U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte probably wasn’t expecting this during her town hall in Canada* last week, when a long-time Republican stood up and pushed back on her declaration that she couldn’t end tax breaks for the wealthiest 2% because it will impact “small businesses”: “Senator, I’m a lifetime Republican, and have usually voted Republican, however [...]
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Republican Constituent Schools Ayotte on Actual Impact of Tax Breaks for Wealthiest 2%
By Zandra Rice Hawkins on December 20, 2012 in
Tags: ayotte, Boehner, fiscal cliff, granite state progress, Kelly Ayotte, middle class, millionaires, NH Citizens Alliance for Action, Obama, tax break
Ayotte: Call Her Up… Call Her Out
By susaninrindge on November 28, 2012 in
Tags: Ambassador Rice, Kelly Ayotte, NH U.S Senator, Secretary of State, Susan Rice
Kelly Ayotte has promised to put a hold on the nomination of Susan Rice as Sec of State. I think we should flood her office with calls requesting that she allow the President — who won the election — to have whomever he wishes for Sec of State and remind her that Rice was unanimously [...]
Attitude w/ Arnie WNHN 94.7 (Fri.Aug. 31) Telegraph&Politifact, Nancy Brennan, Rethink Tampa
By political chowder on August 31, 2012 in
Tags: Brennan, education, gubernatorial race, Kelly Ayotte, Politifact, Small Business, Tampa
The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen WNHN 94.7 FM Concord NH streaming live at nhnewsviewsblues.org The Attitude airs between 11 and 1pm and reairs between 7 and 9pm M-F 11am: Are the facts liberal (commenting on the Telegraph's pairing with Politifact)…and Education Matters! Jonathan van Fleet managing editor Nashua Telegraph – More from their Education series [...]
Angling for Voters
Massachusetts based political cartoonist Richard Tenorio has shared this cartoon with us. You can check out his blog here. Is Mitt using our Jr. Senator as a Lure? Would that be good or bad for the Blue Team?
Cut Kelly Ayotte’s paycheck, ASAP
The Senate failed to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act today: HuffPO The final vote was 52-47, with all Republicans opposing the bill. That included female Sens. Kelly Ayotte (N.H.), Susan Collins (Maine), Kay Bailey Hutchison (Texas), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Olympia Snowe (Maine). Let’s cut all of their salaries by 20%, so they can see [...]
Ayotte: We’re not spending enough on nukes
By Vis Unita Fortior on April 23, 2012 in
Tags: ayotte, Bob Corker, Budget, Jon Kyl, Kelly Ayotte, nuclear, nuclear modernization, nuclear weapons
In a Politico piece authored with Jon Kyl and Bob Corker: President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2013 budget request to modernize our nation’s aging nuclear weapons and laboratories falls about $370 million short of what the Senate deemed necessary when it supported the 2010 New START treaty.
In Which Kelly Ayotte Gets Owned by Mika Brzezinski
By William Tucker on April 5, 2012 in
Tags: Campaign Contributions, Kelly Ayotte, Mika Brzezinski, Mitt Romney
This morning, Sen. Kelly Ayotte was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to answer the question, “Does Mitt Romney have a woman problem?” She said he doesn’t and that women voters will support Romney because of, among other things, high gas prices. Newsweek/Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown and co-host Mika Brzezinski pushed her to acknowledge reality, but [...]
How Will Bill O’Brien Celebrate International Women’s Day (For Women Only)?
Today is International Women’s Day. Will NH House Speaker Bill O’Brien spend it by trying to take away our right to vote? Or perhaps our right to own property? The right to enter the professions? His legislature already has voted to end insurance coverage for midwives, and to discriminate against women’s health care. And what [...]
Ayotte Passes on Bipartisan Heating Aid Request
A bipartisan group of 33 senators, including every New England senator EXCEPT Sen. Kelly Ayotte, sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius calling on HHS to release Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funds as quickly as possible. The senators requested the funds be released now to [...]
Republicans Harm New Hampshire’s Economy (Again)
Remember last summer when President Obama offered a $4,000,000,000,000 deficit cut – twice – and the party of Frank Guinta, Charlie Bass and Kelly Ayotte rejected him – twice – obstructing, delaying, and finally bringing Congress unnecessarily to the brink of a government shutdown? Remember how it earned us a downgrade from S&P? Here’s what [...]
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