Remember when Republican NH House Rep Shawn Jaspar made a deal with the Democrats to get the Speaker’s gavel? Not a Republican best moment in House History. Well, guess what? Rep. Kim Rice has been meeting with Democrat minority leaders to get their votes to do something similar.
I’m not sure what that deal looks like, but Republicans have a 40+ seat majority and are not obligated to give the Democrats anything. Rice would have to promise committee advantages they neither earned nor deserve. Voters sent a different message, and if Rice is looking to undermine that, well, Republicans in the House should take note and not support her.
One source, who asked to remain anonymous, said, “If she is successful, then it will destroy any advantage we have (from) gaining a 44-seat advantage over the Dems, and we’ll get nothing done for the next 2 years.”
Another told me, “She will say anything to anyone to get their support.“
Like Kamala?
Rice has fellow Republicans whipping RINOs and freshmen to vote for Rice on Organization Day. We recommend that you do not vote for Rher. It’s bad for Republicans, the majority advantage, and New Hampshire.
Rice is said to have been instrumental in helping undermine the Parental Bill of Rights. There is also something about her going to the NH AG behind leadership’s back to tell them they wanted a legal reason to bury it, which the AG then imagined out of thin air for anti-parental rights leverage.
Speculation, supposition, feel free to agree to disagree, but Skip wrote about Rice’s demotion from the committee of conference after the alleged hijinks as well as her publicly documented concerns about the language in the bill. Skip’s fisking is not flattering, and based on the whispers I’m hearing, Rice wanted to kill it and would say anything to anyone to get there from wherever they were.
And now she wants to be Speaker of the House and will (likely) bargain Republican advantage away to get it.
Democrats WILL NOT support her in exchange for nothing. They will take as much away as possible, so the question isn’t whether you want Packard or Rice but the cost to your majority advantage.
And if you give it away, why should Granite Stater’s vote for Republicans ever again?
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