The Nashua Federated Republican Women's Club Breakfast W/ Kelly Ayotte

This morn­ing I attended the Nashua Fed­er­ated Repub­li­can Women’s Club Break­fast at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Nashua NH

It is an annual event to honor women who have made a dif­fer­ence to the GOP

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Both Rep Char­lie Bass and Kelly Ayotte spoke, Sen­a­tor Ayotte also took ques­tions from the audi­ence, I shot video of almost the entire event and will include all said video in order after the jump:

The first per­son I spoke to was Ver­ity Swayne

and then Juanita Dangel

For a party with a “war on women” there cer­tainly seemed to be a lot of them here.

Ovide Lam­on­tagne was not present although his wife was there to rep­re­sent him, his oppo­nent in the GOP pri­mary for gov­er­nor Kevin Smith was there and spoke to me about the event.

Shortly there­after things began with the Hon­or­able Jea­nine Not­ter Emcee­ing the event. She intro­duced GOP Vice Chair­man Cliff Hurst who gave the open­ing prayer.

Fol­lowed by the pledge of Allegiance:

And there was an AWE­SOME ren­di­tion of the National Anthem by a group of young singers call ed the New Hamp­shire Patri­ettes who sang the first AND the last verse

(Their Youtube Chan­nel is here BTW)

Dis­tin­guished guests were then recognized

Con­gress­man Bass (who I was later told was an unex­pected guest) was intro­duced and gave a brief speech

He was fol­lowed by Sen­a­tor Ayotte. Her Keynote was very effective

I par­tic­u­larly liked her bill to pull con­gres­sional pay if there was no bud­get as she put it: “If we don’t pass a bud­get we shouldn’t get paid”

Sen­a­tor Ayotte then announced spon­ta­neously she would take ques­tions from the audi­ence she took one on Agenda 21:

One on Swatting

On the Administration’s exec­u­tive order con­cern­ing immigration

and the White House exceed­ing pres­i­den­tial pow­ers in general

How can you not be impressed by a pol who will­ingly takes ques­tions with­out prompt­ing. Quite a con­trast isn’t it.

After the Sen­a­tor pre­sen­ta­tions were made

Both Emi­lie Power & Mar Mar Rogers was hon­ored as well. Mar Mar was ill she was not present to receive her flowers

But the woman of the hour was Phyl­lis Woods who talked about her work on the GOP national com­mit­tee in her accep­tance speech

Ver­ity Swayne who I inter­viewed first gave the clos­ing prayer:

After the end of the Event I inter­viewed Con­gress­man Bass

And at the end of the day Sen­a­tor Ayotte con­sented to a quick inter­view as she headed to her car for the airport:

It was a very nice event and I was treated very well. here is the full set of pic­tures I shot

And finally my best to Linda Twombly, and hopes for her speedy recovery