Committee blocks introduction of bill targeting hate speech
By HOLLY RAMERDecember 16, 2020 GMT
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire House Rules Committee on Wednesday blocked the introduction of late legislation targeting a newly elected Republican lawmaker who recently shared content from a neo-Nazi website on social media.
Rep. Dawn Johnson, of Laconia, last week posted a link on Twitter to a Daily Stormer article that many Democrats and Republican Gov. Chris Sununu criticized as racist and anti-Semitic. Without saying whether she agreed with the content of the article, Johnson later apologized and said she removed the link “as it came from a source I do not agree with.”