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SIMS: Live Free, Play Fair — New Hampshire Must Sign SB552 to Protect Women’s and Girls’ Sports

June 16, 2026 Bronwyn Sims

Granite Staters — girls, women, boys, and men — we stand at a crossroads. New Hampshire’s motto is “Live Free or Die.” Today, that freedom includes protecting the hard-won rights of women and girls in sports. I walked away from the Democratic Party because they abandoned biological reality—allowing biological males into women’s sports, erasing fair … Read more

ICYMI – My Monthly Spot on WFEA- Bathrooms, Flagpoles, and The Women’s Museum

June 4, 2026 Steve MacDonald

On the fourth Wednesday of every month, I get to spend a few minutes talking to Jeff Chidester on WFEA as part of his morning update. The topic could be almost anything, but this month we settled on the Bathroom conspiracy to keep men out of the ladies’ spaces. We also take a quick trip … Read more

MacDonald: Gay “Lobby” Loves Ayotte Vetoes But It Won’t Win Her Votes

July 19, 2025July 19, 2025 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire’s creepy groomers are beside themselves with glee and likely some young children over Governor Ayotte’s rejection of the bill that would keep men out of women’s bathrooms and porn out of grade school kids’ hands. They’re GLADD she did it, while the people who might actually vote for her in 2026, assuming she … Read more

Men women bathroom symbols original Photo by Juan Marin on Unsplash

MacDonald: Legislature Passes Bill Protecting Privacy Rights Based on Biological Sex

May 23, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Both chambers of the New Hampshire legislature have passed HB148, “permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain circumstances.” The bill allows public and private entities to restrict access to certain spaces based on biological sex. Restaurants, gyms and whoever are free to segregate by sex-parts without fear of legal retribution by men … Read more

New Hampshire Boy Celebrated for Having His Genitals Surgically Removed

June 19, 2023 Beth Scaer

Back in 2018, we watched 16-year-old NH resident Emily Tressa testify in support of NH’s bathroom bill HB1319 which gives males access to female private spaces such as women’s locker rooms and restrooms.

I’m in a Hulu Documentary Fighting for Women’s Sex-Based Rights

July 4, 2021 Beth Scaer

In 2018, Gov. Chris Sununu signed HB1319, the “Bathroom Bill” into law, It forces New Hampshire businesses to allow men who identify as women to use their women’s restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms.

Local Man Who Lobbied for Access to Female Spaces Pleads Guilty to Child Sex Abuse

September 12, 2020 Beth Scaer

Massachusetts Question #3 was a 2018 ballot referendum to repeal the Massachusetts law which allows men who claim to be women to use women’s public restrooms and locker rooms. Voting “Yes” was in support of keeping the law.

Betty Gay of Salem Does Not Deserve Re-Election

September 6, 2020 Beth Scaer

Betty Gay of Salem is running in the Republican primary for state representative in Salem and she does not deserve to be re-elected.

Five More Bills I Would have Vetoed as Governor

August 24, 2020 Op-Ed

Many want to applaud Governor Chris Sununu for the record number of bills he actively vetoed over the past 3 years. And certainly, he was the firewall against increased taxes and assaults against the 2nd Amendment. However, too many bills that he signed or allowed to become law are destructive to you and your children.

I guess Scala or Galdieri haven’t heard the latest, have they?

September 26, 2018June 10, 2018 Skip

Social conservatives will grumble, but they don’t appear to have the juice to make the popular governor pay the price for this,” Scala added. “There just aren’t enough voters, even in a statewide Republican primary, who will vote on these issues. That was true when it came to repealing gay marriage, and it’s true today.”

-University of New Hampshire political science professor Dante Scala

“He feels like he is comfortably ahead enough that he can afford to lose a few social conservative votes,” Galdieri said.

-Saint Anselm College political science professor Christopher Galdieri

It may be amusing, both ways, what with the scuttlebutt that has been part and parcel of all the inbound calls and emails I received yesterday and today. When the idea started up, everyone that either mentioned it or heard it basically said: “yup, we could get behind that, RIGHT NOW”.

“Winning is only a precursor; what you do afterwards is most important. Let Chris Sununu ponder upon that before signing the latest Bathroom Bill HB1319

September 26, 2018June 8, 2018 Skip

Governor Sununu, apparently, doesn’t like that line in so much. His exact quote is “Winning is everything.” I guess the “the means justify…” something or other. If you don’t have a purpose, it doesn’t matter, I guess. It’s like that old phrase “if you don’t know where yer goin’, it doesn’t matter what road you take.” And right now, the conservative base in NH is waiting to see what road Governor Sununu is going to take.

Compelled Leadership = Our Government for Sale

September 26, 2018June 8, 2018 Op-Ed

By Ken Eyring

NH is open for business. But not like you may think.

When (then) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was campaigning to “sell” the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to the American people, she said, “We have to pass the Bill to see what’s in it.” She wasn’t kidding. The ACA contained many unknowns. It was vaguely written and delegated the specifics and interpretations of the law to be defined by unelected bureaucrats AFTER Obamacare became law. The rest is history.

With the ideological Transgender “Bathroom Bill” HB1319, New Hampshire’s “Republican” Governor, Chris Sununu, is modeling his leadership after Democrat Speaker Pelosi.

Breaking: Gov. Chris Sununu signs HB1319 – the newest Bathroom Bill

September 26, 2018June 8, 2018 Skip

So Governor Chris Sununu just told his Conservative and Faith-Based base to buzz off. You just told those that brung you to the dance that you’re in love with another. OK, buzz off we shall – like a buzzsaw. You asked we’ll deliver.

Good to know, good to know. I’m betting now that Aaron Day is going to start winding his campaign up a few notches. I’m even betting that an R might show up to cause Baby Huey to have to spend time and money during the Primary season on an effort that he ordinarily could have avoided. EASILY avoided.

Press Release: Cornerstone

September 26, 2018June 8, 2018 Op-Ed

For Immediate Release
Contact: Shannon McGinley, (603) 228-4794, cornerstone@nhcornerstone.org

Cornerstone Action Statement on Governor Chris Sununu’s Signing of Gender-Policy Legislation

The following statement may be attributed to Shannon McGinley, Cornerstone Action Executive Director.

Today, a Republican governor goes down in history as the man who signed the Bathroom Bill, endangering women and girls all across the state and giving unfair advantages to men posing as women in various competitive environments. Sadly, Gov. Chris Sununu’s decision to sign the Bathroom Bill will overshadow some of his otherwise constructive accomplishments and identify him as the man who allowed unwanted, socially harmful ideas into a law that directly opposes government’s constitutional role to serve the “general good.”

Gov. Sununu today has signed away every Granite Stater’s right to privacy in public accommodations. He has signed away protection for equity in school athletics and scholarships. He has bought into a lie that it is somehow bigotry to recognize a person’s natural biological sex, and instead instituted a new era of bigotry against people with common sense.

Is This The Ladies Room? …

September 26, 2018May 26, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Stop HB1319 Also Related: The point is not that transgenders might be predatory…

From Cornerstone Action: The Gender Bills Are On You, Governor Sununu

September 26, 2018May 23, 2018 Op-Ed

By Cornerstone:

Chris Sununu is no victim. He is a man of purpose and intention. It took such a person to wrest control of the State House from the Democrats who had held the corner office for so long.

And now, as he is poised to sign destructive legislation on gender, he and his surrogates are putting out the message that opponents of these bills had “terrible messaging,” and that the “terrible messaging” was why the bills landed on the Governor’s desk.

Message: it’s your fault, people. It shouldn’t have gotten here.

Mr. Sununu, shame on you.

Where So-Called “Trans Rights” May Violate Title IX

September 26, 2018May 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire is on the verge of denying rights to people under the pretense of providing them. The Trans bill sailed through the House under the cover of giving something to a class of persons what they already had under existing law. Rights they’ve been exercising all along.

In the process, the Legislature has handed lawyers a colossal bag of easy money while complicating the lives of thousands of business owners and hundreds of local municipalities who must know address the needs of an unknown number of claimants to these rights. Unknown because anyone can claim them at any time in a toxic culture where daring to question their veracity is equally treacherous.

Tell Governor Sununu No!

September 26, 2018April 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Point is Not That Transgenders Might be Predatory

May 2, 2023April 15, 2016 Steve MacDonald

Part of the joy of defending disinterested citizens from the wolves of the always-on political machine of modern-government is untwisting the machine language used to snooker the sleeping giant. A great example is the recent kerfuffle over the politics of transgenders using public bathrooms, and not just in public schools.

Meet Bob “Bathroom Bill” Perry (Reprise)

December 3, 2023August 8, 2011 Steve MacDonald

With the Strafford 3 special election tomorrow, I thought it fitting to revisit this post about democrat Bob ‘Bathroom Bill’ Perry. His voting record epitomizes what the left is and wants for you and your children. You must not forget what they stand for.