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If you do, you might be interested in this. From the inbox:

PARTICIPANTS SOUGHT FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE HUNTING ADVENTURES
CONCORD – Hunt of a Lifetime, in conjunction with the New Hampshire Chapter of Safari Club International and the New Hampshire Guides Association, is looking for two young people to take part in the New Hampshire Hunting Adventures program.
The program, established by law in 2007, allows the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department to issue two hunting permits to New Hampshire residents 21 or under, with critical, life-threatening or terminal illnesses. The participants may hunt any game species, such as deer, bear, or moose during the regular hunting season.

Here's the thing.

The civil right of marriage equality isn't about the NH House, or the NH Senate, or Governor Lynch.

Ten years from now almost no one will know or care to know about the actors who made this freedom possible in the Live Free or Die state. And that's a beautiful thing, in my opinion.

So I'm asking as earnestly as I can tonight, for you, Public Servant, to stop for a moment and consider what you have done about marriage equality so far and what you need to do to make it a reality.  I'm asking you to put aside thinking about your next election, or your quid pro quo.

Guest Post by former State Senator George Lovejoy...

New Hampshire Senators sent to Washington have long been respected for their traditional common sense.  It is a long cherished value of the Granite State and on many issues New Hampshire Senators have taken the lead in getting colleagues from both parties to apply this ideal on very critical issues of importance to most Americans.

Such an issue is Congressional motivation to pass Waxman-Markey Climate Change ‘Cap and Trade’ Bill, a proposal now being discussed by the US House, as well as most Americans.  The need for Senator Jeanne Shaheen to step up to take the lead in defeating this consumer costly strategy could not be greater!  This proposal sounds good in the beltway but fails the people miserably as it will increase energy costs to consumers, cost jobs, while doling out free permits to selected industries (see last week’s Wall Street Journal article “Waxman-Markey Bill: It’s Giveaway Time for Emissions Permits”).

During the past three days, I haven't been blogging much -- I've been focusing on communicating with House and Senate members about House Bill 436, and what needs to be done during the next three days.  I'm hopeful that by Wednesday we will have approved the additional statutory language that Governor John Lynch wants to make it clear that religious organizations and those connected with them have freedom and independence in our state law.

I have seen considerable dialogue, and numerous questions, on BlueHampshire.com during the past couple of days, and I've noticed some excellent responses by Kathy Sullivan, Dean Barker, and Brian Rater, as well as others.