NH politics

GrokTALK! May 25th 2013

May 25, 2013

This week on Grok Talk!… Kate Baker,  the Executive Director at The Network for Educational Opportunity, to talk about New Hampshire’s Education scholarship Program, parent and student rights, and value of education choice. Laura Condon, New Hampshire State Director of Advocacy for the National Vaccine Information Center stops by to talk about vaccines, vaccination, New [ Read more ]

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April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment Two: Seacoast Freedom Festival, Honor Your Oath, NHGOP and more…

April 21, 2013

With our apologies to Max Abramson who, unknown to us, was at the door but could not get in.  We have no idea how that happened but we’ll get him back in soon.  Sans Max, Skip and Steve promote the Seacoast Freedom Festival, talk about hot the media got last weeks honor your oath rally [ Read more ]

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April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment One: CNHT, Bombs, Drones, Liberty, Immigration…

April 21, 2013

Skip and Steve talk about…bombers, the honoring your oath ralley–and how the media keeps getting it wrong, getting kicked out of NH-GOP meetings, GrokDrones, Immigration, setting people up to fail, and a lot more… Note: Individual guest segements will be posted throughout the day today.  You can hear the entire podcast here. Please support this [ Read more ]

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All New GrokTALK! April 20th, 2013

April 21, 2013

This week on GrokTALK! – Dr. Julianne Cooper visits to talk about a Liberal education, Common Core, Teenage brains, surviving 25 years in the White Tower, Learning 9 to 5, and how those ‘new’ progressive ideas you keep hearing about are not as new as you think. – We talk with Josh Youssef about HB [ Read more ]

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Ovide Lamontagne – strong words from the nicest guy in politics for the Jeanne Shaheen Machine (Nasty??)

April 3, 2013

Ovide Lamontagne was on WMUR’s Close Up this past Sunday (and yes, I DVR it and yes, I forgot that I had transcribed this, so putting it up now.  Josh McElveen, trying to wheedle out of Ovide whether or not he’s going to run for a specific office this time around.  Here, he tries to [ Read more ]

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So How’s that “Just Sign An Affidavit” Thing Working Out?

January 24, 2013

According to the Pew Research Center  5,424 voters lacking proper ID signed affidavits swearing they were New Hampshire residents eligible to vote under state law last November. As of January 11, 2,266 of the postcards had been returned, and 211 letters were returned as undeliverable. The secretary of state’s office will look into each undeliverable [ Read more ]

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How About a Cocktail Tax?

January 19, 2013

A social services advocacy group called New Futures recently promoted a study that suggested a cost recovery tax per drink on all cocktails in New Hampshire.  They (or the study they promoted) claim that excessive drinking costs the state as much as 1.15 billion per year.  The tax could/would, help offset those costs. New Hampshire [ 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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Amherst New Hampshire’s Problems…Are there? Problems?

January 11, 2013

A few days ago I asked…”what are the Amherst New Hampshire Selectman Hiding.” The Selectman were playing games with 91-a, the Granite State’s right to know law, to hide the abrupt absence of the town administrator. My good friend Ed Naile (over at NH Insider) spent some quality time with the Amherst meeting minutes and [ Read more ]

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Why We Can’t Have A Discussion With New Hampshire Democrats

December 28, 2012

Over at my other haunt, NH Insider, my Fridge mag cross-post elicited the following response from Democrat Jim Splaine on the matter of gun ownership, which exemplifies the reason why any discussion with Democrats on any subject is unlikely. Why can’t we have a real discussion about this issue? Just like the myths of an [ Read more ]

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Ask A New Hampshire Democrat: About The Hostage Situation

October 3, 2012

There are those among us who are concerned that New Hampshire sends more federal tax dollars out of the state than it gets back.  The same people, typically Democrats and Moderate Republicans, argue for more Federal meddling in state affairs.  The same people who also complain about “out of state influence” in local elections. If [ Read more ]

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Reality Check: NH Democrat’s Nancy Pelosi Values are not New Hampshire Values

October 2, 2012

Democrats have tried to lay claim to New Hampshire values but that’s not going to happen.  New Hampshire is about liberty, Live free or Die, local control, small government, and no broad based taxes, just like the TEA party.  Tea Party values are about defending the Constitution and rule of law, small and accountable government, [ Read more ]

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Terrie Norelli and Sylvia Larsen: Jealous!?

September 28, 2012

Late in the 2007 session, when Democrats controlled the the entire New Hampshire State Government for the first time in 95 years,  then House Speaker Terri “Billion Dollar Deficit’ Norelli and Senate President Sylvia Larsen, figured the beginning of a recession was a great time to add a $72,000.00 bathroom remodel on to the backs [ Read more ]

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Ask A New Hampshire Democrat About Taxing The Rich

September 23, 2012

The distance between left wing rhetoric and reality is wide, particularly on the issue of taxing the rich.  This classic bit of class war rhetoric is used to deflect any deeper inspection of the problem, and the flaws in the Democrat’s solution.  And the flaws are huge.  Immense.  Enormous.  Disqualifying in fact.  So ask a [ Read more ]

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Remembering Democrat Rule – “Look To The Sky…”

September 22, 2012

“Look to the sky when you do revenue estimates because we need the money” -Marjorie Smith (D- Durham) Chair House Finance Committee 2007 One month after the supposed start of the ‘Great Recession™’ and just a few months after New Hampshire Democrats historic spending spree, a partisan vote of the General Court’s Joint Facilities committee [ Read more ]

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Where “Grassroots” Can Earn You $100.00/Hour

September 20, 2012

There’s an ad on Craigslist for professional political workers. (the entire ad is on the jump). Grassroots solutions, which claims to be a national field organization that is all about helping coordinate grassroots political efforts, is hiring people to help Planned Parenthood of Northern New England do door to door canvassing in the Concord and [ Read more ]

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If The Dover New Hampshire Court Suspends The ID law…

September 20, 2012

I’m not sure what the outcome will be of the suit to suspend the new Voter ID and domicile requirements in New Hampshire, but if the four out of state college students somehow succeed, I would like to suggest that we move to refund them the difference between in-state and out-of state tuition. If they [ Read more ]

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New Hampshire: Romney 48% Obama 45%

September 19, 2012

Rasmussen Reports shows Romney leading in its most recent poll in New Hampshire. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in New Hampshire shows Romney with 48% support to President Obama’s 45%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and three percent (3%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.) My personal [ Read more ]

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Ask A New Hampshire Democrat…Can I just Show up and Vote as a Delegate at Your State Convention?

September 19, 2012

Today, in Dover, a judge will hear complaints from the League of Women voters and the ACLU about New Hampshire’s law regarding proof of domicile and voter ID.  Their premise is that out of state students should not have to act like they live here to vote here. That requiring them to at least pretend [ Read more ]

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Classroom Political Bias in Merrimack New Hampshire

September 18, 2012

It’s not the first time that reports have reached my ears of obvious political bias in the classrooms of the Merrimack School System.  Tales of Middle School English teachers using their classrooms to promote the “science” of global warming we’re not uncommon, and while annoying not prevalent enough to demand action. The most recent circumstance [ Read more ]

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NH Democrat Face Plant – The 800 Million Dollar Deficit

September 17, 2012

Yes, this is going to keep coming up.  All the way to November. (excerpt on the jump)

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Ask A NH Democrat – About Free Speech

September 17, 2012

A private citizen made a lousy YouTube video about six months ago.  A few days ago islamo-fascists used it as a vehicle to inflame Muslim uprisings.  Under the cover of same, Americans were killed, or in some cases executed.  The Obama Administration’s response to the killings was to send the police out in the dark [ Read more ]

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Remembering Democrat Rule – No Taxes Means More Taxes

September 15, 2012

In 2007 New Hampshire Democrats assumed complete control of state government.  And much like the Democrat rhetoric in the current 2012 campaign, back in 2007,  their first budget,  New Hampshire’s first budget over 10 billion dollars, was billed by the Democrats as a budget that “addresses our state’s priorities without new taxes.” Addresses our ‘State’s’ [ Read more ]

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RLCNH Releases Endorsements & Recommendations for 2012

July 24, 2012

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 24, 2012 Media Contact: Carolyn McKinney, chairman, RLCNH, 603-769-4264, chair@rlcnh.org RLCNH RELEASES SESSION SCORECARD, USES BOLD VOTING RECORD STANDARD TO ENDORSE INCUMBENTS In Order to Ensure Best Republicans Win Primaries, RLCNH Introduces New ‘Recommended’ Candidate Level CONCORD, N.H.—With the premiere of its Legislative Scorecard that rates representatives and senators on [ Read more ]

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The NHRVC Is On The Move

March 23, 2012

The New Hampshire Republican Volunteer Coalition (NHRVC) was founded in the wake of the November 2008 elections to recruit, train, and support GOP activists and campaign volunteers in New Hampshire.   Our mission was to build  a grassroots coalition of highly motivated activists working to elect principled Republicans who stand for low taxes, fiscal responsibility, free [ Read more ]

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