National Grange Legislative Fly-In 2016

Come to New Hampshire and participate in a presidential candidate’s campaign the weekend prior to the big New Hampshire primary vote the following Tuesday. Meet Grangers from other states, discuss National Grange legislative and regulatory issues, learn the history behind presidential primaries, tour the New Hampshire Statehouse and visit with the press corps covering the candidates. Then spend a day working on the campaign for the candidate of your choice!

Schedule

• Flights – Arrive at Manchester Airport
• Hotel – Comfort Inn, Concord
• Evening – Welcome, itinerary, discussions, fellowship at hotel

• New Hampshire State Capitol, Concord
• Morning meeting at the Statehouse with NH Secretary of State Bill Gardner, who will brief us on the First in the Nation Presidential Primary, and the history of presidential primaries in New Hampshire
• Afternoon tour of the New Hampshire Statehouse that has been continuously occupied by the legislature longer than any other statehouse in the country
• Evening – Dinner together and youth outing

• Breakfast – New Hampshire State Grange Building with guest James Pindell, Political Reporter for the Boston Globe
• Meeting with the on-site press corps to discuss the media’s role in presidential campaigns (Radisson Hotel, Manchester)
• Grangers go to Manchester campaign headquarters of Presidential candidates of their choice, meet with representatives of the Democratic and Republican Parties to talk about their roles in the process, participate in a campaign event of their choice (i.e. stuffing mailers, phone banks, visibility, canvassing, etc.)

• Return home

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