Doris Haddock in NH Senate Debate

On Drugs: Penalize marijuana use with fines rather than prison time

Haddock called for penalizing marijuana use with fines rather than prison time. Source: NH Senate Debate, in Associated Press Oct 22, 2004

On Environment: Our ponds have too much mercury now to eat the fish

I saw you fishing the other day. I hope you didn’t eat the fish because there’s too much mercury today in our ponds and in our streams. It was not so when you were elected to Washington, but it is so now. Source: NH Senate Debate, in Concord Monitor Oct 22, 2004

On War & Peace: Iraq war was a mistake that never should have happened

Haddock said she feared Bush would become involved in “one war after another.” She has advocated pulling US troops out of Iraq rapidly and replacing them with an international peacekeeping force. “The young men and women there are in a shooting gallery, that we’ve lost over a thousand of them - and God knows how many Iraqi people we’ve lost,” she said. “I think that the war was a mistake, and I’m sorry that it ever had to happen.” Source: NH Senate Debate, in Associated Press Oct 22, 2004

On Education: More federal money is needed for public schools

GREGG: We now know if kids are taught what they should be taught by looking at the school’s record.

HADDOCK: Haddock said more federal money is needed for public schools. “You go in some schools and they are like a country club and others are a shame to go into,” she said.

Source: [Xref Gregg] NH Senate Debate, in The Union Leader Oct 21, 2004

On Tax Reform: Tax cuts for the wealthiest American cannot be justified

HADDOCK: You voted for tax cuts for the wealthiest American at a time of war? How can you justify that when we’re not secure and we have the largest budget deficit in history?

GREGG: I believe very strongly we made the right decision to cut taxes when we did. We were coming out of the biggest bubble in the ‘90s we have seen and then we had 9/11.

Source: NH Senate Debate, in The Union Leader Oct 21, 2004

On War & Peace: Oppose the Iraq war but support the $87 billion supplemental

GREGG: Asked when the troops would come home, Gregg said when Iraq can function as a democracy and can protect itself. “Nobody really knows the timetable, but obviously we are working in the right direction,” Gregg said.

HADDOCK: Haddock said, “Mr. Gregg is in favor of this mistaken and unnecessary war and I oppose it.” But she said she supports the $87 billion that Bush asked Congress to approve to support the troops.

Source: [Xref Gregg] NH Senate Debate, in The Union Leader Oct 21, 2004

The above quotations are from New Hampshire Senate Debate, Judd Gregg (R) vs. Doris "Granny D" Haddock (D), Oct. 21, 2004. Click here for other excerpts from New Hampshire Senate Debate, Judd Gregg (R) vs. Doris "Granny D" Haddock (D), Oct. 21, 2004. Click here for other excerpts by Doris Haddock. Click here for a profile of Doris Haddock.
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