Ayotte Cheered New Hampshire's Purdue Payout. As Attorney General, She Left Us Out of the Case.
New Hampshire just won $29.5 million from Purdue Pharma, and Governor Kelly Ayotte thanked the lawyers who got it. In 2007, when she was the state's attorney general, she kept New Hampshire out of the case against Purdue — then took more drug-industry money in the Senate than any other Granite State politician.