{"id":3738,"date":"2011-12-01T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T17:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2011-12-01T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T17:26:13","slug":"leading-republicans-lose-positions-for-opposing-right-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2011\/12\/01\/leading-republicans-lose-positions-for-opposing-right-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading Republicans Lose Positions For Opposing Right-To-Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NHPR<\/p>

Right-To-Work legislation has been controversial in New Hampshire<\/p><\/div>\n

While overriding Governor Lynch’s veto of Right-to-Work failed yesterday, Kevin Landrigan of TheLobbyNH.com reports the fallout continues today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Four members of House Speaker William O’Brien’s extended leadership team will be sacked for their opposition to Right-to-Work legislation, TheLobbyNh.com has learned.<\/p>\n

House Fish and Game Commission Chairman Gary Hopper, R-Weare, has already turned in his letter of resignation from running the panel.<\/p>\n

House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt, R-Salem, is also expected to ask for resignations from three assistant majority whips who also opposed O’Brien’s desire to override Lynch’s veto of the anti-union bill, HB 474.<\/p>\n

They are Nashua Rep. Michael McCarthy, Whitefield Rep. John Tholl Jr. and Kingston Rep. David Welch.<\/p>\n

None of these changes have been publicly announced.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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One of O'Brien's high priorities since becoming Speaker has been instituting a Right-To-Work law in New Hampshire<\/p><\/div>\n

And they weren’t the only Republicans who didn’t go along with the veto override vote.\u00a0 NHPR’s Dan Gorenstein reports that 41 Republicans joined Democrats in voting down the measure<\/a>.\u00a0 The vote was 240-139 in favor of overriding the veto.\u00a0 If just seven Republicans hadn’t split from the party line, New Hampshire would have joined the ranks of Right-to-Work states<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And, Gorenstein reports, O’Brien worked hard to try to rustle up those final votes:<\/p>\n

“House leaders spent months trying to get Republicans in line.<\/p>\n

They even tried to sway lawmakers like Republican Susan Emerson- who\u2019s had very public run-ins with O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n

‘Oh, my god. I was told I would be put back on Health and Human Service, the committee I was kicked off, if I changed my vote. I was told that I would be redistrict if I didn\u2019t change my vote on Right-to-Work.’<\/p>\n

Emerson shrugs, and says if more conservative Republicans go after her in the primary, so be it.<\/p>\n

She knows this issue isn\u2019t going away, and she\u2019s bracing herself.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the language of Right-to-Work laws can vary from state to state, the gist is that, in most job sectors, an employee can’t be required to join a union or pay union dues.\u00a0 So far, 22 states have passed Right-to-Work laws.<\/p>\n

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While overriding Governor Lynch’s veto of Right-to-Work failed yesterday, Kevin Landrigan of TheLobbyNH.com reports the fallout continues today: “Four members of House Speaker William O’Brien’s extended leadership team will be sacked for their opposition to Right-to-Work legislation, TheLobbyNh.com has learned. House Fish and Game Commission Chairman Gary Hopper, R-Weare, has already turned in his letter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[513,501],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3744,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/3744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}