Tuesday, November 6, 2012
The area played host to the presidential candidates several times over the past year, so here's an image retrospective. Add your photos!
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney campaigned in New Hampshire numerous times during their 2012 presidential campaign, and Hampton, North Hampton and the greater Seacoast area saw plenty of them. University of New Hampshire political science professor and resident elections expert Dante Scala recently told Patch that Hampton and North Hampton are potential bellweather states for the candidates, which helps explain the many swings through the towns and the surrounding area since the summer of 2011. As Hampton and North Hampton voters head to the polls on Tuesday to cast their ballots, they and millions of other Americans will finally decide who they want to occupy the Oval Office for the next four years. Now that …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) slammed Mitt Romney during a political event in Hampton over the candidate's comments about cutting FEMA.
During a political event Thursday in support of local State Senate candidate Bev Hollingworth, U.S. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) lauded emergency responders and urged voters to choose carefully on Nov. 6 because she said not all candidates value funding safety officials at a federal level. In the above video, Shaheen criticizes Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for comments Romney made in a debate last June, when he said it's "immoral" to "continue to rack up" debt through doing "things" like federal disaster relief. Shaheen said events like Hurricane Sandy — which ravaged portions of the East Coast — to illustrate the importance of emergency responders, something she said New Hampshire residents value. "Every time you have an …
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Residents at the final candidate forum said one big issue stood out among a sea of similar answers.
As Hampton's 10 state representative and two state senate candidates faced off Thursday morning in the last public forum before the Nov. 6 general election, many local residents said they felt there were more platform similarities than differences within the vast field of individuals. One area that stood out to some of the 80 or so residents in attendance, though, was how the candidates said they would work with each other and work across the proverbial political aisle to accomplish what they'd like to do if elected. Rusty Bridle, a former state representative, said that's the key issue this election, as he felt most of the ideologies shared by Democrats and Republicans Thursday morning about education, the state retirement system, jobs, …
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Peckham's 46 percent vote participation record is among the many reasons it's time for a change.
To The Editor, Redistricting for our House of Representatives gives citizens of North Hampton a unique opportunity to triple our representation, in Concord, on November 6. All we have to do is replace Michele Peckham in District 22 and elect Joe Scarlotto to District 31 (N. Hampton, Greenland, New Market and Portsmouth Ward 4). Since Representative Peckham only represents us part of the time just a share of Joe will equal her effort. Joe Scarlotto is hardworking, reasonable, practical and compassionate who will make a great addition to North Hampton’s representation. Joe is a veteran, small business owner and entrepreneur who both understands and will represent the needs of the middle class. There are other good reasons to replace …
Monday, October 22, 2012
The candidate is "getting away" with the same misleading campaign approach that won him office in Massachusetts, writes a member of the North Hampton Democrats.
To The Editor, If we ask Yogi Berra what he thinks of Mitt Romney, he would say “It’s like déjà vu, all over again”. He would be right. Mitt acted out the exact same role when he ran for the governorship of Massachusetts. Watching Romney campaign is like watching a poor B movie rerun. Call your friends in Mass, read a Boston newspaper or checkout the internet blogs and fact checkers. Romney’s current performance is a con job he pulled off in Mass . That is what is so puzzling about how he is getting away with it again. Romney is smart enough to not claim “I am really a moderate”. He must, after all, preserve his support on the right. Mitt is now changing his position on issues, lying outright about his plans and hoping we have forgotten …
Friday, October 19, 2012
The Hampton senator is helping bring $3 million in downshifted costs to local taxpayers thanks to recent budget decisions, according to four statewide unions.
The leaders of four different statewide unions are looking to set the record straight about how Sen. Nancy Stiles-approved retirement system legislation is increasing downshifting to local taxpayers, not decreasing it. Representatives from the State Employees Association of New Hampshire, New Hampshire Police Benevolent Association, Professional Firefighters of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire chapter of the National Education Association met in Seabrook Wednesday to address concerns about Stiles' campaign message and to point out that she is among a group of state Republicans creating $3.06 million worth of downshifting this year within State Senate District 24 alone. "Part of Sen. Stiles platform as a candidate was that she was going …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
In return to battleground state, the president says four electoral votes are a key to victory.
It didn't take long for President Obama to go after his GOP presidential opponent Mitt Romney at a packed rally in Manchester, attacking what he called the former Massachusetts governor's "PowerPoint plan for the economy." Much of the crowd of about 6,000 streamed into Veteran's Park three hours early, anxious to hear the president's follow-up to what several Democrats in the audience called a successful debate on Tuesday. Obama sliced the five-point plan that Romney touted two days ago, repeating his comment from the debate that it is more like a "one-point plan." "Those at the top play with a different set of rules than you do," he said on the plan. "They can pay lower taxes, they can keep their money offshore, they can buy companies and…
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
He has helped support tens of thousands of women, according to the writer of this opinion piece.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
By Joyce Craig As Jennifer Horn knows, women are, in fact, intelligent and tuned into the economy. That’s why we know that when President Barack Obama took office, our economy was losing 750,000 jobs per month, our financial sector was in crisis, our housing sector was plummeting and the auto industry was on the brink of collapse. And rather than blindly swallowing the kind of specious arguments presented by Horn, both men and women across this state know that the president has worked consistently to correct this course and build an economy that’s meant to last. The president's record speaks for itself. His administration has helped support tens of thousands of women, from workers to researchers to small business owners. The American …
Monday, October 15, 2012
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan, President Barack Obama and other Democrats don't "understand" its importance.
A sense of "guilt," "fear" and a general lack of "understanding" of the free enterprise system has led Democrats to lead the United States to an economic recession and budget crisis, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told a packed room Monday at Brown's Lobster Pound in Seabrook. Rubio, who was in the Seacoast area Monday to support New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate Ovide Lamontagne, took many shots at Democrats, calling on local residents to choose wisely on Nov. 6 because Rubio said state elections carry a much more immediate impact on the economic issues — issues he said were created by the ideologies of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Maggie Hassan, President Barack Obama and others. "Your opponent, from everything I've read and …
Saturday, October 13, 2012
A Democratic House candidate expounds on some of the unanswered questions from Thursday's debate.
By Chris Muns Candidate for New Hampshire House of Representatives In 2010 Republicans running for office in New Hampshire ran on a platform of Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. Unfortunately, over the past two years they spent more time on Guns, Union Busting and Voter Suppression than on creating jobs. This created a major distraction from the important work of helping people in our state recover from the recession and the proof is in the facts. The unemployment rate in New Hampshire now is 5.7%, which it higher than it was in January 2011; despite the fact that the national unemployment rate has declined in the same time period. There are actually fewer people working in New Hampshire now than when the Republicans took control of the …
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