THE STRATEGY BEHIND of seeking division — unrecorded — votes on the floor of the New Hampshire House of Representatives is a long and well-practiced one.
Civil rights leaders are blasting a group of representatives at the New Hampshire State House for delaying a bill that would enable the first portrait of a person of color to be displayed on the walls of the state house.
For the 200 portraits in the New Hampshire State House, there’s a common theme – most depict old, white men. Nine portraits recognize female leaders. But if a portrait of the late Rogers Johnson, former civil rights leader and state representative,.
Representative Walt Stapleton told a committee earlier this year that the constitutional amendment would bring “some sense of equity and fairness” to New Hampshire’s lawmaker compensation.