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CONCORD – Gov. Chris Sununu’s first report this year of donations to his inaugural committee showed it received $62,500 from 12 contributors since he won in November and – including a surplus – still has $99,954 left to spend.
In response to his words that sent a deadly, riotous mob to Congress one week ago, New Hampshire’s Democratic U.S. Reps. Ann McLane Kuster and Chris Pappas voted to impeach President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday accusing the president of “incitement of insurrection.”
On Friday, Jan. 8th, Senator Lou D’Allesandro sent a letter to Gov. Chris Sununu once again calling for transparency in the state’s handling of the COVID-19 outbreak at the New Hampshire Veterans Home that claimed the lives of 37 residents.
Attorney General Gordon MacDonald said he was not part of the effort by the Republican Attorneys General Association to send people to the U.S. Capitol last week to protest the election results.
Two hours after state Sen. Donna Soucy, D-Manchester, called on Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to lower flags to half-staff in honor of the Capitol police officer who died from injuries in the Washington, D.C. riot, Sununu posted on Twitter and in a news release that he was doing so.
In a philosophical inaugural address Thursday, Gov. Chris Sununu called state residents to community responsibility in an era emphasizing personal freedom.
Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Gary Hicks swore in Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to his third term Thursday at noon in what Sununu described as likely the shortest inauguration ceremony in state history at under 15 minutes in the Executive Council Chambers at the State House.
While 2020 is a year few will forget, many hoped this new year would provide a brighter and more hopeful panorama to explore.
The report was released last week, which cynics might say is intended to bury the state’s $81.5 million deficit for fiscal 2020, by releasing it Christmas week when people’s attention is elsewhere.