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Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte issued a press release Wednesday directing the Department of Corrections to refer to incarcerated individuals as “inmates” instead of as “residents.”
To cheers so loud Speaker Sherman Packard threatened to clear the chamber, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted 200 to 180 to indefinitely postpone so called “right to work” legislation, House Bill 238, on Thursday.
Below is a news release issued from U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s office on Thursday at 7 p.m. The editor’s note below shows the roll call vote in which Sens. Shaheen and Hassan voted “yes” on Bessent’s nomination and criticism they received on Bluesky.
In a statement Wednesday morning, Rep. Ken Weyler, R-Kingston, apologized for “insensitive” remarks he made last week about YDC abuse victims, then in the afternoon again insinuated some are lying, adding they do so at the encouragement of their overpaid lawyers.
Rep. Ken Weyler, chairman of the House Finance Committee, said he won’t recuse himself from matters pertaining to the YDC settlement fund after House Democratic Leader Alexis Simpson and some Republicans criticized him for derogatory remarks he made about YDC victims last week at a House Finance Division 1 hearing.
The lawyer representing indicted state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi said the case is simple: the indictments obtained by Attorney General John Formella do not allege a crime and should be dismissed.
Rep. Ken Weyler: “It just doesn’t make sense to me that someone who got abused, abused others and abused themselves should be rewarded and that’s the way it looks and someone on the streets says, ‘YDC, I’ll just say they abused me and I’ll become a millionaire. ‘”
Hearing on House Bill 254