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First Lady Campaigns In Laconia

Sam Evans-Brown

The First Lady defended the president's health care law before a very receptive crowd in the Laconia Middle School Gym.

Do we want these reforms to be repealed [NO!] or do we want the people we love to have the care they need [YES!]

A somewhat dramatic moment came when a teenager standing in the risers behind her fainted.

Oh, can we get some water? It’s hard to stand up!

And Michelle Obama’s pitch of her “It Takes One” effort – a push to get the politically active to reach out to others, was well received by Greg Wilkin.

I come from small town, and we went from Obama in ’08 and we slipped the other way in 2010. And I know now that it can make a huge difference if I talk to some of the people.

The First Lady’s visit continued in Manchester at Southern New Hampshire University.  Earlier in the day she visited a private home in Holderness.

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about “the natural world and how we use it.” His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.
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