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Article: Free the "Amendment 15'?(Flotsam & Jetsam)
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- New Hampshire Business Review
- Article date:
- May 23, 2008
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Terie Norelli has certainly come a long way during her 17-month tenure as speaker of the New Hampshire House. And for a growing squadron of critics, that's the problem.
Norelli, along with Governor Lynch and Dave Hess, leader of the House Republicans, suffered an embarrassing loss earlier this month on her compromise school-funding amendment And she owes it all not only to the anti-amendment efforts of her own rank and file, but 15 members of the House Democratic leadership.
Norelli spent the weeks prior to the vote assuring House members that she wasn't going to pressure them to vote one way or the. other, and she ...