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NH Primary Source: NHGOP exec board agrees to in-person statewide voting plan for top party officers
Emergency meeting Monday night follows chaotic remote Saturday annual session, which was adjourned prior to votes Share Updated: 2:00 PM EST Jan 26, 2021
NH Primary Source: NHGOP exec board agrees to in-person statewide voting plan for top party officers
Emergency meeting Monday night follows chaotic remote Saturday annual session, which was adjourned prior to votes Share Updated: 2:00 PM EST Jan 26, 2021 (New Hampshire Primary Source is a regular feature of WMUR’s political coverage.)EMERGENCY MEETING. The executive committee of the Republican State Committee approved a plan Monday night to complete voting for party chair and vice chair by the end of next week.The executive committee held an emergency meeting to consider how to move forward with the two contested elections after an attempt to hold the elections electronically f
The Rutledge Report, Part II: Her record, including her ties to Donald Trump
January 24, 20219:58 am
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge continues to add chapters to the book of her public record, generally lamentable particularly in her devotion to
Donald Trump.
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The latest chapter, as I mentioned earlier, is an outlay of what likely will exceed a quarter of a million dollars in public money on partisan assistance in redistricting that could have been done at no additional cost by her existing staff.
The event prompts me to share something I’d been holding in reserve.
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For your Sunday reading, a summary of the span of Rutledge’s Arkansas political career. It includes the unconstitutional public spending, for which repayments are now being sought court, to prevent the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
N.H. Attorney General Gordon MacDonald will be the next chief justice of the state Supreme Court.
New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald has been confirmed as chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, ending a protracted political dispute over who should lead the state’s high court.
The Executive Council vote Friday broke along party lines, with the council’s four Republicans uniting to elevate MacDonald, who’s never been a judge but who is widely respected in state legal circles, to the state’s highest judicial post.
“I haven’t seen an attorney general work any harder than Gordon MacDonald,” said Councilor David Wheeler, a Republican from Milford. “He has never lied to me that’s a big deal for me never given me false information. And that is a characteristic I’d like to see in a Supreme Court justice.”
(AP Photo/David Goldman)
A race up in New Hampshire will show whether the Stupid Party, as the Republican establishment is so deservedly called, is going to get smart now. On Saturday, the New Hampshire Republican state committee will either re-elect Steven Stepanek as chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party, or elect Keith Hanson. It’s a contest over whether the Republican Party in New Hampshire will remain the party of Mitch McConnell, i.e., cowardice and me-tooism, or whether it will genuinely offer a choice to voters and a home for people who are genuinely alarmed at the Leftist establishment’s contempt for civil liberties.
A week after a violent occupation of the U.S. Capitol building forced members of Congress to shelter in hiding, U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster says she feels “total rage” at Republican representatives who refused to wear masks while locked down.Since Monday,.