Steve MacDonald

Things are coming to a head again in Atkinson, NH and it is the same old bald head – former Police Chief Phil “All Hands” Consentino.

Here is what happens when police, the courts, and the newspapers cover for bad cops.

Some copies of the out of court settlement between the Town of Atkinson and the female dispatcher who was sexually harassed by Phil Consentino have been placed in plastic bags and tossed in the appropriate front lawns.

A former resident who had to move out of Atkinson with his family has summed up much of the issue on the local blog, The Atkinson Reporter 2, which can be found here and on our CNHT.org web site.

Mark Acciard was bullied for years until his wife and kids left town for some peace, but that doesn’t mean Mark doesn’t have a warm spot for old Consentino the Latin Hand Lover.

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With few exceptions, typically at the very (very) local level Politics is expensive.  That’s why incumbents have a natural advantage.   They already have name recognition.  They are able to use their connections to amass war-chests of cash with which to engage in campaigning.    And campaigning is nothing more than paid political speech.  So to complete the word problem, if you need money to run for office, and running for office is political speech, then you need money to engage in political speech.

Political incumbents, and a manifold of professional political “speakers” are always offering resolutions like HCR-10 to institutionalize political speech.  Their goal is to frighten you with the chimera of rich corporations “buying elections,” but when you look at all the kinds of legislation offered by politicians to address the so-called problem, it is the everyday citizen who is ultimately silenced.

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Senator Harry Reid had announced that because AFP recorded and broadcast the stories of some folks who are having a hard time after the implementation of ObamaCare that they cannot possibly be true.

Harry Reid is calling everyday American’s with Cancer, or Lupus, adults, children, even single mom’s, liars because if it were him, if he ran AFP, they would be.

Left wing billionaires are constantly funding Democrat propaganda.  The people are stage props, no more genuine than Obama’s styrofoam columns, or Obama, for that matter.

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Keeping ‘corporate’ money out of politics is a Democrat agenda item, so whenever “activists” bring it up two things are evident.

First, Democrats are behind it and paying for it.

Second, by ‘Corporate’ money they do not mean, as Grokster Susan Olsen observed, Corporations…” like the Service Employees International Union (SIEU), a 501(c)(5) tax-exempt corporation. Or the American Federation of Teachers Union, another 501(3)(5) tax-exempt corporation. Or maybe NEA-NH, a 501(c)(6) tax-exempt corporation? Or maybe the Town of Warner, in-freaking-corporated in 1735?”

Unions, who already pay no taxes (see also–do not contribute to funding that which the candidates they elect advocate) are never included in demands to end the ‘big money threat’ to Democracy.

So when you read this, keep that in mind, and then take a look at who the biggest ‘Threats” to the Democracy really are.

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New Hampshire Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen is participating in a special all night event in the US Senate.  From 10pm tonight until 9am Tuesday morning, twenty-eight Democrat Senators so far (I include the Independent socialist Bernie Sanders (VT) as a Democrat) will talk endlessly about …climate change.  Eleven hours of speeches about climate change.  And it’s an all-nighter.

Do you know what percentage of Americans who think climate, the environment, and pollution (combined) are one of our most pressing problems?

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HB1360 (Relative to using certain electronic devices while driving) is HB1117’s cell phone ban twin, and 192 New Hampshire House reps voted in favor of it last week, even though there is no evidence it would make any difference–unless inconveniencing everyone, all the time, was the difference they were hoping to make.

NHTSA – Most crashes involve a relatively unique set of circumstances that make precise calculations of risk for engaging in different behaviors very difficult. Thus, the available research does not provide a definitive answer as to which behavior is riskier.

HB1360 is a confluence of intrusive ideas motivated by the Progressive desire to limit behavior, based–as is typical for knee-jerk liberals–on emotion and not evidence.

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