They said it …

August 6, 2004

NH Business Review Staff,

“I have bad luck hitting them but good luck not getting hurt.” – Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson after hitting a moose for the second time in his driving career, this one while in a Mazda Miata convertible.

“We heeded the call of the governor, who called for public-private partnership to make government more efficient. I can’t credit this, the big hand of the government coming down. … They say, ‘Help us innovate, but don’t step on our toes.’” — Gary Connelly, whose Mont Vernon software firm, Interware, is caught in a struggle with state Division of Motor Vehicles officials who are actively trying to get municipalities to stop using Interware’s on-line auto registration software.

“I like what he is doing, even if I don’t like how he’s doing it.” — Oliver Fifield, a New Hampshire Farm Bureau member from Canterbury, after hearing Governor Benson speak at the organization’s recent gubernatorial forum/picnic.

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