Steve Vaillancourt is a prodigious source of State House commentary and quick to put digital pen to virtual paper to keep us informed of events in Concord. This invaluable service has today provided us with his remarks on yesterdays veto-palloza; what he calls "the worst day in Lynch’s historic tenure in office."
(Grammatical note: Should it be Lynch’s or Lynches?)
Feel free to check it out yourself at NHI, but here’s my favorite paragraph, mostly because it provides yet one more smack down on the anti-parental notification pandering to planned parenthood perpetrated by our less than puissant political prop of a governor.
The parental notification veto was overridden 266-102 (72.3%). Six Democrats (6-89) joined 260 Republicans (260-13) in disregarding Lynch’s veto language. Especially effective was Judiciary Chair Robert Rowe who responded to a section of the veto message that the Governor was willing to work with the Legislature in crafting a better bill. No one from the Governor’s office ever came forward to work on a better bill, Rep. Rowe insisted.
The other veto overrides were on minimum wage–which simply pegs us to the federal rate instead of the separate and potentially higher and uncompetitive NH version; and overturning the fire-sprinkler mandate. Lynch wanted to sustain the previous democrat legislatures expensive requirement that all new homes must have sprinkler systems, but freedom, choice and liberty–not to mention lower new home construction costs–won out thanks to the override.
So after yesterday we have a little bit more freedom, parents have more rights over their minor children, and minimum wage competition has achieved parity with the region. And Leftists will hate it all, and not just because it dog-ears a corner of their evil plot to make us more like the failed Peoples Republic of Massachusetts which, by the way, I encourage them to move to if they love that kind of state government so damn much. They will hate it because haters hate…and two of the three veto overrides were bipartisan. That’s right people. Some Democrats voted to dump the Lynch agenda. (No democrats would vote to override the more or less meaningless minimum wage bill)
So where are the media headlines? Bi-partisan coalition votes override three Lynch Vetoes?
Let me know if you find them.
