“I don’t think either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton have much time for my district.”

That being a rather interesting admission by rather elderly (in comparison) Democrat  Maureen Mann running against youthful & vigorous (hey, if the Dems can play this game (see below), well, so can I!) Republican Yvonne Dean-Baily in the special election coming up (Concord Monitor).  And haven’t I heard, over and over, that the Democrats are the “community of being communal” – an “all in and leave nobody behind?” and their legislation forces it.  But when it comes to voluntary actions, like in this, it seems like Mann is being hung out to dry and on her own.

Wait!  Isn’t that what the all the Democrat Socialists always saying about Conservatives and Libertarians?

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On Wednesday a huge majority in the New Hampshire House voted to pass Senate Bill 30 aka the “Balsams Bill.” The bill allows “unincorporated places” to become a tax district, which also means they can now get funding from the state and have all taxpayers foot the bill if the deal fails. Of course, many legislators don’t want it to be referred to as the “Balsams Bill” but this bill didn’t come up any other year until developer Les Otten had his hand out demanding the state front a bond for him or he wouldn’t bother developing – “Plan B is Plan A.”

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Well, they certainly were all over the goodness of NHTI in an editorial yesterday:

But the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, offered a ray of good news last month. In a report that attempted to quantify the value added by colleges – in other words, how much graduates of an institution outperformed their expected average salary – Concord’s own NHTI came in first among two-year schools. Not second, not third.

First.

And they rave about its 41% graduation rate.  Let me give a bit of “balance” to that – I present the #1 worst as assembled by Fiscal Times: Granite State College

10 Public Universities with the Worst Graduation Rates

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Yes, I do believe that the story that NH GOP Committeeman Steve Duprey supporting the Planned Parenthood Action Fund “has legs”.  Certainly here at GraniteGrok (where we hate it when we catch Establishment GOPpers being political hypocrites – because it shows they ARE hypocrites) it is But – Steve has a very good point:

And even if we abandon any conception of complicity with regard to the event or any like it (not that we’ll ever get any of them to admit that complicity begins at conception), the optics on this in a Republican Presidential primary year are awful. Duprey has become little more than ballast at this point and needs to realize that he can still support Republicans without being a dead weight in a Presidential election year.  (What campaign will dare embrace him for fear of losing all the conservatives and pro-life grassroots voters?). Given the predicament he presents to Republicans he should either step aside or the NHGOP must propose an amicable separation and move on.   The curtain has been pulled aside. You can’t just close it and hope everyone forgets what is behind it.

After all, the Establishment NH GOP MUST have learned SOME kind of lesson from November when it was clear that the Conservative, especially the Pro-life contingent, are no longer willing to lock-step with the Republican Party – we are rejecting the snickering thought of “WELL! Where else will they go?”.  They showed that by utterly punishing the top of the ticket holders – Walt Havenstein (waffling between pro-life personally and pro-choice semi-publicly) and Scott Brown (who was vehemently trying to out-abortion Jeanne Shaheen).

But neither is the NH Media letting go (even as they’ve dropped looking at the Dems malfeasance with the Federal Election Committee fining them); this from WMUR (emphasis mine, reformatted):

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 “circumvent minimum wage, overtime and anti-discrimination laws.”

Not me!  Very few Socialists, when push comes to shove, will not walk the talk that they do with other peoples’ money with their own.  And Kshama Sawant is no different.  Remember, she was the Seattle politician that was absolutely adamant that companies, large and small, MUST be forced to pay their employees a minimum wage of $15/hour – or ELSE!  Well, karma for Kshama (reformatted, emphasis mine):

A Seattle City council member is in a bit of hot water over her handling of campaign staffers. Kshama Sawant has allegedly structured her employees in a way that allows her to avoid payroll taxes, overtime, and insurance. Now, none of what she’s accused of allegedly doing is illegal — in fact, it’s very standard and necessary. But her own supporters — the folks who join her in her fight to demonize big business as exploiting the work force — are upset.  We learned of this story over at Publicola — a progressive online offshoot of Seattle Met Magazine.

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