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Hour 1                                        Hour 2

Pat was out this week - Doug and Skip talk with our guests and each other! 

Hour One

Ofer Nave moved to NH as a part of the Free State project discusses  what is needed to run and serve as a State Rep (a guide to what it's like to run for and be a state rep.)  The hope is that this will serve as an effective tool to recruit liberty minded people to run for office. Ofer will walk us through the process, which, once you learn the details, you discover really isn't as hard as you might imagine.

Gilford elections - results of the BudgetCommittee (Green, Stewart running as conservatives) win (along with Kevin Roy).  Kevin Hayes will be a good Selectmen, NGOs-which ones were defeated and which passed and the history of how it came to be such. Terry Stewart joins the discussion. Is the outside agency issue dead (or will petition warrants fan the flames)?  Bonus - discussion on NGOs

Evans Juris Firing - Terry, Doug and Skip discuss (kudos to Connie Grant, insubordination (?)  when Evans said on WEZS  that the Board would have to fire him.  Alice Boucher starts it  all on Candidates Night "attacking" John Goodhue.  Assent that the Town Administrator serves at the pleasure of the Selectmen - no less, no more.  Collaboration - not if you judge it by body language of Connie and Gus.  Right To Know - Ms. Boucher may be on the wrong side (they cannot call you, per RTK).  There is no "defying" Town Counsel - he works for them and not the other way around.  Who is being the divisive one now?

        Evans Juris "They will have to fire me"
 

Hour Two

Interview with Jeb Bradley - candidate for NH Congressional District 1.  Vets for Jeb - high quality endorsements.  Anti-war Code Pink in Berkley - time to remove federal monies for Berkley?  Dems want tax hikes. Flat Tax?

The baloney from the mis-named Granite State Fair Tax - what they leave out of their equation that fouls their argument - local control, other state tax "baskets".

Liz Mair - Now working as the Online Communications Director for the RNC - earmark balooza!  Reach out to bloggers and the online communciation.  Why John McCain will match up well against Hillary and Obama (they use and spend earmarks - McCain doesn't). Skip brings up Obama's $1 million earmark to the hospital his wife's works for (and her salary goes up $200,000).  Skip points out that Congress's earmarks of $17,000,000,000 is $224 per 4 person family.

Wrap up - Skip is blog debating The Blogging Councilor about the Belknap County budget.   Flat Stanley travels in NH - blogged at GraniteGrok.  More on the County spending, Manchester budget out of whack.
 

SchlubCam:

                    Break 1 - talking about Free Staters, finding candidates

                    Break 2 - Discussion on Bono of U2 and his thoughts on President Bush

                    Break 3 - Movies in general, creating a DVD from Wednesday's meeting, discussion
                                 on Evan Juris's firing.

                    Break 4 - More on a Political Bet lost.

                    Break 5 - More on Jeb

                    Break 6 - Skip likes Doug's pictures for the MTNP announcements,
                                 snippet of Evans Juris stating that the Gilford Selectboard will have to fire
                                 him to make him leave as Town Administrator

                    After the show - GOP message?  Why won't Republicans act in a manner of
                                traditional Republicans (less intrusive, more limited government) - they
                                win that way.