Overview
- WMUR reported that Gov. Kelly Ayotte used campaign funds to deploy a mobile billboard in Manhattan inviting New York City business owners to relocate to New Hampshire.
- The truck ran the day after Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City and targeted owners wary of a democratic socialist leading the city.
- Ayotte’s message promised “more freedom, lower taxes, and an awesome quality of life” for businesses that move to the Granite State.
- One rotating billboard message described New Hampshire as “safe, prosperous, free… what New York used to be.”
- Ayotte called the effort strictly business, while Democrat Jon Kiper labeled it a tone-deaf gimmick and party chair Ray Buckley accused her of opportunism, with no relocations reported.