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Contents 1 Election 2006 results 2 'His Excellency 3 Lynch a time traveller? Or just so good he earns awards in ADVANCE? 4 +-% 5 Photo-less 6 Photo

[edit] Election 2006 results

I have added results of the election 2006. If anyone can find a source backing up the "record margin" it would be appreciated. I put it here based on reports by WMUR

[edit] 'His Excellency

John Lynch is offically refered to as "His Excellency". All incumbent New England Governors are given this title. It doesn't matter if you think he is excellent or not (personally I don't). Keep this page consistant with others.

"His excellency" is NOT part of the official title - it exists nowhere in New Hampshire state laws (search the RSAs at [[1]] if you like). It is used as an honorific in some official correspondence but only in conjunction with "governor" - e.g., this judicial evaluation report (in which Shaheen is addressed as "Her Excellency, Governor Jeanne Shaheen") [2] ... it does NOT belong in this article because we are not writing the article as a letter to the governor. Speaking as somebody who has covered events at the Statehouse, it is also not used in judicial or executive council discussion. Do not return it to the article, please. - DavidWBrooks 23:42, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

I beg to differ with your belief that "His Excellency" is not the governor's official title. I will agree it is hardly used, however Part II., Article 41. of the State Constitution states:

Art. 41. Governor, Supreme Executive Magistrate. There shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor of the State of New Hampshire, and whose title shall be His Excellency...

Since the New Hampshire State Constitution is the supreme law of New Hampshire, I believe it is appropriate to note the official title of the Governor of the State of New Hampshire. I will return the title to the article and will remove it once his term ends, or the Constitution is amended.--Assawyer 22:43, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

I concur with this assessment. As weird as it sounds, it is the Governor's official title. Note that an attempt was made to amend the constitution a couple of years ago to be gender neutral ("His/Her Excellency") but that initiative failed. So to be completely accurate, Jeanne Shaheen's title was also "His Excellency." Hmmm. I've written letters to the Governor on behalf of state agency heads, and they always address the Governor as "His Excellency" because of the constitutional provision. FrostHeaves 23:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

I retire from the field, defeated by the facts! - DavidWBrooks 02:06, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry to barge in here, folks, but while I totally agree that "His excellency" is legally part of his formal title (and that it is almost completely unqiue to New Hampshire,) it is not Wikipedia practice to add an honorific to ANYONE'S encyclopedia entry. Further, please peruse this List of current United States Governors. Not one, not even the New England governors, seem to have a title before their name, except Gov. Lynch. And the argument that "it's in the constitution, therefore it should be on Wikipedia" doesn't wash. It's also in the Massachusetts Constitution ("Article I. There shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be styled, The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; and whose title shall be -- His Excellency.") [3] but I don't think Mitt Romney's entry needs to be changed, either. It also never appeared on the Craig Benson article (I checked to make sure if this was consistent with previous practice.) In short, it should be deleted, without any disrespect intended to the current governor, while a line or two should be added to this article noting this interesting information about his official title. - Nhprman ^List 00:19, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lynch a time traveller? Or just so good he earns awards in ADVANCE?

I know John Lynch is a superhero to some, but how - in this recent edit - did he manage to get an award in APRIL, 2006 for his super work during the MAY, 2006 floods, which began on May 11, 2006? (wikitext cited to show dates):

In April 2006, Lynch was awarded the National Chairman of Volunteers Award for Volunteer Excellence by the American Red Cross, mainly due to his leadership during the 2005 and [[New England Flood of May 2006|2006 New Hampshire Floods]]. - Nhprman ^List 23:46, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Ha! Good point. I took that out - the award was for the fall 2005 floods only - and the cell phone mention, which fell over the border into p.r., methinks. - DavidWBrooks 23:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Yeah that was my bad... obviously wasn't thinking clearly when I wrote that. Thanks for noticing my error though. - Prezboy1 12:47, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] +-%

I was baffled by the plus-or-minus percentage heading in the just-added infoboxes about election results; I finally figured that it's a completely meaningless figure comparing the percentage point results of a candidate to their percentage point result of the previous election (assuming they ran then). I would strongly recommend that it be removed, because it says nothing (what does his result against Coburn, a newcomer, have to do with the result against Benson, an incumbent?) and is extremely confusing - most people will see it as the percentage difference between the two candidates in that race. Toss it, I say. - DavidWBrooks 02:01, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

David, I agree that it's confusing - I actually wandered to the talk page to try to figure out the column's significance. It's part of the template, though, so it's out of my league. :) Jodamn 23:48, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo-less

Let me say that I think it's b.s., and I don't appreciate (or accept as legitimate) the fact that the public, official photograph of Gov. Lynch, along with simliar photos of past governors, has been removed by the little dicatators who are running Wikipedia and turning it into a bland, colorless, photoless place. They only seem to like photos if "fan" photos are used on every page, which makes it look like a cheap fan site. For the record: Public, government-taken photos are IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. - Nhprman 20:15, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

I think it's better for there to be no photo rather than the current one which looks like a mug shot. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.253.53.74 (talk) 00:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)