NH Gov. Ayotte taps campaign cash to troll NYC’s Mamdani with billboard luring city biz north

Most often found antagonizing her neighbors across the border in the Bay State, New Hampshire Gov Kelly Ayotte is broadening her horizons.
On Wednesday, the Granite State’s Republican chief executive dipped into her campaign funds to send a billboard around Manhattan encouraging businesses to move north, WMUR-TV reported.
The PR campaign came the day after Zohran Mamdani, the Big Apple’s new Democratic Socialist mayor-elect, romped to victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had the backing of President Donald Trump.
“So we’re saying welcome, please come to New Hampshire. You’ll have more freedom, lower taxes, and an awesome quality of life,” Ayotte said, according to the station.
Among the messages was one that called New Hampshire "safe, prosperous, free ... what New York used to be.”
New Hampshire Democrats were less than enthused, according to the station.
“Those ads would be costing thousands of dollars, and obviously not a big deal for Kelly Ayotte in her campaign. But the timing seems to me a little bit strange, given the food SNAP benefit cut that a lot of Granite Staters are dealing with,” Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Jon Kiper said, according to WMUR-TV.
State Democratic Chairperson Ray Buckley fired back, saying that “unfortunately, Ayotte is nothing but a pathetic political opportunist who is using our state as a billboard prop to serve her own interests,” the station reported.
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