Legislative rules committee blocks introduction of bill targeting hate speech
Published: 12/16/2020 4:41:14 PM
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.”
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Dec 15, 2020
Dawn Johnson posted on Facebook and Twitter content from the notorious neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, including an anti-Semitic image.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
Pressure is mounting for newly elected New Hampshire state representative Dawn Johnson to resign after the Republican politician shared a racist and anti-Semitic meme on her social media about “riggers and Jews” that appeared to reference conspiracy theories about the November presidential election.
Johnson represents the New Hampshire city of Laconia in the state legislature and serves on the Laconia School Board.
Last week, she posted on her Facebook and Twitter accounts content from the notorious neo-Nazi website,