15 February 2018 - Granite Grok

February 15, 2018

Why I vote the way I do

By Norm Silber As a member of the New Hampshire House of Representative and Chair of the Town of Gilford Budget Committee, I am sometimes asked for justification or criticized for my position and votes on various issues before the NH House, the Belknap County Delegation, and the Gilford Budget Committee. Imitation being the sincerest …

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Is Gov. Sununu Going To Break His No Tax Pledge and Destroy the New Hampshire Advantage?

The Family Medical Leave Insurance bill (HB628) making it’s way through the New Hampshire House has a great many things wrong with it, not the least of which is that it not only taxes individual income, a division of state government we’ll never be able to opt out of has to be created to collect the …

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HB1668 – Uber-Progressive Timothy Horrigan proud to be a Govt Nanny and supplant parental choices

And he said this all with a smiley smirk on his face (WMUR.com has the video but won’t allow embedding) as I watched the clip last night.  He’s rather proud of himself as portraying himself as a Nanny with his bill, HB 1668 (posted after the jump), as “the protector of kids!” (reformatted, aggregated, emphasis …

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Meet Super-enfranchised Keene Student Voter Lily M. Dawson

Lily M. Dawson of 5 Mohawk Drive, Clinton, Ct. 06413-2012 has some surprises for our informal New Hampshire jury of legally registered voters. Are you ready ladies and gentlemen of the jury? Exhibit one. Lily registered to vote in her hometown of Clinton Ct. on April 26, 2016. That would be for the Connecticut Presidential …

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Windham School Board Transgender Bathroom Policy discussion / meeting

Apparently, the Windham School Board is now going to have a public discussion for a controversial policy that I thought (from reading the news) that has already been put into place? Isn’t that backwards – School Board public discussions FIRST, the public’s input SECOND and THEN policies are instituted?  Have I missed what’s going on? Or …

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No “Team” Is Worth Selling Out This Country

An “expert” on US Supreme Court dynamics has an interesting take on new Justice Gorsuch. Of course, the linked story is from CNN so it is probably not reliable. It does point however to how CNN would like to portray Justice Gorsuch – in a bad light. This gives me hope!

A Deeper Look Into the Troubling Family Medical Leave Insurance

The proposed Family Medical leave legislation will create an income tax but there’s plenty more wrong with this bill if the tax isn’t enough. Elliott Axelman joins me to discuss the many troubling facets of this awful piece of legislation (HB 628). Also Available on Google Play

Isabella Katherine Arms – Connecticut Resident Voting in New Hampshire

Ladies and gentlemen who serve on this NH jury, meet Isabella Katherine Arms, dob 4/29/1998, 63 Pine Mountain Road, Ridgefield, CT. 06877. This dean’s list CT./University of NH student is a burgeoning political activist working to forward one of the NH Democrats most dear-to-their-hearts issues – Super-enfranchisement of out-of-state college voters. Isabella writes,

FB Doodlings: There are some people who just don’t “get” the idea of Freedom or Individual Liberty Part 1

With these folks, it comes down to money – if I have to pay money because you do “dangerous” behaviors, I have the right to restrict your freedom of behavior.  I’ve been saying this for years – the more that Government does (because of pickle-pussed Progressives) that costs them money, the more they decide to …

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