New Hampshire Senator Martha Fuller Clark (D-Portsmouth) says she will introduce a bill to expand the term of the Governor from two years to four years. New Hampshire and Vermont are the only states with two-year gubernatorial terms.
The current New Hampshire definition of “party” is “any political organization which at the preceding state general election received at least 4% of the total number of votes cast for any one of the following: the office of governor or the offices of United States Senators.” If Senator Clark’s bill provides that governors be elected in mid-term years, then this definition will need amending, since if the bill were in effect, there would be some election years in which neither of those offices would be on the ballot, such as 2012.
Not only is this a ploy for the far left to hang on with their bad record, but look what else they are trying to do to us!
hese are some of the small but sneaky cuts being made to undermine the taxpayer revolt that is anticipated at town meetings.
HB 0072 would increase the number of people needed to request a secret vote at town meetings in some cases to as many as 50, from 5 as previous law provides. I can’t see as anyone would have time to gather 50 signatures in the 5 minutes between voice and show of hand votes! I cannot imagine what Ms Patten (R) is thinking with this bill.
CNHT feels that the passage of this bill would not be in the best interest of the taxpayer.
Read the full text of the bill here:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/hb0072.html
PLEASE ATTEND THIS HEARING TO EXPRESS YOUR OPPOSITION TO THIS BILL
HB0072 will be heard on January 14, 2009 at 11:30 AM in Room 301 of the Legislative Office Building.
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HB 0053 would exempt certain government agencies from having to release information under the RSA 91-A “Right to Know†law and that would just about prevent us from knowing ANYTHING.
CNHT feels that the passage of this bill would not be in the best interest of the taxpayer.
Read the full text of the bill here:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/hb0053.html
PLEASE ATTEND THE HEARING TO EXPRESS YOUR OPPOSITION TO THIS BILL.
HB0053 will be heard at 1:00 PM on January 14, 2009 in Room 208 of the Legislative Office Building.
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HB 0135 would make government accountable for not complying with 91-A Right to Know Laws, that is, if there is anything left of 91-A by that time.
CNHT feels that the passage of this bill would be beneficial to the taxpayer.
Read the full text of the bill here:
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2009/hb0135.html
PLEASE ATTEND THIS HEARING TO EXPRESS YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS BILL
HB0135 will be heard on January 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM in Room 208 of the Legislative Office Building.
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It is very important that you attend these hearings to express your opinions. Two of these bills would seriously change the way you interact with your local government. The other would make sure 91-A laws are enforced.
Yeah, the far left is REAL dangerous… look at everything they’ve given us in the past 8 years: the Iraq War, increased military spending, reduced health care, more free trade agreements, the list goes on. Oh wait. . .
jason you are right, the far left did give us those wars.. educate yourself please.
It’s all controlled by the same person.
Also, these bills are NH, not USA. Your comments are inappropriate as such.
Health care? See right away you are mistaken to think the government should ‘give’ you health care… Please go get a job!
Obama told Canada that his talk of getting rid of NAFTA was ‘just campaign talk’.
So much for that lying piece of sh**
Would the Clark bill allow governors to succeed themselves?
Tennessee, e.g., changed from two-year to four-year gubernatorial terms in 1954, but governors were no longer able to succeed themselves. Starting in ’78, governors were able to serve two successive four-year terms.
Virginia is now the only state which does not let its governors succeed themselves.
I might be one of the few people who supports longer terms for certain political offices. Two years in most instances, is hardly a good amount of time to truly gauge the effects of an executive’s policies, platforms, or performance. A four-year term or one five to six-year term I think is suffient.
John Connally, the late Texas governor and Nixon treasury secretary, was one who favored a single six-year term for the president, a la Mexico.
The main problem with that, as I see it, is that the president would be a lame duck from the day he was sworn into office.