New Hampshire's Rising Star

NH Senator Kelly Ayotte was the keynote speaker at the GOP conference in Missouri known as Reagan-Lincoln Days. Senator Ayotte is regarded as a rising star within her party, a party desperate to present itself as women friendly, despite all evidence to the contrary. 

From the Kansas City Star:

Keynote speaker Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire criticized Obama for foreign and domestic policy decisions, including problems in Ukraine and the Middle East.

“We need to take this presidency in 2016,” she told the group.

She also criticized the Affordable Care Act, referring twice to “800 million taxpayers” sent faulty notices as part of the program.

The figure was incorrect. The administration said this week it has sent out 800,000 bad notices, not 800 million.

There are roughly 320 million people in the United States.

OOPS

photo from the Nashua Telegraph

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article10793018.html#storylink=cpy

You Say Ayotte I say Eye-otte....

This picture (from the Nashua Telegraph) was taken on October 14, 2012, when RNC Chair Reince Priebus and Senator Kelly Ayotte were out doing door-to-door for Mitt Romney.


Now, fast forward to May 20, at the NH GOP dinner where Senator Aqua Buddha was the keynote speaker, and Reince Priebus was once again gracing our state. From our friends at Concord Patch:

At the NH GOP’s sold out dinner on May 20, Priebus mispronounced Ayotte’s name not once, but twice, calling her “Eye-yotte” and not “Ay-yotte.”

You'd think a guy named REINCE PRIEBUS might have some interest in proper pronunciation of names.

It seems that Kelly Ayotte's decision to be the filling in the Graham/McCain sandwich might have damaged her rising GOP star status, if a guy who had spent a day with her back in October couldn't be bothered to pronounce her name correctly.


Again: REINCE PRIEBUS