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OK time for me to do that “Thread of Threads” of all the sessions and hearings I’ve livetweeted during this legislative term (Nov. 2020 through now in 2022); this is meant to serve as a reference for the upcoming midterm elections. #NHPoliticsPermalink On twitter.com
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My first official function as a state rep was actually a county delegation meeting: @cooljeanius/1337054627292975105Permalink On twitter.com
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My first session was the January 6th drive-in session where I was freezing my butt off in a bus while we voted on rules, and my phone’s battery died preventing me from learning much of anything about the insurrection in DC: @cooljeanius/1346839216790122497Permalink On twitter.com
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My local school district had a presentation for legislators soon after we were sworn in: @cooljeanius/1355154537481445376Permalink On twitter.com
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My first committee hearing was via Zoom; I miss being able to do them like that: @cooljeanius/1356235315116183553Permalink On twitter.com
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Highlights from my second hearing: - That stupid lemonade stand bill - Perambulation bill! (one of those geeky topics that not many people know about) @cooljeanius/1358776387193159682 (also note that when I say “his caucus” in the thread, @wmarshcc8 was still a Republican at the time)Permalink On twitter.com
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Highlights from my 3rd hearing: - Republicans mourning the death of Rush Limbaugh (blech) - Tilton & Northfield redrawing their town lines - Lemonade stand bill coming back via reconsideration after it had been previously killed @cooljeanius/1362392265516326916Permalink On twitter.com
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Oops looks like I missed one; *this* was actually the 3rd hearing, and the previous one would have been the 4th, then: @cooljeanius/1359139535691669507 There was a good lot size bill at this one.Permalink On twitter.com
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(in retrospect I probably should have realized I’d gotten my threads out of order when I was seeing the lemonade stand bill getting reconsidered before it’d even had its first vote)Permalink On twitter.com
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Thread for our 1st indoors in-person full House session; this was at the Bedford Sportsplex. It was the 1 where we tried to deny the GOP quorum by staging a walkout, but not enough of us went along w/it, & they closed the doors before we could all get out: @cooljeanius/1364554279521038352Permalink On twitter.com
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’twas a 2day session, so we were back at the Sportsplex the next day: @cooljeanius/1364925870767546372 “Highlights” (lowlights) from the day: - Good/big housing bill (HB586) gets tabled - GOP expands legality of use of deadly force - Tolkien Studies school gets accredited - RemonstrancesPermalink On twitter.com
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ok so after full-House session we were back to committee hearings: @cooljeanius/1366382128959733760 Highlights from this one: - Danville dogcatcher (“Animal Control Officer”) bill - anti-masking bill (HB439) - Corbin Park (Blue Mountain Forest & Game Preserve) taxation billPermalink On twitter.com
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Skipped a day that week before then coming back for a second committee hearing: @cooljeanius/1367111740954148865 Highlights: - First appearance of Rep. Pauer’s husband, Eric, who showed up to a lot of our hearings - Tiny houses - GOP kills anti-eviction bill (HB512)Permalink On twitter.com
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Back at this; hearing thread for March 8th, 2021: @cooljeanius/1368912284786036737 Highlights: - That bill to reduce evictions (HB512) comes back only for the GOP to kill it again - @ivyvann’s 2021 attempt at a fourplex bill - That horrible racist anti-sanctuary-city bill (HB266)Permalink On twitter.com
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sub-highlights (lowlights) for the HB266 part: - Rep. Potucek lying & saying it wasn’t about immigration - FAIR dodging my q. about them being a hate group - Chair Dolan being biased towards the bill’s supporters - @asmaelhuni giving a 🔥🔥🔥 testimony @cooljeanius/1368986237713985539Permalink On twitter.com
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First full-House session for April 2021 thread was here; we were back in Bedford again: @cooljeanius/1379774738977935363 Highlights: - Budget stuff - (actually that’s pretty much it; it was mostly all budget stuff. There was a lot of bad stuff in there)Permalink On twitter.com
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That April session was a 3-day one; day 2 of it was here: @cooljeanius/1380123508466941953 (not much to note here besides further Republican attacks on public education and voting rights)Permalink On twitter.com
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Day 3 of that first full-House session of April 2021 had its thread start here: @cooljeanius/1380489314665123845 Highlights: - Reopeners being bad - Melissa Blasek claims govt shouldn’t do good things - Car seats for kids are apparently really controversial [cont’d]Permalink On twitter.com
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Highlights from April 9th 2021 continued: - Debate on Qualified Immunity is actually really good, and I make my first floor motion to print remarks from the debate in the permanent journal - Speaker Packard apologizes for calling Anne Copp a “bitch” @cooljeanius/1380619594105229317Permalink On twitter.com
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Oh and this was also the session where the GOP messed with the calendar so that we only debated the bills that they wanted to pass and just straight-up ignored all the Dem bills: @cooljeanius/1380650068856946688Permalink On twitter.com
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1st crossover committee hearing of 2021: @cooljeanius/1391732632757710853 (hm, crossover started a lot later last year; we got to it a month earlier this year) Highlights: - Procedural mess for “Purple Paint” bill (SB84) - GOP continues to worsen climate crisis with propane (SB86 pt. III)Permalink On twitter.com
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So, while I’m going back through these threads, one thing I’m noticing is that there were a lot of things I would have asked questions about if we weren’t remote… being remote was nice for the convenience of attendance, but it also had the drawback of GOP being able to mute us…Permalink On twitter.com
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Having a physical hand raised in the committee room is a lot more noticeable for our GOP chair than having a hand raised on Zoom was…Permalink On twitter.com
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The following week’s crossover committee hearing: @cooljeanius/1394271261971394561 Highlights: - Nashua spending cap override mess - Propane bill (SB86) gets worse w/the GOP removing the only good parts (the housing portions) & worsening the ban on municipalities from banning fossil fuelsPermalink On twitter.com
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(yes I do plan on continuing this “thread of threads”; I’ve just been busy lately)Permalink On twitter.com
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ok, so first full-House session of June 2021, back in Bedford: @cooljeanius/1400419968555094020 Highlights: - GOP attempts to kill background check system for guns (Sununu would later veto) - 1st GOP attempt at that bill about federal gun executive orders that Sununu just signed todayPermalink On twitter.com
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June 3rd 2021 highlights continued: - more anti-democracy BS - more anti-vax BS - more procedural shenanigans - some actual good news for once: killing the “Right-To-Work” bill! @cooljeanius/1400509207380738050Permalink On twitter.com
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June 2021 session was continued the next day on the 4th: @cooljeanius/1400804298376757250 (last June 4th the 7-day case average was only 48, before reaching a low of 16 on the 25th, so it made sense to be thinking about stopping masking then; we didn’t know the omicron wave would hit)Permalink On twitter.com
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Anyways, highlights from June 4, 2021: - GOP worsens the tipped minimum wage situation - Procedural mess with SB86 (it eventually passes and GOP gets their way with protecting fossil fuels) - …oh wait I actually already included a summary in this one! @cooljeanius/1400900325301706756Permalink On twitter.com
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…I think that was it for that summer, so it looks like that’s another good place to take a break again, before coming back later with the threads from last fall…Permalink On twitter.com
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oh wait nope there was one more full-House session that June in Bedford that I almost missed: @cooljeanius/1402982093307617292 (not many highlights to note, though)Permalink On twitter.com
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ok one more June session: @cooljeanius/1408044540292960261 Highlights: - Jess Edwards’ “make sure women remain hot” Freudian slip - Budget debatePermalink On twitter.com
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sorry I was on break; time to pick this up again… onto September of last year! This was my first in-person committee hearing, since the previous ones had all been on Zoom: @cooljeanius/1435590847249145857 Highlights: - “return to in-person” adjustment pains (lack of mics, etc.)Permalink On twitter.com
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LSR filing period thread: @cooljeanius/1437815806268747784Permalink On twitter.com
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Leg. Admin substitution thread: @cooljeanius/1450503763819630599 (main highlight here was basically just another attempt at getting remote access back)Permalink On twitter.com
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Follow-up to the LSR filing period thread, from once the LSRs had actually become bills: @cooljeanius/1467932274591256581Permalink On twitter.com
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Another county delegation hearing: @cooljeanius/1468581692633976846Permalink On twitter.com
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This wasn’t actually from an event or anything, it was just one time I went and actually bothered reading the House Calendar for once: @cooljeanius/1468667987037200386Permalink On twitter.com
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(ok so that’s it for 2021; I’ll be back with threads from 2022 later)Permalink On twitter.com
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First full-House session of 2022 was here: @cooljeanius/1478698884717240323 Highlights: - GOP’s fails to override Sununu’s veto of their combo “guns on snowmobiles” + “weaken background checks” bill (they’d later pass the former as a separate bill) - Mike Sylvia lies about pandemicPermalink On twitter.com
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To be more specific about that Mike Sylvia part, this was actually right BEFORE the major omicron spike: @cooljeanius/1478765901621178369Permalink On twitter.com
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Anyways highlights from Jan 5, 2022 session continued: - GOP votes to kill @Cassandra4NH’s bill to end child marriage in NH and Dem leadership yells at me for retweeting one of @monkey_reg’s #PedoconTheory memes in response to the GOP vote: @cooljeanius/1478767693683732481Permalink On twitter.com
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Also, we received committee assignments for our bills that day, too, so I kinda had a multi-purpose thread going that day, interweaving email-checking with stuff going on on the floor: @cooljeanius/1478770701939228680Permalink On twitter.com
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remember back in January, back before “groomers” had become the Republican insult-du-jour for Democrats? Anyways, reminder that there are actual legitimate grooming professions (besides the animal kind, there are also ski trail groomers): @cooljeanius/1478775868822638592Permalink On twitter.com
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Oh yeah reminder to myself to submit a California-style food waste LSR this year: @cooljeanius/1478797876293771268Permalink On twitter.com
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Max Abramson is the worst: @cooljeanius/1478798195459252230Permalink On twitter.com
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Anyways that’s it for stuff from my thread for Jan 5th of this year; next I managed to fit in an additional mini-thread about committee assignment emails before the continuation of session from the next day: @cooljeanius/1479058028418805764Permalink On twitter.com
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Thread for full session from that next day: @cooljeanius/1479075232170364929 Some good bills actually passed our chamber that day! Specifically: - HB238, to end the “gay panic” defense - HB579, requiring public notice for immigration checkpoints - HB629, cannabis home grow (later killed)Permalink On twitter.com
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I may have said that Max Abramson is the worst previously in this thread, but, Mike Sylvia is also the worst: @cooljeanius/1479165458209292290Permalink On twitter.com
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So grateful that Al Baldasaro is finally retiring: @cooljeanius/1479225290220085249Permalink On twitter.com
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…and that’s it for the 6th; on the 7th I did a “how to testify about a bill” thread for people I was trying to recruit to come testify on behalf of my #SOFTWAREAct: @cooljeanius/1479663133207764992 (but it’s generally useful for any bill one might want to testify about, really!)Permalink On twitter.com
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Thread for committee hearings the day my #SOFTWAREAct had its hearing: @cooljeanius/1480908501899694088Permalink On twitter.com
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Thread for committee hearings the day of my bill about fundraising calls from police officer associations: @cooljeanius/1481262262711111695Permalink On twitter.com
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Back to my own committee: @cooljeanius/1481628878863056899Permalink On twitter.com
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This one barely even counts as a thread, but still, it was a hearing: @cooljeanius/1483540751762010112Permalink On twitter.com
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Follow-up to the #SOFTWAREAct hearing: @cooljeanius/1484164411459878912Permalink On twitter.com
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On other days I combined multiple hearings into a single thread; on the 20th, though, I split them into 2; this one was for my own committee: @cooljeanius/1484179109563543552Permalink On twitter.com
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Next day I sat in as a substitute on the State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs Committee; this was the day that the secession CACR got its committee vote: @cooljeanius/1484499445936967683Permalink On twitter.com
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Oh yeah Al Baldasaro said more racist stuff during it, but since he’s retiring, it’s probably not worth the effort to clip his idiocy from it anymore: @cooljeanius/1484570628506140680Permalink On twitter.com
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yeah even though the GOP joined us in voting against secession in this committee executive session, it seemed like their opposition to it was based more on implementation than on principle: @cooljeanius/1484575309987196928Permalink On twitter.com
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livestream of that hearing was here, for reference: @cooljeanius/1484576399730126852Permalink On twitter.com
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Back the next week for my own committee: @cooljeanius/1485613859524202498 I had to write my first minority report from this hearing…Permalink On twitter.com
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Thread for my last hearing of January: @cooljeanius/1488151254270423046 Main highlight was the @Gunstockmtn bill, which has been a major source of drama in Belknap County.Permalink On twitter.com
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My first hearing of February featured my #YIGBY bill: @cooljeanius/1489232205268324364Permalink On twitter.com
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County delegation subcommittee hearing the next day: @cooljeanius/1489616625703788545Permalink On twitter.com
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Feb 7th hearing: @cooljeanius/1490686180907749377 Main highlight from this one was @ivyvann’s “A Fourplex Is A House” bill (along with some other housing stuff, too)Permalink On twitter.com
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Feb 9th hearing: @cooljeanius/1491404495821340679 Highlights from this one: - My bill to provide compost & recycling in public housing - Other housing bills, tooPermalink On twitter.com
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Feb 15th hearing: @cooljeanius/1493587780462653447 Lots of stuff in it; too lazy to summarizePermalink On twitter.com
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Feb 16th full House session: @cooljeanius/1493992503934164995 Highlights: - An attempt at passing weed legalization - GOP refuses to rein in any of the ballooning expenses of their uncontrolled “give money to private schools” (EFAs) program - GOP anti-democracy election paranoiaPermalink On twitter.com
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Feb 17th full House session: @cooljeanius/1494304575163146248 The main highlights were from the governor’s “State-of-the-State” address (where a representative collapsed), which was before I arrived…Permalink On twitter.com
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Feb 22nd MCG exec session: @cooljeanius/1496122832274743299 Highlights: mainly procedural mess and confusionPermalink On twitter.com
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Feb 23rd MCG exec session: @cooljeanius/1496486712134012929 Highlights: - My “compost & recycling in public housing” bill gets successfully amended and referred to interim study - GOP kills my #YIGBY bill, but that’s ok because I have a different strategy for how to do it next termOn twitter.com
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Feb 28th MCG exec session: @cooljeanius/1498297774512693250 Highlights: - Chair Dolan thinking Ukraine was in the Middle East - GOP passes a bad anti-mask billPermalink On twitter.com
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Mar 1st MCG exec session: @cooljeanius/1498661330508787712 Highlights: - GOP guts authority of town health officers - GOP makes their anti-mask bill from the previous day worse - GOP attacks public education with their school board budget caps billPermalink On twitter.com
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Not really a session-thread, but I think it still fits here (it’s about emails… which I’m behind on again…) @cooljeanius/1501597227709575179Permalink On twitter.com
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Mar 10 session thread: @cooljeanius/1501914049914757125 Highlights: - Renny memorializations - GOP are still gun nuts - 13 GOP Reps vote in favor of secession (i.e. treason)Permalink On twitter.com
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County delegation meeting the day after: @cooljeanius/1502302220280377347 Main thing to note here is just more fighting about remote vs. in-person attendancePermalink On twitter.com
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Mar 15th full-House session: @cooljeanius/1503683001519067141 Highlights: - GOP crypto millionaires vote to enrich themselves - Republicans seem to think we’re Ukraine being invaded by Russia - it’s just generally annoyingPermalink On twitter.com
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Mar 16th full-House session: @cooljeanius/1504073713674821633 Highlights: - GOP continues to prevent us from reining in EFAs (their new codename for vouchers) - Keith Ammon is a jerk - GOP hates squirrels - we go late (almost to 10PM)Permalink On twitter.com
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Mar 17th full-House session: @cooljeanius/1504445140072484865 Highlights: - GOP continues to be anti-vax, anti-union, & anti-social-safety-net - Dem caucus sings “Solidarity Forever” together in a nice moment of camraderie - Max Abramson gives a horrendous speech against fourplexes - etc.Permalink On twitter.com
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Mar 31st full-House session: @cooljeanius/1509491662912958470 Highlights: - GOP lies about global warming; pretends our ice caps aren’t melting - GOP fearmongers about immigrants - marijuana legalization debate is actually really interestingPermalink On twitter.com
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April 7th MCG crossover hearing: @cooljeanius/1512028937311952899 Main highlight here is just the part for SB249, the short-term rentals bill.Permalink On twitter.com
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April 11th Fish & Game Committee hearing & interim study session: @cooljeanius/1513497382520033286 (not much happened worth noting)Permalink On twitter.com
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April 18th MCG exec session: @cooljeanius/1516053000976048139 - I get an amendment passed thru committee unanimously (changing “trash” to “waste” in SB245) - SB249 (the short-term rentals bill) gets referred to interim studyPermalink On twitter.com
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April 19th E&NR hearings, first Senate-side, and then House-side: @cooljeanius/1516401146822369280 Main highlight is me presenting my “pet rescue” bill (HB1186), which eventually ended up passing laterPermalink On twitter.com
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April 21 full-House session: @cooljeanius/1517127017958936576 Highlights: …actually you know what I’m getting tired of summarizing these; never mind…Permalink On twitter.com
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April 27th MCG exec session: @cooljeanius/1519313932820877313 (this was the one with some of the worst procedural BS of the session that prompted me to write an LTE about it)Permalink On twitter.com
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In retrospect, my Twitter reactions that day were probably milder than they should have been; “ugh” doesn’t really fully capture how frustrated I was with the Republicans on my committee that day: @cooljeanius/1519345681575690241Permalink On twitter.com
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May 4th full-House session: @cooljeanius/1521844432739446784 Lots of “Christmas Tree” bills that day…Permalink On twitter.com
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May 5th full-House session: @cooljeanius/1522190370410483712 Highlights: - GOP votes to bring back child labor - I gave my first PI! - confusing housing maneuvering - GOP continues to be bad on energy bills - GOP’s last redistricting attempt before they failed - Jason Osborne is a jerkPermalink On twitter.com
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as I said, the housing maneuvering was confusing: @cooljeanius/1522259136590884866Permalink On twitter.com
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Oh right May 5th was also the day of Sue DeLemus yelling at people: @ColinGBooth/1522232989941485568 (that didn’t make my highlights list because I didn’t actually personally witness it myself, and plus the things I listed previously were all more interesting to me anyways)Permalink On twitter.com
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also we got COVID exposure notifications from that week’s sessions: @cooljeanius/1523720888318799872Permalink On twitter.com
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May 12 full-House session: @cooljeanius/1524744662472351746 Highlights: - Lech Wałȩsa speech - Solidarity - Concurrences and accedences - GOP tries to stop Linda Tanner from speaking about Croydon defeating the FSP attack on their school system; applaud when she mentions the original cutsPermalink On twitter.com
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May 23 Merrimack County Delegation mtg: @cooljeanius/1528740619673378817 Main news I’d note here would just be the news from Rep. Alicea that her house had gotten broken into while attending her grandson’s commencement (stuff like disagreements over Zoom attendance are old by this point)Permalink On twitter.com
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May 26 full-House session: @cooljeanius/1529806512306143232 Highlights: - @DebrasATeam puts in a valiant effort to do something about gun violence (unfortunately Republicans shut her down) (this was right after Uvalde btw) - Rep Sylvia gets Medicare and Medicaid confusedPermalink On twitter.com
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Also reminder that Twitter now has a policy that it’s against the rules to call teaching about LGBT as being “grooming”, so Rep. Roy could have gotten banned for this speech if he made it on Twitter now: @cooljeanius/1529878696814862336Permalink On twitter.com
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This will probably be my last entry for this “thread of threads” for this term, at least until we have veto override day later this year: @cooljeanius/1538148076090806273 (it’s my thread for this year’s NHDP convention)Permalink On twitter.com
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ok so yeah since Veto Day is still part of this term, I'm adding my thread for it here, too: @cooljeanius/1570439042591776769Permalink On twitter.com
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