Right. Post your pictures of all the white supremacists y’all find this weekend. Fucking morons.

https://www.wmur.com/article/manchester-man-says-someone-abandoned-a-trailer-on-his-property/43069039

Enough

Live free or die!

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It's all police in the country.

I just stop in Portland when I’m over that way. #seaweed

I’ll take some of that dank gubment cheese 🧀

I woke up this morning and this was the first story I saw on WMUR.

I will be honest and tell you that I don't think a petition is going to do anything. There is a cut off for a reason and if they make an exception for you, then they have to do it for everyone. It sucks, I know. My youngest has an October birthday and missed that cut off date by a week. She started kindergarten at 6 and loves that she is one of the oldest in her class!

Time to install exterior cameras

Not sure of all the details, but have heard of actual garages/mechanics doing this… maybe if you find the owner somehow (vin search?) and perform some work on the vehicle or bill them for storage you could eventually own it if they don’t agree/pay your invoices. You would definitely have some paperwork/time invested, but could be a legal way out? https://www.levelset.com/blog/how-to-file-mechanics-lien-new-hampshire/

You know that you're literally part of the reason NH natives are being priced out of the market, right? Domestic migration has been driving down vacancies and driving up rent and real estate, royally fucking over most of the youth that was born here (and would like to stay here).

You're not some kind of hero keeping the state alive, you and people from all across the country who want to flock here are directly (though obviously not intentionally) contributing to the slow death of the state's local culture.

The rent here may look like peanuts compared to higher COL locales, but for locals - particularly younger people - the options are increasingly narrowing down to "live with your folks" or "leave the state", neither of which any of us want to do, nor should we have to.

The state Economic Development authority is far too focused on attracting new residents and businesses from other states, and seems to care very little about seeing all the money invested in their youth through to prosperity. I know way too many young people in the southern half of the state who feel like they've been flat out left in the dust.

I specifically mention the southern half because, from N. Conway to the border, it's by-and-large either federal land managed by National Parks or constitutes some sort of tourism around the Whites and Mahoosuc, and that's been the case since the state's paper industry started winding down a few decades ago. Of course there are a plethora of individual exceptions but that's generally a good rule of thumb.

Add to this that most out-of-staters who move to SNH/Seacoast have the same sort of obnoxious, pretentious NIMBY attitude that has kept this region down for 2-3 decades (rejecting the vast majority of affordable/workforce housing projects, endorsing an untenable bias in favor single-family housing developments)...

You could be making $500k/year and maxing out your credit limit each month at local businesses, and you'd still be a part of the microeconomic problem. The core issue is that the state would rather pander to you and every other prospective transplant taxpayer on high-value real estate (because they have to make up for no sales tax somehow) more than it would like to support the innovative upstarting youth it's already invested so much of that same taxpayer money into.

The House has passed numerous bills legalizing recreational weed. However, until recently, drug war enthusiasts in the Senate have killed the bills.

For example, here are the Senators who voted against the last bill to legalize weed in the Senate, NH SB299 on 2022-05-12:

Sen. Avard, Kevin A. [R]
Sen. Birdsell, Regina [R]
Sen. Bradley, Jeb [R]
Sen. Carson, Sharon [R]
Sen. Cavanaugh, Kevin J. [D] --> Sen. Keith Murphy, R-Manchester
Sen. D'Allesandro, Lou C. [D]
Sen. Daniels, Gary L. [R] --> Sen. Shannon Chandley, D-Amherst
Sen. Gannon, William "Bill" M. [R]
Sen. Giuda, Robert "Bob" [R] --> Sen. Tim Lang, R-Sanbornton
Sen. Gray, James [R]
Sen. Hennessey, Erin Tapper [R]
Sen. Morse, Charles "Chuck" W. [R] --> Sen. Daryl Abbas, R-Salem
Sen. Ricciardi, Denise [R]
Sen. Soucy, Donna M. [D]
Sen. Ward, Ruth B. [R]
Sen. Whitley, Becky [D]

In the last election, four of the Senators who voted against legalization were replaced by pro-legalization Senators. So, the pro side now has enough votes to pass the Senate.

However, there are still not enough votes (2/3 majority) to override the veto of Governor Sununu. Sununu has indicated that he will not sign off on new legalization bills. That said, he's gearing up to make a run for President, and may not want to take an unpopular position on legal weed (74% of NH voters support legalization).

If you support legal weed, consider contacting your senator and the governor's office, and let your support for legal weed be known.

They really need therapy and anger management classes.

I disagree with him on clean energy and climate. He’s vetoed many a good solar bill which would allow for larger projects and economies of scale, yet electricity prices are sky high. He does whatever Eversource asks him to do.

So take him to a better preschool

Last few years*

It’s a gerontocracy.

I think fryeburg’s cutoff is mid October

I blame people for not speaking up over the past years as they’ve gotten emboldened. They think their friends support them.

I'd like to apply

Regardless on your stances on issues, the main problem we should all agree on with Sununu is that he simply does not lead.

Seriously! Think back to enacting and removing restrictions during Covid. On almost every single issue he had authority over, NH was right in the middle of the pack when it came to restrictions, and/or changed policies within days of similar decisions in Massachusetts. There was very little innovation in either direction. You could practically guarantee a watered-down version of whatever Mass enacted within a week or predict that Sununu would change policies after 15-25 states had already done so.

The same goes for the ban on Tiktok on state government devices. Was Sununu the first to do so? No. Did he hold out until the end? Nope. We were the 14th-16th state to do so, depending on which policies your counting. I'd bet anything that any further meaningful restrictions on TikTok come after a similar number of states adopt them first.

As for any economic successes, the truth is that the success of the NH economy has more to do with the success of the Massachusetts economy than whoever is in control of Concord. With the overwhelming majority of the population, business centers, and development being located in the southern portion of the state and therefore highly linked to/dependent on the Mass economy, it's easy for NH governors of all parties to simply sit back and claim success. In fact, it's rather hard for NH politicians to mess up the economy as long as Massachusetts continues to do well economically. Sununu, rather than being a leader and dramatically improving NH, is content to sit back and rely on his last name, his money, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to fuel his image on the state and national levels, rather than actually displaying any true leadership skills.

Oh, and of course, we can't forget that he's a "nice guy", as I've so often heard him called. That definitely earns him the right to govern us.

I don’t mind a politician who is reluctant to meddle with what works just to make it look like he’s working or to virtue signal the pensioner fascists as we see from Desantis in Florida. Heavy-handed interventionist government isn’t what I look for in a Republican leader. What I see from both parties too often is followship, not leadership. Sununu is a leader, and not despite the low-key style but because of it.

He did a good job during covid, but he...

Won't legalize marijuana

Supports my tax money being taken from improving public education for all kids and being used instead to send children to religious indoctrination facilities

Doesn't support women's healthcare or reproductive choice

Pandered to the insane MAGA extremists

However, he...

Has supported some positive environmental policies

Does support requiring reporting of police misconduct

Has handled state funds pretty well in general

Based on the first 4 points, I likely won't vote for him again unless his opponent is extra shitty or he makes some real changes to fix these problems.