NH House

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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Is the NH Economy So Good That We Can Afford To Grow State Government by 16%?

April 2, 2013

I know what you were thinking while you were paying almost four dollars a gallon for gas, or looking at your utility or cable bill, or thinking about how much more it costs to do the grocery shopping these days.  You were thinking, “Hey, times are so good, lets grow the size of the state government by [ Read more ]

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Speaking of HB135, here are some more State Reps that could use a phone call…

March 18, 2013

The vote in the NH House on the repeal of last session’s Stand Your Ground law, HB135, is up for a vote later on this week (GraniteGrok is against this law that takes away your Right to defend yourself where ever you happen to be).  Based on votes from HB382 (“To reduce revolver license fees [ Read more ]

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Manchester Ward 2 Special Election

March 11, 2013

Help send a Republican to the NH State house. Hillsborough 9 (Manchester Ward 2) Special Election is Tues 3/19….and Win Hutchinson needs YOUR help to WIN! Door to Door this Saturday…starting at 10am and again at 1pm. Free Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner for volunteers to follow. http://www.facebook.com/events/425858194168111/ Election Day Activities on Tuesday: Poll Standing [ Read more ]

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Cynthia Chase Plays Solitaire During Floor Debate at NH State House.

March 6, 2013

NH For Liberty has this great picture of Rhode Island transplant and ideological xenophobe Cynthia Chase (Democrat) playing a game of Solitaire on her nice, big, shiny tablet, during a House floor debate. Great job whomever– (I did not see a photo credit or I’d provide one.) I’ll be sure to send this up the ladder like [ Read more ]

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Dem NH Majority Votes To Kill School Scholarship Program

February 21, 2013

Children and poor families hit hardest So which Republicans’ voted against private scholarships for poor kids in New Hampshire? Ann Marie Banfield provided a list, with contact info, and reminds us (On Facebook), a vote against will actually cost taxpayers more.  (I talked about it here yesterday.) The HB370 (repeal) passed 188 to 155 and [ Read more ]

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Free For Me But Not For Thee

February 19, 2013

In reporting on New Hampshire House Bill HB 514 –An Act relating to giving legislators a free ride–WMUR reports that it a) came out of committee with instructions to kill it (this is good) but b) that supporters of the bill claim that Members skiing for free at Canon Mountain–the Bill’s real purpose–doesn’t add costs [ 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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New Hampshire House Democrat Respect & Civility Alert!

January 3, 2013

New Hampshire Democrats ran on respect and civility.  And we knew it for the fraud it was but people still fell for it. Part and parcel to the fraud was Speaker Norelli claiming to shake up the seating arrangements in the House to help build respect and civility,  bi-partisanship, working together…I figured it was so [ Read more ]

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Trust and Safety in New Hampshire

December 26, 2012

Here are two pull quotes from the New Hampshire Union Leader that I wanted to share.  One is about trust, the other about safety.  I think you’ll find them…interesting. In an article on 2013 LSR H-0451 regarding a proposed change to the right to know law, New Hampshire House Democrat Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Penacook, [ Read more ]

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All we heard was “gay marriage was settled law – leave it alone!!!”

December 20, 2012

Settled Law.  Once again, we see that “settled law” is only for Statist legislature results and not Republican laws. Yep, that was the mantra of the Democrats who rightly feared that the Republican majority would reverse the law.  We read “Move on!”, “you campaigned on economic not social issues”, “why do you want to hurt [ Read more ]

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It’s only one small, teeny-weeny bite….right? Who could it hurt?

December 5, 2012

  It seems that US House Speaker John Boehner is being sorely tempted?  His words about semi-caving into Obama’s demands on new taxes, new spending, and new debt ceiling limits show us that he’s already got his eye on the prize: How well will the new NH Republican legislators resist the same temptation, especially under [ Read more ]

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So What If It’s Technically Impossible to Administer…

December 3, 2012

New Hampshire Democrats are ready to get serious about legislating matters that are important to New Hampshire’s future…so hey, how about we try to pass a perfume ban? (For state employees). The important point to remember here isn’t that  a perfume ban was brought up in the last legislature and failed, and it is not [ Read more ]

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Un-Breaking News: Laughton Un-Resigns….Decides to Serve in NH House

November 28, 2012

Stacie Laughton has now changed her mind again, and decided that she will accept the House seat won on November 6th, according to an updated article at unionleader.com Earlier this morning we reported that Laughton was planning to step down.  Now she is stepping back up.  Although it is not final.  Laughton is seeking guidance [ Read more ]

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Facebook Doodlings – So, Greg Carson, Secretary of the NH GOP is demanding “unity” – Part I?

November 19, 2012

And yes, once again, I decide to weigh in.  His opening remark – well, I can’t quote it from FB because he decided to take himself out of the thread and erased all traces of himself, but it started with someone asking the simple question of “Who for Republican Minority Leader in the NH House?”. [ Read more ]

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New Hampshire Democrats Stick With What Doesn’t Work

November 17, 2012

The New Hampshire Democrat House Majority has chosen their previous Democrat House Sepaker Terie ‘Billion Dollar Deficit‘ Norelli as their new Speaker for the 2013-2014 session.  This is good for lots of reasons. Deficits, spending, taxes, accounting gimmicks, bathroom remodels, bathroom bills, and a dedication to back-benching and marginalizing anyone who does not pull the [ Read more ]

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Email Doodlings – “Who for NH House Minority Leader”

November 8, 2012

“I have a question for RLCNH legislators. Gene Chandler, or Pam Tucker? What are your thoughts? They seem to be the only two running…” That was the question posed in an email list I’m in.  It was kinda interesting, as I had a phone conversation earlier this afternoon on this very subject and I spoke [ Read more ]

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Brenda and John Grady – Toeing the Liberal Lie in Merrimack

November 4, 2012

I wasn’t going to expend any effort on these two, Democrats,  more moderate on their face than most I am told by some, but Democrats none the less.  But today (Sunday), they dropped off a page of printed nonsense at my home which requires some attention. There are four bullet points on their missive to [ Read more ]

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To New Hampshire Democrat Aaron Gill – About That ‘Free From Out Of State Influence’ Thing…

October 12, 2012

This makes an excellent followup to what Skip just wrote about the DLCC endorsing a local New Hampshire Democrat. Speaking about New Hampshire legislators that same Democrat candidate, Aaron Gill (Hillsborough 39) writes We expect their personal conduct to reflect the character of New Hampshire citizens, that the work of the people will be conducted [ Read more ]

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Can’t put your $$ where yer mouth is, eh Kate Miller (DEMOCRAT candidate for NH House, Belknap 2)??

October 8, 2012

Ever since this uber-Progressive from Meredith, NH got the boot from the NH House two years ago, I have had to put up with her screeds in the local papers about how NH Republicans have abandoned NH Values, how everything that has been done the last two years, how they hate the poor, hate seniors, [ Read more ]

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GraniteGrok Endorsement – Other NH House races

September 10, 2012

Time is short, and I do wish that I had started this process earlier and that “life” hadn’t interfered so often lately.  However, we’ve been told “hey thanks for letting us know who is worth our votes” so it is well worth the time to do this.  It is also important that those we endorse  [ Read more ]

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GraniteGrok Endorsement – NH House District 7: Susan Olsen

September 6, 2012

We now switch our attention to the NH House and our first endorsement is for Susan Olsen.  We met via Smart Girl Politics / NH – she started to link up and comment on posts from GraniteGrok.  Since then, we have come to know this smart, determined lady and utterly dedicated to the premise that [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview: Sue DeLemus

August 23, 2012

I have known Sue for a few years now as a TEA Party / Rochester 9-12 Project member – and an utterly devoted person to her Bible, the US and NH Constitutions, and her guns (and her hubby, Jerry).  I guess that the Obama Administration and the NH Democrat Party would call her a bitter, [ Read more ]

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GrokTV: Conservative Republican Candidate Home Event: Kevin Leando

August 17, 2012

“Last but not least, MY favorite House candidate, Kevin Leandro from Gilford” – Barbara Aichinger.  Mine too! I served with him this last year on the Gilford Budget Committe – he was ALWAYS thinking of the taxpayers!  No, not in “where’s their wallets” but in protecting taxpayer’s private property (their money) from those that had [ Read more ]

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GrokTV: Conservative Republican Candidate Home Event – Herb Vadney

August 16, 2012

Last of the three Candidates from Meredith speaking at Barbara Aichinger’s home (and the only non-incumbent of the three) was Herb Vadney.  Although he has never been in the NH House, he has been a long time Selectman in Meredith and like the others, believes that while this past session has been a good start [ Read more ]

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