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Bar News - December 13, 2002 Joseph Foster's Election To Senate Upheld IN RECOUNTS INVOLVING lawyer-candidates, state Senate candidate Joseph M. Foster's election to the 13th District was confirmed. After a recount by the NH Secretary of State's office, Foster's victory margin widened from 72 to 104 votes over his Republican opponent, Bea Francoeur. Meanwhile, a recount confirmed the election of Mont Vernon attorney John Coughlin to the post of Hillsborough County Attorney, ousting Peter McDonough, who has held the office for the past 15 years. At presstime, McDonough had not decided whether to appeal the recount, which had him losing the election by about 100 votes. Reportedly, McDonough was considering whether to contest the counting of a number of straight-ticket ballots. The margin of victory for Coughlin before the recount was 226 votes. A Repeated Omission Shame on us. In the Nov. 22 article recounting how lawyer-legislators fared in the general election, we omitted the name of one of the winners, District 50 Representative Peter M. Sullivan, a Democrat, who won re-election. He also was one of several Bar member-candidates we overlooked in the first article on lawyer candidates published in the Oct. 18, 2002 Bar News. We apologize to attorney Sullivan, and promise to refer to our own corrections in the future. Including Rep. Sullivan, a Manchester attorney, at least 16 Bar members will be members of the NH House of Representatives in the coming session, up from 14 in the last session. Foster is the only lawyer in the state Senate. The re-election of Sullivan, who was elected to the House last year to fill an unexpired term, kept intact the 100 percent success record of the incumbent lawyer-legislators in this election.
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