Steve MacDonald

Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

No Gambling

by Steve MacDonald

In the smoldering ruin of SB 489–this years gambling bill, even after a massive campaign by Millennium gaming and its big-money FixItNow NH campaign quarter-backed by their Public relations goo-roo Richard Killion, (whom I suspect is this guy), we get comments like this, from this morning’s Union Leader.

“What’s clear is that today’s vote runs contrary to the will of the people, who, overwhelmingly support expanded gaming and see it as the only acceptable new revenue option,” he said. “The people do not want higher taxes.”

The people do not want higher taxes.  But nothing else he says makes any sense unless he means the will of "the minority of" people who overwhelmingly support expanded gaming, and see it as the only acceptable option."  Isn’t language fun?

Richard really should have been around New England long enough to know that the one thing you can count on in New Hampshire is for voters to contact their state reps and let them know how they feel about an issue.  So from square one this statement is at the very least disingenuous.  Before we even get to square two we know that that is exactly what the people did, and the product of that opinion (how the House voted) is clearly represented in the roll call.  Consider the following.

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Introducing Rep Kevin Hodges (D-Awesome Cool)

by Steve MacDonald

  Ah, the arrogance of youth.  Not long ago it was Brian "I have an LSR to get minors off for getting busted for possession of alcohol" Poznanski who was the whelp–having then gotten himself busted as a minor in possession of alcohol in front of a house full of minors and his LSR subsequently … Read more

Your Renewable Future?

by Steve MacDonald

PSNH, New Hampshire’s largest supplier of electricitiy, is looking to adjust rates to compensate for lost revenue.  They lost the revenue because of decreased usage.  Usage has decreased because of the economy, but that presents us with a real world truth.  The implications of the liberal environmental movement do not match the facts. Enviro-weenies want you to reduce … Read more

Have We Got Hodes By The Sach(s)

by Steve MacDonald

Now that the government has conveniently brought charges against Goldman Sachs–just in time for the fiscal reform debate (cough-cough)–is Paul Hodes willing to take one for the team to add some much needed legitimacy to this theater of the absurd? Hodes takes a lot of money from the insurance/investment industrial complex (here, and here ) … Read more

Can You Name This NH Rep?

by Steve MacDonald

    In the world as it really is, there are people in positions of power–even power as divided as the New Hampshire State Legislature–who feel entitled to special treatment.  These ‘perks’ come in all forms.  The one pictured above is the ability or ‘right’ to park in a no parking zone without fear of … Read more

Hodes = Wrong

by Steve MacDonald

A little less than a year ago, Paul Hodes voted to kill funding for abstinence education in the 2010 Budget.  (I wrote about it here.) He hailed it as a necessary cost cutting measure even though 75% of all HHS money for teen sex programs already went to promoting condom and contraception use.  By his … Read more

NOM de Guerre

by Steve MacDonald

If Ray is really all that worried about out of state money [Lynch-Lied Ads from the national organization for Marriage (NOM)] he can start with his own candidates.  Carol Shea-Porter gets a huge chunk of her cash from congressional PACs, national unions, and special interests like Emily’s List, whose only “interest” in her is her … Read more

Mean Peace

by Steve MacDonald

The communications director of Green Peace India, Gene Hashmi, vented his spleen recently.  The problem?  Pressuring politicians is not working to his satisfaction. The failure at the global climate conference at  “Hope-n-change-in” has made it clear as Vodka that “the global climate movement now must do a course correction.”  Telling the truth would be a … Read more

Public Service?

by Steve MacDonald

One of the pleasures of blogging is reminding people of what blatant hypocrats liberals are.  For example.  As we approach November neither Paul Hodes nor Carol Shea Porter should be expected to spend any time politicking on the issue on warrantless wire taps and violations of personal privacy committed by the executive branch.  And the reasons … Read more

Lynch Lied

by Steve MacDonald

The NHDP has it’s panties in a bunch about an ad campaign claiming governor Lynch is a liar on the issue of same sex marriage.  This is to be expected from a party that sold spendocrat Jeff Goley as a small government anti-tax champion. The analysis of this question is relatively simple.  John Lynch said he … Read more

Busting Your Ash

by Steve MacDonald

One of my facebook friends was a US aviator who served over Iraq.  He currently flies commercial size aricraft for UPS.  I asked him to clarify the significant risks for pilots confronted by volcanic ash so we could get a better understanding of the problem. "The dangers of flying into volcanic ash can be catastrophic. … Read more

Light A Candle

by Steve MacDonald

Here in New Hampshire we’ve been at what Erik Erikson at Red State calls Tea Party 2.0 since day one.  Not a week goes by when the message from any one of the dozens of groups around the state who support the anti-tax rallies that define the Tea Party Movement is to get involved.  Learn … Read more

Not A Black Man In Sight?

by Steve MacDonald

I was listening to Jim and Marjorie on the way into work this morning, (WTKK) and a gentleman called in with some concerns that the Tea Party might in fact have some racist undertones.  He mentioned a few signs he saw at a New Hampshire Tea Party event he went to that made him uncomfortable, … Read more

Joe Citizen

by Steve MacDonald

Maybe you’ve gotten an invitation from Joe Citizen on facebook.  Maybe you are enticed by the idea of re-invigorating citizenship in New Hampshire.  And maybe, just maybe, you didn’t know that the Live Free or Die Alliance (LFDA) is a product of Left wing environmental activist, and Obama supporter Gary Hirschberg and his buddies. Now … Read more

Gud Lernnin

by Steve MacDonald

I live in Merrimack so I got to vote today.   As I approached the polls there was a small knot of young people holding handmade signs.  I’m always excited to see people who look to young to vote being politically active so I was curious about who or what they are supporting. The signs either … Read more

Merrimack Wants To Vote On Gay Marriage

by Steve MacDonald

  By a 65-35 majority the voters of Merrimack would like the opportunity for a statewide vote on the question of gay marriage.   In other voting, the budgets passed-both less than the default, Chris Ortega and Shannon Barnes won the two open School board seats, Dwyer and Flood got elected to the two open town … Read more

The New Hampshire Desperation Party

by Steve MacDonald

In an April 10th press release the NHDP bases its budget management prowess on the fact that Norm Major said, "I don’t see any exaggeration in the revenues at this point in time."  Of course they leave out the part where he mentions that…(quoting from the same Union Leader Article) But when he looks two … Read more

If The Racist Shoe Fits

by Steve MacDonald

The people who insisted that the TEA Party movement didnot exist, that it would never amount to much, that it was just a flash in the pan movement, that it was just a few disgruntled right wingers, that it was run by the Republican party, that it answered to Rush Limbaugh, and that it was a … Read more

Seeing Red

by Steve MacDonald

If you have not seen the recent polling from Rasmussen it’s not pretty for Paul Hodes.   He loses to everyone by a significant margin.  It might be better than the beating he’d have taken if he tried to retain his congressional seat, but with only 7 months to go and not one single thing on the … Read more

VAT’s All Folks!

by Steve MacDonald

The solution to irresponsible spending is always irresponsible taxation.  They go together like Peanut butter and Jelly, Root beer and Ice, like rama lama lama ke ding a de dinga a dong.  And to get them the liberals in New Hampshire do the same thing as the liberals in Washington.  They expand every department—in the … Read more

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