Binnie turmoil

Now! Hampshire has learned from several sources that the Binnie campaign is in turmoil. A riff has opened up between prominent supporters and Binnie’s mostly out-of-state campaign staff, and Binnie has decided to ignore both and call his own shots. The rift opened up weeks ago after Binnie received a poll showing he was trailing [...]

Brilliant move by Binnie?

When Bill Binnie announced last week that he was pulling his negative ads and going positive, most people dismissed it as an empty promise. However, Binnie seems to have followed suit and as of this morning, he has not aired any negative ads attacking his main opponent, Kelly Ayotte. It has become an article of [...]

**Must read: Binnie meltsdown during interview

This is the link to the WKXL interview with Bill Binnie that has everybody whispering; if you haven’t listened to it, you really should. People are saying that it is one of the most remarkable things they have ever heard in NH politics. By now everybody has heard how Binnie got a poll back on [...]

CM: Binnie sued couple over color of window sash

The Concord Monitor story on Bill Binnie’s many lawsuits included one he filed against the owners of a condo for having the wrong color window sash: • In 2008, Binnie sued Joyce Bellevue and Mitchell Manin, a married couple, and Nick Clemons, acting president of Livermore Condominium Association. Bellevue and Manin lived in a condominium [...]

Binnie offers 3rd excuse for shipping jobs to Mexico: It wasn’t my company!

Bill Binnie now has his third answer for the question as to whether or not he moved jobs to Mexico. First he denied it. He said that while he did shut down the Santa Ana plant, he moved all of those jobs to a plant down the road, then opened a new plant in Tijiuana. [...]

*Binnie strategy in disarray

Sources have told Now! Hampshire that the campaign of country club owner Bill Binnie is in disarray. Behind in the polls and running out of time, his campaign is flailing about, unsure of what to do. Even worse, it appears as if Binnie just got a poll that shows his negative ads blew up in [...]

**Analysis: Bender gaining at Binnie’s expense

A two person race is easy. Voters are going to vote for you or the other guy. If you go negative and drive up his unfavorables higher than yours, you win. But a multi-person field is tricky, because when you go negative you also drive up your unfavorables too. And whereas that doesn’t matter in [...]

Sununu calls Binnie “disingenuous” and “clueless”

In an op-ed that ran in the Union Leader today, former governor and current GOP chair John Sununu took a shot at the ever-increasingly unpopular Bill Binnie. In the op-ed, Sununu calls on the candidates to avoid negative attacks on their fellow GOPers, and it includes this paragraph: “With that as the reality of what [...]

Sen. Jack Barnes piles on Clegg

After lobbyist and failed congressional primary candidate Bob Clegg appeared in a Bill Binnie ad slinging mud at Binnie’s opponent Kelly Ayotte, people started lining up to take a shot at Clegg. But when Clegg started taking hits, the Binnie campaign didn’t bother to defend him. So Clegg sent an email to James Pindell at [...]

Where’s Binnie?

Lately more than a few people have commented on the scaled back schedule of country club owner and senate candidate Bill Binnie. He has not been on the campaign trail as much as of late and his public appearances are fewer still. His campaign has frequently posted public events on their website that Binnie decides [...]

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