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Democratic Presidential Hopeful Uses Words ‘Climate Change’ 21 Times During Speech in New Hampshire

Matthew McDonald

Pro-carbon-tax Democratic presidential hopeful Jay Inslee has brought his message about climate change to New Hampshire, site of the first primary in the 2020 presidential race.

Inslee, 67, the second-term Democratic governor of Washington state, mentioned the term "climate change" 21 times during a 25-minute speech at the St. Anselm College in Goffstown on Tuesday, January 22, according to The Union Leader.

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Will Ayanna Pressley and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez Be At Each Other’s Throat?

Matthew McDonald

Lowell Sun columnist Peter Lucas finds new U.S. Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) fun, but also says she is using "the old socialist bag of tricks that has destroyed more than one country."

He also wonders how three unimpeded left-wing women on the same committee in Congress will get along. U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (D-California) is the chairman of the new House Financial Services Committee, on which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also put Ocasio-Cortez and her supposed ally Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester).

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