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Saturday, 7:15 a.m., Political Scoop: This week state Senate candidate Jane Cormier, R-Hooksett, talks about moving to Hooksett and challenging incumbent Republican Dave Boutin.Sunday, 10 a.m., CloseUP: Just like old times, back to back interviews with Governor Maggie Hassan and former (and future?) House Speaker Bill O’Brien.State of the RaceThis week a first look at who is leading the 2016 New Hampshire Republican primary contest.For Those Keeping TrackIf you connect the dots, it looks like Republican Congressional candidate Marilinda Garcia met secretly with the Koch brothers on June 19. That is when there was a secret Koch brothers confab in San Diego at the St. Regis Hotel. On her FEC filing, Garcia lists her hotel stay there during the same time period. NotedTurns out that Southern rock band Confederate Railroad was actually Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Smith’s third choice to headline his Freedom Concert in Rochester next month. He tells the Conway Daily Sun that actually he wanted to get Ted Nugent or the Duck Dynasty guys, but they are really expensive.Weekend ReadingBusiness NH Magazine digs deeper into the claim from DRED and the Hassan administration that the state led the nation in export growth. In Case You Missed ItThe time when Scott Brown ran into a bathroom to avoid a newspaper reporter.However Kelly Ayotte has pretty clear position on the matter, writing in the Wall Street Journal this week about it. 2016 New Hampshire Primary UpdateVice President Joe Biden was heckled a bit at the liberal confab Netroots Nation in Detroit, but he apparently delivered a good speech for the crowd.Here is something New Jersey Chris Christie hasn’t had for a long time: legit buzz in Iowa.Rand Paul and Elizabeth Warren are the two big draws for candidates in 2014. Questions of the weekIf the male Guardian reporter was really dedicated to getting an answer to his question, then why didn’t he just follow Brown and his staffer into the bathroom?Why wasn’t there pressure for Brad Cook to recuse himself from the Ballot Law Commission’s question on Walt Havenstein’s residency when he himself wanted to run for governor against Maggie Hassan?Does everyone understand that if Attorney General Joe Foster rules in favor of Hassan on campaign contributions that New Hampshire essentially comes Texas without any real campaign finance rules?Before this past week, when was the last time you blushed when you read about people in New Hampshire politics?When will NH Rebellion hold a walk from Exeter to Concord to protest $25,000 donations to campaigns for governor?Will immigration emerge as a bigger issue than even the Affordable Care Act this fall?If Carol Shea-Porter loses this fall will 2016 feature another Frank Guinta versus Shea-Porter contest?How many people in the second district -- who don’t attend Republican gatherings -- have actually met Marilinda Garcia or Gary Lambert?Has Walt Havenstein taken a position on Northern Pass yet? (His campaign did not answer my question this week.)Is the number one question for Dan Innis now simply whether Peter Paul will live up to his pledge to fully fund a SuperPAC supporting him? (If so, will NH Rebellion walk around Innis’s hotel several times to protest this?)UPCarol Shea-Porter: Somehow she out-raised her opponents for yet another quarter.Marilinda Garcia: The Republican Primary in the 2nd Congressional District is on the verge of a tipping point her way.Dan Feltes: The Concord state Senate candidate received the biggest prize in his hotly contested Democratic primary: the endorsement of the SEIU.State Republicans: The attack on Hassan’s campaign finance contributions was brilliant. It linked the ever confusing state campaign finance laws no one is sure about and no one can defend, big union money and Northern Pass thrown in there for good measure.PUSHScott Brown: On the one hand, the NBC News/Marist poll this week showing him with a 50 point lead over his primary opponents came at the right time, but on the other the Washington narrative about Brown, including another poll showing him down and a story showing him running into a bathroom, could hurt his ability to get major to start questioning whether they should invest.DOWNMaggie Hassan: She was on the defensive this week for probably the first time in the campaign. (Turkey doesn’t count.)Frank Guinta: What is up with his 76 percent campaign cash burn rate over the last three months? (With no television ads in the mix.)