Jeanne Dietsch, left, a  District 9 state Senate candidate and state Rep. Ivy Vann prepare to burn the Americans for Prosperity “pledge” Wednesday in Peterborough to protest the group’s opposition to ObamaCare and Medicaid expansion.
Jeanne Dietsch, left, a  District 9 state Senate candidate and state Rep. Ivy Vann prepare to burn the Americans for Prosperity “pledge” Wednesday in Peterborough to protest the group’s opposition to ObamaCare and Medicaid expansion. Credit: COURTESY PHOTO

On Wednesday morning, District 9 State Senate candidate Jeanne Dietsch and State Rep. Ivy Vann burned the Americans for Prosperity (AFP) “pledge” in front of Peterborough’s historic Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) Hall on Grove Street. Their action was simultaneous to the public signing of that same pledge by some Republican candidates for the State House and Senate at an event sponsored by AFP in Concord. AFP is a “dark money” political group co-founded and supported by the Koch brothers of Oklahoma. Its pledge commits signers to “Oppose all forms of ObamaCare in New Hampshire, including Medicaid expansion.”