John Lynch

Continuing a week of polls, a UNH poll shows Gov. John Lynch (D-Hopkinton) with an overwhelming lead over his Republican opponent.

Lynch is beating state Sen. Joe Kenney (R-Wakefield) 67 percent to 16 percent. The Granite State Poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, shows Lynch gaining 45 percent of Republican voters against Kenney.

A new video posted on the internet shows New Hampshire Democratic Party Chairman Ray Buckley telling a Democratic activist that he has "problems" with Democratic Gov. John Lynch.

"Do I have problems with John Lynch? Do a lot of people? Absolutely. I have problems with just about everybody," Buckley said in a video posted by the New Hampshire Advantage Coalition (NHAC).

The video was taken by a tracker at the opening of the New Hampshire Democratic Party Coordinated Campaign office in Plymouth last Wednesday. An unidentified woman is telling Buckley about her issues with "straight ticket voting."

Billy Shaheen with U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton: Photo Credit: Newsday

Billy Shaheen will be speaking at the official opening of the headquarters for various Granite State Democratic campaigns.

Billy Shaheen, often a fixture on the campaign trail, has rarely been seen at events since he resigned as co-chair of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign in December. Shaheen will be representing, his wife, Jeanne Shaheen's (D-Madbury) U.S. Senate campaign.

Gov. John Lynch's (D-Hopkington) reelection campaign has hired Evan Carlson to be campaign spokesman.

Carlson served as U.S. Sen. Joe Biden's New Hampshire press secretary during Biden's primary campaign and is also spokesman for the New Hampshire Young Democrats.

NEWINGTON-Former U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) said at a Republican debate that his primary rival has put New Hampshire on a path towards an income tax. While, former Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen said Bradley was distorting the record and he was simply following a state law supported by Bradley when Bradley served in the legislature.

Bradley said Stephen supported a state budget that increased spending in the Health and Human Services Department by $400 million and argued that Stephen shifted the cost of nursing homes onto local property taxes. "It's a road to a one-way-street you help put us on and that's a road to an income tax," Bradley said. "When John Lynch says the budget is unacceptable it should be unacceptable for you."

Stephen responded "there you go again Jeb" and said he was following a law that Bradley supported. "The law says I cannot cut spending until after the budget is passed. I basically had to submit a budget that maintained all programs at the rate of medical inflation," Stephen later told PolitickerNH.com.

Gov. John Baldacci along with three other New England governors, assembled in Boston today to discuss energy issues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, according to the governor's office. Govs. John Lynch of New Hampshire and Donald Carcieri of Rhode Island also attended the summit hosted by Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts.

Gov. John Lynch (D-Hopkinton) says that New Hampshire is on track to have a balanced budget at the ending of the fiscal year.

Lynch said the state has taken "appropriate steps" to deal with the budget crisis.

Commenting on the upcoming event with U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) state Sen. Joe Kenney (R-Wakefield) said he feels "bad" for the town of Unity and added that the Democratic presidential candidates must quickly unify.

"I feel bad for the people of Unity; hopefully they don't call it disunity after the event. All kidding aside, I think they have to unify quickly to catch-up to John McCain."

MANCHESTER- Manchester Democrats honored state Sen. Lou D'Allesandro (D-Manchester) at their annual Flag Day fundraiser.

Gov. John Lynch (D-Hopkington) told a story that he was at Fenway Park for New Hampshire Day and a guy came up to him and said he knew D'Allesandro.

After the Milken Institute released its 2008 State Technology and Science Index, Gov. John Lynch (D-Hopkinton) issued a press release trumpeting New Hampshire's ranking of ninth place nationwide for being friendly to high technology industry. The state ranked 12th in last year's index.

Lynch used the occasion to recap the variety of tech friendly initiatives that he enacted during the previous term, including the Research and Development Tax Credit - passed last year - and reinstating the job training program, which has spent $800,000 since last winter training 1,300 employees.