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Having a Grand Old (Party) Time

by Josh Marshall
03.11.11 | 7:56 am

New Hampshire is having a great time with its big new crop of Republican state legislators. Rep. Martin Harty is refusing to apologize for saying that “all the defective people, the drug addicts, mentally ill, the retarded” should be sent to Siberia to die.

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