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[Tripon]

CONCORD - Fourth graders from Lincoln Akerman School in Hampton Falls received a warm welcome at the State House last Thursday. They and their teacher, James Cutting, were guests in the Gallery.

That reception quickly turned chilly as students got a glimpse of the cold, harsh realities of politics in the Granite State.

In the spirit of learning by doing, students drafted a bill to learn the process of how a bill becomes law. They proposed House Bill 373, an act establishing the Red Tail Hawk as the New Hampshire State Raptor. Even though it passed through the Environment and Agriculture committee with a majority vote, some representatives were far from receptive.

Rep. Warren Groen, a Republican from Rochester said, "It grasps them with its talons then uses its razor sharp beak to basically tear it apart limb by limb, and I guess the shame about making this a state bird is it would serve as a much better mascot for Planned Parenthood."

That comment, considered offensive by many, was made while the fourth graders sat, watched and listened.

In a 133-to-160 vote lawmakers killed the bill and perhaps the civic enthusiasm of some 9-and-10-year-olds.

http://www.nh1.com/news/nh-lawmakers-brutally-kill-4th-graders-bill-in-front-of-them/

Also from the Huff Po version of the article.

"Do we need a state waterfowl, a state pet bird, a state wild bird?" Groen told The Huffington Post in a phone interview. "How many types of birds do we need?"

Groen said he directed the abortion metaphor at the adults in the room, not at the kids, although he knew the students were there watching. "The selective outrage about this I find quite curious," he said. "Every week in Manchester, the fourth-grade class from 2025 is killed out. Babies that would be 10 years old and in fourth grade 10 years from now are aborted in Manchester, and there's no outrage."

WTF.

 

[Gleethor]

What the actual hell. I can only imagine talking to this guy, "Hey what do you think of my haircut?" "Geez, thanks for reminding me that aborted babies can never get haircuts............................Abortion."

 

[Madness]

So why didn't the bill pass? The OP doesn't really say where the opposition came from?

 

[HyperZone<3]

and those kids got a great education in why voter apathy is a bad thing.

 

[Damaniel]

We discussed these disgusting people earlier in this thread. And they're still just as disgusting now.

 

[MattKeil]

As opposed to the gentle pro-life vegetarian bald eagle.

 

[ZackieChan]

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Jesus Christ - that is bleak.

 

[darkwing]

bird = abortion

dat logic

 

[Dryk]

So why didn't the bill pass? The OP doesn't really say where the opposition came from?

Sounds like they thought it wasn't worth their time to establish a new type of state bird