We learned it was “Veto Day” and the last session of this legislative body until after election day and new legislators are sworn in. The opening ceremonies included a memorial to Rep. Mary Griffin, who passed away recently, and prayers for Rep. Gary Hopper who is fighting cancer. There were also many thanks to those who have served the House and will not be returning and those who did not make it through their primaries last Tuesday.
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redistricting
Congratulations to Chris Pappas on his Reelection … Sununu’s Supreme Court Draws (Of Course) Pappas-Friendly Map
Congratulations are in order … to Sun-King Sununu and Chris Pappas. Notwithstanding all his braggadocio, the Sun-King is actually extremely insecure. He was scared you-know-what-less that the new Congressional maps might lead to Chris Pappas deciding he had a better chance at Governor than reelection in CD-1.
Sun-King Sununu’s Hand-Picked Supreme Court Delivers — Court to Draw Democrat-Favorable Map for CD-1
Sun-King Sununu’s Supreme Court has announced that it will resolve the impasse created by the Sun-King by redrawing New Hampshire’s Congressional districts: This court has both the authority and the obligation to ensure that the upcoming election proceeds under a legally valid congressional district plan. We conclude that changes in New Hampshire’s population, as reflected … Read more
So Kids, What Did We Learn From Thursday’s House Session (04/21/22)?
We learned that today was Tartan Day at the NH House. This is a celebration of Scottish heritage in NH and gave our State Representatives a chance to “show our plaid.” Many reps wore some sort of plaid, including the NH plaid.
Sununu Says He Will Veto the Republican Legislature’s Congressional Redistricting Map
Governor Sununu has double-tapped his promise to veto the congressional redistricting map passed by the Republican majority Legislature. Why? He likes them the way they are (Democrats have won both repeatedly for years).
Hey, NH Democrats! Do You Condone What Your NY Brethren’s Gerrymandering?
How come NH Democrats are not calling them out this sort of thing like they do Republicans? You know, the gerrymandering. All I keep hearing is that a political operation is supposed to be non-political.
So Kids, What Did We Learn From Wednesday’s House Session (01/05/22)?
We learned that 400 legislators (along with House staff) can fit comfortably, socially distanced, in the Manchester DoubleTree Expo Center and get important work done, despite difficult acoustics. Well, at least the Senate is utilizing the newly, and beautifully, renovated Reps Hall in Concord.
So DEMOCRATS Gerrymandering Districts is OK? Or Still Bad? Ox vs the Gored?
I couldn’t BEGIN to imagine how many bloggers have written about the Democrats who are complaining about Red States being a “Threat to Democracy” in redoing election maps when they themselves, at any opportunity, are doing the same thing.
NH House Committee Votes on New Redistricting Maps
This week, the redistricting committee met to vote on all the maps. First, we voted unanimously to interim study HB 51 (state senate districts) and HB 53 (executive council districts), since the Senate will deal with them.
NH State Rep Carol McGuire – Your State House 11/15/21: Childcare, Emergency Powers, Redistricting
To my constituents in Allenstown, Epsom, & Pittsfield: This week, my committee met for the last time this year, to finish three bills we’d held over. HB 457, changing the duties of the legislative youth advisory council, was amended to simply allow some of their meetings to be held virtually. This should help the lack … Read more
NH State Rep Carol McGuire – Your State House 11/5/21 – Redistricting
This week, the special committee on redistricting met for two days to agree on plans for the public listening sessions next week. As expected, the plans for county commissioner were covered very quickly.
Democrats Speak with Forked Tongues over “Redistricting”
Democrats screaming about “independent redistricting commissions” are being partisan hacks about the whole process. When the Federal Census Bureau, to account for population growth, decrease, and movement finishes its mandated “census a every year ending in a Zero,” redistricting shall happen.
NH State Rep Carol McGuire – Your State House 9/6/21
The House is resuming work after the summer break. My committee is meeting on our retained bills: the subcommittee I’m on met and agreed that HB 84, declaring Ona “Oney” Judge Day and naming the new terminal at the Pease international airport in her honor should be simplified to a one-time celebration, using her preferred name (Ona Judge Staines).
BREAKING – The Sun-King Says GOP Voters Should NOT Have Representation in Congress
This: Translation: Sun-King’s seat in the United States Senate is far, far more important than GOP voters in New Hampshire having representation in the House. Such a team player.
Is Franklin ‘Mayor’ Olivia Zink, Using That Office to Shill for Her Progressive Left-Wing Action Group?
Is Franklin, NH mayor, Olivia Zink, using that office to shill for her progressive left-wing action group? Karen Testerman has some observations about the electioneering of Mayor Zink, who is also the Executive Director of Open Democracy here in NH.
The GOP Reps on House Election Law Are Incorrigible Quislings
This: This bill, as I noted in a previous post, eliminates the power of the voters to have any say in redistricting by giving all the power over redistricting to the Party Bosses, by allowing them to hand-pick the members of the redistricting commission. The rank-and-file legislators can only give a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down … Read more
New Hampshire Democrats Still Can’t Get Over Redistricting Commission Fail
I guess you call it keeping the dream alive. What dream? An unelected commission filled with the sorts of politically connected goons the 17th Amendment promised to end for US Senate Seats. Am 17 created more problems than it solved. So would HB706.
Far-Left Can’t Stop Bitchin’ About Sustained Veto of Unconstitutional ‘Bipartisan’ Bill
You can always tell the worst (of the worst) bills by who complains the most about them failing. Gov. Sununu vetoed HB706 because it was unconstitutional. The effort to give redistricting authority away to unelected pawns. Republicans in the House refused to override the veto, and the Dingbats are off their wingnut.
The Brennan Center: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing!
It would be my guess that not many people in New Hampshire have heard or know much about the Brennan Center organization whose representatives recently appeared in Concord to lobby our legislators into adopting a bill creating a so-called unelected “independent” redistricting commission for our state. Fortunately, Governor Sununu has vetoed that bill, leaving the … Read more
The Myth of Gerrymandering
I have been very active on twitter opposing HB 706, the misnamed (purposefully) “Independent Redistricting Commission” and supporting the Governor’s veto. For example: I recently had a twitter skirmish with a Socialist-robot who was apoplectic that HB 706 had been vetoed. In part: To be clear, of course the GOP attempted to “gerrymander” in 2012. … Read more