Bill O’Brien

From the Desk of Representative William O’Brien

May 10, 2013

From the Desk of Representative William O’Brien If you don’t think that State Government should grow at 5% a year while the economy is growing at 2% a year, resulting in a two-year 10.2% increase in state spending, $263 million in new taxes, $31 million in revenue overestimates, $7 million in cost downshifting to local [ Read more ]

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Listen to GrokTALK! Tonight from 8 to 10PM on AC Nation Radio

April 30, 2013

Tonight from 8 to 10pm Eastern Standard Time, AC Nation Radio will broadcast the latest edition of GrokTALK!   This is the weekly re-broadcast of our two-hour pre-recorded podcast for the AC Nation audience.  You can listen by going to ACNation.com and launching their podcast player form the left side of the page. This week on [ Read more ]

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All New GrokTALK! -Week Ending 4-28-2013 (Updated and Bumped)

April 29, 2013

Update- Added individual segments and links to download the podcast. This week on GrokTALK! we had David Hurst on the program, the former Chairman of NHYR (as of 4/20), former MRC Vice-Chair, and the current Vice-Chair of NHYR,  and a long time leader in the conservative Republican youth movement. NH House Rep Jane Cormier stopped by [ Read more ]

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April 27th GrokTALK! Skip and Steve open the Program…

April 28, 2013

This week on GrokTALK! before our guests arrive Skip and Steve talk about Bill O’Brien, making State government smaller, a local New Hampshire case where despite stand your ground a Democrat county attorney still pressed charges, second amendment rights, contracts, the government messing up prescription drugs, what happens when you are late for your guest [ Read more ]

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April 27th GrokTALK! Guest Segment – NH House Rep Bill O’Brien

April 28, 2013

This week on GrokTALk! New Hampshire House Republican, and former Speaker of the NH House, Rep Bill O’Brien talks to Skip and Steve about budgets, deficits, dishonest accounting gymnastics, devolving power from Concord and returning it to the towns and the people, and how his exploration of a potential congressional run is going. To download [ Read more ]

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On the Next GrokTALK!

April 27, 2013

It’s Saturday morning and this means that not long from now we’ll be recording this weeks podcast- aired Sunday on GraniteGrok.com and Tuesday 7pm EST on AC Nation Radio. This week on GrokTALK! we have the former Chairman of NHYR (as of 4/20), former MRC Vice-Chair, and the current Vice-Chair of NHYR,  and a long [ Read more ]

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Well, NH Constitution Article 10 does provide for a Revolution, doesn’t it? Was HB617 the flashpoint? Part 1

March 10, 2013

[Art.] 10. [Right of Revolution.] Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress [ Read more ]

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Gas Tax, Gas Tax, Gas Tax! Bill O’Brien Has An Amendment for HB 617

March 4, 2013

Former House Speaker Bill O’Brien has submitted a proposed amendment to HB 617 the New Hampshire Democrats massive gas tax hike.   It would require all taxes raised to go to the Highway Department for roads and bridges.   (From Facebook) This morning I sent the following email to all other state representatives. I would like [ Read more ]

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HB617 – Well, ONE Republican is making a big stink about raising the gas tax.

February 25, 2013

Well, I, Mike, and Steve are all over HB617,  the bill that will raise the gas tax 18 cents over the next four years – and to hammer home the point, we can thank Republicans for greasing the skids to push this through without nary a cross vote.  Well, one NH House Representative has spoken [ Read more ]

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McKluster for Congress 2014 – Fundraising Already?

February 13, 2013

Bill O’Brien isn’t even running and McKluster is using his name to raise money for 2014. xxxxx- It was an amazing feeling last night sitting listening to President Obama deliver his State of the Union. And, for that, I want to thank you- it was you and your hard work that helped get me there. [ Read more ]

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NH Politics with John Burt – John Interviews Bill O’Brien

January 15, 2013

New Hampshire House Representative John Burt interviews NH House Rep and former New Hampshire House Speaker Bill O’Brien about the new session, proposed laws, Rule 63, and more…(Links to all the discussion topics available here.)

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Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt Want’s To Be The Next Republican Speaker of the NH House…

September 1, 2012

Rumor has it that Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt want’s to be the next Republican Speaker of the New Hampshire House……which is a huge problem, because Lee Quandt is not exactly a Republican to begin with. Despite that barrier, and a public opposition to liberty, the scuttlebutt is that RINO Marshall ‘Lee’ Quandt still thinks he’d make [ Read more ]

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Ray Buckley- Another Tall Tale About Budgets, Education, and Bill O’Brien

August 3, 2012

Ray Buckley, Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat Party is quoted as having actually said this. (DiStaso – Granite Status) “The people of New Hampshire are more concerned with Bill O’Brien’s behavior acting as the House speaker, his state budget that has New Hampshire in the red, and his policies that have caused a loss [ Read more ]

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NH TEA Party Republicans Better At Revenue & Spending Estimates Than Democrats…Again

August 2, 2012

I know… New Hampshire Democrats were losing sleep in hopes of some politically-beneficial revenue numbers, and guess what?  They were politically beneficial….To TEA Party Republicans. The Union Leader is reporting that New Hampshire state revenues were slightly above estimates in July, with solid performances that suggest we are budgeting wisely so that the working families [ Read more ]

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“SEUS VIGARISTAS!”

July 23, 2012

Godfrey Bloom, member of the United Kingdom Independent Party (UKIP) and MEP (Member of the European Parliament), lays out a few simple truths at a recent MEP meeting discussing the European debt crisis. He is sooo right when he proclaims at the every end of the videos, “Seus vigaristas!” We need Mr. Bloom to come [ Read more ]

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New Hampshire vs. European Union: We win.

May 25, 2012

Damn. I can’t resist sending this article along. Forbes magazine is just too good. The quote that follows is from “”Let’s Face the Facts: Greece is Cooked, Along With Merkel.” Interestingly, it explains why New Hampshire—with the GOP super-majorities under the extraordinary effective leadership of Speaker Bill O’Brien—is going to become “the little state that can…be [ Read more ]

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Vote – Sould Speaker O’Brien Get a Second Term as NH House Speaker?

April 21, 2012

Amherst Patch has an unscientific poll up asking if you think current NH House Speaker William O’Brien should be reelected as Speaker of the House. Vote here

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So When Will Democrats Start Calling Me A Free Stater?

January 24, 2012

All Democrats have narratives.  New Hampshire Democrats are no different.  The typical left wing narrative is designed to brain wash you by using the media to repeat the latest chest-beating tantrum, using sound bites, puff pieces, editorials, and press releases, to create a long term perception disguised as truth.  Did I mention that New Hampshire [ Read more ]

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Where Diane Lacy, President of NH SEA / SEIU can’t even get simple facts right – and tips hand on the upcoming NH election cycle.

January 22, 2012

On WMUR “Closeup” this morning, replacement host James Pindell interviewed Diane Lacy, President of the NH State Employee Association and NH Rep. Will Infantine (R-Manchester) during his first segment).  Well, during the interview, Ms. Lacy shows that either she has no grasp of real facts or is just what many people believe: that the SEIU [ Read more ]

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Norelli Tries To Feed You The Blue Pill (again)

February 6, 2011

Democrats latest rallying cry is that we can’t cut the state budget if it means downshifting costs on the towns. They didn’t seem to care too much about that when they were doing it. In fact they tried to do it far more often than they succeeded. But back then it was necessary–you know, to keep on spending…for whatever reason…even though we didn’t have the revenue…….yet.

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What’s Good For The Goose..

December 5, 2010

Tom Fahey quotes our confused friend Harrell Kirstein, Spokesperchild of the New Hampshire democrat party in regard to Bill O’Brien’s choices for leadership positions in the NH House. (I have to call Harrell the Spokesperchild from now on. Spokesperson has the word ‘son’ in it and we know how sensitive Harrell’s spleen is.)

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Elephant Innards

November 23, 2010

Any migration of Republicans away from a vote for “Speaker O’Brien” might say more about Gene Chandler than it does Bill. It might mean that Gene was either insincere in his request for unity–and I am on the record both commending him and taking him at his word for that stance–or it demonstrates his inability to control even those who would have chosen him as their House Speaker.

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This Week’s GrokTALK 11-13-2010

November 13, 2010

A mixture of politics, culture, current events, and well, politics, it is an Internet Radio show streaming live audio and video directly from GraniteGrok. Using a solidly Conservative and Rational Libertarian lens, we’ll take on almost any topic and have notables from the news, political figures, authors, and other opinionated folks for your edification and amusement.

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Does The GOP Want That New Direction Or Not

November 8, 2010

Should the New Hampshire Republican House Caucus have the opportunity to vote for their Majority leader? That’s majority leader not Speaker. Traditional wisdom says yes but today, rumor has it, that three of the four candidates for speaker are said to have voted no on the matter.

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