Steve MacDonald

While we are poking the Shaheen campaign with the crooked stick of corruption for implied coordination with a Super PAC, let us not forget that the message she is trying to sell as a part of that coordination is misleading in itself.

:”… When Brown was the Senator from Massachusetts he gave big oil and Wall Street billions in special breaks. They gave him millions in campaign contributions. Jeanne Shaheen voted to stop those special breaks. She’s leading the fight for a bipartisan bill to lower energy costs for consumers and create jobs. …”

You want to know what the special breaks are?  Not taxing someone more than you already are or, Lord help us all, choosing to take less of their money by force than before.

To put that in context, when the town I live in didn’t spend so much that they had to take more of my income in additional taxes than they already did, that difference to a Democrat, is my special break.

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Kimberly Morin reports that governor Hassan continues to use the debunked lie that women only earn .77 cents to every dollar a man makes because… it fits Hassan’s false narrative.

This author was in attendance and asked the Governor why she continues to use the study that claims women earn .77 to a man’s $1.00 even though the study has been proven inaccurate by the Department of Labor. Her response was less than stellar.

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The Attorney Generals Report on Duckgate is an amusing read up to the part where the AG concedes that it cannot or will not prosecute anyone because it lacks the ability to do so.  But there is one breathtaking takeaway from the entire report.

While Campbell’s and Pappas’s versions of the events in many regards are simply not credible, their actions do not give rise to criminal violations…”.

“Simply not credible…”

I’m quit sure I remarked often about how no one would be charged with a crime–except for the minor violation and fine Campbell paid for taking waterfowl with a BMW out of season.  But while the report does not result in further action of a criminal nature, it does reveal that these two men when through a series of wild contortions to ensure that result.

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(Last I heard the hearing for SB120 is this afternoon at the legislative office building- 1:00- 1:30pm)

Lesson number one – Money is speech.

If money isn’t speech why do candidates need so much of it to get their ‘message’ out?  The message is political speech.  The money is the vehicle to effective political speech–speech that reaches enough ears and eyes to matter.  These two cannot be separated and any effort to do so by politicians is never anything more than a way to expand their market share.  Their domination.  Their monopoly on money used for political speech.

Bills like SB 120 impair the ability of anyone but the entrenched to optimize their message.  They take the Free out of speech and hide it in a Rube-Goldbergian maze filled with traps and pitfalls. If you are lucky enough to find your free speech, should you present an idea or do so in a manner that the new  speaking class (see also ruling class) objects, you may find yourself in front of some lawyers desk defending what used to be your birth right but is now an expensive exercise in bureaucratic buggery.

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