Maggie Hassan

A Green Game of Chess

May 9, 2013

New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan has written a letter to Connecticut governor Dannel Malloy, in objection to a legislative effort in the “Nut”-meg state, to redefine what Connecticut will view as ‘green energy’ for the purpose of meeting their renewable portfolio standard. The bill, which could be voted on this week by the Connecticut House of Representatives, [ Read more ]

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How Much More Does The State Deserve Your Money Than You?

May 7, 2013

Keep in mind that New Hampshire Democrats want to spend your money to achieve  immediate government growth of about 9-10% Boston.com Dennis Delay of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies told the Senate Ways and Means Committee Tuesday that New Hampshire’s recovery from the Great Recession is lackluster. … Delay predicted the state’s [ Read more ]

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Transparent NH?

April 30, 2013

A reader just wrote me to ask what happened to public employee pay transparency in New Hampshire? Transparent NH, the state web site where you can search the pay of every public employee in state government, is supposed to be updated every February with the payroll data from the previous year.  The last year for [ Read more ]

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New Hampshire Democrat Women! How Do You Think Live Birth Abortions Should Be Performed?

April 17, 2013

No point in beating around the bush.  Kermit Gosnell has put live birth abortion front and center and so should we.  It is a thoroughly documented fact that this is something that a number of prominent Democrat women in New Hampshire support.  Democrat leaders in the state and the Democrat party support it.  So we [ Read more ]

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Just The Time To Count On Casino Revenues!

April 9, 2013

Yup, Just as the Democrat-caused depression takes another bite out of existing casino revenues, the tax-hungry Democrats of NH are looking to license and tax a new casino. Yeah, that’ll work out really well for them!

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Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers – Press Release on NH House Budget

April 4, 2013

House Republican Leaders Comment on Passage of Fiscally Irresponsible Budget By CNHT | April 4, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 3rd, 2013 Contact: 603-271-3665 House Republican Leaders Comment on Passage of Fiscally Irresponsible Budget CONCORD – House Republican Leader Gene Chandler (R-Bartlett) and Ranking Republican on the House Finance Committee, Rep. Neal Kurk (R-Weare), offered the [ Read more ]

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Maggie “The Red” Hassan – MaggieGuns?

April 3, 2013

History has taught us that those of history desired power and wanted control over others grabbed products, services, and liberties under the rubric of “for the common good” or for your “safety and security”.   Never did you hear “we are taking these things so that you may be free and enjoy enhanced liberty”.  No, [ Read more ]

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Governor Maggie Hassan Nominates Joseph Foster for N.H. Attorney General

April 1, 2013

I guess the good news is that Governor Hassan did not nominate gambling Lobbyist Lucy Hodder.  Instead, the Union Leader reports today that Joseph Foster is her pick for NH Attorney General. Foster is a former NH House rep 1994-1998, former State Senator from 2002 to 2008  (D- Nashua), in the employ of McLane law in Portsmouth.  (I’ve [ Read more ]

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Rules of Misconduct and Conflicts of Interest

March 29, 2013

On the matter of Governor Hassan considering Gambling Lobbyist Lucy Hodder as her next Attorney General, the indispensable Ed Mosca provides more fuel for that fire. How would it not be a violation of at least the spirit of Professional Rule of Misconduct 1.11 for Hodder to be involved with Millennium Gambling as AG; as [ Read more ]

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Maybe Maggie “Squats With Lobbyists” Hassan Just Wants A Casino Bailout?

March 25, 2013

As our Democrat Governor tries to improve her odds at winning a bet on a state gambling monopoly in northern New England, AP is reporting hard times for the Indian Casino monopoly in the southern part of New England.  The Indian tribes, who got the law changed to allow them to put up casinos as [ Read more ]

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Governor Hassan’s Choice for AG is a Gambling Lobbyist And…

March 22, 2013

The NHGOP issued a press release in which it points out that…  Governor Hassan is considering nominating former casino lobbyist Lucy Hodder as Attorney General.  Hodder currently serves as legal counsel in Hassan’s office and previously served as the personal lobbyist for Millenium Gaming president William Wortman: Governor Hassan replacing her abruptly departing budget-questioning AG with [ Read more ]

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So How is The NH Democrats ‘New Civility’ Working Out?

March 20, 2013

So how is the New Hampshire  Democrats ‘New Civility’ Working Out?  Just ask Democrat Peter Sullivan… So the Democrat governor’s lackeys are writing down the names of reps who oppose her agenda.  Was that supposed to be part of that whole “New Civility” thing you lefties said you’d pile up on your donkeys and bring [ Read more ]

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Guest post by Andrew Hemingway

March 19, 2013

Following Departure of Partisan Attorney General Delaney, Hemingway Calls on Governor Hassan to Appoint Independent-Minded Successor Contact:  Andrew Hemingway (603)203-4063 firstinthenation@gmail.com Today, Attorney General Michael Delaney announced he will not be seeking re-nomination as the head of New Hampshire’s Justice Department. This comes after a term when he used the job to push a liberal [ Read more ]

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AFP-NH Says Hassan’s Budget is “Counterproductive to Job Creation and Economic Growth.”

March 12, 2013

AFP-NH’s Greg Moore observed recently that NH Governor Maggie Hassan’s Budget is bad for growth and and burdens small businesses. Hassan spokesman Marc Goldberg responded, “The governor’s balanced budget proposal begins restoring critical investments in the priorities needed to create good jobs and build a more innovative economic future, such as higher education, economic development, [ Read more ]

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Republican Sponsor of NH’s Massive Gas Tax Increase No Longer Supports the Bill

March 4, 2013

One of HB617′s original sponsors, a bill that would raise New Hampshire’s gas tax more than 80% once fully implemented, has had a come to Jesus moment with regard to Democrats and taxes. I can only hope our humble influence here at GraniteGrok, the fact that he is one of my state reps, and the emails pointing out the unpleasant historical [ Read more ]

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Hassan already trying to pull an “Obama Blame Game move?”

March 3, 2013

Well, it seems that Obama is bound and determined to blame his idea and his signing of the BCA law (that has brought the Sequestration to life) on the US House.  Oh, that rebellious Legislative branch, how could they EVAH go against The One as he grows Government ever larger and larger to Progressively “better [ Read more ]

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Sequester Madness – And Guv Maggie is complaining about the Feds??

February 28, 2013

Like I showed here, Obama and Pack of Progressive Pukes have been all agog about the parade of horribles in what the impending DEVASTATING cuts are going do to us all…oh wait, it’s only $44 Billion this year and in the chart in the post shows how small this 2.4% cut really is.  Finally, the [ Read more ]

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Hassan’s Budget Gamble Takes Heat From Her Left

February 19, 2013

No one should be surprised to see Maggie Hassan’s budget has millions of dollars in revenue from a source that does not even exist. In this instance it is gambling, but a few years ago Senator Hassan was part and parcel to repeated budget balancing fiascoes that relied on non existent revenue. She voted for budgets “balanced” with revenues [ Read more ]

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This Isn’t Sexist?

January 5, 2013

Hypocrisy from the left is always on my radar and let me tell you–my radar is always beeping.  Take this for example.  Just imagine if former Senator John Sununu (or any man anywhere) had said this… Keep the New Hampshire Delegation in men’s hands. I can smell the tar boiling from here.  So who has [ Read more ]

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CFL’s May Cause Cancer?

January 4, 2013

A study released last Summer by Stony Brook University – “The Effects of UV Emission from CFL Exposure on Human Dermal Fibroblasts and Keratinocytes in Vitro,”  (published in the June issue of the journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology)– suggests that compact fluorescent light bulbs release dangerous amounts of UV rays that create a serious health [ Read more ]

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Why Did We Need RGGI?

January 4, 2013

With the recent approval of significant electric rate increases that will allow PSNH to recover some $67 million dollars a year in costs related to legislated state energy mandates (NH Renewable Standard and the RGGI tax), having this fall into my in-box could not have been more fortuitous. From the journal Earth System Dynamics billed [ Read more ]

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PUC Approves PSNH Rate Increase – Observe the Democrat’s Circular Green Firing Squad!

December 29, 2012

Back in September PSNH announced that it would need to rasie rates to deal with about 67 million dollars a year in costs associated with RGGI (and other state energy mandates)- a tax (RGGI) that Maggie Hassan was proud of, if you’ve forgotten.   (Grokster Tom also has a nice treatment of those same stories here.) [ Read more ]

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Gifts That Keep On Taking…

December 15, 2012

I don’t typically blog a lot on weekends.  It’s family time, and the house and yard and other matters take priority, but this popped into my head early this morning and has been begging to be blogged. Gifts inspired by Democrats. Yeah, I know, the possibilities are endless.  Like the Hillary Clinton anti-sniper vest, or [ Read more ]

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David Lang Wins Free Speech Award…Say What?

December 10, 2012

David Lang is the President of the Professional Fire Fighters of New Hampshire (PFFNH).  The PFFNH has a mission, beyond the obvious one of representing fire fighters, and that is to elect Democrats and progressive (r)epublicans, the latter in places that are unlikely to vote for a ‘D.’ This is a union that has invested [ Read more ]

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Blood and Water – The Return of Democrat Rule in New Hampshire

November 29, 2012

Skip broke the news (on the Grok) about New Hampshire State Government’s department heads making budget requests that would increase state spending by 26% in 2013.  If you had any delusions about who or what state agencies represent, you just got your answer. It ain’t you.  It’s them. In the current economy, with no regard [ Read more ]

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