JR Hoell

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Just a few hours after touting a bipartisan leadership style in her inaugural address, Governor Maggie Hassan, at today’s Governor and Council meeting, refused to allow or even discuss a motion from Councilor Wheeler to restore elected oversight of state contracts under $25,000.

Counselor Wheeler noted that “the previous Democrat controlled Council, knowing they would soon lose power, raised the oversight level to include only contracts and spending items over $25,000.” He contrasted this to the process just a few years ago where all contracts over $5,000 received Council oversight.

“This is a five fold increase in value of contracts not overseen by the council in the last few years,” Wheeler added. “This new secretive approach must go. The public has a right to know exactly how their money is being spent and who is receiving it. The more that is done in public, the less there is opportunity for corruption and graft.”

New Hampshire’s Executive Council was established to be a check on the unrestrained powers of both the executive and legislative branch. 

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When Saul of Tarsus set out on his journey to Damascus the whole of the known world lay in bondage. There was one state, and it was Rome. There was one master for it all, and he was Tiberius Caesar.

Everywhere there was civil order, for the arm of the Roman law was long. Everywhere there was stability, in government and in society, for the centurions saw that it was so.

But everywhere there was something else, too. There was oppression—for those who were not the friends of Tiberius Caesar. There was the tax gatherer to take the grain from the fields and the flax from the spindle to feed the legions or to fill the hungry treasury from which divine Caesar gave largess to the people. There was the impressor to find recruits for the circuses. There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed. What was a man for but to serve Caesar?

There was the persecution of men who dared think differently, who heard strange voices or read strange manuscripts. There was enslavement of men whose tribes came not from Rome, disdain for those who did not have the familiar visage. And most of all, there was everywhere a contempt for human life. What, to the strong, was one man more or less in a crowded world?

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It is amazing the fortitude of some of those in the pro-life movement. Here is one of our very own, someone who has been through so much, yet gives her all to help other women in need. Thank you Darlene.

When He Got Me Pregnant, I Faked an Abortion So My Sex Trafficker Would Let Me Go

by Darlene Pawlik

I was trapped in the sex trafficking industry.  Trafficking in persons is not like any regulated industry.  There are no rules.

I was conceived during a brutal rape and learned of it when I was very young. That knowledge and child sexual abuse had me feeling worth less than others and vulnerable.  After my mother’s second divorce, I was twelve. By thirteen, I’d been dabbling in drugs and alcohol, wandering the neighborhood and hanging out with a bodybuilder in a black Cadillac.  He was patient as he courted me and manipulated me into his bed.

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One can be a “Leader” only if there are people willing to follow.  It looks like Jack Flanagan is having this problem:

From: HouseRepublicanOffice
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 3:39 PM
To: HouseRepublicanOffice
Subject: House Republican Caucus December 17th

House Republicans will hold their first caucus of the upcoming session on Wed., Dec. 17 at 10 a.m.. The caucus will held in Representatives Hall at the State House in Concord. This fact finding meeting will help to develop the House Republican agenda, policy, pending legislation and support.

Contrary to what you have been hearing, the Republican meeting scheduled for Monday, December Dec. 8, at the Grappone Center in Concord, is not a House Republican caucus.

I look forward to seeing you all on the 17th and working with you this session.

Rep. Jack Flanagan
House Majority Leader

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From: Hoell, JR
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 10:41 AM
To: Baldasaro, Al; LeBrun, Donald
Cc: HouseRepublicanOffice; ~Republican House Members
Subject: RE: House Republican Caucus December 17th

Dear Rep Flanagan,

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Recently, “His Excellency” [NH constitution Part Second, Art 41: ] Governor Margaret Hassan proudly proclaimed that we had a budget surplus. Here She pontificates about how well her administration has done.

HOWEVER, within a very short two days, the “Kool Aid® drinking binge” had completely worn off and Governor Margaret Hassan sent out this press release:

CONCORD –Taking fiscally responsible action to maintain a balanced budget in light of revenues falling below bipartisan projections, Governor Maggie Hassan today sent a letter to agency heads directing state agencies to submit plans to reduce their budgets for Fiscal Year 2015.

So Maggie Hassan’s “surplus” is a lot like New England weather; just wait a moment, it’ll be a deficit.

Now the real budget situation, that is much closer to what former Speaker O’Brien said in this UL Op-Ed…

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It seems that other groups have concerns on Lambert’s lack of willingness to support gun rights!  Please see email below that came in today!  Please call Lambert and ask him to send in NAGR’s survey.

Dear Gun Owner,

If ever there was a time for gun owners to charge up the hill to reclaim the high ground from our anti-gun enemies, it’s right now.

And one person standing on top of that hill in New Hampshire is anti-gun Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster.

But, to make matters worse, one of Kuster’s Republican challengers, Gary Lambert, is showing serious early signs he may share Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s anti-gun views.

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