KELLY AYOTTE - SCRUTINIZE HER RECORD!
KELLY AYOTTE was defeated as SENATOR for good reason!
Her claim to fame is to trash MASSACHUSETTS even as NEW HAMPSHIRE
RESIDENTS clog Massachusetts highways seeking BETTER PAYING JOBS....
What has KELLY AYOTTE done? NOTHING!
CHECK HER RECORD! IT'S LENGTHY!
POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook offered comments to defend KELLY AYOTTE defeated Senator from NH:
SUNUNU WATCH — Outgoing New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu endorsed former Sen. Kelly Ayotte in the race to replace him less than a month before she faces former state Senate President Chuck Morse in the Republican primary.
Sununu didn’t miss the chance for a dig at Massachusetts, borrowing one of Ayotte’s go-to lines in an email to supporters announcing his endorsement.
SUNUNU'S FAILURES SHOW IN EDUCATION & OTHER POOR STATE SERVICES! KELLY AYOTTE WAS DEFEATED FOR GOOD REASON! DO YOUR RESEARCH!
“Kelly’s right: New Hampshire is only one election away from turning into Massachusetts. Take my word for it as someone who’s had to veto income taxes and attacks on personal freedoms from the other side. We can’t let them put the Massachusetts model over the NH Advantage,” Sununu said.
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A rising Republican lost her seat in the Trump era. Now she's trying a comeback.
And while Ayotte spent the last seven-plus years out of office, she stayed connected in the political and policy spheres before her next opportunity — netting millions on corporate boards, writing on state and national issues in newspapers and, early in the Trump administration, advising one of his Supreme Court picks through the Senate confirmation process.
In 2016, Ayotte was nearing the end of her first term in the Senate, establishing herself as a key GOP voice on national security, at the same time as Trump’s unexpected political rise.
The path from then to now
After the end of her Senate term, Ayotte stuck around briefly in Washington, serving as an adviser to then-Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch during his Senate confirmation process before she returned to New Hampshire.
But in the intervening years between leaving the Senate and running for governor, Ayotte spent her time in the private sector and made over $2.1 million in cash fees serving on corporate boards between 2017 and 2023, according to an NBC News review of corporate proxy statements. The figure does not include any stock she was awarded while serving on the corporate boards, which could also total in the millions, and it includes only reported data from public companies on whose boards Ayotte served, like Blackstone, Bloom Energy, Boston Properties, News Corp. and Caterpillar, not private companies where she was also reported to have served on boards, like Blink Health and Citronics.
At different points in 2023, Ayotte owned over 16,000 shares of Blackstone stock and over 7,000 shares of stock in Boston Properties, according to Securities and Exchange Commission filings. In January 2024, she also reported owning over 50,000 shares of News Corp. stock.
Ayotte also served in advisory roles for several other companies, like Chubb Insurance, Microsoft and Revision Military.
MIKE POMPEO NEGOTIATED THE AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL WITH THE TALIBAN, EXCLUDING THE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT, WITHDRAWING U.S. MILITARY, RELEASING TERRORISTS THAT THE AFGHANS HAD ARRESTED TO SABOTAGE THE INCOMING BIDEN ADMINISTRATION - POMPEO SET THE DEADLINE! FOR AYOTTE TO OPINE INDICATES HER WARP!
As a member of the Afghanistan Study Group, building on an area of focus for her as a senator, she co-authored a report in 2021 urging the Biden administration to postpone the deadline for the required withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
She also authored a letter to the editor in The Washington Post in 2019 about the GOP’s plans to tackle climate change.
SO WHAT'S AYOTTE GONNA DO? WHERE IS HER POLICY DEFINED?
In the letter, Ayotte critiqued a recent article that she said “failed to take into account several examples of recent Republican leadership on advancing clean-energy solutions. As a former senator and strong public advocate with a track record of advancing policy in the clean-energy space, I feel compelled to set the record straight and give credit where it is due.”
When she wrote the letter, Ayotte was also serving as an adviser to Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, a right-of-center nonprofit aimed at pushing Republican politicians to advocate for clean energy solutions.
She also zoomed in on more local issues in the press.
In 2021, Ayotte also wrote an op-ed in the New Hampshire Union-Leader criticizing Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess for seeking to “strip the [police] department of ... independent oversight and seize control.”
At the time, Nashua’s Police Commission was the last in the state whose commissioners were still appointed by the governor, rather than locally.
Ayotte’s allies are quick to point out that despite her service on corporate boards and in various political roles since leaving the Senate, she’s also sought to return to her New Hampshire community in more average ways.
One person who used to work with Ayotte told NBC News, “Since leaving the Senate, it’s not unusual to see her at the Penguin Plunge,” or in the carpool line at her children’s school, where she serves on the board.
“They’re just, you know, they’re just regular New Hampshire parents,” the person added.
Now, Ayotte is trying to climb back onto the political ladder and lead the state.
KELLY AYOTTE
KELLY AYOTTE based much of her campaign attacking MASSACHUSETTS, failing to
address what she would do for NEW HAMPSHIRE.....THAT DEFINES A LOSER!
NEW HAMSHIRE residents clog Massachusetts highways for BETTER PAYING JOBS!
KELLY AYOTTE ignores that!
NEW HAMPSHIRE funds PUBLIC EDUCATION with REAL ESTATE TAXES with predictable results - I've done voter canvassing in NEW HAMPSHIRE - the poor educational quality is STARK!
SCRUTINIZE THE VOTING RECORD OF KELLY AYOTTE IN CONGRESS! SHE WAS DEFEATED FOR GOOD REASON!
New Hampshire Attorney General
[edit]Clean air emissions standards
[edit]Ayotte joined Attorneys General from eight other states to sue federal regulators over a rules change that made clean air emissions standards for power plants less strict and eliminated clean air reporting and monitoring requirements.[17][18]
In 2005, the court agreed with Ayotte and the others that the Environmental Protection Agency must measure changes in the emissions from power plants and could not exempt power plants from reporting their emissions.[18]
Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England
[edit]In 2003, the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire found the Parental Notification Prior to Abortion Act, a New Hampshire law requiring parental notification of a minor's abortion, unconstitutional, and enjoined its enforcement. In 2004, New Hampshire Attorney General Peter Heed appealed the ruling to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which affirmed the district court's ruling. In 2004, Ayotte appealed the First Circuit's ruling to the Supreme Court, over the objection of incoming Democratic Governor John Lynch. Ayotte personally argued the case before the Supreme Court.[citation needed] The Supreme Court unanimously vacated the district court's ruling and remanded the case back to the district court, holding that it was improper for the district court to invalidate the statute completely instead of just severing the problematic portions of the statute or enjoining the statute's unconstitutional applications.[22] In 2007, the law was repealed by the New Hampshire legislature, mooting the need for a rehearing by the district court.[23]
In 2008, Planned Parenthood sued to recover its attorney fees and court costs from the New Hampshire Department of Justice.[24] In 2009, Ayotte, as attorney general, authorized a payment of $300,000 to Planned Parenthood to settle the suit.[25]
INSPECTORS WERE IN IRAN & ASSURED IRAN'S COMPLIANCE!
She has been an outspoken critic of the Iran nuclear deal, saying that Iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.[51] She proposed strict new sanctions on Iran.[52]
Legislation
[edit]Ayotte sponsored 217 bills, including:[73]
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Post-Senate career
[edit]Ayotte has been named to several corporate boards of directors, including Caterpillar Inc., News Corp., BAE Systems, Boston Properties, Blink Health, Bloom Energy, and Blackstone Group.[86]
Minimum wage
[edit]Ayotte opposes increasing the minimum wage,[106] and opposes federal legislation to index the minimum wage to inflation, reflecting adjustments in the cost of living.[107] Ayotte said she supports the current federal minimum wage, but that "each state should decide what is best" when it comes to raising it.[108]
Social Security
[edit]In 2010, Ayotte said she was open to raising the Social Security retirement age for younger workers in an effort to avoid long-term insolvency, but does not support changes for people at or near retirement.[107][109]
Labor issues
[edit]Ayotte opposed passage of the Employee Free Choice Act ("Card Check"), which would have amended the National Labor Relations Act to allow employees to unionize whenever the National Labor Relations Board verified that 50% of the employees had signed authorization cards, therefore bypassing a secret ballot election.[110]
Climate and energy
[edit]In 2010, when asked about climate change, Ayotte acknowledged that "there is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities" but stated that "I don't think the evidence is conclusive."[116][121] She opposed both a cap-and-trade system and a carbon tax to reduce carbon emissions.[116] In 2011, she voted to limit the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.[122] In 2012, Ayotte voted with four other Republican senators to defeat a proposal to block the Environmental Protection Agency from promulgating the first federal standards regulating air pollution from power plants.[115] In 2013, she voted for a point of order opposing a carbon tax or a fee on carbon emissions.[123]
Health care
[edit]Ayotte favors repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare),[127] and has repeatedly voted to repeal the ACA.[128] She has described the ACA as a "success tax" on successful businesses,[129] and says that the ACA drives up the costs of health care.[130]
Social issues
[edit]Abortion and reproductive rights
[edit]In 2024, Ayotte said she supports the current New Hampshire abortion law, which permits abortion on request until 24 weeks of pregnancy.[137] Previously, she said she was pro-life except in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother.[138] She said in 2010 that Roe v. Wade should be overturned.[139][140] In 2014, she led a Republican effort to call for a vote on a bill to implement a 20-week nationwide abortion ban.[141]
While in the Senate, Ayotte offered legislation to make birth control available over-the-counter without a prescription, which she argued would increase access and allow flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts to be used to purchase it.[142] She voted to shift federal funding from Planned Parenthood to other community health centers that also serve low- and middle-income women and families, but opposed an attempt to shut down the federal government over the issue.[143][144] Ayotte was given a 100% rating by National Right to Life and an 82% by the pro-life Campaign for Working Families.[98] NARAL Pro-Choice America gave her a 15% rating and pro-choice Planned Parenthood gave her a 6% rating.[98]
KELLY AYOTTE HAS BEEN ANTI-UNION....
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