Kimberly will probably post the entire article up here at some point but seeing as the vote is tomorrow I wanted to quote Rich Girard (from the article) regarding HB 646 and right to know.

If cases of abuse were really running rampant, we’d hear more than just the anecdotal evidence of some spectacular infraction. The fact is, nobody has quantified the number, seriousness or “cost” of the infractions. The other fact is, the government entities that have to be asked for public information are the ones who create the information and file it. How else are we to obtain but to ask? Frankly, it’s their job to provide the information and, as a taxpayer, I’ve already paid for that job to be done.

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I’ve been calling what the elected Republicans have been doing in Concord (as in “we’ve been Jaspered”, as Steve has coined – Democrats pulling the strings of the Democrat appointed Speaker Jasper to get more favorable bills.  After all, if Jasper crosses the Dems, he’s out.  So we Republican voters are secondary to him and the resulting Democrat appointed Majority Leader Jack Flanagan) and in DC (give the Rs big majorities and they are p****** it away) as Kabuki Theater.  Big talk, no results commiserate with bodies we sent them.  Hot Air has this great image that describes this perfectly:

It quotes Ace of Spades:

Failure Theater is the process by which the Establishment deliberately fails to do achieve anything, but wants credit from the Dumb Conservatives they’re playing to for allegedly “trying.”

Each of Boehner’s and McConnell’s “defeats” are in fact planned in advance. They are not trying to advance the conservative agenda; they are attempting to con conservatives into believing they have attempted to implement conservative policy, when in fact they were delivering their political deliverables to their Donor Class paymasters all along.

Uneducated, gullible, and easily led

And then the words of warning – it is time to say no to this nonsense:

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Over the years I’ve commented on how eerily linked DC and Concord political legislation, actions, and events seem to be.  What happens in DC then gets transported to here in Concord.  Elections, similar.  Legislation (especially from the Left), similar. And then Grokster Mike told us during GrokTALK! this past Saturday of this just simply obnoxious news that what happened here in Concord with Democrat appointed Speaker of the House Jasper, we see Democrats in the US House willing to prop up Speaker Boehner in light that the Republicans’ Hastert Rule is now demolished:

Has this ever happened before in the history of the House of Representatives? A profoundly ineffective Speaker, a Speaker so weak that he has to depend on Democrat votes to pass legislation, is given assurances by the opposition party that they will protect him against his own caucus? Via The Hill:

A number of right-wing Republicans, long wary of Boehner’s commitment to GOP efforts attacking President Obama’s policy priorities, have openly considered a coup in an attempt to transfer the gavel into more conservative hands.

But Democrats from across an ideological spectrum say they’d rather see Boehner remain atop the House

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Maybe the people of Windham got tired of all the negative publicity from their school board?   Banning Dodgeball and walking that back.  Refusing US Constitutions an walking that back.   Or it might have been the almost arrest of a resident trying to give public comment before a vote to accept a massive $577,000.00 dollar no bid contract without public comment.  Whatever the reasons, two incumbent school board members were swept out of office last night and replaced, one of them by the guy they tried to intimidate when they called the police.

(Windham Patch) Two incumbent Windham School Board members were bested at the polls on March 10, 2015, by solid margins, according to the unofficial school race results.

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Yes, we DID talk about former NH GOP Exec Dir Matt Mowers on GrokTALK! this past Saturday at Liberty Forum.  And now that he is “Governor Chris Christie’s Campaign boy Matt Mowers” (as Steve called him), he seemingly wishes to be buddy – buddy with your’s truly.  After call after call, post after post, of asking him to contact me over the problematic situation of the NH GOP Delegates amending the Platform and then the NH GOP Staff not updating those changes until after the November election (the Elites were embarrassed that the base holds views they think are “icky” – or showed that the top two candidates on the ticket were out of sequence with their own base and then promptly lost anyways).

Why?  Let me count the single largeish way and not let it be “water under the bridge” in a matter of speaking:

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Stripper sues Naked Dating Show for failing to satisfy oral agreement.  Judge tosses case.

(Jessie) Nizewitz, 28, filed the complaint in New York Supreme Court last August, alleging she “suffered and continues to suffer severe extreme emotional distress, mental anguish, humiliation and embarrassment” from having her private parts broadcast to a national audience.

Because everyone knows that strippers oppose broadcasting their private parts for money.

In reaction to the lawsuit, the defendants including Lighthearted Entertainment and Firelight Entertainment said that the former stripper was once comfortable with the show’s premise. Before casting her, producers made her consent to being filmed in the nude and allow the footage to be telecast without restriction. “Unfettered nudity,” said the producers, “was a crucial aspect of the program.”

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From The Taxpayer Protection Alliance (TPA), a study out on solar subsidies: “Filling the Solar Sinkhole: Billions of Bucks Have Delivered Too Little Bang.”

In spite of government’s best efforts to encourage innovation by solar energy companies and encourage Americans to rely more heavily on solar electricity, solar power continues to be a losing proposition. American taxpayers spent an average of $39 billion a year over the past 5 years financing grants, subsidizing tax credits, guaranteeing loans, bailing out failed solar energy boondoggles and otherwise underwriting every idea under the sun to make solar energy cheaper and more popular.

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Why is Governor Hassan Hiding? Check out Why are They Hiding.com/Hassan.

Patterico’s headline…and screenshot from the DOJ report,

…so “put your hands in the air” …Wait!   According to Obama’s DOJ there is zero evidence of that, well- you can read…

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Greg Moore from American’s For Prosperity joins us at Liberty Forum to talk about White Chicken Chili, base line ‘shared principles,’ constructive disagreement, and the extreme idea that people should have control over their own lives, oh- and White Chicken Chili. We’ve also got Right to Work (passed in MN, failed in NH), as well as toll dodging, feeling sorry for people who aren’t Texans, What Granite State Progress wants, and did I mention of White Chicken Chili?

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Kimberly Morin joins us as we continue to skewer the Pierce Contraceptive Application Disclosure Mandate Bill. We’ve got a bunch of issues to talk about and plenty of WTF suggestions, one of which involves Governor Chris Christie’s Campaign boy Matt Mowers.

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In part from The Hill:

…Obama said that there are “a lot of law abiding, responsible gun owners” that use guns for protection, sport or as part of a tradition. But he added that upping background check requirements on gun purchasers is a policy that everyone should endorse.

“It is not violating anybody’s rights that if you want to purchase a gun, it should be at least your responsibility to get a background check so we know you were not a violent felon or that you don’t currently have a restraining order on you because committed domestic abuse.”

Once again, I dryly note his word usage – tell me, Mr. Obama, what

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By a vote of 14-4 the NH House judiciary committee voted to advance HB 646, an act making it legal for public bodies to collect a bribe in exchange for public documents.

In the House Calendar we have Democrat David Woodbury (Danger Will Robinson Danger!!) speaking for the majority in favor of passage on a committee with a majority of Republicans.   Woodbury claims…”This bill threads the needle between an individual’s right to free and full access to public records and the taxpayer’s right to be free from bearing the substantial costs of unreasonable or abusive document retrievals.”

The Real Republican™ on this issue, Rep Michael Sylvia — speaking for those paltry few on the committee opposed to the bill observed that… “The committee heard from a number of public bodies reporting stories of abusive requests under 91-A; missing from these stories was any substantive example of an abusive request.”

Even if there are such a thing as an abusive request for public documents the solution is not to let the public body set the price or decide who must pay it.

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Yesterday at Liberty Forum former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack gave a presentation about his new book “Are you a David?” in which he writes how sheriffs, public officials, law enforcement and citizens can fight for Liberty. He spoke about his fight against the Brady bill in the Supreme Court of the United States and how he won that fight.

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I haven’t put one of these types of letters up for a bit but given the wretched results (again, we no longer listen to the words, only care about real results!) we are seeing from the Republican majorities in both Concord and DC, I expect to see more and more of this; from the Daily Signal:

The last paragraph quoting Rep. Tim Huelskamp hits the nail on the head. The big Republican donors got their cheap labor.

“The biggest donors to the Republican establishment, they all are happy today. They got their amnesty,” Huelskamp said. “They just hope the issue goes away and somehow they think conservatives are still going to show up and vote for whoever the presidential nominee is.”

I can almost guarantee that conservatives will not show up and vote for whoever the Republican nominee is because we don’t see a difference between what I call “Republican elite” and Democrats.

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