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If you missed the live stream last night we will have full video of the entire event posted sometime later this evening. For now, here is the audio of Andrew Hemingway’s entire speech and his announcement that he is running for governor of New Hampshire.
I found this interesting; thought it might stir up some debate. The last sentence, in particular, caught my attention. “The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one’s whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture the complexities of human existence; a man whose appetite is his law strikes us … Read more
One of the most serious problems confronting us is New Hampshire’s meaningless notions of residency (domicile or presence). Non-residents are permitted (even encouraged) to vote here.
I think we all know how ‘sensitive’ New Hampshire Democrats get when you start playing games with ‘press access.’ So I wonder what their thoughts are with regard to what their Abortion Goddess Wendy Davis just did in Travis County, Texas.
The Travis County Democratic Party held a fundraiser with Wendy Davis on Tuesday, and Davis delivered her stump speech. That’s normal stuff. But in a highly unusual move, the TCDP and the Davis campaign barred the event to all but one media outlet, the Texas Tribune, which livestreamed it.
Delivered Jan 29, 2014 by Dan McGuire
Madam Speaker and colleagues, former Representative Richard “Stretch” Kennedy sadly passed away two weeks ago. In preparing this speech I’ve had the great pleasure of reminiscing with some of Stretch’s friends, colleagues, relatives, neighbors, employees and acquaintances. The same adjectives were mentioned time and time again: unique, larger than life, kind, generous, gruff, fearless, honest, playful, politically incorrect, strong willed, unruly, outdoorsman, collector. He had a character so large it sometimes seemed as though he’d stepped off a movie screen. Even the most outrageous rumors such as Stretch owning a tank or flying for Air America somehow seemed plausible.
Stretch was extremely generous with his time, money and friendship in matters large and small. I met Stretch soon after moving to the state when I started attending meetings of the Gun Owners of New Hampshire. We met here at the Concord Holiday Inn, and Stretch was part of a group of members who would go to Uno’s for late snack after the meetings. He went out of his way to make me feel welcome in their group and not like an outsider.
…We believe we (by that I mean Skip) have resolved the issue that was preventing the Facebook API from correctly seeing images from Granite Grok. The default image should now be a Grok Logo, but if there are multiple images available to include from the site in the status update (you’ll see translucent arrows on … Read more
If you only have time to listen to one segment, this is it. Ian Underwood joins us to take the distractions out of the debate (almost any debate, actually); words mean something and if you are going to keep changing the meanings of words there is no reason to even write laws and no reason … Read more
The most Partisan President rambles on in unspecific platitudes with but one exception. He is prepared to act like a king to get what he wants if Congress won’t give it to him. It’s his most consistent theme of late.
So how does New Hampshire’s Senior Senator respond?
While other Democrat Senators up for re-election in 2014 take a step back from Obama’s unconstitutional pronouncements of his right to rule as a despot, Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s “response” to the State of the Union reads like a Carol-Shea Porter response letter to your concerns about, say, Benghazi.
There is an article up at Michael Graham.com that talks about the concern among Democrat strategists that they can’t win the House and they could lose the Senate. They are.. .”..so dispirited about any chance of picking up the US House–that they’re writing off the latter and shoving all their chips (and cash) on the … Read more
The Union Leader has already reported this, so why should we wait.
Bristol high-tech entrepreneur and conservative activist Andrew Hemingway will announce his candidacy at an event in Manchester, a source close to Hemingway’s fledgling campaign told the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Hemingway, 31, will make the announcement at a “Solutions First” rally at The Yard Restaurant at 7 p.m., an event organized by a “Draft Hemingway” political action committee that organized about a month ago.
He is expected to file paperwork organizing a campaign committee on Friday.
I guess that Draft Andrew Hemingway for Governor thing worked then?
Massachusetts state Rep Carlos Henriquez (D) must have his eye on the speaker’s chair. He’s serving six months of ‘practice’ in a Billerica jail cell. Henriquez was convicted for backhanding, punching, and choking a girlfriend, but refuses to resign. The Boston Herald is reporting that the Massachusetts House is trying to get him to resign, … Read more
Charlie Arlinghaus, writing in the Union Leader, talks about stagnation in New Hampshire becoming “the new normal.” In the course of his discourse on the years before and during our current stasis, business tax reform appears to coincide with job growth before the lost decade, and a lack of business tax reform for a lack … Read more
Rich has been keeping City Clerk Matt Normand busy answering questions about the Manchester voter checklist. Rich reports that there were 231 people registered to vote from 1200 Elm Street in 2012 and not one of them had an affidavit challenged. But as Ed points out, the way the laws were written by Democrats, challenging … Read more
There will be a hearing on HB 1508, a bill to terminate New Hampshire’s participation in Common Core.
From Ann Marie Banfield via Facebook
IT IS URGENT that we get as MANY PEOPLE to attend this hearing next THURSDAY (11:30am at the Legislative Office Building room 207)
Bring your friends and neighbors !! We need to FILL up the ROOM.
| Next/Last Comm: | HOUSE EDUCATION |
| Next/Last Hearing: | 02/06/2014 at 11:30 AM LOB 207 |
Full text of the Bill on the Jump
Last Week I hinted at a special non-resident voter, registered from the same apartment as Michelle Bensignor in 2008. Learn who he is in this segment (hint-It’s Geoff Wetrosky) as well as why Caitlin Legacki “voting” in New Hampshire when she admits she was not here is such a big deal. We also talk about … Read more
One might extend La Rochefoucauld’s famous maxim that neither the sun nor death can be stared at for long, by saying that no member of the modern liberal intelligentsia can stare at a social problem for very long. He feels the need to retreat into impersonal abstractions, into structures or alleged structures over which the … Read more
Media Matters sent out an email in response to an item in the Manchester Union Leader that was their follow up to what we’d been writing about someone voting for Caitlin Ann Legacki in Manchester in Nov 2012 when she says she was not here. She was working in Missouri.
Greetings,
I wanted to make sure that you had seen our latest on how The New Hampshire Union Leader cited anecdotal evidence from past elections to revive the misleading threat of voter fraud.
Manchester Union Leader
At a public hearing on House Bill 1400 Tuesday, Norelli told the House Election Law Committee the state’s first-in-the-nation primary is a source of great pride and has put New Hampshire at the center of many historic events.
“The formation of this commission is an important step to position our state to maximize the benefits of the 100th anniversary,” Norelli said. “By planning ahead we can ensure that we properly honor and commemorate this moment in our state’s history and utilize the opportunity to promote civic participation.”
New Hampshire Senator Bob Smith has entered the Republican Primary to challenge Democrat Jeanne Shaheen. See what Bob has to say about the race, the party, DC, Senator Shaheen, term limits and the problem with DC staffers, why he’s the guy for NH in 2014, and what he thinks is important for New Hampshire. Segment … Read more