All we heard from these clowns the last two years was things like don’t you DARE touch the gay marriage law – the Legislature already “settled” the issue. How DARE you Republicans even consider revisiting that law! They adopted the mantra that once done, always done when it comes to the law. Sure, the body politic had decided that the Democrats were the extremists and threw them out of office in 2010. Well, as what always happens, the pendulum swings and the Dems have retaken Concord. Will they also stand firm on their crie-du-coer of “settled” law now that they are in power again?
Hardly. From Pravda-on-the-Merrimac (aka, the Concord Monitor that IS to the NH Dem Party as Pravda was to that other Party) just two days after the election:
Money matters aside, there’s plenty for Hassan and the new Legislature to do, and undo, next year.
The new House should start by exorcising the chamber with the abolition of the goofy but dangerous Regress of Grievances Committee. Then, with the support of the governor, the Legislature should, in short order, repeal the so-called voucher law that, contrary to the spirit if not the letter of the state Constitution, redirects money meant for the general fund to non-public education, including religious schools.
Hassan and the new Legislature should also give the recently-enacted voter ID law the ax. It risks disenfranchising some voters and, in the absence of any evidence of voter fraud, is an unnecessary and meaningless encumbrance on the process.
They should work to repeal the misguided parental notification law on abortion. And they should revisit the new “stand your ground” law and the policy that permits civilians to bring guns into the State House.
You can be sure that this mouthpiece is signaling two things:
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