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MacDonald: This Governor Is Not Interested in The Redistricting War

August 12, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Legislative maps, which determine how each district is drawn, need to be redesigned to reflect population changes—political parties, however, like to redraw them to increase their political power and diminish their opponents. The debates are contentious, with the results typically favoring the majority. When Democrats in the Texas legislature fled their state to avoid a … Read more

Cardello: Texas Democrats Vow To Fight….In Chicago?

August 6, 2025 Ray Cardello

While the Democrats are redistricting California to maximize their Socialist hold on the Golden State, they are accusing Republicans of destroying our democracy by doing the same redistricting in Texas. Do they really think the country is too stupid to understand their tactics and art of projecting? The Democrats have vowed to fight to the … Read more

Cardello: Proposed Bill Is Right And Will Push Democrats Over The Edge

July 5, 2025 Ray Cardello

A new bill gaining momentum in Washington is absolutely the right thing to do for America, but it will cause an uproar on the Left for so many reasons. First, the bill is sponsored by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is probably the second most hated person in America, by the Left, after Donald Trump, … Read more

Smith: Shared Districts, Make It Make Sense

May 26, 2025 Julie Smith

Most people assume there’s a method to the madness when it comes to redistricting every 10 years. Having voted in the 2nd largest city for so long and having only been paying attention to such things for a short while, I became somewhat simple minded. Nashua has a population of about 90,000, and it also … Read more

So Kids, What Did We Learn From Thursday’s House Session (09/15/22)?

September 16, 2022 Judy Aron

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.

Congratulations to Chris Pappas on his Reelection … Sununu’s Supreme Court Draws (Of Course) Pappas-Friendly Map

May 31, 2022 Ed Mosca

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

May 12, 2022 Ed Mosca

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)?

April 22, 2022 Judy Aron

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

March 21, 2022March 18, 2022 Steve MacDonald

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).

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Hey, NH Democrats! Do You Condone What Your NY Brethren’s Gerrymandering?

March 11, 2022 Skip

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)?

January 6, 2022 Judy Aron

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.

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So DEMOCRATS Gerrymandering Districts is OK? Or Still Bad? Ox vs the Gored?

December 18, 2021 Skip

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.

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NH House Committee Votes on New Redistricting Maps

November 23, 2021November 21, 2021 Op-Ed

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.

Your State House 11/15/21: Childcare, Emergency Powers, Redistricting

January 12, 2025November 15, 2021 Carol McGuire

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 of geographic diversity on the council, especially since … Read more

Your State House 11/5/21 – Redistricting

January 12, 2025November 7, 2021 Carol McGuire

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. The Democrats on the committee were generally pleased with the current plans and made only minor tweaks to them. I started with … Read more

Democrats Speak with Forked Tongues over “Redistricting”

September 17, 2021 Skip

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.

Your State House 9/6/21

January 12, 2025September 8, 2021 Carol McGuire

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 … Read more

BREAKING – The Sun-King Says GOP Voters Should NOT Have Representation in Congress

July 9, 2021 Ed Mosca

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?

March 1, 2021 Skip

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

November 3, 2019 Ed Mosca

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