10 July 2014 - Granite Grok

July 10, 2014

Notable Quote: Frederic Bastiat – The advantages of Plunder, Without Its Risk or Disgrace

The oppressor no longer acts directly and with his own powers upon his victim.  No, our discretion has become too refined for that.  The tyrant and his victim are still present, but there is an Government intermediate person between them, which is the Government–that is, the Law itself. What can be better calculated to silence …

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Club for Growth Doubles Down on Marilinda Garcia

The Club For Growth issued a followup to their endorsement of New Hampshire CD-2 Candidate for Congress, Marilinda Garcia.  In their missive they reiterate their support for Garcia, and make a clarion call for donations to support her.  But they also take a shot at her opponent Gary Lambert.  Given my recent posts on push polling …

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Obligatory Walt Havenstein Was a Guest of the DGA Video

  From February 5th, 2011.   Walt Havenstein is an invited guest at the Democrat Governor’s association for a panel on the US Economy and Job Creation.  Everyone there knows him, apparently. But he, as a Republican, should also know that Democrats don’t know how to create jobs outside unions and government (unless you count rent …

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Lambert Campaign Push Poll Complaints Continue

NH CD-2 residents are being called by SSI Market Research and surveyed or polled with regard to the Republican primary race in New Hampshire’s second congressional district. A female caller, so far all the recipients report the pollster as female (Caller ID Number is 603 968 5504), relates a list of accomplishments for candidate Gary …

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Upside-Down Brown (WMUR-UNH Poll)

The new WMUR Senate Poll conducted by UNH has bad news for Brown – not only can’t he get close to Shaheen’s poll numbers in the matchup, but his unfaorability ratings exceed his favorability ratings, consistently!

TEA Party member asks for apology for Walt Havenstein’s teabagger remark, Havenstein refuses

Update: this will be topmost for a while – newer posts after this one Nice.  As Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit says – punch back twice as hard.  Here is the video: Here is the background:  I am a co-founding member of the NH TEA Party Coalition and I believe in the TEA Party’s three (and …

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Lois Lerner Busted Conspiring To Hide Email Conversations From Congress

Today the House Oversight Committee released emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner exposing her efforts to hide the contents of conversations from the the eyes of Congress. In addition to warning staff to “be cautious” about what they said in email, she inquired as to whether chat conversations on the internal instant messaging service …

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