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[[Image:{{Officeholder|name=Kelly Ayotte|image=Kelly_Headshot_Context.jpg|rightparty=[[Republican]]|200pxspouse=Joseph Daley|]]'''Kelly A. Ayotte''' (born 1968) served as the Attorney General of religion=Roman Catholic|offices= {{Officeholder/senator |state=New Hampshire |terms=January 5, 2011 - Present |preceded=[[New HampshireJudd Gregg]] from 2004 through her resignation in 2009. Ayotte is the Senator-elect from New Hampshire after defeating U.S. Representative Paul Hodes during the 2010 election. Previously she served as Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Homicide Unit and led the prosecution of numerous murder cases. |former=n |succeeded= }}}}

'''Kelly A. Ayotte''' (born June 27, 1968, in Nashua, N.H) currently serves as the junior [[Republican]] [[United States Senator]] from [[New Hampshire]], having been elected in the 2010 election by a 60%-37% margin against U.S. Representative [[Paul Hodes]]. She previously won the Republican primary by a very narrow margin over the more [[conservative]], [[Tea Party]]-backed opponent Ovide Lamontagne.<ref>http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/15/new-hampshire-gop-senate-primary-is-dead-heat-between-ayotte-and/</ref> At the age of 42, Ayotte is the youngest woman in the U.S. Senate. Ayotte served as the Attorney General of [[New Hampshire]] from 2004 through her resignation in 2009. Previously she served as Deputy Attorney General and Chief of Homicide Unit and led the prosecution of numerous murder cases.  Ayotte is a self-described "law-and-order [[Republican]]" who is [[pro-life]] (except in cases of rape, incest or medical emergency) and opposes [[same-sex marriage]]. If she had been a Senator at the time, Ayotte would have voted to confirm [[Sonia Sotomayor]] to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]. She has criticized government's bailouts of the banks and the auto industry as well as the [[economic stimulus package]]. "They spent nearly $1 trillion of our money and said this is something that will stimulate our [[economy]], you look at that bill, some of that spending doesn't even occur until 2019. You tell me how that's going to stimulate the economy right now." She added "We can't spend money we don't have." <ref>http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090812/FRONTPAGE/908120375/1037/NEWS04</ref>

She won the endorsement of [[Sarah Palin]] and defeated [[Tea Party Movement | Tea Party]] backed [[Ovide Lamontagne]] as the Republican Senate nominee for New Hampshire. Ayotte told the conservative magazine [[National Review]] that "I stand with [the tea party] on those issues, on protecting individual freedom. We need to stop the unprecedented expansion of government, appeasing our enemies, and creating an entitlement culture."<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/s/cq/20101106/pl_cq_politics/politics000003759352</ref> Ayotte has since become a full-fledged establishment Republican, voting amnesty, to fund Obamacare, calling the government shutdown 'ill-conceived'. She closely works in the Senate with [[RINO]] members John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski.

*[http://www.ayotteforsenatesenate.comgov/ pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/Ayotte_Kelly.htm Official Campaign Senate Website]

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