Ann McLane Kuster unveiled her clean energy jobs plan with a goal of growing 5,000 to 7,000 clean energy sector jobs in New Hampshire, without adding to the federal deficit. On a conference call with New Hampshire clean energy workers, Kuster promised to make job creation her #1 priority in Congress, and pointed to the clean energy sector as a promising area of growth for good jobs in New Hampshire.
"Over the last twenty-five years, I’ve spent my life working to help people here in New Hampshire on issues that make a difference for all of us - from making it easier for families to save for college to fighting the rising cost of health care.
Today, the most important way we can help families all across our state is by focusing on creating jobs. Over the past six months in my campaign for Congress, I have traveled to every corner of our district to sit-down with workers and business leaders to talk with them about how the government can help them create new jobs." [Click here to read more]
National and state pro-choice leaders joined together today in New Hampshire to offer a united endorsement for Democratic congressional candidate Ann McLane Kuster. The group of endorsers included the founder of EMILY’S List, the President of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, and the Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice New Hampshire, as well as a group of New Hampshire pro-choice activists. Combined, these groups count well over 30,000 New Hampshire voters as active supporters.
Economic growth should be our #1 national priority right now, but the truth is that nothing Washington does - neither the biggest stimulus nor the deepest tax cut - can get our economy back on stable footing until our financial markets are fixed as well.
Unfortunately, the status quo politicians are digging in their heels. Former congressman Charlie Bass helped loosen Wall Street regulations back when he was in Congress, and now that he is on the campaign trail again he is calling the pending reform “extremist.” I couldn’t disagree more - either with his point or with his fringe-courting rhetoric.
When the market crashed last year, I thought that the resulting pain would be the final nail in the coffin for the champions of privatizing Social Security. Sadly, I was mistaken. Already, former congressman Charlie Bass is resurrecting his own call for privatization, just as he did when George W. Bush was trying to sell the idea to a skeptical country a few years ago.
Privatization was a bad idea then, and it is a worse idea now. Here is why:
from James Pindell's NH Political Report: "in New Hampshire one candidate made her position clear nearly a week before a national debate erupted . . ."
