Hodes Fundraiser Host Committee Heavy on Lobbyists

In addition to Robert Raben, the lobbyist for the adult entertainment industry that NowHampshire reported on earlier, Two lobbyists on the host committee for Paul Hodes’ fundraiser being held in Washington, DC tonight raise questions for the New Hampshire Democrat who has long advocated financial, energy, and health care reform.
The Union Leader reports that [...]

Skin-flick lobbyist pimps for Hodes (Warning: Graphic Content)

Tonight in Washington, Paul Hodes will attend a private fundraiser hosted in part by a lobbyist who for years represented the adult entertainment industry.
According to a published report by John Distaso of the New Hampshire Union Leader, among several lobbyists headlining a Hodes cash call this evening in DC is Robert Raben. In addition to [...]

Bass announces for old seat, praises tea party movement

Here is Charlie Bass’ announcement video:

Here’s what he told the Union Leader’s John DiStaso about the tea party movement:
Bass rejected any suggestion that he’s simply a Washington insider retread, a charge his opponents of both parties rolled out immediately in various forms yesterday.
“There’s a big difference between experienced leadership and being a Washington insider,” he [...]

Woman who calls opponents ‘teabaggers,’ was tossed from town hall calls for civility

Just two weeks ago Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) boasted of the comradery she shares with women from the other party while in the ladies room. But this Monday Shea-Porter told a group of college students in Durham, “it is so ugly down [in Washington] right now. It’s not helpful for any of us.”
Foster’s Daily Democrat [...]

Shock Poll: Newcomer Binnie tied with Hodes

A second poll in less than a week shows New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Bill Binnie gaining significant traction in the race to replace the retiring Judd Gregg.
A new Rasmussen poll has Binnie with a one-point lead over Rep. Paul Hodes, the only Democrat in the race. Binnie would earn 42% to Hodes’ 41% [...]

Binnie’s ad campaign shows signs of bearing fruit

Lots of polls are emerging these days and Colorado company Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies has just released theirs. And it shows that Republican Bill Binnie’s several-hundred thousand dollar television and direct mail campaign is beginning to bear fruit in his effort to replace the retiring Sen. Judd Gregg.
Binnie has emerged from almost nowhere [...]

POLL: Shea-Porter’s antics catching up to her

Voters appear to have soured on embattled New Hampshire Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter after a series of bizarre antics have made her the subject of widespread derision in Washington and New Hampshire.
According to a new poll by the University of New Hampshire only 35% of likely voters approve of the job Shea-Porter is doing in Congress. [...]

Buckley privately invokes 1994 as Dems struggle

He may be full of bluster and contemptuous insults for Republicans while in New Hampshire but privately New Hampshire Democrat Party Chairman Ray Buckley is nervous that those Republicans will pound his team in the 2010 mid-term election.
During the DNC’s winter meeting in Washington this weekend Buckley and Democratic Party Vice Chair Martha Fuller Clark [...]

Ashooh-led PACs donated to Lynch, Dems

Despite promising to “bring conservative, common sense to Washington, and restore fiscal restraint and the economic principles that will create private sector jobs,” Republican Congressional candidate Rich Ashooh has chaired two state political action committees that donated handsomely in 2008 to Democrats who back new and higher taxes.
AE Systems NH PAC donated $1,000 to Democrat [...]

Binnie leaves door open for tax increases (Update: Campaign disagrees)

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Bill Binnie seems to be open to raising taxes to reduce the deficit, a video of a recent candidate forum shows.
Answering a question this weekend about whether he supports a special commission to reduce the federal budget deficit, Binnie said, “I think it was a very good idea and I [...]

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