SUNDAY SHOWS: Cullen still has a Spradling problem

Sometimes the fireworks on a Sunday morning show doesn't come from the guests, but the host.

After 25 minutes spent introducing Republican Congressional candidates Jim Steiner and Jennifer Horn on WMUR's "Close-Up", host Scott Spradling wrapped-up the show by raising significant questions about New Hampshire Republican Chairman Fergus Cullen.

Cullen "had a rough week" Spradling said after Cullen found himself defending both his ban on Democrats videotaping Republican candidates and the Republican Governors Association use of polling in the state even though they were not a registered political action committee in the state.

But Spradling didn't stop there. He went on to say that Cullen was indeed "busy" hiring replacing positions at the state party and that Cullen is filling these positions with a number of former Mitt Romney staffers.

"This will increase accusations that Cullen was secretly helping Romney in the presidential primary," Spradling said. Spradling said that "activists" he talked with suggested they wanted Cullen replaced.

This is the first time that Spradling went after Cullen. On the "Close-Up" edition immediately following January state presidential primary, Spradling said he Cullen was the "big loser" in the process. The scolding was so dramatic that Republican ad man Pat Griffin said to the camera afterward that Cullen "needs to take Scott to dinner".

While on "Close-Up" Horn said that Washington was broken and that she agrees with the concept of term limits for members of Congress. Steiner said his military experience would help him represent New Hampshire residents in Congress.

New Hampshire Public Television's "NH Outlook" looked at the Granite State Fair Tax Coalition and their attempt at town meetings this week to make the state less reliant on property taxes.