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TELL US: Is the Free State Project NH’s ‘Biggest Threat’?

Democratic state rep from Keene thinks so and her comments are causing a furor nationally.

Is the Free State Project, the group of libertarian-minded individuals hoping to resettle in the Granite State to live in a place with limited government, the biggest threat to our state? That’s what state Rep. Cynthia Chase, D-Keene, wrote on a post on the progressive Blue Hampshire blog a couple of weeks ago, comments that during the last few days have created a national firestorm among conservative commentators and news aggregation sites. Chase stated that there was “legally, nothing we can do to prevent them from moving here” but she added that leaders could “make the environment here so unwelcoming that some will choose not to come, and some may actually leave” adding that one way would be to “restrict the ‘freedoms’ that they think …

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Secession Movement Comes to NH

Granite Staters start petition drive to request President Obama for peaceful right to leave the union.

Across the country, in more than 20 states, signatures are being gathered requesting President Barack Obama to allow states to consider seceding from the union, according to press reports over the weekend. The states, ranging from blue states like New York and New Jersey, to some of the reddest of the red, in North Dakota and Texas, must collect 25,000 signatures within 30 days to receive an official response from the White House. Texas already has more than 25,000, according to reports.  On Nov. 11, the movement officially came to New Hampshire. Free State Project supporter Menno Troyer posted a call to “mobilize New Hampshire” on Facebook last night requesting others sign an online petition to join the other states. The post quickly …

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Stephen D. Clark

10:20 am on Sunday, November 25, 2012

As a New Hampshire resident, I didn't instruct my state representative to bring a bill for secession to the floor of the statehouse. No petition originating anywhere else is legitimate. Any petition for secession not originating from state government in Concord has less weight than a photon. Moreover, the president has no authority to respond to such petitions with anything more significant than …   more ›

Free Stater Delivers Food Baskets to Concord Residents

Food delivered in honor of Amanda Bouldin's father.

When Manchester resident Amanda Bouldin wanted to honor the memory of her father who suddenly died this year, she cooked up the idea to run a Thanksgiving week Basket Brigade drive just like the one her dad ran in Carrollton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. “I decided to do this because I wanted to honor my dad, Kent Bouldin, who died unexpectedly in April,” Bouldin said. “He had organized a Basket Brigade in Dallas for the last decade or so — it was his passion. A couple months ago it occurred to me that all his friends and coworkers would be doing the Basket Brigade without him this year, even though he’s the one that encouraged them to participate in the first place. I was saddened. Then I got to thinking: ‘I could start my own. Here!’” At …

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