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While we cannot get at Barack Obama or his socialist comrades infesting Congress for another year, there are a few elections coming this week that will certainly give citizens an opportunity to show some big government-loving liberals the door, be it at the local, state, or national level…
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ROLAND MAHEU. Many people agree that America’s civil decline, ignorance of the Constitution, and thus, loss of liberty, starts in the government schools. Movement Conservatives know they must engage in the battle for the hearts and minds in the school systems, and work for a return to understanding of the values and foundational principles that made this Nation great. Former Laconia City Councilor Roland Mahue, local businessman and former teacher and administrator, has stepped up and decided to make a run for that city’s Ward 6 school board seat. Despite the realities of the present economic times, and the existence of a tax cap, the big spenders and cheerleaders of the educational-industrial complex have dreams of closing the existing centrally-located high school and moving it to the far outskirts of town. Aside from adding additional busing costs, the larger question is whether it really fixes what’s broke? Roland will be instudio and looks forward to taking calls at 603 527 1490. We’ll ask him about all the federal bucks falling from Heaven, and the supplemental appropriation process and whether it has the effect of circumventing the tax cap.
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Andy Sanborn wowed ’em at the recent "tax summit" held by NH’s Democrat "leaders" with his detailed description of all the taxes a small business owner here in the Granite State must pay (video here). Joining us in the studio, we’ll discuss the list of taxes, and why it is paramount a line in the sand must be drawn against any more. We’ll get his overall take of the summit and we’ll review (again) the importance of the so-called NH Advantage. We’ll look at creeping OVER-regulation overtaking the state used as a means to raise more revenue WITHOUT legislative approval– Labor, Liquor, etc, and how its stifling business activity and causing further harm like pushing the under-eighteen demographic from the job market. Most likely we’ll chat the NY-23 House race and whether former NHGOP Chair Fergus Cullen is correct in using it in his Union Leader column as an example of the "civil war" in the Republican Party between conservatives and the not-so conservatives…
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Not Evil, Just Wrong is the movie Al Gore and his ilk wish had never been made. After viewing it at the premier thanks to our friends at the Josiah Bartlett Center, (and Andy Sanborn & The Draft) one can see why. Is this the beginning of the end for the radical global warming movement? New polling shows people are starting to wake up on this issue. Hopefully…
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Lynne Blankenbeker. One of the races Fergus laments about in the aforementioned column is the special election for a NH House seat in Concord. According to him, the big bad mean conservatives chased away a perfectly acceptable RINO from Party under the threat of a serious primary challenge, forcing him to instead switch parties. The culpable (in Fergus’ view) conservative upstart, Lynne Blankenbeker, will join us to discuss Tuesday’s election, where she hopes to defeat former Concord Mayor (and, now, FORMER Republican) Jim MacKay.
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Lynne has been a resident of New Hampshire since 1993.
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She was raised in Florida and moved to Alabama in 1982 where she earned her BS degree in nursing. She joined the Air Force while in college and was commissioned into the Nurse Corps in 1986. In 1990 Lynne was deployed to the Middle East in support of Operation Desert Shield/Storm. After her tour, she returned home and started her family. She has one daughter, a senior at Concord High School. She took an 8 year break from military service while she was home with her daughter.
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Lynne and her husband moved to NH because they felt it was the best place to raise their young family. She practiced nursing part-time at DHMC and was a Risk Manager for a DHA hospital until the move to Concord in 2004. In 2001 she returned to military service as a nurse in the Navy Reserves. In 2003 she was mobilized in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, caring for the injured soldiers and sailors. Currently, Lynne is a Commander and the CO of 2 medical units in MA. She also owns her own law practice where she focuses mainly on healthcare law and healthcare risk management consulting. She worked part-time at Concord Hospital until April 2009.
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A veteran, she is a life-member of the VFW Post 1631 and the American Legion. She is the co-founder of the Central NH Republican Women’s club and a me
mber of the Concord Republican City Committee.
Lynne on some of the issues: 1) Against Big Government. 2) Fiscal Conservative. Does not support an Income Tax or a Sales Tax. 3) Would like to see local control of education. 4) Against a National Healthcare Plan. 5) Does not support a seat belt or helmet law. 6) Opposes the current NH law that allows minors to have abortions without parental notification. 7) Pro Small Business 8) Supports the State’s right to govern itself as enumerated in the Constitution. 9) Dedicated to Veteran’s issues
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Obama to give miliions and millions for technology in the Muslim world?! Where the bleep is he getting THIS money?!
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