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So Colin Van Ostern wants to be NH SecState and is taunting current SecState Gardner?

September 26, 2018August 3, 2018 Skip

Let’s see if Van Ostern has the courage to appear, not at a Democrat sponsored debate, but a Grokster (along with WNTK’s Keith Hanson) sponsored debate! We’ll even livestream it – every. single. second: Time to fish or cut bait, Colin. It’s easy to be in front of your homies; how about facing we who … Read more

If NH State Senate Minority Leader Jeff Woodburn Has Any Firearms, Will he Turn Them in – NOW?

September 26, 2018August 3, 2018 Skip

If New Hampshire State Senate Minority Leader Jeff Woodburn has any firearms, will he turn them in NOW? He is, after all, he’s in favor of “Red Flag” laws which empower the State to take firearms away from those deemed to be a danger to others or themselves (or both).

C’mon Jeff, show the courage of your convictions; if you got’em, turn ’em in as a show of faith because “dangerous people” should no longer be “entitled” to Due Process. You’re supposedly a “Leader.” But are you a leader out in front or a “leader from behind” like Obama self-described? C’mon, Jeff, resoundingly smash that old phrase “Fine for thee but not for me!” to smithereens?

The Party of “Nice” keeps flunking kindergarten manners

September 26, 2018August 3, 2018

What Did NH Democrats Know About Jeff Woodburn and When Did They Know It?

September 26, 2018August 3, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Yesterday, when news broke that Democrat State Sen. Jeffy ‘Bumpstock’ Woodburn had been arrested for sexual and domestic assault, I observed two things in particular.

First, State Democrat Party Chair Ray Buckley was quick to announce/denounce, which is way out of character. And second,

Who knew what before it became a liability?

The State Republican Party want’s to know that too.

Email Doodlings – Conservatives should do Press Interviews – but watch the “how”

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Skip

BUMPED/UPDATED based on my attendance at a training session where I was helping a couple of nights ago: from 1/5/13: “Kiddie tricycle riding journalist met up against a tank with a laughing blogger at the wheel”. Read the bottom of this post – it’s my description of Steve being interviewed by a cub reporter that thought she was hot stuff. Given that it is campaign season and a lot of NH folks may be running for the very first time, my “How To” words still hold true and they work. It comes down to this – if a “journalist” want to interview, ALWAYS record it. Always, always always.

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A good Conservative friend on an email list, well known in NH, refuses to do press interviews. He’s had nothing but gotcha quotes / twisted quotes as a result, so he now leaves them twisting in the wind as they desperately try to get him to speak. There are some that do try for the ensnaring quote simply because of their ideological outlook – after all, what Glen Reynolds of Instapundit says of them is often true:

Democrat operatives with bylines

Sidenote: Example?

“Ax The Property Tax” and Replace it With What?

April 11, 2021August 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Mark Fernald is a Democrat running for the New Hampshire State Senate. His campaign signs say “Ax the Property Tax.” If that sounds too good to be true it is because it is.

Why New Hampshire’s ‘hurried’ Internet Sales Tax Solution Had to Die

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The recent scramble to “do something” after the Wayfair decision said states could tax internet sales was big news.

When the New Hampshire House killed the ‘bipartisan’ draft language that was big news.

What should be even bigger news is that the language the committee used to draft the proposed legislation could hand some measure of “tax administration rulemaking” over to an out-of-state third party.

RRftSotRP – I get stuff. Last lesson: “Unity! Voters!”. Yeah, “unity” – sure thing

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Skip

Oft time the NH GOP rails against folks like we Groksters because we “upset the apple cart”. For instance, as Steve reminded us (recently), the current NH GOP Chair said this about we bloggers at GraniteGrok back in 2013:

He told me that he was not going to waste his time discussing the vote with me. Oh yeah … and he also said that people who blog are those who are “ruining” the party.

I riffed off his post soon after with this: “And his main point – why are bloggers out on point instead of the the NH GOP?”

Albuquerque Forfeiture Case Could Have National Implications

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire has made great strides at the state level with regard to Asset Forfeiture. But many states, and more importantly the federal government, still engage in the practice of seizing property for themselves. A federal judge in Albuquerque, New Mexico just wrote a decision that while limited to local seizures, makes a great case for why the practice should be prohibited from sea to shining sea.

Top NH Trump Supporters Join Steve Negron for Congress Team

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Op-Ed

Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 2, 2018
Contact: Roger Wilkins
press@teamnegron.com, 603-864-8633

Trump New Hampshire Co-Chairman Fred Doucette & Prominent Trump Supporter Bruce Breton Join Team Negron

Nashua, NH – Political heavyweight Fred Doucette of Salem has put his full support behind candidate Steve Negron’s bid to secure New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District nomination.

As a trusted voice to the President, Doucette now seeks to reach his fellow “common sense approach” Trump supporters by letting them know: “Steve Negron has all the necessary tools in the toolbox. He will support our President, as well as make a difference in protecting the values we hold most important as Granite Staters.”

Dem Party Chair Asks NH Sen. Jeff Woodburn To Resign Over Charges of Assault

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Democrat party has been talking up a good game about their chances this fall, but I’m beginning to suspect they’re not that great. New Hampshire State Party Chair Ray Buckley has wasted no time in the wake of accusations of sexual assault in asking Sen. Jeff Woodburn to quit. Now.

CONCORD – The state Democratic Party called on their highest ranking member at the State House to resign immediately in the wake of criminal charges related to “sexual assault and sexual harassment,” according to the Chairman Ray Buckley.

GraniteGrok’s Top Ten Heavy Hitters for July 2018

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

It’s Already August, and you know what that means? There are only 145 Shopping Days ’till Christmas. It seems like a long time, so we’re here to help fill some of that in with the latest installment of Heavy Hitters!

It was an excellent month for blogging with another 200+ opportunities for you to get fresh content from the Grok. Among that multitude of news and opinion rose the ten posts for July 2018. The stories you viewed or read the most.

Here we go.

When a Group that Claims to Defend the 2nd Amendment Steps on the 1st

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The crossfire continues over the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition’s survey with the “fine print” declaration that failing to return that survey would brand you as anti-gun. Skip took them to the woodshed here, pointing out that it is both ridiculous and unproductive, and while Skip inferred it he never actually says it.

They are attempting to compel speech.

Trump Tells Sessions To End Mueller Investigation. Trump Must Have Something Big!

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Washington Times is reporting that President Trump has asked Jeff Sessions to put an end to the Mueller Probe.

The president’s comments came after he quoted Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who suggested that Mueller is trying to protect his team at the expense of the investigation.

The left will go nuts, but what about Trump doesn’t make the left go nuts? The Democrats will come out and scream obstruction, and the water-carriers in the media will carry their water. And Trump knows that.

So what’s he got?

Let’s remind people why we split from King George and beat the Redcoats

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Skip

Only $15 (down from $22.95) – isn’t competition and Capitalism grand?

No, this is not an ad by Libertarian COuntry on the ‘Grok. Rather, it’s a reminder of how far stalwart Liberty loving Americans (as opposed to the Berni-bros and Ocasio-Cortez’ers slouching to Socialism) were willing to stand up to abusers and oppressors. Taxation for a limited Government is a necessary evil – having more taken from you just so that those in power believe you aren’t doing the right things with your money so they HAVE to take it from you is both insulting – and theft. The fact that our “public morality” has been so perverted by Progressives such as Steve Marchand, Mark Fernald, and Molly Kelly (just to name three Socialists running as Democrats – but I repeat myself) should be frightening. You see, no matter HOW much they take from you, it is never enough.

Data Point – “Worker pay and benefits climbing at fastest pace in 10 years, ECI finds”

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Skip

The numbers: American workers are finally reaping the benefits of the lowest unemployment rate and best jobs market in decades: Wages and benefits are rising at the fastest pace in a decade. The employment cost index rose 0.6% in the second quarter, a tick below the MarketWatch estimate of 0.7%. More important, the cost of worker compensation … Read more

Data Point – most trustworthy news networks

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Skip

Couldn’t help but take a shot at Trump, could they? (H/T: Media Post via The Hill)

A brutal line and validating Steve MacDonald’s claims about a stealth Lefty group.

September 26, 2018August 1, 2018 Skip

No labels new and improved — Now With Even More Bi-partisan BS!

Just a brutal takedown by Grant Bosse at the UL of hopeful Democrat Governor candidate Steve Marchand:

But Steve Marchand is doing his best to make Kelly look like Barry Goldwater.

Both balls into the Left’s pool table left side pockets – a two-fer in marking Marchand as a true extremist with his anti-traditional American Exceptionalism stances and given that Molly Kelly is just to his right on the political spectrum, being called Goldwater probably raised her blood pressure a decade or so. Let’s face it, even the RINOs to her right have a cow being called such. Well played!

Steve MacDonald began railing against the “No Labels” group when it appeared on the scene and correctly calling it out for being a group camouflage for RINOs that felt at home in “No Labels”because it validated their No Principles stances. It served Democrats by allowing them to rub elbows with the RINOs laughing inside going “heh, these guys are giving me cover” until it was time for them to tell their Leftist brethren “here, hold my beer” and pop up showing the labels we put on them were genuinely earned as they shucked off that camo netting:

A View of Trump From China

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The Fiscal Times (FT) is no right-wing rag. They are as incorporated into the globalist world culture (and its narratives) as anyone. So this piece on how China views Mr. Trump and his choices is enlightening.

Donald Trump is leading a double life. In the west, most foreign policy experts see him as reckless, unpredictable and self-defeating. But though many in Asia dislike him as much as the Europeans do, they see him as a more substantial figure. I have just spent a week in Beijing talking to officials and intellectuals, many of whom are awed by his skill as a strategist and tactician.

An Open Letter to Members of the Franklin, NH School Board

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018 Op-Ed

By Karen Testerman

Once again the taxpayers of Franklin are confronted with a request for an increase in funds. Oddly with a declining population of students, there is still a need for an increase in cost.

What concerns me is that the discussion regarding budgets centers around teacher pay or the number of personnel required or facility needs. There is no discussion about job performance. The results demonstrate to the taxpayer the return on their invested tax dollar.