Thin Crowd Shows Up for N.H. State House Harassment Training
Rep. Bob Backus of Manchester said he thought Tuesday morning's anti-harassment training for legislators was worthwhile — even if, he conceded, he might not have absorbed the whole thing.
“I wasn’t fully awake and participating very well,” Backus, a Democrat, said in the hallway after the 8:30 a.m. presentation wrapped up.
In any case, Backus was there. And that was more than most of his colleagues could say.
Only about 40 — or 10 percent of New Hampshire’s 424 legislators — showed up for the official training on the State House’s anti-harassment policy Tuesday morning. Some lawmakers said they had scheduling conflicts, but others dismissed it as a poor use of time.
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