CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – The video!

CNHTActually, a whole bunch of videos – 32 to be exact.  That’s a lot of candidates and advocacy group that made their pitch to the assembled “family” members who were plentiful on Saturday (yes, it took me a day to process them.  Please note that “backups” were used to stitch things together as best as possible as sometime techie things didn’t quit go right as planned – apologies in advance). But hey, this is one of the main missions of the ‘Grok in doing the citizen journalism that the mainstream media refuses to do.

So, let’s start in the middle of the event and go right to the Chairman of CNHT’s first address to the crowd – Voter Fraud:

And we’ll circle back to the beginning of the event with the intro ceremonies including opening remarks by Keith Hanson, radio personality and host at WNTK (and now, a new Grokster!):

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CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic – Candidates for NH Governor

No, current GOP Governor Chris Sununu (only candidate in the NH GOP primary) was a no-show at this event (was it something we all said at an earlier “conservative Old Home Day meeting” that never happened?) but a potential rival did show up (albeit, late in the day) – Aaron Day and came well prepared to speak: … Read more

Not One A+ for the New Hampshire Republican Majority Senate in 2018

NH SenateA Senate is typically the single biggest barrier to prosperity in government. State Senators are few in number, lobbied heavily, prone to moderate their positions and easily influenced by donors.

So when I reviewed AFP New Hampshire’s 2018 Legislative Scorecard and found no A+ grades and only two A’s in a Republican majority State Senate, I was not the least bit surprised.

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CNHT Picnic – Or as Thomas Edison once said…

dumpster fireYes, Steve set me up well (emphasis mine, heh!):

With almost no time to prepare we will be taking a test flight of some new equipment at this years CNHT Annual Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic in Hillsborough. If you are there, and you should be, we’ll be (most likely) set up in the far left corner from the main entrance (by the emergency exit). Come watch Skip wrinkle his brow as he looks over the top of his glasses and fusses with all the new stuff.

Well, a whole lot more than a wrinkled brow with hands waving and lots of muttering.  Back to Edison:

“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

Or something like that as it seems he MAY have said something like that, or some derivative of that, or it’s just folklore.  Anyways, I found a whole bunch of ways to NOT make it all work (and spent an addition $900 in trying….sorta).  Sigh…good thing most engineers have backup systems in place.

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EPA Admin Scott Pruitt’s Resigns, Left Applauds: Wait, His Replacement is Worse

EPAWe liked Scott Pruitt. He was our kind of EPA Administrator. The kind that does more to get the bureaucracy out of the way of the states and the people and their rainwater runoff, ponds, and so on.

The left, inclined as they are toward Federal oversight of everything (because you can’t trust all the states to agree to your central planning regime) hated him.

So when their relentless efforts to purge him bore fruit, they were happy until they realized his successor, the Deputy Administrator, Andrew Wheeler is probably less of what they want than was Pruitt.

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ICYMI – On June 13th We Reached 30,000 Published Posts

30000 postsOn June 13th, 2018 GraniteGrok.com published its 30,000th post. Yes, Thirty-Thousandth.

You probably missed this because we did. It came and went amidst the daily bustle of hobby-blogging around jobs and family and life. Blame politics because as it has increasingly encroached on our hobbies, jobs, family, and lives, we’ve been here to chronicle it.

Well. Not ‘It’ so much as our opinions and observations about ‘it.’

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Today: Grok at the CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic

Snoopy Sopwith Camel, crash and burn
Is the new equipment ready to ‘fly’ or will it crash and burn?

With almost no time to prepare we will be taking a test flight of some new equipment at this years CNHT Annual Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic in Hillsborough. If you are there, and you should be, we’ll be (most likely) set up in the far left corner from the main entrance (by the emergency exit).

Come watch Skip wrinkle his brow as he looks over the top of his glasses and fusses with all the new stuff.

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Taxpayer Abuse in (Drumroll, Please) The Timberlane School District

The Earl of MetzlerThe Timberlane Regional School District (SAU55) has become the poster-child for taxpayer abuse in New Hampshire. Lead by the Earl of Metzler the towns of Sandown, Danville, Plaistow, and Atkinson have been plunged into an abusive relationship with political thugs. Donna Green explains the latest.

In an illegal non-public, the Timberlane School Board voted unanimously (8-0) to use $20,000 of Timberlane’s surplus money to dig SAU 55 out of its accounting hole of shame. A damning audit revealed the need for remedial work in the keeping-track-of-our -money department at SAU 55.  The solution?  Hire a consultant!

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CNHT Taxpayer Family Reunion Picnic Straw Poll Results

CNHTThe annual CNT Taxpayer Reunion Picnic has a Straw poll and with it being a midterm election and the crowd being Republican/Libertarian/Conservative the results are a great litmus of who this group (Highly likely Republican primary voters) support for November.

Here are the winners of the CNHT Straw Poll

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North Country “Wood Welfare”

ForestThe legislature passes a policy that drives up the cost of a product or service to keep a favored business or industry afloat. Without this protection money, those who benefit may no longer be able to enjoy the lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed.

This is the story of the green energy business. New Hampshire’s biggest player in this redistribution scheme is the timber industry which peddles “low grade” leftovers to biomass plants that convert it into expensive electricity the police-state forces on ratepayers.

Governor Sununu recently vetoed two bills passed by the legislature to foment this money laundering scheme and the “former” recipients of that plunder are not happy.

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Illegal Alien Child Rapists are Separating Children From Their Childhood

children-walking-to-schoolNorth Carolinians For Immigration Reform and Enforcement  (NCFire) is a private group that combs through state and local crime data.  They document the child sexual assaults charges/arrests of undocumented illegal aliens in their state. They do not assert that they find them all which is shocking when you look at what they uncover.

NCFire has recorded over 400 cases of child sexual assault or rape by illegals since January 2018, and over 800 last year.

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A Blogline of the Day. Plus taking the ‘Grok to the next level

First, just let me leave this here:

Lions Eat Suspected Rhino Poachers On South African Game Reserve.

Just(ice) desserts.

(H/T: Instapundit)

I have been busy lately.  REAL busy, so blogging has been light from me and my thanks to Steve and Mike for picking up the load.  Part of that will be see tomorrow at the CNHT Annual Picnic (consider it Old Home Day for Conservatives) – political issues, political speakers, candidates for political office, and a whole LOT of conservative activists yakking away during the event. We will be attempting to livestream the event.  Oh, before I forget:

12 noon to 3pm at the Young-Richardson American Legion #59 (538 W Main St., Hillsborough, New Hampshire 03244). Tickets are $15 for adults (go here or at the door)

About that “attempt”? Part (but only part) of taking GraniteGrok to the “next level”?  Yeah, this:

Livestream Studio

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Jay Matthews – reconsider your “Wood Welfare” please

Free MarketsI just read Steve’s post North Country “Wood Welfare” and went to the NHPR article he links to and pulled this additional quote from “beleagured” logger Jay Matthews

“I’m concerned with my electrical bill like anybody, but … I think we’d probably be better off paying a little more money in our rate and then still have the logging community working, [rather than] to put ’em all out of business,” Matthews says.

Note the assumed all inclusive “…we” part – only if you are a logger.  WHY should the rest of us pay more for your lifestyle/business model via enforced corporate welfare?  I’m out of work (but working on a plan) so why should you demand that *I* and others like me have to pay more for you to keep your company going?  Fairness?  I don’t think so. As a

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GrokPoll: Abortion in New Hampshire

How much support is there for abortion in New Hampshire? Democrats want us to believe that the majority of Granite Stater’s support the practice. Gubernatorial Candidate Steve “Take another Step to the Left” Marchand is convinced of this. Elsewhere I’ve seen more nuanced responses.

Most of the folks I know are committed to protecting pre-born life with few exceptions, like to save the life of the mother. But some support abortion up to 20 weeks. Others are indifferent to the life question but don’t want tax dollars supporting the practice.

What’s your position?

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Is Gunstock really being run to the benefit of its owners?

300px-GunstockMountainResort_GilfordNH_LOGO

“that the area is not being operated for the benefit of the county citizens and the Gunstock Commission recognizes no responsibility to do so.”

By NH State Representative Marc Abear

[Answer is “NO”.  They ought to privatize it as running a ski area is not a Proper Role of Government.  Neither is monopolizing liquor sales -Skip.  Lightly reformatted, emphasis mine]

To The Daily Sun,

The best government comes about when we the people are informed and involved. Gunstock is a case in point. It is important that the people of Belknap County grasp how Gunstock is being operated, for whom, and why.

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6 in 10 Say Yes to SCOTUS Nominee Vote Before November Elections

polling, pencil, checkboxA recent NBC poll reports that 62% of Americans believe the vote on Mr. Trump’s next nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court should happen before the November Election.

The vast majority of Republicans surveyed, 85 percent, said the Senate’s vote on the nominee should take place before the election. Roughly six in 10 Independents, or 61 percent, agreed. However, more than half of Democrats, 55 percent, believe the voting on a new justice should wait.

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Do New Hampshire Democrats “Hate” The Poor or Are They Just Evil?

minimum_wage_fight_for_15I use the word hate in my title in the context in which it would be used by Democrats were Republicans engaged in some advertised priority they had spun as doing damage to some “protected” class of persons.

In this case, the object of the Left’s abuse is The Poor™ (often referred to inaccurately as ‘working families’), who are being herded around yet another progressive false idol. The higher minimum wage or living wage is a golden calf whose worship is sold as the path to better economic outcomes when it, in fact, delivers exactly the opposite.

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Grok Poll Results: Amend the NH Constitution to Get the Courts Out of Education Funding?

GrokPoll Results Ed Funding Constitutional amend

Not a lot of votes on this one but the overall consensus of those who took the time is that they would “support an effort to get the courts out of the educational funding morass.”

Brave souls, knowing as they do that Constitutional amendments – heck, Constitutions – are not what they once were.

To that end, there were a few comments added in the ‘other’ field which I’ve shared on the jump.

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