Steve MacDonald

The head of the PAC Stark 360, and Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire joins us to talk New Hampshire politics, Andrew Hemingway and the Governors Race, the NH US Senate Race, a number of State Senate races, and politics in general as we enter the last week before the New Hampshire primary.

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The SEIU has a reputation.  Mean, ranting, left-wing, all-Obama, and did we mention left-wing?  The NH-SEA (SEIU) is the big government union around New Hampshire and their leadership whiles away their time and effort keeping Democrats in power.  Spending always goes up and your taxes with them.

If you want less money in your pocket and more in the hands of union bosses, SEIU is your verb.

Getting endorsed by the SEIU is what every NH Democrat wants.  So what does it say about Republicans endorsed by the SEIU?

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I was on my way home and heard a commercial paid for by NextGen Climate Action.   The radio ad focused on a Republican candidate for the US Senate in New Hampshire, Oil, out-of-state-energy-influence peddlers, and (oil-drum-roll) the Koch brothers.

It was your typical left wing boilerplate, yes, but the ad emphasized how New Hampshire, the state of New Hampshire, doesn’t have any oil in it.  None.  Nada.  And as such, no oil money.

The liberal narrative: using revenue from “oil” (when New Hampshire doesn’t have any) to advance any political fortunes in the Granite State, is bad.  Wrong.  Unethical.

Enter Maggie ‘Fracking’ Hassan

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The Obama Administration is convinced that their latest planned regulatory regime for everyday appliances will put more money in people’s pockets by forcing changes meant to reduce the cost of operating them.

People who can’t afford a car do save an awful lot of money on gas.  I suppose we could apply this same thinking to microwaves, refrigerators,  stove tops, ovens, ranges, dishwashers (and every other appliance eventually).  If you can’t afford the appliance you will save on all the electricity it would have used, right?

The planned regulations would make appliances cost more. and likley eliminate any and all low cost appliances that can’t meet the governments mandated standards.

While the rules may save a bit of energy (and there is nothing wrong with that, though it should be the consumer choice, not Government Mandate), it will also drive up the cost of the appliances/devices, which will harm the lower and middle classes.

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Even under the best of circumstances the progressive nanny-state compulsion to centrally plan is based on the idea that individuals with money and power cannot be trusted to do right by anyone else.  Nor do they trust a free people, exercising choices with their own dollars, to act as a check on others.

The progressive solution to this problem is to take that money and power and entrust to individuals and agencies of government, who– free from interference from producers and consumers–will decide what is best.

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I find it more than interesting that the long weekend just before the primary that the following websites go off line…

• Nashua Fish and Game
• New Hampshire Firearms Coalition.

Now, if this had happened at any other point in the year, I would be less suspicious, but the weekend before the primary when that is where the candidate grades are posted, the coincidence demands speculation.

• Does Scott Brown have even more to hide?
• Is Walt doing more than just hiding his residency to avoid taxes? 

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This weeks segment one free-for-all touches on Ann Kuster, Maggie Hassan, The Coffee party, RINO’s, Senate Majority PAC’s, Stiles and Boutins, Fergy, The GOP Brand, The Wave, the  “small dog” Skip ‘Lost,’ Unity, and that’s just the first half of the segment.

There’s more…

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When I first saw this I thought, yeah, sure you are all at the office… blah blah blah, no one is there you lying bunch of….but then I read the last sentence.

Annie says that “Serving in Congress is not about partisan politics, it’s about finding common ground….”

Really?  Common Ground?

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The Daily Signal is reporting crime rates in Chicago after the state of Illinois ‘Relaxed” its gun control laws.  Illinois is issuing concealed carry permits to law-abiding citizens, even though all the Liberal ‘lights’ continue to resist.

The data will  mean nothing to them because crime has nothing to do with liberal gun policy.  But it should mean something to everyone else.

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A letter from Bruce Van Derven, about Andrew Hemingway.  (Please Share it.)

One candidate for governor of New Hampshire has the financial resources (millions of dollars, largely his own) to plaster the airwaves with self-promoting propaganda, 30 seconds at a time.

The other candidate, Andrew Hemingway, can afford to run some ads during the last few days of his campaign, but he’s counting on grassroots support by word-of-mouth from people who know him.

I know Andrew. I know him very well, having served with him as an elected official in Bristol — he was the chair of the budget committee, when I was the selectman member of the committee. I want to offer these first hand observations and you can decide if this is someone you’d like to see as your governor.

Fact: In the years prior to Andrew’s service as budget committee chair, the budget process was cumbersome and cantankerous. So much so, it was impossible to find 13 people who wanted to serve on the budget committee and there was open hostility between the budget committee, department heads, and selectmen. Andrew set a tone of civility and respect that was infectious. He repaired the relationships with the department heads and selectmen, so that it became cordial and not confrontational. The committee had a full complement of 13 members. The end result was a reduced budget that was presented to Town Meeting that had the unanimous support of selectmen, department heads, the town administrator and budget committee — to the penny. The body at Town Meeting decided to add money to the budget. Can you imagine?

Fact:

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This week on GrokTALK! our guests are Aaron Day, the head of Stark 360 and chairman of the RLCNH; Dan Dwyer, candidate for NH State Senate; and Maureen Mooney, also a candidate for the NH State Senate.  We talk about the Republican establishment, NH’s governor’s race, the media’s Scott Brown obsession, much-needed changes to the NH State Senate, and a lot more…

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