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SEA considers split from national union

The State Employees' Association has created a committee to consider whether it should pull out of its national union, the Service Employees International Union. The SEA pays $1.6 million a year to be in the SEIU, according to the resolution passed to create the committee. At the same time, the resolution says, the SEIU's 2005 split from the AFL-CIO has sparked a "loss of solidarity"… 0

November 26, 2007

Got any plans for Jan. 8?

After lo these many months of hand-wringing and gamesmanship, could the presidential primary date really be so simple as Jan. 8? Maybe. Just maybe. We're thinking about marking it in pencil on our calendars. Secretary of State Bill Gardner said Friday that he wasn't quite ready to set the date. "I'm still a little cautious about saying anything," he said. "There's still some questions… 0

October 28, 2007

Democrats are hiring locally

Trawling through presidential candidates' third quarter fundraising filings, several trends emerge. The best-known Democratic candidates have dozens of staffers sporting New Hampshire addresses on their payrolls (Barack Obama, for example, had upward of 90), while the Republicans trend more toward consultants. (Disclaimer: Here at the Capital Beat, we searched for payments made… 0

October 21, 2007

Gore fans await his next move

Al Gore, now that you've got a Nobel Peace Prize to put on the mantle next to your Oscar, you've got less than a month decide if you're in the ring for that other prize. You know, the American presidency. That's the message from the New Hampshire Draft Gore campaign headed by Farrell Seiler, a 63-year-old political activist and wind energy advocate who bills himself as a "longtime… 0

October 14, 2007

Alas, Tweezerman campaign calls it quits

Dal LaMagna, aka Tweezerman (he created a beauty tools company), is no longer running for the Democratic presidential nomination. "I tell my friends I'm cured," he said by phone last week. LaMagna had made New Hampshire the focus of his campaign, renting space in downtown Concord. 0

October 8, 2007

Taxing, spending, fighting

The budget-tax-veto battle royale between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani last week took an oddly shrinking trajectory, from candidate to proxy to press release. Romney went on the offense Thursday morning at a question-and-answer session at Saint Anselm College, knocking Giuliani for his role in a New York lawsuit that put the kibosh on the federal line-item veto. Giuliani's campaign… 0

October 7, 2007

Marchand out of the race but still asking for contributions

A fundraising plea from Steve Marchand? Yes, Marchand ended his bid for John Sununu's U.S. Senate seat last month, shortly after Jeanne Shaheen jumped in. But a post on the blog Blue Hampshire alerted us to the fact that Marchand is looking for donations to retire his campaign debt. 0

October 3, 2007

Buckey camp feels no love from national party

Did a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee e-mail encourage voters to donate to just one of the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, Jeanne Shaheen? Debate has been swirling on the blog BlueHampshire, ever since Shaheen's Democratic primary opponent, Jay Buckey, made the assertion in a fundraising e-mail of his own. 0

September 30, 2007

Three executive councilors still on fence on toll increases

An increase in highway tolls has a good chance of winning Executive Council approval. Two councilors, Republican Ray Burton and Democrat John Shea, said yesterday that they will support raising tolls when the governor and council meet next week. The plan - introduced by Transportation Commissioner Chuck O'Leary and backed by Gov. John Lynch - needs three votes to pass. Two other… 0

September 26, 2007

Supreme Court ruling slows the push for slots

A recent state Supreme Court order giving lawmakers until July to work toward a school funding solution without court intervention could stall the push for legalizing slot machines at horse and dog racing tracks. 0

September 23, 2007