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Secession or Statehood?

New Hampshire State Rep Jason Gerhard of Northfield sponsored Constitutional Amendment Concurrent Resolution CACR20, which is a proposed amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution. It will trigger the secession of New Hampshire from the United States when the national debt rises to $40 trillion.

RINO Report – Belknap County

For someone who analyzes voting records, it is sad to see how Belknap has changed. For the last decade, the Belknap delegation (the group of State Reps from Belknap) has had the best voting record of all counties.

Citizens For Belknap - there I fixed it for you #1

The 2023 Belknap County Budget – It Wasn’t Just About the Money

The 2023 Belknap County Budget would make for a most interesting case study for students enrolled in a graduate school program and course in public administration. At the same time, examining the process—and especially the decisions made around the processes and procedures adopted by the Delegation’s Budget Committee, cries out to me for corrections and …

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Absence of Shame: Belknap State Rep Harry Bean & Laconia City Councilor Henry Lipman

After many months of apparently keeping a fairly low profile, Laconia City Councilor Henry Lipman has recently fielded a letter to the editor in the Laconia Daily Sun (also known as Pravda by The Lake) commending and endorsing the incompetent and inept management by Belknap Delegation Chair State Rep Harry Bean of the Belknap County …

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Baby Huey Sununu as dr and Mike Bordes as his hairless cat

So Belknap County’s “Republican” Mike Bordes Is Either Upset That His Poor Voting Record Has Been Outed – Or He Doesn’t Care a Whit

Spec’s RINO Report is here and it listed the top 10 RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) using a formula that picks out Republicans (ahem!) State Reps that vote counter to the majority of Republicans on a given bill. It’s not emotional, it’s just about the numbers. Bordes had a reaction to my posting and I …

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RINO what do you expect cartoon

RINO Report, Prelim – 03/25/23

This is a preview of the RINO Report that will come out after the votes of April 6 (Crossover day – when the NH Senate’s bills go to the NH House and the NH House’s go to the NH Senate).