In a recent post, I wrote about the importance of “framing the conversation.” I cited a segment on Tucker Carlson’s show in which he debated a Bernie Sanders surrogate over the Green New Deal. In response to my post, a Grok reader added some remarks in the comments section.
You probably didn’t know this but in an offline thread Skip and Jim Rubens traded debate ‘punches’ on Mr. Sununu’s veto of Biomass subsidies. We have opposed the plunder. Mr. Rubens considered the Biomass bailout to be worthwhile. In an email, via Jim Rubens.com, Jim gives a nod to that debate and perhaps others and then defends his … Read more
Democrat donor to pump $30 million into winning U.S. House Democrat Tom Steyer, who has spent millions on national ads calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, will spend $30 million this year trying to get members of his party elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to win control of the chamber … Read more
Larry Lessig’s NH Rebellion is a partisan front to advance the left’s agenda under the guise of campaign finance reform. We pointed it out “on day one” or at least reminded folks who probably already had their suspicions. Always remember Rule number one. If Democrats want it the odds are good it’s bad for freedom, individual … Read more
Former Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand (D) is accepting voluntary limits on campaign contributions in his race for Governor of New Hampshire”in the spirit of reducing the corrosive influence of big money in politics.” According to SeacoastOnline, accepting “The spending limit prohibits a gubernatorial candidate from spending more than $625,000 in the primary and $625,000 in the … Read more
Larry Lessig has been promoting the idea of publicly funded elections, and fighting corporate money in politics. He is the impetus behind ‘NH Rebellion,’ a local effort to advance the progressive narrative against corporate speech. Lessig’s overriding theme has come to a head with his latest effort to combat money in politics, Mayday PAC. The … Read more
One of the best sources for large dollar Political Donation history is Newsmeat.com. I use it often, as regular readers may have noticed, but one of the features I have not used is the ability to look at large lists of Celebrities, Executives, Politicians, Media people, and see their contributions and party preferences. The donation … Read more
Why doesn’t the media report on dark money politics? Everyone understands it exists. Many treat the subject like the boogeyman. OOOooohhhhh… we can’t go there. Well, why the hell not? We want clean elections; we have to know who is putting the money into the campaigns. Let’s stop being hypocrites. Billionaire financier George Soros is … Read more
Jim Rubens has a very long email; almost no one will read. It’s just too long. But the title is “The Conservative Role in Passing an Anti-Corruption Amendment.” So, as a favor to you, I’ll suffer through it, if only to remind you why the title is misleading and the premise is wrong.
First we had the newly minted millionaire Bernie Sanders grumbling about billionaires Tom Steyer and now Michael Bloomberg in the Democrat Primary. And now millionaire Elizabeth “You didn’t build that” Warren is doing the same thing: Warren Slams Bloomberg 2020 Run: Billionaires Shouldn’t ‘Come and Buy Elections’ Democratic 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren took aim at … Read more
A political action committee known as End Citizens United has spent a lot of big money in order to get big money out of our elections. Typical hypocrisy from first-amendment hating democrats. In 2016 they reportedly spent $2.1 million to defeat Sen. Ayotte, and spent $32 million in the total 2018 election cycle. Citizens United … Read more
The ‘Granny D’ walk to get money out of politics in, you guessed it, Peterborough, will happen this Sunday. According to the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript,
Hillary Clinton’s campaign spent over 730 million dollars in the 2016 presidential election. That does not include any in-kind, third party expenses, or the endless positive earned media. That’s a lot of money on Hillary’s politics. And she lost. But we’re to believe that money in politics is a problem.
Still no word from “get money out of politics” groups like Open Democracy regarding Billionaire Tom Steyer dumping three-quarters of a million dollars into New Hampshire for the last four-plus months of the 2018 Election cycle. Not that I expected as much as a peep. Steyer is, after all, one of them. He’s supporting their … Read more
Yeah, Democrats are all about getting money out of politics – until they aren’t. From billionaire Tom Steyer in Steve’s post to this one: All In: Mike Bloomberg To Dump $80 Million To Try To Buy The House For Democrats Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw … Read more
Until the people who claim to want “money out of politics” stop being the same people who want as much money as possible to run through the hands of Washington politicians and bureaucrats, it is a safe bet they are using the idea of ‘campaign finance reform’ to control other peoples political speech.
If Democrats REALLY wanted to get money out of politics, they’d tax it. I don’t know, let’s say 90%. Unions, candidates, so-called non-profits, anyone spending money to advocate for or against a candidate, or issue or measure, directly, indirectly, via lawyers or lobbyists, etc., etc. shall pay the tax on those expenditures. If 90% is … Read more
They blame money for corruption like Bloomberg blames guns for violence. – Grokster Susan
This question was posed to me the other day by a friend (I will paraphrase and omit the profanities): “How is it that New Hampshire, a state roughly the same geographic size of Vermont with about twice the population spends half the amount of taxpayer money that we do?”
In March of 2023, I was part of a group of Republicans in Nashua Ward 7 that organized to hand out fliers promoting Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs) to our local public elementary schools, Dr. Crisp and Sunset Heights. Dr. Crisp has been recognized as one of the lowest-performing five percent of all schools in the … Read more