{"id":49875,"date":"2015-03-19T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T21:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/stay-classy-new-hampshire-gop.html"},"modified":"2015-05-10T21:46:48","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T03:46:48","slug":"stay-classy-new-hampshire-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/stay-classy-new-hampshire-gop.html","title":{"rendered":"Stay classy, New Hampshire GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a group of 4th Graders sat in the gallery, the bill they had proposed &#8212; as an educational experience &#8212; to name the red-tailed hawk the New Hampshire state bird instead became springboard for a Republican rep to attack abortion (&quot;It grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood.&quot;)<\/p>\n<p>The bill was eventually voted down because it was considered frivolous (quoth another GOP lawmaker, &quot;if we keep bringing more of these bills, and bills, and bills forward that really I think we shouldn&#39;t have in front of us, we&#39;ll be picking a state hot dog next&quot;). <\/p>\n<p>So perhaps the fourth graders <i>did<\/i> get a good intro to civics and lawmaking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.nh1.com\/news\/nh-lawmakers-brutally-kill-4th-graders-bill-in-front-of-them'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/cXnK9OWHmpHR-jd_Yr6-xutIZwhsEfqPAuEGsx4OwEGAgSxREbUNHXRgIkoHPJQiFGH65xXXD-e8sPXSfIxTIb6mWhfNtQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.nh1.com\/news\/nh-lawmakers-brutally-kill-4th-graders-bill-in-front-of-them'>NH lawmakers brutally kill 4th-graders&#8217; bill in front of them | NH1<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSome elementary school kids from Hampton Falls get a harsh lesson in civics at the State House when some lawmakers ridiculed the students over a bill they proposed.  The abrupt exchange was caught on video.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/1v3So64Czz9'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a group of 4th Graders sat in the gallery, the bill they had proposed &#8212; as an educational experience &#8212; to name the red-tailed hawk the New Hampshire state bird instead became springboard for a Republican rep to attack abortion (&quot;It grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/19\/stay-classy-new-hampshire-gop.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stay classy, New Hampshire GOP&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26236,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/and-the-slow-march-back-to-the-gilded-age-continues.html","url_meta":{"origin":49875,"position":0},"title":"And the slow march back to the Gilded Age continues","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Feb-12 8:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"Amusingly enough, the proposer of the law thinks that we can just use Twitter to \"shame\" employers who don't graciously offer their employees work breaks. Riiiiiight. #ddtbReshared post from +Think ProgressYes, this is 2012, not 1812. 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