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August 2010

Ovide for Senate, who’s on board?

This has been quite the week for Ovide Lamontagne, candidate for US Senate. First, Joseph McQuaid, publisher of the Manchester Union Leader, endorsed him, which isn’t your average endorsement around these parts.  Mr. McQuaid acknowledged that Ovide isn’t the "richest candidate", and that he isn’t the "favorite of the…Washington crowd", but "what he believes makes sense …

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Let’s Regulate Barney Frank’s Pay

Posted by David Boaz “Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said Tuesday that he will hold a hearing this fall to examine whether regulators are being tough enough in curbing pay practices at Wall Street firms that can lead to excessively risky practices,” writes Zachary Goldfarb in the Washington Post. Hmmm. “Pay practices that can …

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Let’s play “Guess Who?”

Heh! This was amusing…. GH = Guess who     10.) <GH> and Biden both gave thousands to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH).     9.) <GH> and Biden both gave money to defeat former Sen. John E. Sununu (R-NH).     8.) <GH> and Biden both supported Democrats for President in 2000.     7.) <GH> and Biden both …

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Spam

My email filter automatically puts any emails from the Binnie Campaign into my Spam folder.  That’s just hilarious.

Email Doodlings – “…would you consider helping to change it from the inside?…”

Another in a series of emails culled from some of the lists I’m on.  This was from a thread of on the idea of "not a tinker’s dam difference between them". A bit of time has passed since I wrote the following – and the past several months has shown that Conservatives, TEA Party, 9-12ers, …

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Interview – Andy and Laurie Sanborn (NH Senate & NH House) – Part 4

Part 1  Part 2   Part 3 We continue the ‘Grok interview with Andy and Laurie Sanborn as they run for the NH Senate and NH House, respectively: Question 7: If elected to House, specifics on mitigating the NH State Pension liability time bomb? Question 8: Is there Judicial Overreach here in NH?   Question 7 …

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