |
| Soucy, Timothy | Democrat | Merrimack | 16 |
| Spagnuolo, Philip | Democrat | Belknap | 3 |
| Spanos, Peter | Republican | Belknap | 3 |
| Spencer, Matthew | Republican | Strafford | 18 |
| Sprague, Dale | Democrat | Strafford | 18 |
| St. Clair, Charlie | Democrat | Belknap | 9 |
| Sullivan, Daniel | Democrat | Hillsborough | 8 |
| Treleaven, Susan | Democrat | Strafford | 17 |
| Tucker, Edith | Democrat | Coos | 5 |
| Twombly, Timothy | Republican | Hillsborough | 34 |
| Willis, Brenda | Republican | Rockingham | 6 |
