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.
Asked about Trump administration officials monitoring polls in New Hampshire's two biggest cities this fall, 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.