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Concerned Veterans for America Convenes VA Reform Summit in Manchester
Participants Include Rep. Frank Guinta, CVA Legislative Director Dan Caldwell, and Expert Panelists Discussing Veterans Independence Act on March 9

Manchester, NH – Today, Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) announced it will be hosting VA Reform Summit in Manchester on Monday, March 9^th, at 10:00am at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics located on the campus of Saint Anselm College.

The purpose of the local VA Reform Summit in Manchester is to discuss the veteran-centric, expert-driven set of policy proposals from CVA’s Fixing Veterans Health Care Taskforce, designed to dramatically improve health care delivery for veterans. The panel will discuss and analyze policy recommendations made by the CVA-led Taskforce.

CVA NH welcomes VA Reform Summit program participants:

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I still can’t believe it’s (not) ‘Not Weed’

Jordan Meier was traveling with three passengers around 9 PM when a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled over his 2002 Chevrolet Monte Carlo on a Lincoln street for a traffic violation, according to a police report.

Meier was subsequently “placed into custody for DUI,” investigators noted.

During a post-arrest inventory search of Meier’s vehicle, cops located a 16-ounce plastic container (which once held Land O’Lakes sour cream) under the front passenger seat.

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Telegraph Editorial: H/T Kevin Bloom – c/o Facebook

House Bill 636 would change the state’s civil forfeiture law to require a person to be convicted before the state could initiate forfeiture proceedings against a suspect. That strikes us as reasonable.

In fact, allowing law enforcement to seize property without a criminal conviction – or even a criminal charge – is an affront to the constitutional principle that people are innocent until proven guilty.

And yet that’s the law, and there are several other problems with it:

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Someone should ask New Hampshire congresswoman Ann Kuster if she agrees with the tactics of her Democrat colleague,  Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Arizona.  Rep. Grijalva sent a letter to 7 Universities in what can only be called an act of Climate McCarthyism.

The letter demands detailed financial information so that Rep Grijalva can examine it.  He would like to explain away unfavorable research results as the product of funding-bias.

“I write today because of concerns raised in a recent New York Times report,” Grijalva said in the letters, “and documents I have received that highlight potential conflicts of interest and failure to disclose corporate funding sources in academic climate research.”

Irony alert?

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You know what is really REALLY funny about this?  Remember when the left, including all those New Hampshire Democrats (who love them some Clinton) were crying in 2010 (all the time actually) about money coming in from outside the country?  You remember that?  During all of that “outrage” Hillary Clinton and the Clinton foundation were accepting millions in donations from not just outside the country but other countries governments–AND…because Hillary Clinton was using private email we may never be able to tell if or how often she solicited those donations while fundraising as the Secretary of State.

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Let’s meet in the LOBBY of the Legislative Office Building at 9:00 am on Thursday, March 5th.

NH Commissioner of Education Virginia Barry is using Technical Advisories to intimidate parents. Barry believes her directives SUPERSEDE a parent’s fundamental RIGHT to direct the education of his child!!!

House Education Committee votes on House Bill 603, protecting a parent’s right to REFUSE to allow their child take the Smarter Balanced Assessments without penalty, at 9:45 am March 5, 2015 in the Legislative Office Building, Room 207.

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Welcome to the Real World.

This famous cinematic quote suits the moment as the Concord Monitor, the pragmatic-socialist New Hampshire “paper-of-record,” finds itself on the receiving end of progressive-bureaucrat obfuscation.

In the movie, Morpheus has pulled the wool of the Matrix from Neo’s eyes.  The modern world as he knows it does not exist.  In reality it is a barren waste.  He is nothing more than a battery powering a machine.  This is an apt metaphor for the Monitor which toes the pragmatic-socialist line with enthusiasm, and will continue to do so, but for this sliver in time it has made a reasonable request of Democrat Governor Hassan and her administration has chosen to treat them like the rest of the peasants.

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Took this picture as people were beginning to file in Saturday Morning.  This hall was consistently packed with attendees for the speeches and panels.  This isn’t even half the depth where I am standing.  Seating continues a good distance back and behind that were rows of bloggers and media working at four or five long rows of tables.

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Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Congress-woman Carol Shea-Porter, and Congress-woman Ann Kuster are all named in an FEC complaint filed  against Catalist by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT).

(WashingtonExaminer) Catalist, the Washington, D.C.-based firm at the heart of the allegations, was accused of “providing candidates and federal party committees data and list-related products and services at below-market rates, constituting excessive, source-prohibited, and unreported in-kind contributions” to the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Fifteen pages of candidate committees are listed in the complaint.

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