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New Hampshire Republicans Fight Over How To Take Marriage Away From Gays

Jillian Rayfield | February 2, 2012, 6:24AM

The New Hampshire legislature is gearing up for a fight over whether to repeal the state's marriage equality law, but the fate of the bill will come down to how the divided Republican caucus dukes it out.

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Topics: Civil Unions, Gay Marriage, New Hampshire

James O'Keefe

'Dead' Voter Talking: O'Keefe Voter Fraud Stunt Confused 23-Year-Old For Dead 84-Year-Old

Ryan J. Reilly | January 14, 2012, 2:25PM

Robert William Beaulieu is 23-years-old, lives in Nashua, New Hampshire, and is a registered Democrat. He's also very much not dead.

But you wouldn't have known that if you watched the lastest undercover sting video from James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, which featured a man with an Irish accent attempting to obtain a ballot on behalf of a Robert Beaulieu who lives on Cassandra Lane.

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Topics: James O'Keefe, New Hampshire, Project Veritas, Robert William Beaulieu, Voter Identification, Voting, Voting Rights Act, voter fraud

James O'Keefe

James O'Keefe Says $50K Donation Funded Voter Fraud Stunt

Ryan J. Reilly | January 12, 2012, 1:46PM

An "extremely generous donor" gave $50,000 to James O'Keefe's Project Veritas to fund their voter fraud stunt in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the conservative activist said in a email to supporters.

"Our Voter Fraud investigation is being funded with a gift of $50,000 from an extremely generous donor -- but that covers the cost of just ONE national project," O'Keefe wrote in a fundraising email.

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Topics: James O'Keefe, New Hampshire, Project Veritas, Voter Identification, Voting, Voting Rights Act, voter fraud

NH Rep Tries To Spring Convicted Child Molester

Rachel Slajda | January 21, 2011, 2:03PM

New Hampshire state house

A state representative from New Hampshire, Lars Christiansen (R), is taking his fight to free a convicted child molester to the state house.

According to the Concord Monitor, Christiansen will submit a petition to the newly created Committee to Redress Grievances asking it to look into the case of Timothy Dupont. Dupont was convicted in 2001 of 69 counts of felonious sexual assault on a female relative under age 13.

The committee couldn't affect Dupont's sentence (21 to 42 years), according to the Monitor. All it could do is suggest some sort of legislative remedy.

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Topics: Lars Christiansen, New Hampshire

New Hampshire Phone Jamming

Phone Service Restored To NH Dems After Scare

Rachel Slajda | November 2, 2010, 9:42AM

After phone service at 11 local campaign offices went down yesterday afternoon, prompting fears of a 2002-style sabotage, the New Hampshire Democratic Party now says service is back up.

The party's executive director, Mike Brunelle, tells TPMmuckraker that phone service at the party's call banks is "almost fully operational."

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Topics: New Hampshire, New Hampshire Phone Jamming

New Hampshire

Reports Of Phone Trouble In NH; Dems, Wary Of 2002-Style Sabotage, Call AG

Rachel Slajda | November 1, 2010, 9:09PM

The New Hampshire Democrats this afternoon lost phone service at their local campaign offices in 11 towns, prompting them to notify the state attorney general and put out a press release.

The cause of the outage was not known as of Monday evening. The Democrats said they took the precaution of notifying authorities based on what happened in 2002, when the state Republican Party purposely jammed the Dems' phones in order to sabotage their get out the vote effort. The scheme eventually ended in the criminal convictions of the party's executive director and a political consultant.

There's no sign of nefarious activity yet. A spokesman for the Republican Party said they were also experiencing phone outages at several of their phone banks.

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Topics: New Hampshire, New Hampshire Phone Jamming

Oath Keepers

Man Says He Lost Custody Due To Political Ties, Now Accused Of Domestic Abuse (VIDEO)

Ryan J. Reilly | October 12, 2010, 3:47PM

John Irish and Stephanie Janvrin

John Irish, a New Hampshire man who is affiliated with the "patriot" group the Oath Keepers, claimed last week that his newborn baby was taken away from him and his fiance because of his association with the organization, and quickly rallied like-minded libertarians to his cause.

The founder of Oath Keepers sent out an alert, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones interviewed the couple, and soon enough there was a Facebook page to support the parents -- based, in no small part on a heavily redacted affidavit posted by supporters that the Concord Monitor later reported eliminated all reference to Irish's alleged history of domestic violence against his fiancée and her other children.

Before long, the hospital began receiving threats, and an FBI agent and state bomb-sniffing dog team swept hospital property, Kieran Ramsey, supervisory special agent to FBI officers in New Hampshire, told the Monitor.