U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch has long had a reputation for being the least crazy of Massachusetts's nine Democratic congressmen. He initially opposed Obamacare, for instance, when he correctly discerned that union members in his base were going to get shafted by it when they lost their private Cadillac health insurance plans.
Another example: Long after it became fashionable for Democratic pols (including Irish Catholics like Lynch) to ditch the pro-life label, he hung onto it, however tenuously.
The death penalty is dead in NH after legislators voted to override Republican Gov. Chris Sununu's veto of legislation abolishing capital punishment. The state senate put the final nail in the death penalty's coffin by a two-thirds majority vote Thursday, 16-8.
WMUR reports that several Republicans voted in favor of the override in concert with their Democratic peers. Democrats have controlled both state chambers since 2018.
