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Monday, January 2, 2012 at 08:18AM 
Don't miss today's editorial in the New Hampshire Union Leader, "The State Budget: Political Achievement of the Year." The UL writes: "Over the protests of Democrats, labor unions and some recipients of state funding, House and Senate budget writers stuck to their plans. They wound up with a budget that cut state spending in real terms by more than ten percent and also cut taxes."
Included below is comment from New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairman Wayne MacDonald, followed by the full text of today's editorial.
"This achievement is remarkable not only because of the fiscal urgency facing our state, but also because it is a promise made and a promise kept by Republican elected officials. Voters who sent a message last year that 'enough is enough' should know that their efforts and voice made a positive difference." -- NH GOP Chairman Wayne MacDonald
The State Budget: Political Achievement of the Year
New Hampshire Union Leader
Editorial
January 1, 2012
www.unionleader.com/article/20120101/opinion01/701019956
Americans frustrated by the series of impressive political failures that came to define Washington politics in 2011 could have drawn inspiration from this little state tucked up north and surrounded by activist, big-spending governments on all sides. Last year, New Hampshire legislators achieved something truly impressive: the 2011 state budget.
Taking advantage of a genuine mandate for change (Republicans won 19 of 24 Senate seats and three-fourths of the House), Republican leaders in the Legislature set out to do something unusual for politicians: keep their promises. They campaigned on a pledge to cut taxes, cut spending and balance the budget. They did all three, with no help from the governor.
Led by House Speaker Bill O'Brien, Republicans set to work on bringing the budget in line with the realities of state revenues. Over the protests of Democrats, labor unions and some recipients of state funding, House and Senate budget writers stuck to their plans. They wound up with a budget that cut state spending in real terms by more than ten percent and also cut taxes.
The budget was by no means perfect, but it was realistic. Opponents say Republicans will pay a big price this fall for not spending more. Maybe. Or maybe the voters who had to cut their own budgets just to get by will understand why such frugality was needed. Whatever the political costs, House and Senate Republicans can be proud that they brought fiscal discipline back to Concord.
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Awards, NH Budget, NH Democrats, NH GOP, NH Republicans, Union Leader Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 08:48AM 
The following editorial was published in today's edition of the Union Leader
New Hampshire Democrats have nothing to run on for next year's election. So they are attacking Republicans for supposedly killing New Hampshire jobs. It is laughably absurd.
According to the state Democratic Party, Republicans in the Legislature are pursing a “job-killing agenda.” If the Republicans are trying to kill jobs, then they're extraordinarily bad at it, as their policies are having the opposite effect.
New Hampshire's unemployment rate dipped a fraction of a point last month to 5.2 percent. It was going up before that. What's been happening? State data show that employment opportunities are increasing, but as more jobs are being created in New Hampshire, more Granite Staters are starting to look for work.
As House Speaker Bill O'Brien and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Steve Stepanek wrote in this newspaper last week, “Our unemployment hasn't fallen further because over the past three months, more than 6,500 individuals have joined the workforce. This flies in the face of national trends. Across America, unemployment fell from 9 percent to 8.6 percent because 315,000 people got discouraged and left the job market.”
More people are looking for work — and more are finding it — since the Legislature passed an austere budget that the Democrats claimed would hurt the economy. Legislators balanced the budget while cutting spending, taxes and regulations. The positive economic effects that followed would be a surprise only to blinkered liberals who mistake government activism for economic stimulus.
This is a job-creating agenda. And it's working.
Jobs, NH House, NH House Republicans, Unemployment, Union Leader Monday, November 28, 2011 at 07:37AM 
The Daily Newt
With great excitement the Newt 2012 Team is happy to share with our friends and supporters that the Union Leader Newspaper has endorsed our candidate, Newt Gingrich, for President of the United States!
"America is at a crucial crossroads. It is not going to be enough to merely replace Barack Obama next year. We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing," the endorsement reads.
"He did so with the Contract with America. He did it in bringing in the first Republican House in 40 years and by forging balanced budgets and even a surplus despite the political challenge of dealing with a Democratic president. A lot of candidates say they're going to improve Washington. Newt Gingrich has actually done that.”
Historically, the Union Leader was one of the first to champion its support for then Presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan, and we, as a team, cannot say enough how proud and honored we are to wear this badge in perhaps THE most critical election of our lifetime.
This endorsement is not only a validation of Newt’s continued surge in this race, but also one that speaks to the massive swell in support for his overall message across this country. The American people want solutions, and Newt is the one to delver just that.
We would like to thank the Union Leader and its editorial board for its support, and also you, our friends and supporters. We still have our work cut out for us over these next six weeks, and without you we wouldn’t be here today.
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