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Buldoc Revives Zombie Claim About Busloads of Illegal Voters in New Hampshire - FactCheck.org

U.S. Senate candidate Don Buldoc, a Republican, resurrected a zombie claim that has been repeatedly debunked about busloads of people coming from out of state to vote illegally in New Hampshire.

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Kris Kobach, vice chairman of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity, claims to have “proof” of voter fraud in New Hampshire that’s widespread enough to have swung a U.S. Senate election in favor of the Democrats. He doesn’t. For more read, “Kobach’s Bogus ‘Proof’ of Voter Fraud.”

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Who to Vote for Next Week

It’s been a long campaign season, but it is just 1 week to the 2016 United States Presidential Election, as well as numerous Gubernatorial elections, elections for Senate Seats, elections for seats in the House of Representatives, and other local elections. 

NH Governor: Colin Van Ostern (Democrat). If anyone's shocked at this suggestion to for the "liberal," Mr. Van Ostern isn’t really that liberal. Mr. Van Ostern has essentially run on a pro-jobs, pro-growth platform and pledged not impose an income or sales tax in New Hampshire.

NH Senate, House District 1, and House District 2: Kelly Ayotte (Republican), Jim Lawrence (Republican), and Frank Guinta (Republican). Hillary Clinton is likely to end up President and keeping the Senate balance of power in favor of the Party of Lincoln and Reagan (the Republican Party) will prevent imposition of any egregious new regulation that would stifle innovation, prevent job growth, or hurt the economy.

Massachusetts Ballot Initiatives:

Question 1 (Additional Slots Parlor): YES. As a business idea, this is likely bad since the suggested location of Revere will be close to Wynn Boston Harbor and there is no way a slots parlor can compete effectively with what Wynn will offer, but ultimately the free market can sort this out. If a company wants to come in and build a slots parlor, let them do it. If they fail, they fail, but at a minimum that creates some jobs in the short-run. 

Question 2 (Lift Cap on Charter Schools): YES. There are many schools in Massachusetts that are not up to par and unfortunately these are often in areas where parents cannot afford to just send their kids off to private school so they have a chance to get into good colleges and get decent jobs. The charter schools provide greater opportunity for the children.

Question 3 (Farm Animal Containment): NO. Again, this is one where the free market should be able to operate. People can already buy meat where the animals are not contained in small spaces and eggs where the hens are not caged.

Question 4 (Legalize Marijuana): YES. This will add revenue, create jobs, and is actually a curbing of regulation as it removes a government prohibition on business transactions.

President of the United States: Hillary Rodham Clinton (Democrat). Wall Street wants Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the White House with the Republicans in charge of Congress as that will create stability by preventing drastic changes to the regulatory and business climate. Donald J. Trump (Republican), on the other hand, has proposed ideas that will create extreme levels of uncertainty, and uncertainty is generally bad for the economy as businesses don't want to invest or hire more people when the outlook is unclear. Former Governor Gary Johnson (Libertarian), overall, comes out as a more honest candidate than either Ms. Clinton or Mr. Trump, but Mr. Johnson really failed to get his message out to the voters, rally support, or counter the level of advertising put out by Ms. Clinton and Mr. Trump, and as a result Mr. Johnson has no feasible path to victory at this point.

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New addition! State-by-state odds, accessible whenever you want ‘em.

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On the campaign trail: When you gotta go

(Photo: Laurie White/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Portsmouth, N.H. police log:

April 6, 2016. 4:04 p.m.: Responded to Pleasant Point Road for a call about a suspicious man walking around the area and who urinated in a neighbor's yard. Police determined he was handing out brochures for U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, that he was concealed behind bushes when he urinated and he said he wouldn't do it again.

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Bill O’Brien blasts Kelly Ayotte — again

Former House Speaker Bill O'Brien lashed out at Sen. Kelly Ayotte today for her vote to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next United States Attorney General. In a stinging Facebook post, O’Brien wrote “it is clear” that Lynch “will promote Obama’s lawlessness.”

In addition to the Lynch vote, O’Brien cited a “series of disappointments on significant issues” from Ayotte, including "budget votes to fund Obamacare, debt ceiling extensions [and] caving on immigration.”

“What is the difference between having a Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte in the Senate?” O’Brien asked. “The only practical dissimilarity I can see is that Sen. Ayotte shows up at meetings of Republican groups and expects to get Republican votes in return,” he answered.

It was just two weeks ago that O’Brien sharply criticized Ayotte following the arrest of Ayotte’s aide, Dave Wihby, in a prostitution sting. “Ayotte owns this one,” he wrote. In a message explaining his criticism, O’Brien accused Ayotte of supporting “those who would perpetuate” human sex trafficking.

That attack was widely seen as payback for Ayotte’s endorsement of O’Brien’s Republican opponent in last year’s contest for House speaker, which O’Brien referenced in his message.

O’Brien’s repeated criticism led some of his state house supporters to encourage the former speaker to challenge Ayotte in a primary. “We need to get someone to run against her,” suggested Rep. Ralph Boehm (R-Litchfield). “O'Brien for US Senate,” answered Rep. Daniel Tamburello (R-Londonderry).

Fuhgeddaboudit, says Ed Mosca, House Legal Counsel under then-Speaker O’Brien. “Conservatives who believe they can take out Kelly Ayotte in a primary are kidding themselves,” he blogged. “They couldn't defeat Scott Brown and Ayotte would be in a much stronger position in a primary than Brown was.”

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Senator Jeanne Shaheen thanks EMILY's List supporters!