New Hampshire
New Hampshire voters getting turned off by gubernatorial candidates’ negative ads
DERRY, N.H. – One of the most contested governor’s races in the country is underway in New Hampshire but not only is the tone of the candidates’ ads turning off some voters, others admit they aren’t paying attention.
Downside of negative campaigning
The political ads are dominating the airwaves between Republican former Sen. Kelly Ayotte and former mayor of Manchester, Democrat Joyce Craig. Voters in the Granite State – taking notice.
“I hate the bashing that goes on back and forth between the two,” said voter Rick McNally. “I really wish they would talk about more about what they do. I think that would help me.”
If you ask New Hampshire voters where they stand on the candidates, you might be surprised.
“I haven’t really paid attention to the governor. I’m really more focused on the presidential,” said one voter.
“I don’t really know too much about the candidates there,” McNally added.
Saint Anselm College Political Science professor Chris Galdieri believes the negative campaigning can turn off voters.
A recent poll from Saint Anselm College among New Hampshire voters found Ayotte holds a three-point lead over her Democratic opponent Joyce Craig.
“The governor’s race, I think, has really been struggling to get voters to pay much attention to it. It’s also been a very negative campaign, a very ugly campaign,” Professor Galdieri told WBZ-TV.
National issues take center stage
That’s why the national issues, like the debate over reproductive rights, has taken center stage in this gubernatorial race. Where the candidates stand on abortion could be the deciding factor for voters come Tuesday.
“I’m still walking the fence right now on a lot of issues,” one voter explained.
“That’s a great question,” Galdieri explained, when asked if that makes it more difficult to vote among party lines. “New Hampshire is the most pro-choice swing state in the country.”
Homelessness, immigration, crime and the economy are at the top of mind for New Hampshire voters heading into the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
“Mind is not made up yet,” one voter said.
“Do I just stick with my party? Possibly,” McNally said. “That could be what I do.”
New Hampshire
FAA investigating after small plane crashes into New Hampshire condominiums
NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A pilot was taken to the hospital with injuries Wednesday after a small plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in southern New Hampshire, authorities said.
Emergency crews found the aircraft upside down in a snow bank in the parking lot of a wooded condominium complex in Nashua Wednesday afternoon.
Police said the pilot was the only person on board and was the only person injured. The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
The Velocity V-Twin plane crashed at the Cannongate Condominiums shortly after departing from the nearby Nashua Airport around 2:10 p.m. local time, according to the FAA.
Aerial video from NBC10 Boston showed damage to the roof of one of the condos near the crash site.
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New Hampshire
Brown University shooting suspect found dead in New Hampshire
NEW YORK (Gray Media) – Thursday night Law enforcement officials confirmed the suspect in last Saturday’s shooting at Brown University was found dead. Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, the man suspected of killing two Brown students and injuring nine, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Salem, NH. Officials believe the 48-year-old former Brown student was also connected to the killing of an MIT professor earlier this week.
Neves Valente was a student in the early 2000s at Brown and a fellow student of Dr. Nuno Loureiro, the MIT professor. His motive was unknown, but university officials said he likely spent a lot of time in the building where he carried out the attack.
A six-day manhunt led law enforcement to a storage unit where they found Neves Valente, who came to the U.S. from Portugal originally on a student visa, eventually receiving a green card to stay in the country. Rhode Island’s Attorney General Peter Neronha said tips from the public were crucial in finally identifying the suspect.
“When you do crack it, you crack it. And that person led us to the car. Which led us to the name. Which led us to the photographs of that individual renting the car, which matched the clothing of our shooter here in Providence,” said Neronha.
In response to the tragedy and ensuing investigation, President Donald Trump paused the diversity visa lottery program the suspect used to get a green card. Some 50,000 visas per year are granted to students from countries with low rates of immigration to the US.
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New Hampshire
Electioneering accusation against high-ranking N.H. Democrat cleared – The Boston Globe
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office has closed a complaint after finding that Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill did not engage in illegal electioneering.
At issue were a series of emails Liot Hill, a Lebanon Democrat, had sent from her official government account to help the partisan Elias Law Group connect with voters impacted by a new state voting law.
Republican lawmakers said that was an inappropriate use of official resources, threatening to impeach Liot Hill over her correspondence. James MacEachern, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, reported his concerns to the Attorney General’s Office in August.
In August, the Elias Law Group, which represents Democrats and progressive causes, represented three visually-impaired plaintiffs who sued New Hampshire officials over the constitutionality of a new law that would tighten photo ID requirements for voters seeking an absentee ballot. That case was recently dismissed by a New Hampshire Superior Court judge.
This week, the Attorney General’s Election Law Unit released its determination that Liot Hill’s emails did not constitute illegal electioneering, in a Dec. 18 letter to MacEachern.
The Election Law Unit said it reviewed five emails from Liot Hill’s official government account that MacEachern had provided.
It found the content of the emails did not meet the state’s definition of electioneering, “because it does not relate in any way to ‘the vote of a voter on any question or office,’ i.e., something to be voted on at an election,” Brendan A. O’Donnell, senior assistant attorney general in the Election Law Unit, said in the letter.
“Moreover, it is not uncommon for elected officials to use their official capacity to take a position on the constitutionality of an enacted law that is being challenged in court,” O’Donnell said.
However, the letter noted that Liot Hill’s emails did raise the risk that its recipients — including two executive branch officials — could interpret her requests for help as commands.
“All executive branch officials should use care to avoid acting in any way that would create an appearance of impropriety,” said O’Donnell.
But, he continued, his office did not find in this case that there had been a misuse of position or that the emails otherwise violated the executive branch ethics code.
MacEachern said he still has concerns about Liot Hill, when reached for comment on the Election Law Unit’s findings.
“This report, among others, continues to raise serious questions about Councilor Liot-Hill’s judgement and brazen willingness to push ethical boundaries with her conduct,” he said in an email.
But Liot Hill said the findings “underscore the partisan nature of the ongoing attacks” against her, including the impeachment proceedings Republicans have failed against her.
“I am being impeached not for wrong-doing, but for being a Democrat,” she said in an email.
Amanda Gokee can be reached at amanda.gokee@globe.com. Follow her @amanda_gokee.
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