OSSIPEE — A budget committee candidate asked Ossipee selectmen Monday if they were concerned about the governor's emergency powers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Selectmen didn't feel that subject was in their wheelhouse.Â
Meanwhile, the Union Leader newspaper says there are about a dozen bills filed in the House to curtail the governor's powers, but those bills don't seem to have support in the state Senate, the paper said.Â
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Well Dad, craziness does run in the family
I agree with his wife.
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