mr. lamontagne? montagne: the reason activity's down is, frankly, the workers of our tate are not given the opportunity to be as productive as possibility. overregulation by state government as well as the federal government has been cited as one of the major reasons that we have an economic recession continuing here in new hampshire. frankly, we are 30,000 jobs short of where we were at the time of the great recession. and we have to deregulate new hampshire in terms of the overregulation we have. part of my plan calls for that in a very specific and targeted way, and that'll help job productivity and worker product ivity. >> moderator: thank you. our next question comes from howard altschille, and it's on taxes. >> good evening to you both. if a pledge for income tax is right for today, why not for always? how do you reconcile your pledge against an income tax with your opposition to the constitutional amendment on this november's ballot that would write an income tax ban into the constitution? hass

workplace and quote new hampshire has one of the largest wage gaps in the nation and it looks like if mr lamontagne is elected in november he's content to let grow even more and now the very very young. really pastor robert j. anderson anderson spoke at a panel discussion this past weekend sponsored by the maryland marriage alliance the group trying to block the marriage equality ballot measure in maryland during his speech anderson quoted from the bible using scripture to infer that people are worthy of death he then went on to say in a little more bulb only stating quote if we don't vote against it question six then we are proving these things that are worthy of death and quote now i would have preferred pastor anderson read all the other passages about sexuality in the bible you know the ones filled with concubines and slaves and multiple wives you see the bible approves of a lot of bizarre kinky stuff all of that conveniently left out to a pastor anderson's hatred of gays and that is very very ugly. so if the month of october behaves the same way previous months this year of behaved and it will

mr. lamontagne. you downplayed proposals to repeal the marriage because it is not a priority for you. the statehouse lawn and pledged to help repealed ala. should voters believe what you emphasize now or what your emphasizing then? >> voters should believe what i have in my website and my prosperity agenda. it is focused on jobs, the economy and reforming state government. that is critically important right now in these times. i am a conservative. i am not hiding from that parent if the legislature were to pass a bill to respect existing marriages, both gay marriage and heterosexual marriages, with civil unions, i would support repealing the marriage yet giving civil-rights to those who are of same-sex orientation. >> i support marriage equality. i was on an airplane last spring when i -- when a man sitting next to me started a conversation and said that he recruits for new hampshire's business and marriage equality is a major recruitment tool for him because people are going to our state because we want to include all people of talent and energy in our economy. on this, along with th

mr. romney. mark meadows, running for congress as a republican in north carolina, says that he is different from mitt romney. lamontagne, running in new hampshire, promising not to be a partisan -- is promising not to be a partisan governor in the style of mr. romney and his 47% speech. but here's maybe the biggest panic button that there is on the republican side right now. it's from the "huffington post" today. a republican operative working on congressional races, quote, warned that in key swing states, mitt romney's support and internal polling is well below that of republican candidates in districts where the presidential nominee needs to get big support to have a chance at winning. this is the quote from the republican operative. "he is just well under all of our other guys," this republican said, "i'm very concerned." think about what that means for a second. what they're talking about here is key districts in key swing states. ones where mitt romney really needs to win big in order to win that swing state. and mr. romney is underperforming the other republicans who are going to be on the ballot in those areas.