As soon as I had put up Maya Harvey’s press release that Trump was going to be speaking at the NH GOP Annual Meeting where new officers are chosen by the new NH GOP State Committee Members, I put in a request for 5 Groksters to be credentialed. That post was here: “Breaking News – NH GOP Keynote Speaker: President Donald Trump“. I figured “Five? Maybe 2 or 3 would get accepted”? But commenter Allen, in the end, was right:
“since the NH republican state committee is acting as a press gatekeeper, I assume GraniteGrok ain’t getting in…”
And at the end of the day yesterday, that became true. So, you think that politics MIGHT be playing a role in this? Sure.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 9:36 AM Skip <Skip@granitegrok.com> wrote:
Good morning!
>> Credentialed Media is welcome to attend. For all press inquiries and to confirm attendance, please email Maya Harvey.
I certainly would like to become credentialed for the event. Other GraniteGrok writers have also contacted me in being able to cover the event as well. May I request 4 credentials at once or should they contact you directly?
Thanks!
-Skip
And thus, I waited as she said that the folks’ names I had sent had been put on a “to be approved” list. Late yesterday, I inquired to our status as I had heard nothing from the NH GOP but had from a couple other folks as to when I SHOULD have been notified:
—— Original Message ——
From: “Maya Harvey” <maya@nhrsc.com>
To: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 1/27/2023 6:19:11 PM
Subject: Re: Re[3]: NH GOP Meeting –Hey Skip!
So all approved media got an email from the Trump team this morning. If you didn’t get one that means they didn’t select you unfortunately. I know they had a ton of national press make requests and were super limited on space.I’m gonna put you on the waiting list in case someone cancels and I can sneak you in. It’ll probably just be one or two slots if that happens though because a reporter and camera would cancel together.
Maya
—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Maya Harvey” <maya@nhrsc.com>
Sent: 1/27/2023 6:22:06 PM
Subject: Re[5]: NH GOP Meeting –OK, understood, even if the Trump folks have credentialed us in the past.
<snip>
-Skip
Indeed. Including all of his speaking events here in NH. And one Grokster who was asked by Trump himself to run against Sununu for Governor. And no, I am being completely truthful on that.
And I just got this: “the NH GOP doesn’t support the grassroots. Hopefully the new leadership will be more “inclusive””.
I’ve covered four Trump events and still have the “credentials” to prove it. I’ve also had other Groksters credentialed for those events as well. The only difference between now and then? Yep, Allen was right.
It’s rather clear that politics is afoot. It’s clear that we have not approved of NH Gov Chris Sununu – and it’s clear he doesn’t like us. And it’s clear that with Elliot Gault back as the Exec Director of the NH GOP, Sununu has firm control of the NH GOP.
Sidenote: depending on how the voting goes today, that is. I believe that Chris Ager will win the Chair. A little time later, Gault will return to Sununu’s direct employment.
But I think Maya may have other reasons as well:
- We endorsed Chuck Morse’s opponent for Senate, Don Bolduc – she was on his staff.
- We also caught her doing a “sign stunt”
- We’ve gone after Sununu a lot.
- She’s also blaming me for this:
—— Original Message ——
From: “Maya Harvey” <maya@nhrsc.com>
To: “Skip” <skip@granitegrok.com>
Sent: 1/25/2023 10:16:17 AM
Subject: Fwd: I want a post on your siteDid you send my email somewhere? This is the third spam email I’ve received in 24 hours addressed to the Granite Gronk.
———- Forwarded message ———
From: Hassan Imran <hassanimran.seo09@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:01 PM
Subject: I want a post on your site
To: <maya@nhrsc.com>Hi dear sirHow are you?
I want a post on your site https://granitegrok.com/
How are you?Please give me your best price!
Normal price,Maya
—— Original Message ——
From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>
To: “Maya Harvey” <maya@nhrsc.com>
Sent: 1/25/2023 11:47:53 AM
Subject: Re: Fwd: I want a post on your siteNope – just to you. I get those spam emails all the time so I have no wish to have these pushed upon others.
And it’s GraniteGrok
-Skip
Granite Gronk? Yeah, I get that a lot from the Left (along with GraniteCrock and other variations) so that attempted slight didn’t surprise or bother me.
No, it wasn’t me that did the equivalent of “deliver 10 pizzas to this address prank” but eventually these folks, that want to pay to put sponsored posts up, send those kinds of emails to anyone they can associate with a website. Only thing I can think of is that “Hassan” is using a webcrawler and hoovered up her email address on GraniteGrok.
Anyways…
And with the ramp up to today’s meeting, I had a number of other folks that called me about the meeting at which time after telling them that the ‘Grok wouldn’t be there today, they started to bring up other possible reasons. After all, the “political community” here in NH is rather small and “stuff” gets around – and remembered. It’s a fascinating picture when one starts to connect the dots but I was unaware of quite a few of the possible reasons – ALL tied up in petty/personal politics and all related to the NH GOP. I’ll put all that up when the folks, who said they would, email the details they verbally told me (anonymously as well).
It will also be interesting to see, among “the ton of national press”, which NH media entities got the invite to attend.
I guess we’re just the PIA to the NH GOP. Ok boys and girls of Granite Gronk GraniteGrok, if that’s how they want to roll, we can amp it up. After all, the oppo research folks against Sununu’s Presidency run have most likely already discovered us.
And bring your footballs and cleats since Maya has us playing a different game.
Heh!
