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Gas, grocery prices fell, while computers, airfares rose
Outside Super PACs have spent more than $1 million in dark money on the Democratic Primary for Congress in NH’s CD-1 (Manchester, Laconia and the Seacoast) and we still have more than five weeks to go. The spending has been in support of candidates Maura Sullivan and Stefany Shaheen.
The first day of May, which has been an occasion for labor rallies since 1886 and immigrants’ rights marches since 2006, has taken on new significance this year due to President Donald Trump’s assaults on immigrants and unions.
“Elections have consequences,” is an old adage and the last general election may be one of the most consequential in many years, both in New Hampshire and nationally.
It was Not My Presidents Day, and most of the signs were aimed at Donald J. Trump and his new best buddy, Elon Musk. “Stop the Coup.” “Impeach.” “Federal Workers Make American Great.” By noon there were about a hundred people gathered, and by 12:30, I counted about 200 and they kept coming.
Did Donald Trump sabotage the Republican party in this election? And did successful gerrymandering in New Hampshire by the Republicans changing districts to favor themselves help Republicans in the state Senate election?
It looks like love to me — a sad, sick, perverted love, like the love that a user has for his drug. The drug was power for these two cynics, and they gravitated together because they both wanted more of it.
And I am coming to believe that “the former guy,” as Joe Biden has happily stumbled upon calling him — an overweight carnival barker in actual clown make-up — became president of our country for very specific historical and cultural reasons (right time, right place, wrong man).
Homegrown editorial cartoonist Mike Marland is keeping a watchdog eye on the State House in Concord and White House in Washington, D.C.