New Hampshire: New Hampshire Republicans

The New Hampshire Republican Party has announced that its state committee will meet in mid-January to select a chairman.

Yesterday, in an email to Republicans, Chairman Fergus Cullen said that the meeting will be held on Jan. 17 at Bedford High School.

Over the past four weeks, 14 caucuses have been held to elect almost 500 members to the state committee, which will then vote for party chair. Currently, only former Gov. John H. Sununu has announced his intention to run for chairman of the New Hampshire Republicans.

Last weekend the Sullivan County Republicans re-elected their chairman and elected members to the state committee.

Last Saturday, the Sullivan County Republicans selected Harry Gale of Sunapee to be their chairman for the next two years. Gale is a former state representative from Sunapee and is also Sunapee's town and school district moderator. This will be Gale's second term as county chairman. Ernie Bridge was elected vice chairman, David Roark and Margaret Drye were elected co-secretaries and Chris Vinci will be the treasurer.

It took almost two hours Thursday night for the Rockingham County Republicans to elect 77 members to the Republican State Committee.

Over the past two weeks, Republican county committees having been meeting to elect people who will vote next month to determine who will become the next chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. Currently only former Gov. John H. Sununu is running for chairman.

MANCHESTER--Mayor Frank Guinta decided to pass on a question about whether he will run for re-election in 2009 but said that he would make an announcement "at the appropriate time."

Guinta, mayor of the largest city in New Hampshire, is often mentioned by Republicans as a potential statewide candidate, or congressional candidate, in 2010. If Guinta decided to run in 2009 he would be running for his third-term as mayor.