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Next on New Hampshire Outlook. politics and eggs with the candidates for U.S. senate plus. a Hinsdale dairy farmer shares his recipe for success. AND a little colonial history lesson -General Stark and the origin of Live Free or Die. |
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Hello. I'm Allison McNair. Welcome to NH Outlook. |
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Seven years ago, a NH political tradition began when the first Politics and Eggs breakfast was served. This hearty mixture of eggs and poltical ambition became a fixture in the runup to the 1996 Presidential Primary. Last time around, it featured every major party candidate in the 2000 Presidential Primary. Over the past month, Politics and Eggs has featured the three candidates for this year's US Senate race. Producer Richard Ager has this report - and we should note - we did experience some audio problems in preparing this piece for which we apologize. |
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Soundup: Smith tape 2 09:50:20 exterior of inn - birds chirping Dissolve to video: Shaheen tape 1 07;07:00 flame under pan Shaheen tape 1 07;17:27 eggs - ** taken over to stove Track: Eggs - 30 dozen of them, countless pounds of bacon, racks of home fries, and a chef who'd reveal his recipes before his politics…. Soundup: Shaheen tape 1 07:10:00 "We can't pick sides. We serve both parties." Track: Put it all together and what do you get? The latest incarnation of Politics and Eggs, a highly caloric, highly visible encounter with political candidates. Bite: Shaheen tape 1 07;49:46 We've had C-Span here, CNN, the Washington Post, the NY times. The media coverage has been terrific. Standup: Shaheen tape 2 09:35:08 Politics and Eggs has become part of NH's political landscape by offering business leaders a chance to meet the candidates and ask them questions. And it also offers all the participants something that no political dinner can - a much earlier start. Track: So what's different about encountering candidates at breakfast instead of dinner? Bite: Shaheen tape 1 07:49:30 The freshness of the mind. That's the difference. Everybody's fresh. The speaker and the audience and it just makes for a better event. Track: These are well-attended events - about 150 at each with most coming to hear all three Senate candidates. First up was John E. Sununu. Graphic: WHY ARE YOU RUNNING? Bite: Sununu tape 1 8:50:10 I am running for senate because I absolutely believe that the background and experience that I hold that I've developed over the years is right for New Hampshire is needed for New Hampshire needed to ensure that New Hampshire has the strongest, most consistent, clearest voice in Washington. Bite: Smith tape 1 8:54:32 I've been in congress for 18 years, got a few gray hairs now, and you do learn things. I hated the seniority system when I first got elected, I like it now - it really works very well - - but it does work. And some say I can work outside the seniority system - well the truth is, why work outside it if you can work within it. And it works very effectively. Bite: Shaheen tape 1 08;48:02 I am running for the U.S. Senate because I believe in the American Dream. I believe there is a role for the govt. to play in ensuring that we have policies in place in this country that provide the same opportunities for my grandchildren that I have had growing up. Graphic: PRESCRIPTION DRUGS Bite: Sununu tape 1 9:00:50 Why are people talking about the importance of a prescription drug benefit for medicare? Why do I think that's the most important thing we can do for medicare this year? Because a prescription drug benefit for medicare is part of any modern healthcare system. The preventative medicines, the ability to treat chronic illness, diabetes, hypertension, or high blood pressure - is enormously valuable - not just in delivering a better health care product and a better quality of life to the beneficiary. But, quite frankly, to reduce the overall cost of care in the long term because you're reducing the severity in the acuity of the illness later in life. . Bite: Smith tape 1 09:07:30 What we're doing is combining the deductible of A and B, and providing prescription drug coverage - 50cents on the dollar - up to $5000. No tax increase on the American people and no premium increase on the seniors. Every single plan out there, other than mine, offers a huge increase in premium on the seniors and a huge 400-500 billion dollar expenditure out of the taxpayer's pockets for medicare. Bite: Shaheen tape 2 09;16:40 This is a big issue and I don't think there is one magic solution to it. I think we have to address it from a number of perspectives. But when the costs of prescription drugs are going up 17% a year and that's the single biggest cost driver in health care, we've got to do something to bring down those costs Now I think one way to do so is to look at those loopholes in our patent law that are keeping lower cost generic drugs off the market, because what we know is that when a generic drug enters the market, it lowers the cost of that drug by about 50%. Graphic: NATIONAL SECURITY Bite: Sununu tape 2 09:08;06 Since Sept. 11th, a great deal of time and effort has been spent on dealing with these questions. Not just oversight and the ability to gather information in a particular location, but the ability to share information. And it's not just allowing agencies to share information, it's having the facilities to do so. The INS and the FBI are certainly allowed to share information regarding people whose visas have expired, but there was a weakness in the technology and the information systems that they used that prevented the information from flowing - One of the first things we've tried to address since Sept. 11th. Bite: Smith tape 2 09:25:24 You can't decouple Arafat from Saddam. They may not be orchestrating it, it may not be an orchestrated effort but the effect is the same. They are out to kill Americans. And they are trying to kill us. And they have networks in this country. They've had networks operating in this country for years, and the intelligence community has not been able to expel them because certain people in Congress refuse to let them put the intelligence to a judge - an independent judge who can look at the intelligence and he can say - this intelligence is so damning that we have to put this guy out of the country. Bite: Shaheen tape 1 08;55:45 I think we need to reform our intelligence agencies so that decision makers can get the information they need to make the best security decisions possible. And we need a smart energy policy - one that protects our environment and frees us from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Graphic: SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING Bite: Sununu tape 1 8:54:50 I've thrown myself behind increasing money for special education, which is the largest, unfounded, federal mandate on the books. Anyone in this room, that's had to deal with education on the local level, as we still fortunately do to some degree in NH understands that that shortfall on the federal mandate really puts enormous pressure on local school districts and the local taxbase. By increasing funding for special education, we meet an incredibly important need, we get the money to the classroom to where it's needed to make a real difference in the lives of all the students in the system. Bite: Smith tape 1 09:09:59 It really plays havoc with your budget, especially with a small town if there is a special needs child. And so I think we ought to fund what we mandate and I think we can reform that program dramatically to cut the federal involvement and to cut the federal costs. We need to have more input from local school boards. We need these IEP's - individual education plans that are being written - sometimes they are written properly and correctly for people who truly are in need - children who truly are in need - other times I think they are abused, and I think we need to come to a reasonable balance, reform the program, cut the costs, and fund what we mandate. I would reduce the role by doing that. Bite: Shaheen tape 2 09;19:40 One of the things the federal govt. should do is make good on its promise to help with special education, and we haven't seen that happen. And when you think of the hundreds of millions of dollars that would mean to NH, it would be significant in helping us address the cost of special education in this state. And that's important, not just because of the cost to property tax payers but I can't tell you how many families I have talked to who tell me about what that issue is doing to them and their children in school districts where there are small districts and there are families with children with special needs and the animosity and the division that that creates among families in those communities is really sad and families who are dealing with special needs should not have to deal with those issues as well. Track: Once the candidates have delivered their prepared remarks, it's time for questions. Bite: Sununu tape 2 09;18:25 I'm currently unemployed. I'm a high tech marketing and business development executive. Track: Glenn Cadd is looking for work - and a Senate candidate who can help the many high tech professionals left jobless by their industry's economic downturn. Bite: Shaheen tape 2 09;05:48 What can you do short-term to improve the climate for unemployment? Bite: Sununu tape 2 09:19:50 One of the things that has bothered me working in govt. - having come from the private sector - is to hear an elected official say I created or helped to create 10,000 jobs or a million jobs or 10 million jobs. We don't create jobs. The best we can hope to do is create the right environment, where many of the people in this room can work to create jobs. Making sure that we create fiscal responsibility at the federal level, good fiscal policies that keep interest rates low. We do something about the complexity and frustration of the tax cod that might keep that entrepreneur from making the incremental investment. Bite: Smith tape 2 09:17:25 The best way to keep people working and create more jobs is to fire up the engine of free enterprise. We regulate too much, we are on top of business to the point of being ridiculous. Paperwork, all these regulations that cost millions and billions of dollars to the private sector. So deregulate for the most part except for key environmental matters that you have to have. There are certain types of regulations that are necessary. But the amount of regulation on American business is ridiculous and that's why you're seeing a lot of business go offshore to other countries, simply because of the regulations. Bite: Shaheen tape 2 09;05:57 The most important thing long term is to create the environment that allows business to prosper Bite: Shaheen tape 2 09;06:28 In the short term, as you point out, it's a challenge. One of the things that we have been working on this past year to help out with the workers laid off from Tyco, for example, we had a national emergency grant from the Dept. of Labor. Bite: Shaheen tape 2 09;06:58 The national emergency grant is to help in areas where people have been laid off and it allows us to provide skills training, to help with out of state job searches, to help with career counseling, to help with entrepreneurs who want to start new businesses, and has been very helpful. One of the challenges, of course, is that we - there's not enough money available for all the people who need the help Bite: Shaheen tape 2 09:30:48 ARE YOU A REPUBLICAN OR A DEMOCRAT? Independent. Track: So after listening to all three candidates, which way is Glenn Cadd leaning? Shaheen tape 2 09;30:00 Governor Shaheen, I listened to her speech this morning, and I think she has a better feel for what's going on in the economy. And I think Congressman Sununu and Senator Smith, at least my personal view is they don't have a real good feel for what's going on as far as how to make the economy work. Soundup: Shaheen tape 2 09:22:3 That is it for a wonderful series on the US Senate race. Thank you and have a good day. |
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The organizers of politics and eggs took an informal and unscientific survey after all three breakfasts with the candidates for U.S. Senate. The survey ranked affordable health care as the number one issue, followed by homeland security, education and energy development. Andy Smith of the UNH Survey Center has done a more formal survey of the Senate and other political races. We'll talk with Andy about the results of his latest poll on tomorrow's Outlook. |
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For many farmers in New Hampshire, diversification has been their key to success. Some have moved away from traditional productions and entered into niche marketing. Near Hinsdale, there's a dairy farm where the owners saw an opportunity to do something different with the milk they produced and they took advantage of it. |
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To learn more about the history of Echo Farm, go to the web at ECHOFARMPUDDINGS - dot - COM |
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The Fourth of July is just around the corner. And for some people - it's a time to reflect on New Hampshire's rich colonial tradition. For example - Live Free or Die. It's a phrase that is as much a symbol of the Granite State as the Old Man of the Mountain or our first in the nation primary. But do you know who first coined the phrase? And how it ended up on our License Plates? Producer Chip Neal first went searching for answers almost a decade ago. |
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On the next New Hampshire Outlook - Mixing work and play - New Hampshire youth take pride in their summer jobs. |
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That's it for this edition of our program. For all of us here at New Hampshire Public Television, I'm Ally McNair. Thanks for joining us. We'll see you next time on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook.Mixing work and play - New Hampshire youth take pride in their summer jobs. Tonight at 10 on New Hampshire Outlook. |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:7/01/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 12:14 In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a report on a political tradition in New Hampshire- the 'Politics and Eggs Breakfast'. Over the past month, Politics and Eggs has featured the three candidates for this year's US Senate race. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Fred Kocher\NH High Tech Council Rep John E Sununu\Candidate for US Senate Sen Bob Smith\Candidate for US Senate Gov Jeanne Shaheen\Candidate for US Senate Glenn Cadd\Unemployed High Tech Manager |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time:7/1/02 / 2200 HOST: Allison McNair Length: 5:00 In addition to a summary of the day's top New Hampshire stories, this edition of New Hampshire Outlook, NHPTV's nightly news magazine, included a business profile of a state dairy farm. For many farmers in New Hampshire, diversification has been their key to success. Some have moved away from traditional productions and entered into niche marketing. Near Hinsdale, there's a dairy farm where the owners saw an opportunity to do something different with the milk they produced and they took advantage of it. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Phil Vaughn NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Courtney Hodge\Echo Farm Robert Hodge\Echo Farm Jason Hodge\Echo Farm Chuck Cressy\Owner, Durham Market Place Steve Taylor\Dept of Agriculture |
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Tonight on New Hampshire Outlook. politics and eggs with the US Senate Candidates.it's campaign 2002 tonight at 10 only on NH Outlook. |