Senator Maggie Hassan Invited Van Jones to NH

Van Jones, slated to speak in Exeter THIS EVENING (see Van Jones in NH) was apparently invited here by State Senator Maggie Hassan, according to Phil Kerpen of AFP in this FOX article:

“The disgraced former White House special green jobs adviser is making an appearance at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire tonight, apparently at the request of Democratic State Senate Majority Leader Maggie Hassan. Exeter promotes the event saying: “globally recognized, Jones will lead an evening talk and discussion about ‘green jobs. ’” This is just the start of his comeback tour; on March 8, Jones will again appear at a Democratic “green jobs” event, in New York with U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. That otherwise respectable people would come to “green jobs” events with Van Jones suggests that his “green jobs” advocacy is somehow separable from his political extremism. It isn’t.

Van Jones is a self-professed communist… Now Jones is back peddling that same kernel of the destruction of our free-market economy, starting tonight at Exeter, an elite boarding school.”

Let’s hope the tea party gives Jones a warm welcome.

Update: Apparently Senator Hassan and her husband who is the principal of Exeter, denied having invited Van Jones to NH – according to Now Hampshire. But our question is, why did Mr. Hassan allow it?