{"id":1795,"date":"2013-02-05T14:37:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=1795"},"modified":"2013-02-05T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T19:37:51","slug":"pints-and-politics-with-senate-president-peter-bragdon-2-1-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/?p=1795","title":{"rendered":"Pints and Politics with Senate President Peter Bragdon 2-1-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Peter Bragdon (R-Milford) joined NH Now host Chris Ryan and Southern New Hampshire University professor Dean Spiliotes for Pints and Politics at The Barley House in downtown Concord.<\/p>\n<p>The three discussed Governor Hassan&#8217;s budget plans, gun control and the future of the GOP in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Bragdon acknowledged that messaging was part of the reason for GOP setbacks in November and said that although there were down-ticket difficulties from Mitt Romney&#8217;s Presidential candidacy, Maggie Hassan actually outperformed Barack Obama at the polls in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We really need to take a look at things,&#8221; said Bragdon. &#8220;Sometimes (Republicans) gave (Democrats) the rope they used to hang us with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bragdon pushed for party unity in the interview and also said fundraising needs to improve.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" data-src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F77977248\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Peter Bragdon (R-Milford) joined NH Now host Chris Ryan and Southern New Hampshire University professor Dean Spiliotes for Pints and Politics at The Barley House in downtown Concord. The three discussed Governor Hassan&#8217;s budget plans, gun control and the future of the GOP in New Hampshire. Bragdon acknowledged that messaging was part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,24,7,27,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-featured","7":"category-featured-news","8":"category-nhtoday","9":"category-nh-now-news","10":"category-politics"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1795\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nhtalkradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}