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Philpot takes aim at ‘bad people’ leading GOP delegation By Michael Kitch
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LACONIA — “These are bad people looking to do bad things,” declared Belknap County Commissioner Ed Philpot of Laconia, referring to what he called “the very extreme political element” within the Republican Party, who have gained a commanding presence among the 18 members of the Belknap County House Delegation. Speaking to some three dozen Belknap County Democrats gathered for their annual picnic at Leavitt Park Thursday
evening, Philpot praised his fellow commissioners — John Thomas of Belmont and Steve Nedeau of Meredith, both Republicans — as “good, honest, hardworking people with their hearts in the right place and working in the right Ed Philpot direction. It’s an (Belknap County photo)
honor to serve with them,” he said. But, alluding to the strife between the commission and the delegation over the county budget, Philpot likened those in the leadership of the delegation, on which Republicans hold 13 of the 18 seats, to the radical faction of the GOP that has fomented partisan strife nationally. These people, he said, “want to kill government, want government to go away” and finding it difficult and expensive to succeed at the national and state levels, have turned see PHiLPOT page 30
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A clutch of young mallard ducks are reflected in the Snake River as they scurry along in New Hampton to the open waters of Lake Waukewan recently. (Daryl Carlson/ for The Laconia Daily Sun)
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TILTON — Almost 10 tons of recyclable materials were collected during the first week of curbside pick-up, according to Marjorie Bonneville, Chairman of the town’s Recycle Committee. The July start of curbside
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