McCain Faced With Protests In New Hampshire

John McCain went to Exeter, New Hampshire, to meet with a group of supporters to try to get his struggling campaign on its feet. What he didn’t plan on was to meet a group of protesters outside that was almost as large as the assembly of his supporters.

The protesters chanted, “Bush, McCain, more of the same.”

“John McCain is wrong on issues like trade, the economy, on health care and the minimum wage, on workers’ rights,” said one protester, a union member explaining why he joined the demonstration.

Some news outlets reported 75 protesters. Others reported hundreds eventually showing up.

Along with John McCain was turncoat Joseph Lieberman, also known as the Zell Miller of the North.

New Hampshire Newspaper Endorses Not Romney

The Concord Monitor, a major New Hampshire newspaper, has a tradition of offering endorsements in the Republican and Democratic presidential primary contests. This year, the Concord Monitor has broken with its tradition. This year, it has offered an anti-endorsement.

The Concord Monitor has written an editorial advising voters to, whatever they do, not vote for Mitt Romney. The paper writes, “When New Hampshire partisans are asked to defend the state’s first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of the world, we’ll know it. Mitt Romney is such a candidate. New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no.”

(Source: New Hampshire Monitor, December 22, 2007)

New Hampshire Knows Something About Fighting Poverty

New Hampshire has the lowest poverty rate of any state in the entire country. So, when it comes to economic policy, the people of New Hampshire seem to understand something that Americans in other parts of the country don’t. They used that understanding in 2004, when they voted against George W. Bush.

New Hampshire’s vote wasn’t a fluke. The five states with the lowest rates of poverty in the United States all voted against George W. Bush in 2004. It seems that the states with the greatest success in fighting poverty all know better than to give credence to right wing economic theory.

For the source of this information, and for a lot more on the real state of the American economy, check out the Food Research and Action Center’s 2007 State of the States Report

Has the Green Party of New Hampshire Gone Under?

They used to be over at NHGreens.org, and we were happy to provide them a link over at our progressive directory of New Hampshire, but now it seems that the New Hampshire Green Party has gone under, online at least.

The old site of the New Hampshire Green Party now sells debt consolidation, car insurance, and credit cards. That hardly seems like the Green Party approach. It’s a fill-in-the-blank site, of course, one that web host companies use to try to make a little peripheral profit when an account is cancelled. There is no sign of a new web site for the New Hampshire Greens.

Guy Chichester, a former Green Party candidate for Governor, has been appointed as the chair of New Hampshire Greens for Kucinich, but a Green Party activist endorsing a Democratic candidate for President is hardly a sign of a health Green Party in New Hampshire. It’s not certain how well Green Party activists can help Dennis Kucinch, when their own party infrastructure seems to be falling apart.

If there are any honest-to-goodness New Hampshire Greens who can point me the way to information about the demise of the New Hampshire Green Party, I’d appreciate hearing from you.