Steve MacDonald

Sunday, October 23, 2016

From the Nashua Telegraph, forwarded to me by NH Sen. Kevin Avard.

Sunday, October 23, 2016
We have focused on ways to reduce the cost of doing business in NH by removing regulatory burdens.

The state budget is arguably the single most important piece of legislation that directly impacts all New Hampshire residents. Just five years ago, under control of the Democrats, the state faced an $800 million deficit while amassing 99 tax and fee increases in just a few years.

Fast-forward to today and the state closed the fiscal year 2016 with more than $100 million in surplus revenue, topping the nation in revenue growth in the second quarter of 2016. The State’s Rainy Day Fund also grew by $130 million, due to strong Republican leadership.

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This is a great headline. Too bad it’s not entirely accurate. Not entirely, you say?

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The Democrat Party, the Hillary Campaign, and the Media stole the Democrat nomination away from Bernie Sanders. They robbed him and his supporters of the opportunity to represent the party. The Podesta emails alongside emails from the Democrat party and Hillary herself confirm this.

And they didn’t just steal the election, they insulted Sanders and his supporters, right here in New Hampshire.

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The left and corporate media (but I repeat myself) sent up a trial balloon the other day. They introduced a narrative to protect Hillary, the Democrat party, and the media. Copying or sharing content provided by Wikileaks violates the law because to do so you must be “in possession” of stolen documents. (But it’s OK for the media to have them and to decide what, if anything, you need to see.)

Nothing could be further from the truth.

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You may be familiar with the John Doe prosecution in Wisconsin. A last ditch effort by the political friends of big labor to oust Scott Walker and undermine his support. What you may not know is that more than a dozen families were subjected to SWAT raids and prosecution because they were supporters of the Walker Administration. People who had their lives turned upside down by a partisan Democrat District Attorney using the power of his office for revenge.

Law-abiding citizens were subjected to armed, predawn raids of their homes as if they were wanted criminals. Their crime? They supported conservative reforms in Wisconsin, including reforms to the state’s labor laws.

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For Immediate Release – October 18, 2016
Contact: Greg Moore (603) 303-9297

Americans for Prosperity Blasts Governor’s Efforts to Invoke Non-Existent ‘Executive Privilege’ to Illegitimately Hide Documents from Public

MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) today blasted Governor Hassan’s office for attempting to hide documents from the public through the use of “executive privilege.” While executive privilege exists at the federal level, it is supported neither in state statute nor in case law. Recently, the state redacted substantial portions of a Right to Know request involving communications with the Governor’s Office, claiming “executive privilege.” AFP-NH filed the request to understand how the state could sole source a $1.2 million contract with an out-of-state vendor that had never done business with state government.

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Leo DiCaprio, like those in the Borgia era, is just another corrupt Cardinal in the Climate Change College. Preaching one life while living another. But not every so-called Green Group is willing to look the other way.

At a press conference in London, the Bruno Manser Funds offered DiCaprio an ultimatum: either he renounce his connections to the “politically exposed persons” at the center of the multi-billion dollar 1MDB Malaysian corruption scandal now being investigated by the U.S. Justice Department and return corrupt money he allegedly received or resign from the position he was given by UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in 2014.

DiCraprio is a UN Messenger of Peace with a focus on Climate Change. He’s a goodwill ambassador to the weather.

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BBC.com has an article with the above picture titled, ‘Moonbow’ photographed over Yorkshire.’

Moonbow?

Moonbow sounds like…moonbow. It’s awful. Does that mean we should be calling the light side version a Sunbow? Yes? Well, we can’t, that’s already taken.

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Since at least the 5th century BC observers have suggested that sunspots affect Earth’s climate. In the centuries since then the observations have become more concise and the correlations more exact, not just about how solar cycles effect Earth’s weather but what drives the solar cycles themselves.

New research suggests a very strong correlation between solar cycles (and sun spots) and the influence of the gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus. Named after ancient gods, it appears that their combined presence drives the solar cycles that play such an important part in our weather.

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Forwarded to me by NH State Senator Kevin Avard.

CONCORD – In today’s Union Leader, State Senator Regina Birdsell penned an op-ed criticizing Governor Maggie Hassan for her lack of focus on key projects that will help New Hampshire. Read the entire op-ed here or check out the excerpts below:

“Gov. Maggie Hassan has used her office to satisfy her own political ambitions, including taking credit for the Legislature’s balanced budget and the $100 million surplus as a result of a stronger economy. This is ludicrous. This is the same budget she vetoed last summer because of business tax cuts. Her veto and lack of focus on the needs of the Granite State is negatively impacting our communities every day…

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From Rich Girard’s News Read yesterday: looks like Maggie Hassan is giving away no-bid contracts in exchange for campaign contributions.

Is Governor Margaret Wood Hassan presiding over a pay to play scheme in the awarding of state contracts?  Curious minds want to know, at least on the Republican side of the aisle.  Republican State Committee Chair Jennifer Horn called on Hassan to quote “start answering questions about the growing list of no-bid contracts she has awarded to her campaign donors,” charging Hassan has quote “turned the state’s contracting process into her personal A T M.”  Horn also filed Right-To-Know requests for all records pertaining to the awarding of controversial contracts to a company called Centene, which the Union Leader reported as having given Hassan tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions before and after  the company received no-bid contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and all no-bid contracts issued while Hassan’s been in office.

Among the facts raising questions over the state’s involvement with Centene are the following:

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