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Meet the New Press Podcast

featuring guests Jeb Bradley

and Greg Knytych

            

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Hour 1                                        Hour 2

Hour One:

NH 1st Congressional District candidate Republican Jeb Bradley checked in for a conversation with Doug & Skip (and joined by Greg Knytych who is seeking to unseat the incumbent senator in NH Senate Disctrict 4).  Callers, emailers, oh my!  Lots of topics - and lots of answers!

Part 1 - Carol Shea-Porter's reliance on outside NH money, she's for illegal immigration, ending the war when Victory is in sight, and will raise the average NH family's taxes by $3,200.  Jeb is for NH values - personal responsibility, limited government, lower taxes; all resulting in personal freedom.  Greg also goes after NH Sgambati's policies.

Part 2 - Pat's a new daddy!  John Stephen claim of saving NH taxpayers $143 million dollars was only a transfer down to NH property taxes.  Robbing Peter to pay Paul is not what a true fiscal conservative does.  Discussion on the Counties vs HHS lawsuit over the cost shifting - audit problems for HHS.  HB2 screwed up the funding, with Sgambati (as main author of HB2) killing the counties via demographics (state paying for kids whose population is going down and forcing the counties to pay for seniors whose population is going up).  Greg's observation: Is the whole cost shifting scheme the same mentality as borrowing to get ourselves out of debt?

NOTE: the HHS audit about which Jeb spoke can be found here at the NH official website: 

Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services - Financial and Compliance Audit Report For The Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2007

Part 3 - Medicaid payments and NH HHS payment holdbacks and not paying the bills (costing the counties $20 million / year).  More on demographics and not all towns paying for their utilization of the county nursing home beds.

Part 4 - Tony Snow's passing - more on policy differences.

 

Hour Two:

Karen Thurston (Blue Star Moms) comes in to talk about the ongoing POW/MIA nomenclature controversy.  She also talks about two young soldiers that gave their lives for our freedom (Army Sgt. Alex Jimenez and Army Private Byron Fouty).  We also do a run down of others that have yet to be found.  We will NEVER forget!!

Remember that ad that drove the Shaheen campaign and the NH Democrat leadership crazy?  We get to the bottom of the Dems angst by having Steve DeMaura of Americans for Job Security (AJS, who created the commercial) on the program.  This organization is all about that free markets and individual freedom create success - higher taxes and more onerous pro-union will actually result is less individual freedom - You Go, AJS (and Steve)!

Lastly, we talk about the government, once again, trying to insert itself in between parents and their children - the  Teen "Family" Planning poster.

 

Part 1 - Karen Thurston of the NH Blue Star Moms talks about POW/MIA and those soldiers finally coming home to their loved ones.

Part 1, Part 2 - Steve DeMaura of AJS - issue advocacy, unions playing politics, Right To Work issues, Group mentality vs the Individual.  The election issues - raising taxes (Democrats) or lowering them (Republicans), the Death Tax, Sales tax.  Denouncements of the AJS ad but not its issues by the Democrat leadership, FEC regulations, Democrats trying to regulate Senate and House speech rights on the issues, Sununu under attack by Shaheen of being anti-science (An MIT trained engineer being anti-science?  Yeah, we believe that claim).  Nanny state and other issues.

Part 1 - The RESPECT clinic controversy locally