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RESOLUTION

The executive committee of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee (NHRSC), having all of the
powers, authority, and responsibility of the NHRSC between plenary meetings of the NHRSC, hereby
finds and resolves:
WHEREAS the New Hampshire Republican Party encourages primary contests because they produce
better candidates in the general election against Democratic opponents; and
WHEREAS primary contests are designed to allow Republican candidates with differing views to try to
persuade voters to support the principles they advocate; and
WHEREAS it has long been the tradition of the New Hampshire Republican Party to support the partys
nominees for office once the primaries are concluded; and
WHEREAS it is destructive of the objectives of the New Hampshire Republican Party for Republicans to
oppose or withhold support from the partys nominees; and
WHEREAS it is a fundamental conviction of the New Hampshire Republican Party that the policies and
principles of the Democratic Party are detrimental to the wellbeing of our state and our nation; and
WHEREAS it is essential to the success of the New Hampshire Republican Party that its leadership,
elected officials, and state party members lead by example and accept the will of Republican voters in
primary contests; and
WHEREAS it is particularly subversive of Republican electoral success for the partys elected officials to
oppose or undermine the partys nominees because it causes disunity and intraparty strife and betrays
the trust placed in those officials by Republican voters and activists; and
WHEREAS personal ambition, personal antipathy toward the partys nominee, and differences of opinion
on policy and the means of implementing it cannot justify public opposition by Republicans officeholders
to the partys nominees; and
WHEREAS it is a breach of trust for a Republican officeholder to combine with members of the
Democratic Party to oppose the election of a Republican nominee; and
WHEREAS the Republican Caucus of the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted on November
18, 2014, to nominate Rep. William OBrien as the Republican candidate for Speaker of the House; and
WHEREAS December 3, 2014, was Organization Day in the New Hampshire General Court, and among
the agenda items in the House of Representatives on Organization Day was the election of the Speaker
of the House; and
WHEREAS in the days leading up to Organization Day, Rep. Shawn Jasper and a minority of other
Republican representatives-elect made it known that they would oppose Rep. OBriens election as

Speaker and coordinated with the Democratic caucus in the House to thwart the will of the Republican
caucus; and
WHEREAS as a direct consequence of the actions of Rep. Jasper and his Republican supporters, Rep.
OBrien was defeated in the Speakers race and Rep. Jasper was elected Speaker by a coalition of
Democrats and a maximum of 47 Republicans; and
WHEREAS the Republican Party holds a 79-vote majority in the New Hampshire House of
Representatives;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED that Rep. Jasper is not the Republican Leader in the New Hampshire House of
Representatives within the meaning of the NHRSC Bylaws because he was not the nominee of the
majority of the Republican caucus; and
RESOLVED that Rep. Jasper is censured by the NHRSC for each and all of the following:
(1) opposing the Republican caucuss nominee for Speaker; (2) placing his interests above the interests
of the Republican Party and the will of the Republican caucus;
(3) showing disrespect toward the Republican voters, contributors, and activists whose commitment to
Republican candidates made possible the election of Rep. Jasper and his Republican supporters in the
House;
(4) combining with the Democratic caucus to create a governing majority in which Republicans make up
less than twenty percent of the total despite having a sixty percent majority in the House; and

(5) having risked the long-term party unity and discipline that is essential to the mission, principles,
objectives, traditions, and future success of the Republican Party.
Dated this ____ day of December, 2014.

ATTEST

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Secretary, New Hampshire Republican State Committee

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