Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
Rep. Scott Burns, D-Franklin, argued the program is voluntary for retail establishments and would help cities and towns save on paint disposal costs.
He argued that the bill does not institute a tax, but places a fee on retailers.
Two points. First, I read HB1570. I did not get the sense that it was voluntary. Perhaps I missed that, but my gut feeling is that Democrat leadership lied to its caucus or New Hampshire Democrat Scott Burns is lying for them.
We know Democrats don’t really care about jobs or the economy, or expanding oil and natural gas projects would be at the top of the list. These energy development projects would be self-funded (no taxpayer boondoggles), and would require the oil and gas companies to invest their own cash on materials, employees, wages, and benefits, all of which would inject new revenue into the economy while lessening dependency on taxpayer-funded support systems.
We know democrats don’t want that. It could also mean affordable energy, lower gas prices, warmer winters, which Democrats also seem to oppose. What I don’t get is why they would object to the government and the states involved earning more tax revenue without having to raise or add taxes? (Did that question just answer itself?)
So how about another incentive, particularly when it comes to the keystone XL Pipeline? According to the environmental left–depending on what day of the week it is, Koch industries could lose billions.
More oil would lower prices and cost them profits.
WashPo
Koch’s oil production in northern Alberta is “negligible,” according to industry sources and quarterly publications of the provincial government. Moreover, Koch has not reserved any space in the Keystone XL pipeline, a process that usually takes place before a pipeline is built.
“You can Check in any time you like but you can never leave.” After getting a full-time job with benefits, (Melissa) Battles went to disenroll from the Obamacare insurance she purchased through HealthCare.gov. But trying to disenroll from Obamacare turned out to be a full-time job in itself. “The first person I spoke with after … Read more
Why would planned Parenthood want to unseat a Democrat State legislator whom they endorsed in 2010? The legislator is Democrat Margo Davidson. Margo’s cousin is Semika Shaw. Shaw is the woman who died as a result of the ministrations of one Kermit Gosnell.
Davidson supported legislation in Pennsylvania that would bring abortion clinics in line with other health care facilities, requiring regular inspections to ensure that conditions like those in Gosnell’s clinic did not affect the health and lives of any other women in the state.
Today I honor [Semika’s] memory by voting for this legislation that seeks to safeguard the health of women that is long overdue, so that never again will a woman walk into a licensed healthcare facility in the state of Pennsylvania and be butchered, as she was, with her uterus perforated and her death of sepsis and infection permeating in her body till she writhed in pain on the floor of her home to her ultimate death. And today I thank the members of this house that supported this legislation for the safety of women.
Rep Davidson saw Gosnell’s clinic for what it was; the back alley abortion clinic that Democrats promised they would protect women like Semika from having to endure. Her reward from Planned Parenthood? Their endorsement of her primary candidate.
You could do a lot of good with a growing economy that results in a state with a nearly Billion Dollar Surplus. Meanwhile, here in New Hampshire, Democrats are already spending that Medicaid Money and looking for new taxes.
National Journal There’s a little bit of a laziness on the part of the people who want to claim the Republican Party has some kind of women problem,” said Priebus, speaking at the Christian Science Monitor Breakfast. “We basically have a single women problem under 35 issue.” The real question, the chairman said, was why … Read more
We’ve talked about this. Obama wants to kill jobs. NH Democrats want to kill some jobs. Make prices go up. Reduce full-time opportunities. Make it harder for new or unskilled people to find work. Everyone knows what will happen, and still the Democrats persist. They are willing to harm New Hampshire families to pad their … Read more
This is interesting. And Hat Tip to Rich Girard for prying it out of the Bedford School district, and Ann Marie Banfield for sharing. It is a survey for ages 9 to 11 and is called the DAP_Preteen Sample Survey.
It asks your children to rate 58 statements from between “not at all” to “Almost always.” The important point here is that Taxpayers are paying for this stuff.
Here’s a screen grab of the PDF. (Read Superintendent Tim Mays remarks to Rich with regard to the survey on the jump)
I think this goes in the “Let’s make up a problem to solve” file.
The New Hampshire House…for clarity that means Democrats, just passed a tax on paint.
Retailers will be required by law to assess this tax to be determined by the Paint-tax-Tsar on every container of interior or exterior paint that is 5 gallons or less.
The money will be used to finance a new bureaucracy whose role it will be to collect unused paint and paint containers and to steward them to an environmental Nirvana.
My town dump does that already without another tax for a Paint Stewardship Program.
It must be tax and spend day in Concord. New Hampshire Democrats are passing new taxes, new spending, violating the State Constitution…..I’m having flashbacks to 2009 – 2010. William O’Brien 1:03pm Mar 20 The Liberals in the House just voted to break open Gov. Hassan’s “perfect” budget to spend more money on welfare. HB 1635. … Read more
In Segment Four, two of our most prolific (local) commenters at GraniteGrok.com join us in studio for a wide-ranging discussion on finding a conservative voice in New Hampshire, how we do not censor comments or ban folks we disagree with, getting involved in political activism, The Sons of Stark, small r’s small d’s, ruling class, … Read more
In Segment Four, two of our most prolific (local) commenters at GraniteGrok.com join us in studio for a wide-ranging discussion on finding a conservative voice in New Hampshire, how we do not censor comments or ban folks we disagree with, getting involved in political activism, The Sons of Stark, small r’s small d’s, ruling class, … Read more
You should know the story of Parker Gilbert by now. The student from London, England who registered from his dorm at Dartmouth and voted in Hanover. New Hampshire. A swing state. Then he was accused of rape and arrested. He is going to trial. But hey, there’s still no vote fraud in New Hampshire.
Then there’s Florida. Florida is a swing state too, and guess what? A local NBC affiliate managed to track down dozens of “registered voters” around the Ft. Myers area who voted in November 2012 (like our boy Parker) and who are also not citizens of the United States. (They call it voter fraud in Florida.)
In segment Three Scott Wilson, the President of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League (CCDL), brings us up to date on the state of Gun Rights in Connecticut, the status of their lawsuit against Governor Malloy, with details about mandatory registration, the dissenters, the folks in between, and the CCDL’s upcoming event on April 5th. Listen … Read more
I have always considered the word “thanks,” unless presented with sarcasm as if to say “well, thanks a lot,” to have a positive connotation, until now. Kevin Landrigan CONCORD – Thanks to deaths and resignations, the 400-member House of Representatives is down to 388 strong. Then there is the awkward, “down to 388 Strong.” I … Read more
As we all know a year ago Phil Consentino was FIRED from his position as police chief, and elderly affairs director, and he was fired for cause. What most Atkinsonians do not know is what that cause was. He was fired pursuant to a sexual harassment complaint from a female employee. It was investigated by a third-party firm, and the selectman, immediately upon reading their findings, decided to fire Consentino for CAUSE.
The accusers eight page complaint detailed almost 5 years of repeated sexual harassment from Consentino. YEARS of innuendo, suggestive comments, suggestive gestures, touching her, smelling her hair, groping himself in front of her, staring at her while touching himself, were all painstakingly detailed in her complaint.
I would ask what kind of pig would treat a woman this way, particularly a woman who works next to his wife, but we now know the answer to that question.
Women who carry firearms and are encouraged to learn how to use them have a significant advantage over those who have been disarmed by pro-rape Democrats and their Republican abettors. Weight, strength, even numbers are no guarantee that a woman is an easy target for sexual assault. She is no longer just another victim.
I don’t have the numbers but it doesn’t take a genius to figure it out.
Rape is most likely to occur where attackers know that women are most helpless.
In a state like new Hampshire, which values the right to self-defense, violent crime is consistently one of the lowest in the nation. The majority of sexual assaults that do occur here happen in places (say…on or near college campuses) where prohibitions against firearms are not just advertised, but glorified by pro-rape Democrats. Would-be attackers know these women have been disarmed by Democrats so the odds of a successful attack are greatly improved.
But that’s never enough. Not for Democrats and their water-carriers.
Washington Times In his ruling, Judge Eric F. Melgren said the EAC, which Congress created after the 2000 Florida voting fiasco, must accede to states’ requests for people to provide proof of citizenship when they register to vote. The judge said the Constitution gives states the power to determine voter qualifications, and if states want … Read more
The Union leader has a story about the NH Democrats new Paint Tax. NH House Democrats pushed it through yesterday, and I wrote about it here.
