Posted on 10/11/2005 3:57:33 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
I WONDER what grassroots Republicans around New Hampshire must have thought when the Republican speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Doug Scamman, announced last week that he’d join and sign a Democratic Supreme Court brief to overturn New Hampshire’s 2003 parental notification law — a law passed by a Republican House, a Republican Senate and signed into law by a Republican governor.
New Hampshire’s attorney general, Kelly Ayotte, will soon be defending New Hampshire’s new parental notification law before the high court. Since health-of-the-mother issues are resolved within the law (which Speaker Scamman later acknowledged when he reversed his position), what lapse of judgment could have caused the speaker to so publicly align himself with Ayotte’s anti-parent, anti-family opposition?
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How does a man named "Scamman" get elected? I guess the voters like it as a kind of "Truth in Advertizing" word. Anyway, is he now scamming the voters?
Why doesn't the GOP caucus dump him as speaker?
Maybe they will. The NH Senate dumped their president a few weeks ago.
I know Mr. Mirski a little bit and he is one determined man. I like him. If he gets a few of the right people on his side and the newspaper picks up the ball, he'll raise hell.
Scam man?!
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