Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire | Liberty for New Hampshire

RADICAL GOVERNOR REBUKED BY COMMON SENSE OVERRIDE VOTE FOR PARENTS’ RIGHTS

CONCORD, N.H.—In a brilliant rebuke of a radical Democratic executive, House Republicans backed by the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire stood for parents’ rights and common sense by voting to override the governor’s veto of a bill that would require children to let their parents know they’re pregnant before they can get an abortion.

“Clearly, this parental notification bill is a step in the right direction for parents’ rights in New Hampshire; it’s embarrassing that Gov. Lynch would take such a partisan stance in favor of a state-knows-best mentality,” said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “For too long, this governor and his party have disrespected the natural rights of parents to raise and direct their own children as they see fit. I truly hope the Senate follows the common sense override vote of the House so radical ideologues will no longer be able to steal children away from their parents’ love and guidance and take them to an abortion clinic for an invasive surgery that will change their lives forever.”

The parental notification bill, a Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire campaign issue, only requires minor females to notify their parents of their pregnancy, but still gives these teens a way around the discussion with their parents through the courts.

RLCNH PRAISES HOUSE LEADERSHIP’S STAND FOR NEEDED SPENDING AND TAX CUTS

CONCORD, N.H.—The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire congratulates House Speaker William O’Brien and the House Republicans for passing a responsible budget that completely reverses the course of previous legislatures and historically cuts spending in New Hampshire by 11.7 percent, setting state government on a new course to fiscal sanity.

“There is no doubt that this budget is historically positive for the people of New Hampshire,” said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “Not only did Speaker O’Brien and the House members we elected in November actually do exactly what they promised voters they would do by cutting taxes and spending without any budget gimmickry, this Legislature has set the stage for a stronger economy, which will lead to job creation in the private sector.”

Due to principled leadership from the House Conference Committee members, the budget agreement with the Senate favored the House position in most instances. The balanced $10.2 billion New Hampshire budget for Fiscal Years 2012-2013 relied heavily on House leadership’s position that budget writers could not exceed revenue projections. The Senate was only able to shift revenue projections by 0.4 percent from the House projections in January. At the same time, House leadership was also able to convince Senators not to raise new taxes, fees or add additional downshifting to the counties, cities or towns of the state. In fact, the House was even able to secure additional tax cuts to increase business traffic from out-of-state shoppers.

In general and education trust fund spending, the House was able to secure a $4.42 billion budget, a 12.8 percent decline from the previous cycle. The budget cut is the largest in modern history—maybe longer.

RLCNH URGES REPUBLICANS TO COURAGEOUSLY DEFEND THEIR MANDATE FROM VOTERS

CONCORD, N.H.―Republican members of the New Hampshire House and Senate must find the courage to pass legislation to repeal the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and make New Hampshire the 23^rd Right to Work state in the country, said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire.

“Both of these bills—the repeal of RGGI and the Right to Work bill—will promote jobs and economic opportunity in the State of New Hampshire, which is exactly what the people of New Hampshire elected Republicans to do,” Hemingway said. “Republican lawmakers have to stop worrying about the loud Democratic minority that is obviously against these efforts. After all, the Democrats’ spend-then-tax, big-government agenda is why the people threw Democrats out of office.

“The people who elected Republicans should not have to come to Concord to defend the clear message they sent in November to get government out of the way so the private sector can create jobs and economic opportunity,” Hemingway continued. “These voters should have the confidence that the Republicans they elected will have enough courage to see through the smokescreen created by the Democratic machine. They should have the confidence that Republicans will pass needed job-attracting legislation like Right to Work and free up more private capital for job creation by eliminating unneeded tax schemes like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.”

RLCNH URGES N.H. SENATORS TO FOLLOW N.J. GOV. CHRISTIE’S EXAMPLE ON RGGI REPEAL

CONCORD, N.H.―The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire urges New Hampshire Senators to follow the example of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who said this week that he would work to remove the Garden State from the 10-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

In his announcement, Gov. Christie called the initiative “a failure” that “is not effective in reducing greenhouse gases and is unlikely to be in the future.” He said the initiative was simply a tax scheme designed to “tax electricity, tax our citizens and tax our businesses.”

“If Democratic New Jersey can identify the failure, false hope and negative affect on businesses and job creation of the RGGI scheme, then it is incumbent on the New Hampshire Republican supermajority to answer the call of voters and eliminate this economically crippling initiative,” said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “Not only does this program fail to deliver on its promise to reduce any meaningful emissions, it has also destroyed jobs by overtaxing the region’s largest producers. Ending this initiative will help fuel the region’s economic engine and give voters the jobs they asked for in November.”

RLCNH SUPPORTS SPEAKER O’BRIEN’S DECISION TO WAIT FOR RIGHT TO WORK VOTES

CONCORD, N.H.―The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire fully supports House Speaker William O’Brien’s decision to put off the Right to Work veto override vote to account for several members who were tending to job obligations and still wanted their votes counted.

RLCNH CELEBRATES ‘RIGHT TO WORK’ SENATE PASSAGE, A BOON TO THE MIDDLE CLASS

CONCORD, N.H.―The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire is grateful for the strong Senate support for the Right to Work bill, which will advance the middle class by attracting good-paying jobs to the Granite State.

“This veto-proof vote is a clear sign that the Senate is listening to the voters who sent them to Concord to attract jobs to New Hampshire,” said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “A Right to Work law will make New Hampshire the only employee and business friendly environment in the Northeast. Everyone knows that a law that attracts new and growing businesses will attract good paying jobs.”

The closest states with a similar Right to Work law are Iowa and Virginia, according to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Inc. If New Hampshire passes this law, it will create a magnet for businesses that will further enhance the New Hampshire Advantage.

RLCNH CORRECTS FABRICATED PRESS STORY LINE

CONCORD, N.H.―The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire is troubled by recent, apparent attempts by the press to drive a wedge in the state Republican Party.

In the most recent example, RLCNH Chairman Andrew Hemingway’s comments were misrepresented in a Washington Post article that wrongly attempted to pit the Sununu family against the Tea Party.

“It is clear to me that Gov. Sununu, current party leadership, the Tea Party and the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire all cherish the founding principles of limited government, individual liberty, personal responsibility, free markets, low taxes and low spending as well as the state and federal constitutions,” Hemingway said. “It is important for all factions of the Republican Party to stand strong against the forces that are attempting to destroy our efforts against an ever-expanding government.”

RLCNH Begins Radio Campaign to Support House Budget

Striking back at the Democrat misinformation campaign, the RLCNH has begun a radio campaign to support the House budget. Contrary to the Democrat talking points being repeated in the media, the House budget is a reasonable step to returning to a government that we can afford. The RLCNH is getting out the message to the public [...]

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CONCORD, N.H.―The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire will help fight the misinformation campaign of state Democrats with a new Web site, www.nhbudgetfacts.org, which gives taxpayers the tools they need to promote the responsible House Republican budget and ensure its passage in the Senate.

“We encourage all of the citizens who voted against the runaway spending of the past Democratic Legislature and all of the citizens who cast a ballot for a responsible, common sense Republican agenda to check out NHBudgetFacts.org,” said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “This is a Web site voters can use to cut through all of the negative spin from the active minority and arm themselves with raw facts concerning the responsible House Republican Budget. With these facts in hand, we would also encourage citizens to call Senate Republicans and explain to them that this budget is exactly what they voted for in November.”

RLCNH Chairman Talks Budget, Presidential Candidates on NH Now Radio

RLCNH Chairman Andrew Hemingway was on air with Chris Ryan of New Hampshire Now Radio (WKXL Concord) discussing the House Budget, the role and invluence of the RLCNH in the state, as well as the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls.

RLCNH Urges Republican Lawmakers to Vote for Balanced Budget, Kurk Amendment

CONCORD, N.H.―The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire applauds the efforts of House Speaker William O’Brien and the Republican majority that is standing strong for good governance against the bullying tactics of public sector union special interest groups.

Especially respectable is the leadership of Rep. Neal Kurk of Weare and the other principled state representatives standing with his amendment to House Bill 2, which will give the state, cities and towns more leverage in their negotiations with public sector union employees. No longer will public unions be able to drag their feet in negotiations to force more money out of taxpayers’ wallets. If HB 2 passes as amended, public unions will have to come to the table with more reasonable expectations like their private sector counterparts.

“I am proud to finally watch a group of Republican legislators stand up against what might be politically expedient in order to do what’s right, despite massive amounts of pressure from the public sector unions,” said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “These Republicans ran on a set of principles about how government should be run, and by voting for a balanced budget and the accompanying policy bill with Rep. Kurk’s union contract amendment, they are standing by those principles.”

Join RLCNH by April 1st and Save Up to 33%

The National Board of Republican Liberty Caucus voted last month at the RLC National Convention in Washington, DC to raise membership dues for the first time in more than ten years. Effective April 1st, the new dues schedule will be as follows: Student/Military: $30 per year Regular Individual: $45 per year Premium: $75 per year [...]

RLCNH Follows Kimball Nod with Endorsement of Jordan Ulery for National Committeeman

CONCORD, N.H.―For Republican National Committeeman, the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire is endorsing State Rep. Jordan Ulery, a small businessman, committed volunteer and strong advocate for liberty-minded conservative Republicanism.

“Voters in New Hampshire and across the nation sent a clear message at the polls this fall that they did not like the solutions Democrats brought to the table, so the idea often promoted by national pundits that the Republican Party has to ‘move to the center’ to succeed is just absurd,” said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “Rep. Jordan Ulery knows that a strong, principled GOP will help improve the economy, restore the constitution and heal our cultural divisions. Not only that, he knows that a principled party will attract new members, improve fundraising efforts and win elections, and that’s why we’re endorsing him for Republican National Committeeman.”

Because a New Hampshire GOP Chairman’s first duty is to rally support for the party’s agenda and its candidates, the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire endorses grassroots favorite Jack Kimball to lead the party toward future victories that build on this year’s electoral triumph.

The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire strongly urges the election of Rep. Bill O’Brien for Speaker of the House of Representatives during the Republican Caucus meeting on Nov. 18. A House Speaker O’Brien would give all representatives a voice and move the state GOP and the state as a whole in a new direction that responds to the will of the people.

Republican Liberty Caucus Celebrates Re-Birth of Common Sense in New Hampshire

CONCORD, N.H.―The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire is excited and hopeful for the state’s future after last week’s general election swept 80 percent of its endorsed post-primary candidates into the State House, where they will advance common-sense principles in the “Live Free or Die” state.

Republican Liberty Caucus Encourages Republican Unity for General Election

CONCORD, N.H.―Now that all the dust has settled following the state’s primary races, the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire can announce that 134 of its 153 endorsed candidates, or 88 percent, were nominated as Republican candidates and will appear on their respective general election ballots on Nov. 2. Of the 94 endorsed candidates with a contested primary, 74 of them, or 79 percent, earned the support of voters in their districts.

RLCNH releases voter guide to identify which candidates will promote common sense in Concord

CONCORD, N.H.―The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire today released its primary voter guide listing all 153 of its endorsed candidates, including 11 new additions, in an effort to influence the Granite State’s primary election on Tuesday. (Please download the RLCNH primary voter guide today.)

“The Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire knows that if voters elect these 153 candidates in Tuesday’s primary and then send them to Concord in November’s general election, the state’s government will be led by the most principled, thoughtful and committed group of citizens since the time of the state’s founding,” said Andrew Hemingway, chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire. “If these candidates are elected, there is a high likelihood that the rest of the country and the world will look to New Hampshire for the best example of how to build a strong, vibrant economy that ensures the most happiness for the most people from the bottom up.”

Republican Liberty Caucus exposes RINO incumbents in key GOP districts

CONCORD, N.H.―To help voters elect Republicans with common sense ideas who will help restore the New Hampshire Advantage, the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire is exposing the voting records of seven Republicans who have shown through their past votes in the Legislature that they are not committed to traditional party principles. The Republican Liberty [...]

Republican Liberty Caucus endorses 45 game-changing candidates in third round

CONCORD, N.H.―With only two weeks left before this year’s game-changing primary election, the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire added another 45 endorsed candidates after reviewing a third round of surveys submitted through the group’s Web site: www.rlcnh.org/survey. The 45 include candidates for state senator and state representative. They join a coalition of 97 other [...]

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