NH defunded planned parenthood

[Keith and stuff]

The New Hampshire Executive Council (a 5 person body that shares control of the NH Executive Branch with the NH governor) voted 3-2 to defend planned parenthood in NH. This saved NH taxpayers money. However, because of the decision, NH violated a string of the federal government so the federal government took some federal funds away from NH. Obama decided to give that money directly to planned parenthood in a no-bid contract.

A Recap:
The NH Executive Council decided to defund planned parenthood which would cut the NH state budget and also maybe mean the lose of some federal funds
NH Democrats got mad
The NH governor didn't look for other ways to provide those same services to folks in NH
The NH Democrats reached out to the Obama administration which decided to stop giving a federal grant to NH (a federal grant that as far as I know, the 49 other states all get) and instead give the money directly to planned parenthood

This issue may not be over as there is a possibility of NH state government, federal, NH Republican and / or NH Democrat lawsuits.

However, it is at least a win for the taxpayers of NH because state sending went down and the size of the state government in NH shrunk.

Other states have defunded planned parenthood. For example, earlier this year, some parts of TN decided to defund planned parenthood by giving the money that they used to give to planned parenthood to local government agencies, thus growing the size of the government in those parts of TN. In NH it worked differently and the size of government actually shrunk.

http://www.nhinsider.com/blogger-al...ast-decision-by-federal-government-lynch.html

 

[libertybrewcity]

good news. glad to see NH shrinking the gov

 

[libertybrewcity]

any chance NH will get a governor that supports medical marijuana in 2012?

 

[Keith and stuff]

any chance NH will get a governor that supports medical marijuana in 2012?

I don't know for sure but most likely, if a Democrat win, then yes. If a GOPer wins, I'm not sure. Ovide sounds pretty decent but I have no idea where he stands on MM. John S., the GOP candidate in 2010 was a libertarian on most issues but was against medical marijuana. It's not yet know if he will run but Ovide is considered the current front runner for the GOP nomination.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20110919/NEWS06/110919875

New Hampshire needs leadership that will tell Washington to back off from telling us how to teach our kids, treat our patients and control our businesses, he stressed.

"We need leaders at the state level that understand that we need to wean ourselves off of the federal dependency that we have allowed to occur in this country."

He told Granite State citizens that it is time to go back and "rediscover the magic of self determination" and local control.