"It's Not Who We Are" Standing Up for New Hampshire Families

[Ian David]

Last edited Wed Dec 21, 2011, 01:33 PM - Edit history (2)

Standing Up for New Hampshire Families, a bi-partisan, grassroots group comprised of residents and a leadership council of more than 200 civic, business, academic and political leaders, launched its first statewide TV ad buy urging legislators to reject the bill that would overturn New Hampshire's popular marriage law.

Among those featured in the ad are Craig Stowell and his wife Berta. Craig, a former Marine who served in Iraq, is a life-long Claremont resident and conservative Republican who co-chairs Standing Up for NH Families.

"We know the people of NH support individual rights," said Stowell. "And polls show voters strongly oppose repealing the current marriage law, across every demographic and geographic measure. This effort to repeal or undermine the freedom to marry in New Hampshire does not represent our core New Hampshire values. We hope our ad reminds lawmakers that they need to listen to the people."

Also appearing in the spot are Maxine Morse of Portsmouth, a longtime Republican activist and Dan Calegari of Manchester, a Democrat and former small business owner. The ad was produced by the Manchester-based Merrimack and Potomac Group.

[saras]

1. Without watching the video, your post give no clue to what they're fighting over.

[Ian David]

2. Good point. I will go back and edit. Thanks!

There.

I put the most important paragraph in bold print for the attention-span-impaired.

[GirlinContempt]

3. I thought it was clear

thanks for sharing!

[JDPriestly]

4. Excellent ad. This will appeal to older voters and maybe

help a few people look at things from a different view.

[Ian David]

7. WTF are you talking about? n/t

[tfsoccer]

6. I'm tired of 'oversimplified' cries for "Freedom."

A significant portion of America still seems to be largely adolescent & addictive, so that it overly needs freedom from 'parental' government to the point of objecting too much to the normal rights of government to curb greed and danger and insure progress.

[Ian David]

8. This is a commercial urging the legislature not to ban gay marriage. n/t

[tfsoccer]

9. Even so, would the add be more powerful if it qualified rather than generalized 'freedom'?

[Ian David]

10. You want them to be more specific than "don't take away the right of gay people to marry?" n/t