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State Senator Maggie "the red" Hassan had a puff piece in the New Hampshire Sunday News to defend the NH democrats “balanced Budget.” We can tell right away that Ms. Hassan is going to take us on a fanciful journey because of her opening clause. “Scarce resources make for difficult budgets…” It is from this …
State Senator Maggie Hassan is plotting her next attack on free speech. Hassan said her next step would depend on whether she is re-elected in the fall, but said she plans to closely follow the political advertising in the upcoming campaign season to determine whether she’ll bring forward new legislation in the next session. She …
The New Hampshire legislature has an opportunity this week to tell us what they think about paid political speech as an amendment emerges from a conference committee to go before both the State Senate and House. The amendment, written by former democrat party chair Kathy Sullivan, and sponsored by democrat State Senator Maggie Hassan is …
The people of New Hampshire take note. Free speech is far too fundamental to democracy to be restricted on the fly by ill-conceived and little discussed measures cranked out in the waning days of the legislative session by lawyers and lawmakers who are overreacting and overestimating their abilities. Legislative leaders are writing laws limiting First …
State Senator Maggie Hassan is now spreading the lie about the threat of foreign influence to political speech. She was quoted in the Union leader this morning saying… “We’re not saying they dosen’t have a right to advocate. We’re just saying we want to know who’s behind the advocacy. If out-of-state or even foreign companies want …
On the question of using gambling revenue to hide irresponsible democrat spending, State Senator Maggie Hassan was quoted in this mornings Union Leader saying. "My question is, does prohibition work? I don’t think it does." It’s quite entertaining, the things desperate people say when they are under the gun to cover their own ass. The …
The speech restrictions in HB1459 have suddenly caught everyone’s attention thanks to Cornerstone Policy Research, so I thought I’d resurrect my post from two weeks ago on the subject. (Posted at NHI and Granite Grok). It’s not as pretty or filled with exclamations in all caps bold red text, but…it came out two weeks earlier …
Skip has done a great job piling on this Hassan HB1459-political speech issue, and I’m not sure how much more we can add today, but this quote caught my eye, Skip didn’t take it in the direction I expected. (So I will) Maggie Hassan is quoted as saying… “Millions of Americans invest retirement money in …
Maggie Hassan has taken the bit on the issue of corporate speech and written an amendment to HB1459 that would shove her jackbooted hoof down the throat of any corporation that might want to make a public comment on any matter… “”Advocating in favor or against any New Hampshire statute, legislation that is the subject …
State Senator Maggie Hassan must not believe the odds for Democrats in November are bad enough. She’s decided to ask them to help her piss off the entire Health Care industry in New Hampshire (and anyone who has to use it) on top of everything else her party has done. Her weapon of choice is a metaphorical …
