Former US Sen. John E. Sununu will confirm tonight that he will not seek a vacant Senate seat in 2010, opening up a scramble for potential, Republican candidates.
Sununu, 44, lost a tight and expensive rematch to Democrat Jeanne Shaheen in 2008 and since then has landed some key appointments to corporate boards and a seat on the congressional oversight board on the TARP money.
] The Sunday Telegraph first foreshadowed this move that Sununu was not retiring but taking a haitus from electoral politics when two of his brothers and former political director decided to form their own lobbying-consulting firm.
The decision will no doubt cause some Republican heavyweights to try and convince their freshest face, Attorney General Kelly Ayotte of Nashua, to get into the 2010 Senate campaign.
Multi-millionaire investor Fred Tausch of Merrimack is a likely candidate and Manchester lawyer Ovide Lamontagne is also seriously considering a bid as is former Congressman Charles Bass.
The entry of former, Democratic State Sen. Bobby Stephen into the Nashua mayoral campaign today sure complicates things for Manchester GOP Sen. and fellow candidate Ted Gatsas.
For several weeks, Gatsas had been trying through back channels to convince Stephen, a retired, state jobs official, to stay out of the fight to replace Frank [...]
CONCORD [-] Sen. Judd Gregg and ex-Sen. John E. Sununu, both lead Democratic Congressman Paul Hodes in head-to-head polls for the Senate seat Gregg intends to vacate in 2010 according to an independent poll released today.
Gregg’s lead over Hodes, 52 percent to 36 percent for Hodes, is much larger than the five-point lead [...]
Democrats stepped up their get-out-the-vote effort eight days in advance of a State Senate special electon.
The political office of Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, D-NH, sent an e-mail blast urging supporters to devote as much time and $$$ as they’re able to help elect Democrat Bud Martin of Sandwich in Senate Dist. 3 on April [...]
We’re more than 14 months away from the filing period opens to elect a new US Senator but it’s never too early for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to start promoting the fortunes of NH Democratic Congressman Paul Hodes for the job.
In an 11th-hour, fundraising plea, DSCC Chairman and Florida Sen. Bob Menendez [...]
The State Senate later today will vote to table legislation to legalize gambling on slot machines at racetracks and resorts.
Supporters admit they came up around two votes shy of getting the 12-11 support needed to send a bill (SB 169) to the House of Representatives.
Several senators said they were reluctant to support [...]
The left-leaning, Talking Points Memo charges ex-Sen. John E. Sununu has a conflict of interest with his place on the oversight panel for the federalk bailout money now that he’s taken a bank directorship.
After losing re-election in November, Sununu took the place of NH Sen. Judd Gregg on the panel for the Troubled Asset [...]
CONCORD [-] The 2002 Election Day phone jamming case has taken a startling turn that could prolong it in the public eye much to the dismay of New Hampshire Republican leaders.
The lead federal prosecutor in the case, Andrew Levchuk, told a federal judge in Portland Monday that former GOP strategist James Tobin is not [...]
Newly re-elected, NH Congressman Paul Hodes figures
prominently in a national profile about who will become the next
“bad cop” now that Illinois Congressman Rahm Emmanuel will
become White House chief of staff.
“The Hill” story relates an exchange with Hodes who was feeling
pretty good about having been able to return the dog of a soldier
killed in Iraq to [...]
The fifth-top ranking Democrat in the state House of Representatives has emerged as a contender to be a US marshal in the Barack Obama administration.
Penacook Democratic State Rep. Steve Shurtleff confirmed that he’s interested in replacing former Goffstown Police Chief Steve Monier who was the New Hampshire’s marshal for most of President George [...]
