{"id":12124,"date":"2009-05-21T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2009\/05\/21\/12124.html"},"modified":"2009-05-21T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:40:15","slug":"new-hampshire-analysis-and-nex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2009\/05\/21\/new-hampshire-analysis-and-nex\/","title":{"rendered":"New Hampshire: analysis and next steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the wake of yesterday's incredibly close, and incredibly disappointing\/frustrating, New Hampshire state House vote on marriage equality, Blue Hampshire<\/a> is, of course, an excellent resource.<\/p>\n

Specifically:<\/p>\n

Analysis of vote<\/a>, showing how many Reps changed their votes (and in what directions). The new \"religious protection\" language does not seem to have had a major effect in either the no-to-yes direction nor the yes-to-no direction. The changes to and from \"not voting\" made a much bigger difference. For example, twelve Democratic Reps who voted Yes on the last vote did not vote on this one. On the other hand, twenty-two Reps who didn't vote last time (including one Republican) voted Yes this time.<\/p>\n

One thing I like about Blue Hampshire is that members of the legislature sometimes show up and post there. Today, there's a comment from Rep. John DeJoie, who despite being a marriage equality supporter, had to take his son to the hospital<\/a> at the time of the vote. (He had been expecting\/hoping that the vote would be in the morning instead of in the afternoon.) Hard to fault that as a reason for missing the vote.<\/p>\n

Note that in NH, the 400 members of House each get paid $200 per two-year term (as I understand it)—it's a \"citizen legislature,\" and apparently legislators miss votes fairly often.<\/p>\n

A few other worthwhile posts:<\/p>\n