NH Senate

Senate Hearing on HB399 at 9am Today

April 16, 2013

The news cycle is full as we watch and wait for more details on the Back Bay Bombing that has so far killed at least 3 and wounded 140.  Our prayers go out to everyone affected, but up in Concord, New Hampshire today their will be additional business to attend to.  The State Senate will [ Read more ]

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Money for nuthin….

March 29, 2013

So let me get this straight, some 250 folks were trusting (nay, let’s be honest, greedy and stupid) enough to loan money to a Ponzi scheme in the hopes of making astonishing returns on those loans and when the scumbag operating it finally ran out of suckers and money and the game collapsed, these 250 [ Read more ]

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Hey! Dufus! Why the Hell Aren’t You Covering “This!?”

February 12, 2013

Shawn Millerick, the head of the political fiction section at NH Journal, wanted to know why we at GraniteGrok were not covering the real world story about Ann McKluster Kuster not paying her property taxes.  The appropriate response was to provide a link to the story I actually wrote on February 5th about how Ann [ Read more ]

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Petition of Redress? Nope. The Legislature Did Away With That Committee

January 6, 2013

“An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.” —Michael Korda  Last Wednesday, the new leadership in Concord saw fit to forgo the Committee on Redress of Grievances. And they did.  Enter State Senator Martha Fuller-Clark. She found a “petition of Redress” from twenty black slaves in Portsmouth dating back to 1779. According to the [ 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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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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Re-Elect Jeanie Forrester

November 3, 2012

Despite years of Democrat condemnation of rich bankers, Senatorial candidate Bob Lamb shows that rich bankers can even be applauded if they parrot Democrat talking points, promote the special interest groups that fund Democrats, and help the Democrat Party extend its control over the lives of the American people. Describing lawsuits against him and other [ Read more ]

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GrokTV: Conservative Republican Candidate Home Event – Josh Youseff

August 12, 2012

Another speaker at Barbara Aichinger’s Conservative Candidate Night in Gilford last night was Josh Youseff.  He is running for the NH GOP nomination for the new NH Senate District 7 and we did an interview series with Josh Youseff a while ago (click here for the last in the series; it links backwards to all [ Read more ]

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“All Politics is local” – Meet / Greet some good Conservative NH House Candidates from Belknap County 5 and District 7

August 10, 2012

That quote is from former Democrat Tip O’Neal from Bawston, MA who served many years as the US Speaker of the House.  He meant it that national political wars are waged locally.  We took it sideways – our local politics are your’s where ever you are, albeit with different names and slightly different issues.  That [ Read more ]

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Peter Bolster for NH Senate District #6 – an Editorial for Truth in Advertisment

August 5, 2012

Updated and Bumped:  Grok Reader Bob saw this and asked that I update this post given that it is out of date – Bolster quickly gave up his delusions of a NH Senate run and is now running to retain his seat in the NH House, I should make sure that folks knew if they [ Read more ]

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GrokTV – NH State Senator Andy Sanborn – Question 8

August 2, 2012

Accomplishments? We always try to spend “a little time with GraniteGrok” and with Andy Sanborn (running for reelection to the NH Senate in District 9), we came to the realization that we had spent a lot more time than just a little.  So, we decided to end our interrogation interview with him with this last [ Read more ]

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GrokTV: NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (District 9) – Question 7

August 1, 2012

Question #7:  Adversarial relationship between State agencies vs ordinary folks? To fix a perceived problem (which Questions 5 & 6 brought up), you have to know all about the problem – or at least the biggest and most influential parts of the problem.  In discussing State Agencies, we wanted to know if there was a [ Read more ]

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Guess who else is joining Andy Sanborn in going “Beep Beep” as they campaign for the NH House?

July 29, 2012

Like I said before, I just giggled when I learned that big Andy Sanborn was going around his NH Senate District 9 on a wee scooter  in his bid for re-election to the NH senate (watch his explanation here).  Well, another candidate is now following in his footsteps burnt rubber (can a scooter actually lay [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview-NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (District 9) – Question 5: Reforming what State agencies are tasked to do and how to do it?

July 29, 2012

Most people want to see that the potholes are filled, the snow is plowed, and that the police and firemen are there when needed.  That’s how most decide who to vote for – its the stuff they see.  To us, however, philosophy counts as well – for that leads to the next “upward” step of [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview-NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (District 9) – Question 4: Administrative based taxes: have all taxes, fees, and fines set by the Legislature?

July 28, 2012

Increasingly, we see NH State Agencies setting their own level of taxation (fees, fines, et al) outside of authorization of the Legislature.  It is the Executive Branch to self-fund and making itself independent of the taxation authority of the Legislature.  And of course, it goes without saying that while Legislators are accountable to the voters, [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview-NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (District 9) – Question 3: RGGI. What happened and why RGGI didn’t get deep sixed?

July 27, 2012

One of the hot button issues this past legislative session (the last two years here in NH) was to get rid of RGGI – Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.  Simply put, it is an aggregation of States here in the Northeast that decided to put a broad based carbon tax on anyone using electricity in those [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview-NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (District 9) – Question 2: Where did the idea of using scooters for door-to-door campaigning; why not Segways?

July 26, 2012

I HAD to ask this question, based on his Presser showing the cute little scooters that he is using in meeting the folks (“residents tell me that I am the first politician to ever stand at their door step and introduce myself,”) in Bedford that is the new NH Senate District 9.  Why would he [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview-NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (District 9) – Question 1: With everything thrown your way, why are you running again?

July 25, 2012

The ‘Grok was welcomed to The Draft (Concord, NH) when we interviewed NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (owner) as to why he was running for “virtual” re-election in a newly constructed district (“virtual”, as his original district was drawn out of existence).  We had all kinds of questions but did not get the chance to [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interviews – CNHT in review – The “Micros” edition!

July 12, 2012

Man, am I stacked up on video – apologies for not getting this up earlier from the CNHT Annual Picnic.  While Grokster Steve manned our setup and watched over the live stream and the recording cameras, I snuck out a few times to get a few “micro-interviews”.  So, here they are:    Kevin Smith (Candidate, [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Event – CNHT in review – The “NH Senate” edition!

July 8, 2012

Well, you DIDN’T think that we’d leave the NH Senate out, didja?  And yes, there were a number of candidates and incumbents running for the NH Senate.  Once again, in order of the speaking order at the CNHT Annual   Dave Boutin                                                              Ken Hawkins Cindy Howard District 5 Previous Posts: Intro Ceremony by Ed Naile, [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview: Josh Youssef for NH State Senate. Question 8: Serve on IT council (biz process enhancement?)?

June 17, 2012

Next to last question!  The last question asked (“what Committees do you want to serve on?“) to Josh Youssef as he has started to his run for the NH State Senate.  Well, his answer was such that I JUST had to ask, given our Right To Know requests against the NH Dept. of Information Technology [ Read more ]

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Quick Thought – Bragdon / Dwyer

May 26, 2012

From Pindell on his weekly Ups and Downs Political Standing column: Dan Dwyer: The Merrimack Selectman wants to primary Senate President Peter Bragdon, but Bragdon will file showing $63,000 cash on hand already in his campaign account. Can Dwyer compete with that? As a Conservative activist, I have been sorely disappointed in the NH Senate [ Read more ]

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Martha Fuller Clark Running for NH Senate District 21

May 19, 2012

Happy news that Amanda Merrill is not running again for the New Hampshire Senate.  In her stead, former Merrill clone–or perhaps I have that reversed–Martha Fuller “brush” Clark, will run to fill the seat.  Merrill and Clarke are both EMILY’s list support alums.  They are hewed from the same bit of socialist flotsam, with Clark [ Read more ]

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HB 1704 – Republicans doing the dirty work by resurrecting HassanSpeech? Part 2

May 14, 2012

OK, Part 1 is here – which simply pulled out a couple of nuggets from the proposed HB 1704 as found at  NH.GOV. While there was enough uproar to have the NH Senate table it last week, it is supposedly coming back from the dead.  I have already made the pitch that the bill needs [ Read more ]

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GrokTV Special Interview: Rep. John Hikel for NH Senate – Question 10 – Contrast yourself with the incumbent, Senator Lou D’Allesandro?

May 14, 2012

And the last question in our series of spotlighting John Hikel – If current NH State Senator Lou D’Allesandro is your opponent in the General election, how would you contrast yourself with him? Previous Questions: Question 1– Has it been everything you thought in the House?  glad you put the time in?  Best part of [ Read more ]

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