This is Standard Republican Policy. Is This What You Want?
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Forget the slogans. Judged by what they voted for, what they did, and what they refused to stop, this is what Republicans in Congress stand for, on 20 issues, with the receipts.
Ayotte quietly signed HB 323, which strips college and high school IDs from New Hampshire's voter ID law. A federal judge ordered the state to stop telling students their IDs could never be used; on Oct. 22 the U.S. Supreme Court lifted that order over Justice Jackson's dissent.
Kelly Ayotte now says New Hampshire should pause data centers. Last year she signed a law letting off-grid power companies that serve them skip state utility rules. She was paid $112,500 on the board of one, Bloom Energy, and held shares that would be worth about $1 million today.
Governor Kelly Ayotte has built her reelection campaign around her opponent's old work for Purdue Pharma. In 2021 she personally urged the Executive Council to make Gordon MacDonald — who had fought New Hampshire's opioid investigation as Purdue's lawyer — chief justice, calling it 'about his character.' This week he resigned after admitting he broke the judicial ethics rules.
Scott Perry cosponsored a national abortion ban five times, then told voters he doesn't support one. Rob Bresnahan swore off a federal abortion ban and voted for a federal abortion bill three months later. Darren Bailey, Stacy Garrity, Kelly Ayotte and Joe Lombardo all ran on ending or restricting abortion — and discovered moderation the year they needed votes.
A 50% tariff on Canadian goods hits August 19, justified partly by Canada's 'protectionist dairy system.' Bohanan Farm in Hopkinton buys its grain and fertilizer from Canada. Kelly Ayotte says she disagrees with the tariffs — and has declined every chance to do something about them.
New Hampshire just won $29.5 million from Purdue Pharma, and Governor Kelly Ayotte thanked the lawyers who got it. In 2007, when she was the state's attorney general, she kept New Hampshire out of the case against Purdue — then took more drug-industry money in the Senate than any other Granite State politician.
Speaking about Trump administration officials monitoring polls in New Hampshire's two biggest cities during the September primary, the governor said she'd 'welcome anyone.' In the same press conference she vowed to fight the DNC for trying to tell New Hampshire how to run its primary.