Well, let’s see if I remember HOW to blog – it’s been a bit as I’ve been out straight since this past Sunday with events or tasks to attend to each and every night. Lots of video to put up and other stuff to catch up on, and this is one of the first ones. Wednesday was the regular monthly meeting of the Belknap County Republicans and the new NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn was the featured speaker. While we did endorse her rival for the position, we’ve been waiting to see how she starts her term. So far, not bad – especially with this. However, that set of videos (a lively set of questions happened after her talk) will have to wait – there was another speaker that spoke before her. To set the table, from the NH GOP Platform: Oppose laws and programs contrary to our founding principles such as Sharia Law, the International Baccalaureate Program, UN Agenda 21 or other “sustainable development” programs
Since the inception of the TEA Party movement, there has been an uneasy tension between the TEA Party and the GOP as the former has seen the latter as complicit in the mess that the Country finds itself even as it sees the GOP Platform (it’s “supposed” beliefs, but more on that later) close to the TEA Party philosophy than the Dems. On the flip side, the Establishment Republicans see the TEA Partiers as a threat to their stranglehold on political power on the Right (as we watch this play out in DC right now). But there are times that things mesh – as the quote from the NH GOP Platform indicates. Tim Carter from Lakes Region TEA Party was allowed to speak to the full room quickly on the Federal Government over reach to Federalize local NH zoning codes in the form of HUD / EPA / DOT’s Sustainable Communities Initiative – otherwise known locally as Granite State Future (why can’t Progressives ever use the plain truth for their programs? Is it because they KNOW people would reject them out of hand if, you know, they actually were truthful and honest about what they were doing?):
More later on today on this topic. Intro from the meeting after the jump.
Intro Ceremonies:
