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Clay Wirestone is a reporter and editor at the Concord Monitor.

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Pat Robertson
stated on November 8, 2016 in a TV broadcast.:

Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."

By Warren Fiske • November 14, 2016
Kelly Ayotte
stated on May 18, 2016 in a press release:

Says Maggie Hassan was "out of state on 30 days over the last three months."

By Clay Wirestone • May 27, 2016
Maggie Hassan
stated on April 12, 2016 in a press release:

"Kelly Ayotte has voted four times against the federal Paycheck Fairness Act."

By Clay Wirestone • April 29, 2016
Jack Falanagan
stated on March 10, 2016 in a speech :

Says New Hampshire’s second congressional district includes two counties where "almost 5 percent if not more" of residents are enrolled in the state’s expanded Medicaid program.

By Clay Wirestone • April 15, 2016
Jennifer Horn
stated on March 16, 2016 in a press release:

"For more than 80 years, there has not been a nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice in a presidential election year. This is simply not the time to break with decades of bipartisan practice."

By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2016
New Hampshire Republican Party
stated on February 16, 2016 in an online petition:

"Given the results of the primary, the vote of one New Hampshire superdelegate is equal to the votes of about 10,000 grassroots activists."

By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2016
New Hampshire Democratic Party
stated on February 16, 2016 in a press release:

Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obama’s term "would leave the nation’s highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy."

By Clay Wirestone • February 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 2, 2016 in a campaign event in Keene, N.H.:

Says Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would "have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations."

By Clay Wirestone • February 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic presidential debate in Durham, N.H.:

Says a Sanders campaign ad "never said ... a newspaper endorsed us that did not."

By Louis Jacobson • February 4, 2016
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 3, 2016 in a campaign ad:

Says he was endorsed by the Valley News newspaper.

By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016