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Ah yes, yet another missive from the Left complaining that the amount raised by property taxes here in NH should be paid by anyone other than by themselves.  While the original is after the jump, this Letter to the Concord Monitor quickly sums up their argument (reformatted, emphasis mine):

The writer cites a $250,000 house for sale in York, Maine, whose property tax is $2,000. He asserts that is not a low property tax and that Maine’s sales and income taxes don’t hold down property taxes.  I checked my 2016 Concord property tax bill and that same house would be taxed $6,835 in Concord – 3.4 times the York tax.  For a retired couple living on $40,000 per year, the York tax would be 5 percent of their gross income; the Concord tax would be 17.08 percent of their income. The difference of $4,835 would pay for the heat, utilities and insurance on their house for a year, with enough left over for an occasional pizza.

Well, if John is arguing that his property tax is too high, well, I’d agree with him.  His math is probably right, so I’ll hand that to him as well.  What I WON’T do, however,

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“…Clinton and her liberal supporters believe the First Amendment to the Constitution must be curtailed to eliminate protections on certain speech.”

This is what Betty Tamposi now believes in.  Curtailment of one of the bedrock freedoms we have here in America.  This is the price she is willing to bear for defeating Trump?  Once again, let me remind our readers that Republican scion, Betty Tamposi, has gone all in on the idea that the only way to save the Republican Party (from The Donald) is to embrace, fawn over, and to become a bootlicker to a person that would wipe out the entire Republican Party if her broomstick wasn’t already in the pawn shop to pay for all the political favors she’s promised (c’mon Bill, ya gotta start giving those half million $$ speeches again!):

So, a few more words to Ms Clueless in her existential war to the US Constitution (and make NO mistake, supporting Hillary is endorsing the third (and,, gulp) and perhaps fourth term of the worst Constitutional President in history):

Democrats are fond of calling their Republican counterparts “extremists.” They’ve been deploying the charge since 2010 but, having lost control of the House, Senate, over 30 governorships, and 900 legislative seats in that period, they don’t seem inclined to revise this strategy. Rarely do Republicans reply in kind. When they do, it’s even rarer that the political press uncritically echoes the charge that Democrats have become too extreme for middle America. That is no boon for Democrats, though. The party that quite nearly chose a self-described socialist to lead it has lost all perspective. There may be no better example of that inclination than Hillary Clinton’s latest campaign promise—one that has been applauded by her fellow liberals: a constitutional amendment to restrict free speech.

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With my posts on Betty Tamposi, a reader just had to email this in (reformatted):

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When you quoted Tamposi about stepping on the accelerator I (almost) lost it.

Last summer I was on the DW highway in Nashua. As I was just coming up on exit 7-N.. In heavy traffic. A vehicle passed me at a high rate of speed from the second lane…with little space to spare.. It was a female and she had her cell phone at the 12 o’clock position on the steering wheel TEXTING or whatever. I seen the plate…right — a NH State plate.  I found out it was hers.

I began to write a letter to send her… I didn’t send it…darn it! I’m sure the NO TEXTING issue was out there. She must be special. I have no doubt she has and will continue with this dangerous practice. Hopefully she’ll be sighted & cited = $$$$$.

Thanks for letting me relive that episode

Rochester NH

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The Candidates edition! Is Eric Estevez, of the “Estevez for Congress” and “Estevez for the Restevus” playing footloose and fancy free with his campaign donations?  Making them seem to be larger than actual?  Is this why these other candidates, fearing a blowout by him (heh! In more ways than one?) and are deciding “on other arrangements”?  First, is Jack Flanagan, running against him in the primary – but with that Estevez sticker (H/T: Facebook via Kimberly)???

and then there is

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“Let us honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion and draft a sensible conscience clause.”

President Obama (2009), Notre Dame Commencement.  Hmm, so the Congress decided to do exactly that – from LifeSite:

House passes bill to stop govt from forcing people to participate in abortion

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 13, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – The House of Representatives has passed the Conscience Protection Act of 2016 (S. 304), by a 245-182 vote.   Three dependable pro-life Democrats – Henry Cuellar, Daniel Lipinski, and Collin Peterson – voted for the bill, while one pro-abortion Republican – Richard Hanna – voted against it.  The bill, which would prevent the government from discriminating against any health care provider who refuses to “perform, refer for, pay for, or otherwise participate in abortion,” also allows victims of discrimination to sue in civil court.

And what was President Obama’s response (hint: he is aligned with NH GOP State Committeeman Steve Duprey)? Utterly predictable and speaking out of both sides of his mouth (emphasis mine):

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Man, am I backed up on putting this up!  Our readers are GREAT and I have a whole slew of images to post.  I’m afraid that both the creative juices are overflowing and that the Eric Estavez for Congress campaign ain’t gonna like them – after all, we are now hitting the first page of Google with our posts. Love ya!  Anyways, a quick time out from the satire as here’s one for real that was seen at the Bernie for Hillary rally in Portsmouth.  Again, no, that Estevez sticker is NOT photoshopped:

Now, think about this (and no, this isn’t about Hillary) – Bernie is an avowed Socialist who has, like all Socialists, wants a political revolution that is totally opposite of the what the TEA Party (both n 1770s and now) wants – a returned of politics in reverence to the philosophy and words of the US Constituton.  No, Bernie, this man that honeymooned in Moscow at the height of the Cold War, wants nothing more than a Soviet style (or to be current, a Venezuela style revolution – see how well THAT’S working out for “The People”).

And this Bernie supporter LIKES Estevez?   What is it about Eric Estevez’s politics and policies that would attract a hard core Leftist to support him?  Makes you wanna think hard for a few minutes, doesn’t it?

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Betty Tamposi, beloved of the Establishment Republicans, has a piece in the Concord Monitor where declares that Republicans must resist Donald Trump – he’s the Barbarian at the Gate of Republicans so we MUST go out and embrace the Goths, Vandals, and Visi-Goths.

Together, reaching across the aisle, Republicans, Democrats and independents can choose the candidate who is far better able to lead our country. That candidate is Hillary Clinton….I am voting for Hillary because she will be a president America can be proud of.

Yeah, that old reaching across the aisle has worked out just so dandily – sorry, but for the base, that is code for “we’re gonna help the Democrats move their agenda FORWARD“. Just look at the Republicans reaching across the aisle in implementing Obamacare here in NH.  Look at Kelly Ayotte willing to subvert the clear words of the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments “to keep us safe” – yeah, Constitutionally supportive, eh?

And you’re worried about Donald Trump????

Yeah, making common good with those that repeatedly say “Death to Republicans” and vote for Hillary Clinton is EXACTLY like what Rome did – how’d that work out for them?

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JUST came across this piece (H/T: Instapundit) and thought that Betty Tamposi (and the rest of “YOU PEOPLE” of the same ilk) should ponder the rightness of the underlying theme:

Brooks is, of course, horrified at Trump and his supporters, whom he finds childish, thuggish and contemptuous of the things that David Brooks likes about today’s America. It’s clear that he’d like a social/political revolution that was more refined, better-mannered, more focused on the Constitution and, well, more bourgeois as opposed to in-your-face and working class.

The thing is, we had that movement. It was the Tea Party movement. Unlike Brooks, I actually ventured out to “intermingle” with Tea Partiers at various events that I covered for PJTV.com, contributing commentary to the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Examiner. As I reported from one event in Nashville, “Pundits claim the tea partiers are angry — and they are — but the most striking thing about the atmosphere in Nashville was how cheerful everyone seemed to be. . . .

And here’s the part that gets to the heart of the matter – it was all about Power of the Political Fusion Class, of which Betty Tamposi is now part and parcel of (well, not now – for a while.  But now she’s flying her “dark as the black of space” flag):

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Ah yes, the core supporter Identity Politics Group for Eric Estevez for Congress – Dumb and Dumber all in for Estevez!

(H/T: K C)  Gosh, and neither of them look Latino (given that Eric Estevez for Congress campaign seems to be all about using the Democrat Identity group politics (e.g., @HispanicCaucus @RNCLatinos). Skin-deep thinking, I guess. Again, I thought that Republicans were all about ideas and not racial pandering.

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Well, when you have a crybaby for a candidate supporter:

(H/T: KImberly) I guess you need a whole lot of these:

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Where “this” would be Medicaid Expansion here in NH (or as Steve points out, a step to “a single-payer system.”).  Here’s what current Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas said at the Windham GOP Gubernatorial Debate (emphasis mine, reformatted):

However, the candidates differed on a few key issues, including whether to continue Medicaid expansion and whether they support abortion rights.

Those differences emerged at the beginning of the debate, when all candidates were asked whether they would sign a pledge from outside group Americans For Prosperity to cut taxes and regulations and oppose the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion. While Forrester and Edelblut said they would have no problem signing the pledge, Gatsas and Sununu were more hesitant, especially when it came to health care issues.

“Hesitant” – sometimes a code word used to describe Republican that KNOW what the right thing to do is (in terms of living up to the Conservative ideals of less taxes and smaller government) and KNOW that if they were completely truthful, they’d lose in a heartbeat (because they DON’T want to do the right thing – they just want to get elected).  So what did Gatsas say? Obfuscation:

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UPDATE: That cash prize for the best submission?  $100

(Image: Eric Estevez for Congress Twitter Account – he RUNS!) Gee, talking about running with Estevez but man, it better not real not (for obvious reasons) real hot with these kinds of runs…Eric Estevez must be feeling great – he won the Outhouse Identity Group voters!

But does Eric Estevez “get it” over there in NH Second Congressional District? (H/T: Sara)

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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That’s right – all you have to do is go to the Twitter feed of Eric Estevez to see the bias.  Pretty much every tweet has either @HispanicCaucus or @RNCLatinos.  You know, I have never thought that the GOP was going to lower itself to the level of the Democrats in playing the race / color / religion cards in pandering attempts.  Newsflash: the GOP will never be able to play the Democrat game of Identity Group Politics – just like in being Democrat-Lite, they’ll lose.

And we all know that the Democrat Party is all out with the knives when some member of their plantation goes strolling off (like Dr. Ben Carson, Prof. Thomas Sowell, Prof. Walter Williams, US Senator Tim Scott, investor / Fox contributor Charles Payne, actress / Fox contributor Stacey Dash, Col. and former US Congressman Allan West (ret.), and former Presidential Candidate / businessman / radio talk show host Herman Cain to quickly name a few).  “Traitor to your race”, “Uncle Tom”, and “Oreo” are the some of the least wicked epithets thrown their way.

So why is Eric Estevez shoving the shiv into former NH House Majority Leader Pete Silva (R)?  I can only think of one reason: Adopting the Democrat Race Card.

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Kimberly put up a post of the Tuesday Hillary Clinton / Bernie Sanders rally at which that young (and seemingly clueless) Obama supporter that wanted to do a solid for others of her mind set and handing out water bottles. When she realized that these were anti-Hillary protesters, she took the water bottles back.

To me, that demonstrated the Democrat Socialist when the sheep’s clothing is cast aside: We do nothing with or for those outside our tribe. In fact, this young Socialist totally lived up to what Hillary Clinton said she would do:

“We’re going to take things away from you” – Hillary Clinton, June 2004

So this girl just lived up to Hillary’s words – so why was anyone surprised when that supporter took “things away from you”?  That’s what Socialists do

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Well, already we have entries coming in from our loyal ‘Grok readers!  And some of them are quite good and have elicited much hilarity amongst we ‘Grok writers.  Here’s  one submitted from Nana Mae:

Sounds about right for the Eric Estevez campaign – methinks that are going to have to search wide and far for votes. But even Waldo knows that photoshopping does not mean a vote.

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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I see that the Eric Estevez is going after an untapped micro-segment of the electorate – the old Republican-bashing comediennes.  And who better to be on Eric’s side than none other than:

Behar hates Republicans – she really does.  So what should my next thought be?  If Behar LIKE Estevez…..

Previous Restevus Campaign Contest posts after the jump:

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Shot (emphasis mine):

“THE PRIMARY job of the governor is to grow the economy,” Sununu says in announcing his economic plan.

Chaser:

NH Constitution

[Art.] 41. [Governor, Supreme Executive Magistrate.] There shall be a supreme executive magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor of the State of New Hampshire, and whose title shall be His Excellency. The executive power of the state is vested in the governor. The governor shall be responsible for the faithful execution of the laws. He may, by appropriate court action or proceeding brought in the name of the state, enforce compliance with any constitutional or legislative mandate, or restrain violation of any constitutional or legislative power, duty, or right, by any officer, department or agency of the state. This authority shall not be construed to authorize any action or proceedings against the legislative or judicial branches.

Wanna think that over, Chris?  Right off the bat, you wish to disregard your actual NH Constitutional mandate?

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