CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire House Rules Committee on Wednesday blocked the introduction of late legislation targeting a newly elected Republican lawmaker who recently shared content from a neo-Nazi website on social media. Dawn Johnson, of Laconia, last week posted a link on Twitter to a Daily Stormer article that many Democrats and Republican Gov. House Democratic Leader Renny Cushing also tried to address her behavior through the Rules Committee but was unsuccessful in getting permission to introduce his bill. The legislation would have added hate speech, harassment and other behavior to the list of legislative ethics violations. Cushing, D-Hampton, called Johnson’s post “vile, hurtful and quite frankly dangerous.”“Until I saw that, I could not believe that type of hate speech directed at a vulnerable population would be engaged in by a member of the Legislature,” he said.

Source: Daily Sun December 16, 2020 21:22 UTC