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Article: Cries of partisan politics greet US windfall to New Hampshire
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 31, 1991
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CONCORD, N.H. -- In the 15 days before Christmas, New Hampshire
received an unexpected federal windfall of more than $240 million, a
boon that lawmakers from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon,
portrayed yesterday as a partisan effort by the Bush administration
to influence the nation's first presidential primary.
The money, which comes as President Bush braces for a pivotal
Republican showdown in New Hampshire against the conservative
commentator Patrick Buchanan, will, among other things, obliterate
the state's $200 million budget deficit, create as many as 400
federal jobs and save countless small businesses from the vagaries of