NH Senate activity 30 May

Senate Session 30 May.  A circus.  We voted on overriding Governor Sununu’s veto of death penalty abolition.  Vast excitement among the newsies.  In actual fact, the lawyers and the courts abolished the NH death penalty 80 years ago.  But the newsies found an appealing issue and have devoted yuge amounts of airtime and editorial words to it. The public would have been better served by air time and editorial words covering real issues like minimum wage, new taxes, transgender supremacy bills, and gun control.   Two big TV camera’s on tripods, five journals on laptops, two guys with big still cameras.  It was a roll call vote.  16-8 to override.  Just one vote over the two thirds majority needed to override.  I voted to sustain the governor’s veto and the death penalty.  There are some atrocious crimes, like school shooters who kill dozens of innocent students, or cop killers or traitors who pass secrets of the ultimate weapon to mortal enemies, who deserve death.   After the death penalty vote, the newsies all packed up and left.  We stayed in session until 7:30 PM.  I got home in the last of the daylight at 8:30 PM.  To the great joy of Stupid Beast. 

    We knocked off 21 bills with a quick voice vote on the Fast Track (Consent) calendar.  Then we bickered over 42 bills on the regular calendar for the rest of the day. 

   We kicked HB 186 the minimum wage bill into next year by re referring it back to committee.  That was a heavy duty jobs killer.   The Democrats rammed thru HB 105, which would allow people with out of state plates and/or out of state driver’s licenses to vote in New Hampshire.   Roll call vote 14-10, all Democrats for, all Republicans against.   Then they rammed thru HB 611 to allow everyone to get an absentee ballot, no questions asked.  And HB 651 that would allow campaign funds to be spent on child care.  Real politicians don’t put the kids in child care, they take them to their campaign events.  That’s what my mother did when she ran for the Massachusetts house many years ago.  We kids would have rather stayed home and watched TV, but Mother knew that voters love children and so she brought hers with her to all her events.  HB 481, the pot legalization bill got re referred to committee, which puts it off until next year.  And finally HB 608, a bill on Transexual rights was roll called thru 16-8.  This bill would allow boys to use the girl’s rooms, boys to compete on girls sports teams.