Are you a New Hamshire citizen? House Bill 1432 can use your support! As reported by 'In newsweekly' the bill is expected to be voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 3-2 vote. The bill is to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in the areas of employment, housing, and accomodation in New Hampshire. A letter or phone call in support of the measure to your senator could make the difference. The following list of NH Senators phone numbers is from Eric Murphy (New Hampshire Coalition to End Discrimimation) (I believe) as listed in the Boston paper 'In Newsweekly': District Senator Party Phone Numbers (603) 1 Carole Lamirande D (H) 752-3849 2 Wayne D. King D (H) 786-9278 (B) 786-9730 3 Kenneth MacDonald R (H) 569-3300 4 Leo W. Fraser, Jr. R (H) 435-6626 (B) 225-3664 5 Ralph Degnan Hough R&D (H) 448-2585 (B) 448-2832 (fax) 448-2014 6 George A. Lovejoy R (H) 332-4268 7 David P. Currier R&D (H) 428-3579 (B) 428-7619 8 George F. Disnard D (H) 542-6794 9 Sheila Roberge R (H) 472-8391 10 Clesson J. Blaisdell D (H) 352-6210 (B) 358-3322 11 David Wheeler R (H) 673-9077 12 Barbara J. Baldizar D (H) 880-4368 13 Debora B. Pignatelli D (H) 888-5245 14 Thomas P. Colantuono R&D (H) 434-2475 (B) 434-0068 (fax) 434-1425 15 Susan McLane D (H) 224-0376 16 Eleanor P. Podles R (H) 627-7749 17 John S."Jack" Barnes,Jr. R&D (H) 895-9352 (B) 895-9396 18 John A. King D (H) 644-0263 19 Richard L. Russman R (H) 642-5904 (B) 772-3433 20 Anne J. Bourque D (H) 627-3357 21 C. Jeanne Sfaheen D (H) 749-3434 22 Joseph L. Delahunty R (H) 893-8049 (B) 893-9134 23 Beverly Hollingworth D (H) 926-4880 (B) 926-7113 24 Burton J. Cohen D (H) 431-2581 (B) 431-0066 I've done my best to be sure that the names and numbers above are free of typo's from the article, but if anyone should discover an error please let me know and I will repost the list as corrected. While I do not have the number to Gov. Merrills office handy, a call or letter there would also help. (If anyone has it, please post it here and send me a copy). Thanks for doing your part! -- ____ Finger jsgreene@mv.mv.com |Key fingerprint = \ / for PGP public key. One |4A 01 D8 DA 6B 84 D0 A2 \/ life.One love.One nation. |BD D8 E8 55 E3 2F 33 C3 The New Hampshire Senate voted today 13-10 to kill HB 1432, which would have added sexual orientation to the state's civil rights legislation. I don't have any further information on this. To say I am disappointed and depressed is an understatement. Brendan Denehy Keene, NH Now I know why my father keeps referring to New Hampshire as 'almost a state'.