Story Archives of 'Charlie Bass'

The Republican Party has a strong reputation for being able to get its voters to the polls.

In this election, the party will need to do as well as it's ever done.

The President's popularity is down and the Republican candidate for governor has yet to make an impression in the polls.

Yesterday in Manchester, the GOP kicked off its get out the vote campaign with a rally featuring First Lady Laura Bush.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein traveled to Manchester and filed this report.

Incumbent congressman win re-election more than 90 percent of the time.

And after 6 terms in Washington, Charles Bass enjoys advantages in money and name recognition.

But Bass does face some primary challengers.

He ran into one of them, Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson at a GOP picnic in Milford over the weekend.

In the fourth installment in our Granite State Stories series we look at the New Hampshire’s rich political history through the pages of Winston Churchill’s “Coniston”. It’s the story of Granite State politics during the era of progressive reform, of colorful politicians, corruption and the long time respect for our long standing political traditions which for such a small state has made a large impression throughout history. A Saint Louis native, Churchill moved to New Hampshire as an adult, became acclaimed for his books on historical fiction and played with Granite State politics himself as a one-term legislator and Gubernatorial candidate. His fame was so great that the English Winston Churchill wrote him in 1899 to say that he would henceforth sign his name Winston Spencer Churchill to distinguish himself from the more famous American. Both before and after Churchill’s writings our state has distinguished itself as a place of political greatness from our Town Meetings, to our grass roots politics to our First in the Nation Presidential Primary that puts our state under the political microscope every four years. Today on the Exchange we talk about these traditions, our long political history and Winston Churchill’s “Coniston”,.Laura's guests are Stephen Winship, author of three books on New Hampshire history who has written a column on history for the Concord Monitor for the past twenty years, David Watters, Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and Director of the Center for New England Culture and Charles Bass, Republican Congressman representing the Second District of New Hampshire.

New Hampshire's Attorney General says the recently passed US House Energy bill will hurt the state's chances in court. Of specific concern is a provision in the bill that protects the manufacturers of the gasoline additive MTBE from liability lawsuits. New Hampshire Public Radio's Rebecca Kaufman has more.

The US House of Representatives plans to debate a wide ranging energy bill next week.

The majority of Republicans are expected to support the bill.

But they may have to pass it without the help of Congressmen Bass and Bradley.

NHPR Correspondent Julie Donnelly reports that a few controversial provisions may cost the bill it's support from New Hampshire's delegation.