Steve MacDonald

Liberty Ballot is about as good a guide as you are going to get for every town and Ward in New Hampshire if you are uncertain who in your Tuesday Primary races are more likely to fight for your property rights and individual liberty.

Update: If you think Liberty Ballot is off the Reservation add it in comments and explain why.  Had a few today already. 

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There is only one day until the New Hampshire Primary! With so many contested primary races, there is bound to be some confusion. To the relief of taxpayers, there is a solution. Go to http://www.LibertyBallot.com and select your town, then click “Get Ballot”. A pre-marked sample ballot for your town will appear. When in doubt of the small government candidates, don’t leave the race blank – use Liberty Ballot.

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Earlier this week I reported on how the Speaker of the NH House, Shawn Jasper, is using the House PAC to take sides in a Republican Primary. He is doing the same thing with his personal PAC.

A recent mailer into Hillsborough District 21 not only leaves out conservative incumbents in the primary it also implies that they do not fight for lower taxes by exclusion.

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I interviewed State Senate District 16 candidate Joe Duarte (Do-Art) last night for this week’s podcast, and the first topic was Secretary of State Bill Gardner ruling his primary opponent ineligible. Don Winterton did not meet residency requirements for the office and had to drop out. Gardener says that the ballots are being reprinted for Tuesday’s primary.

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Yesterday I reported on an inside move by Shawn Jasper and Dick Hinch to use the House PAC to back incumbent RINO’s and shun Conservatives in the Republican primary. That post produced a facebook comment that I responded to with this.

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard party folk squawk about leadership (or whoever) endorsing in primaries. And that’s what this is. As to whether they can do it, of course, they can. But the real question you should ask is why is the House legislative leadership abandoning small government, pro-liberty candidates? Why are they abandoning the pillars of their own party?

Today Shawn Jasper and Dick Hinch have answered my question. The reason House legislative leadership is abandoning small government, pro-liberty candidates is because they want to abandon small government, pro-liberty policies.

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There are three types of rights – Natural, Civil and Political.

Natural Rights are those that are “believed to exist out of the nature of the individual human being, such as Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness“.  These Natural Rights, among others, were espoused in our Declaration of Independence.

The protection of these Natural Rights was codified in the US Constitution;  they were not granted by it.

And, since government doesn’t grant them, it cannot take them away.

Those protections are the primary function of our government (created by the very same Constitution), not education, welfare, driving and building roads, or immigration; those are Civil or Legal rights, not Natural Rights, which can be taken away or adjudicated in a court of law.

Be very wary of people who talk like Hillary Clinton.  Don’t stand for it.  She is lying for the sake of power and influence and she is attacking one of our key Natural Rights – self-defense – in order to assert control over us.

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For Immediate Release – September 8, 2016
Contact: Greg Moore (603) 303-9297

Americans for Prosperity Cites Shocking Report that Shows ObamaCare Medicaid Expansion Reduces Work Participation Among Healthy, Childless Adults

MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) today cited a newly released Georgetown University study that shows that ObamaCare Medicaid expansion undermines work participation among healthy, childless adults.  The study found a “significant negative relationship between Medicaid expansion and labor force participation, in which expanding Medicaid is associated with 1.5 to 3 percentage point drop in labor force participation.”

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I wonder how the “other” incumbent New Hampshire House Reps. from Merrimack feel about this? Dick Hinch, a member of the Merrimack Republican delegation, and House Speaker Shawn Jasper filed an independent expenditure report with the Secretary of State (for the Committee to Elect House Republicans) listing the names of only eight of the thirteen Republicans running in the NH House primary.

None of the Conservative Republicans from Merrimack are listed. Josh Moore, Jeanine Notter, you might want to call your buddy Dick Hinch and give him an earful.

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Mayor Caroline McCarley, through the Mayoral equivalent of an executive order, had the buildings department remove all the American flags hanging from light posts in town and replace them with Gay Pride (Rainbow) flags.

There is a gay pride parade in Rochester, New Hampshire this weekend, the same weekend as the 15th anniversary of 9/11, and it doesn’t look like the American flags will be back in place until Monday.

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New Hampshire Democrat’s Democrat Renny Cushing is concerned for (Democrat elected) Republican House Speaker Shawn Jasper, and (believe it or not) the integrity of our elections because of how he is being treated during the primary.

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