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GrokTV Special Interview: Cliff Hurst running for NH GOP Vice-Chair (Question 3)

February 20, 2012

Next question (#3) up for Cliff Hurst as he pursues the Vice-Chair position within the NH GOP from your truly was this: What do you bring to the table as Vice-Chair? Question 1 and Question 2.

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GrokTV Event: Ovide Lamontagne House Event Q&A-Q2: how fix the low Medicare / Medicaid payments that increase private sector costs?

February 20, 2012

Next question that was asked at the Jeanne Forrester home event for Ovide Lamontagne (and to Ovide) continued on the healthcare topic: Q2: Where / how to fix the low Medicare / Medicaid payments that will increase private sector costs?

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For my Gilford readers – a request for your vote!

February 19, 2012

One of the things that I am proud about the folks that opine here at GraniteGrok is not just that they spend their free time writing here, not just that when they write but that they write well, but that they all DO and not just write.  Each of the authors here get off their [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview: Diane Bitter running for NH GOP Assistant Secretary (Question 2)

February 19, 2012

In continuing the ‘Grok tradition of citizen journalism in covering events, issues, and people that the MSM won’t (or can’t, but mostly won’t), Diane Bitter good naturedly answered Question #2 from your’s truly (which was asked with a puzzled look on my face): How long have you been on the NH GOP ballot? Seems like [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview: Cliff Hurst running for NH GOP Vice-Chair (Question 2)

February 19, 2012

Yesterday, Cliff Hurst answered the first question posed by GraniteGrok: Why are you doing this?  Well, we had a number of other questions for Cliff and here is Question 2:  Your background includes being a chaplain – in helping people, right? Next question will be up tomorrow.

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GrokTV Event: Ovide Lamontagne House Event Q&A-Q1: Healthcare costs in NH school systems

February 19, 2012

Following on the talk that Ovide Lamontagne gave at NH State Senator Jeanne Forrester’s he opened the floor up to a number of questions from the crowd of about 60 folks that showed up this past Thursday (rainy) night.  This is the first question: What is your solution to the crushing Healthcare expenses in the [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview: Diane Bitter running for NH GOP Assistant Secretary (Question 1)

February 18, 2012

Last week I also had the chance to interview Diane Bitter as she is now seeking to be the next Assistant Secretary of the NH GOP (her opponent  is Jeff Newman).  Diane is also the Rye Town Republican Committee Chair as well as an Area Vice-Chair. This video is of Question 1: Why are you [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview: Cliff Hurst running for NH GOP Vice-Chair (Question 1)

February 18, 2012

Elections, elections, and more elections.  The 2012 Presidential Primary has been taking first slot, but local elections are now starting to wind up as sign ups are over.  Also, the NH GOP will be having a number of elections for offices during its annual meeting as there as been some turnover.  While we at GraniteGrok [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Event: Ovide Lamontagne House Event (NH State Senator Jeanne Forrester)

February 18, 2012

This past Thursday, NH State Senator Jeanne Forrester held a home event for Ovide Lamontagne, a candidate for the NH GOP nomination for NH Gov.  This was an “intro” type of meeting but he also went into some of his philosophy of government.  Following his talk, he took 8 questions (to be posted later).  This [ Read more ]

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Grover Norquist Shills for Obama Crony’s Wireless Boondoggle

February 16, 2012

I got an email – below – from Grover Norquist at ATR requesting the recipients take action and sign a petition to free up spectrum for wireless expansion. All well and good, but the thinly veiled subplot was to demand that Congress force the FCC to permit Obama cronies Lightsquared to use spectrum adjacent to the GPS [ Read more ]

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Tyranny of the Pen – but in spinning, Obama’s Jack Lew leaves a glaring and obvious hole

February 13, 2012

Jack Lew used to be Obama’s Budget Director – well, given that the Democrat controlled Senate has now gone 1,100 days since passing a budget (as the law requires), methinks he has had little to do.  Now given that Daley didn’t make nice (or couldn’t) with Jarrett or Michelle, he was elevated to The One’s [ Read more ]

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Ted Nugent visits Piers Morgan – Piers makes a really bad mistake

February 13, 2012

Morgan should have looked to see that his magazine was loaded.  Ted had such a grin on his face and Piers’s definitely showed that he was forced to suck on a lime as Ted just kept progressing forward. I just love these kinds of interviews…and I could listen to Ted all day long doing them. [ Read more ]

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AttackWatch – reborn?

February 13, 2012

So sorry, Steve – your post about the demise of Obama’s campaign AttackWatch may have been premature.  Or, did it just go all “ZombieWatch”?  Careful  all you anti-Big Government, gun-totin’, Bible thumpin’, Constitution lovin’ conservatives and libertarians – Obama’s crack webmavens have brought it back from the dead (gee, just like Dark Shadows?)!  Prepare for [ Read more ]

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CPAC: Chair, National Organization for Marriage, John Eastman

February 13, 2012

He reads some of the explicit testimony from Prop 8 proponents in how achieving gay marriage will radically change the institution of marriage to simply being a sexual choice between adults. Kids?  Not so much…. (H/T:  The Corner)

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And if you think that I am misquoting Senator Jeanne Shaheen and saying she cherishes abortion over Liberty, read her own words

February 13, 2012

“…a power grab as Government is reaching into yet another part of our private lives to force us to fulfill the selfishness of Progressive politicians such as yourself, putting your ideology ahead of our freedoms”. From her own official US Senator website and the transcript of her Senate floor address from Feb 7.  Read through [ Read more ]

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Speaking of being timid – where the heck was the NH GOP last week (MIA again?)

February 13, 2012

Oh, of course!  It was a social issue!  Given that the Country Clubbers have thrown the grassroots under the bus (hmmm, guess who else throws the “politically incorrect” under the bus to protect himself?), I was not surprised to hear that no one saw any formal representation from the NH GOP (or the Exec Board, [ Read more ]

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CPAC Straw Poll: We Want Mittens with Principles!!

February 13, 2012

Yeah, that makes no sense, but that’s the conundrum posed by the CPAC Straw Poll results this weekend. The poll was conducted in two parts, CPAC attendees and National. A unique ID was provided to each registrant, and 3408 of the approximately 10,000 attendees voted. Link to the charts is below, but here is the [ Read more ]

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NRA – a very timid step, but are they finally getting the big picture??

February 13, 2012

As an former NRA member, I still get their NRA-ILA alerts and I am always figuring that this is the indication of what they are thinking concerning the “big” picture.  After all, a couple of years now when the Dems were pushing the DISCLOSE act that would have restricted Free Speech, the NRA was silent.  [ Read more ]

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CPAC: The Malkin Digest

February 12, 2012

Michelle Malkin has two clever posts summarizing the key speeches in 20 words or less, indeed, she got most of the speeches in 5 words each! CPAC speeches in 20 words (Feb 10) Newt Gingrich: I am not the Establishment. Mitt Romney: I am not a liberal. Rick Santorum: I am not Mitt/Newt. Ron Paul: [ Read more ]

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CPAC: Daniel Hannan (British MP) – on the unbridled optimism of American Conservatism for Liberty and Freedom

February 12, 2012

For a Brit, he would make a wonderful American Conservative.  Given that the UK is well down the socialist road that Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Jeanne Shaheen (and the rest of the Progressive movement) wishes the US to follow, he sounds the alarm that this is a road that should not be well trod.  [ Read more ]

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