leadership

The Democratic caucus has nominated several state senators to fill key posts in the upper-chamber.

Senate President Sylvia Larsen (D-Concord) was re-nominated to be senate president by state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro (D-Manchester).

CONCORD--A week after gaining her party's nomination, Congressional candidate Jennifer Horn (R-Nashua) turned her sights towards her rival U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes (D-Concord).

Horn said that Hodes has failed to show leadership while serving in Congress, while the Hodes campaign says Horn's campaign is focused on "false negative attacks."

The 1st Congressional District Republican primary has shifted to whether candidate John Stephen (R-Manchester) increased property taxes by shifting the cost of operating nursing homes onto property owners when he was the state's former Health and Human Services secretary.

"This cost shifting is a shell game," Bradley said.  "He simply transferred state expense to local property tax payers. John pads his books, sticks property taxpayers with the bill and in so doing pushes our state ever closer to a sales or income tax. That's not leadership, that's gamesmanship."

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June 23, 2008

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HE SAID WHAT?!

John Stephen: "not my problem."

--Discussing how his program at DHHS shift costs from  to local NH taxpayers

Wolfeboro, NH - Friday Night, 1st District Congressional Candidates Jeb Bradley and John Stephen faced off in the first official debate of the race. The event, hosted by Strafford County Republicans in Dover City Hall, was a great opportunity to hear the true differences between the two people asking for the nomination.

New Hampshire House Republicans have decided not to fill the position of Republican Leader.

The post has been vacant since the death of State Representative Michael Whalley, who passed away on March 1st.

The decision was made after a unanimous vote of the House Republican caucus.