VIDEO: Bass Dishes Pasta in Concord
Candidate thanks supporters for their help.
U.S. Rep. Charles Bass, R-NH-2, hosted a pasta dinner at the Beaver Meadow Golf Course on Nov. 4, thanking supporters for their help in his re-election campaign while asking everyone to rest up for Election Day.
Bass said he had been hosting the dinners around the state in the waning days of what has become one of the most closely watched Congressional races in the country.
The 2nd Congressional District race is a 2010 re-match between Bass, who won in a squeaker last time, and Democrat Ann McLane Kuster and Libertarian Hardy Macia.
Bass admitted that the race had become particularly nasty between the two who have known each other for years and have always had a cordial relationship. Despite being pro-choice and an affirmed environmentalist, Bass has been hammered by a slew of negative ads and mailers about his voting record. The Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and Bass himself have countered with ads focused on a recent spat between Kuster and a Bass staffer and Kuster's previous work supporting a state-wide income tax.
Most polls show Bass either slightly behind, within the margin of error, or losing the race. However, he said, the numbers couldn't be trusted.
"Don't believe them," Bass said with a smile. "I'm going to win."
ForThePeople
3:05 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Look at the diversity in that photo.
Oh wait, it's a Republican event at a golf course.
Tony Schinella
3:12 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
Eh, FTP, it's the city's municipal golf course. It's open to everyone. Last year, Patch held its municipal election forums in the same room.
ForThePeople
4:52 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
So I must be imagining a room full of old white predominantly male individuals rallying for a Republican at a golf course, way out in north Concord. Come on Tony, you are telling me you don't notice anything odd about that photograph? I have personally never been invited to Beaver Meadow for any public function. It's always the auditorium, the legislative offices downtown, the old schoolhouse near Thorndike, one of the schools… I could go on. You are trying to separate the golf course from municipal, as if the municipal part could stand alone and vindicate the photo. I simply disagree.