Yesterday, we were hearing from sources that Shawn Jasper was shilling for David Hess to push aside Bill O’Brien even though the NH House Republican caucus nominated Bill O’Brien for NH House Speaker.  Turns out, with the letter below, that we were right about the coup, just off concerning the players.  Shawn Jasper was not shilling but the target, and Bob Mead (former friend and aide de camp to Bill when I first met Mead) is doing the shilling (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Dear Representatives-Elect,

For all of you who were planning to protest the caucus speaker nominee by withholding your vote or casting a blank ballot on Organization Day,  you now have another choice. You no longer have the dilemma of wasting your vote or voting for a speaker candidate you are opposed to.  Although the motion was brought forward, the Caucus failed to vote to unanimously support the Caucus’s speaker nominee.

This deliberate slight by the Caucus, opened the door for another candidate’s nomination on Organization Day, which has now happened. Bowing to growing pressure from a long list of supporters, Representative Shawn Jasper, who will be starting his eleventh term, will now have his name placed in nomination for speaker on Organization Day.

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“If one, then many” – a phrase many of us heard over and over (if we have heard it once).  Like Steve said:

As we head toward a new session it is important to know who the Democrats are in the Republican party.

And so it is – where there’s one, there’s more!  Let’s us re-introduce Shawn Jasper (R (sorta), Hillsborough 37) and his record.  Just as with David Hess, his record on the Right of Citizens “to keep and bear arms” – a fundamental bellweather of whether or not a politician truly believes in what the Constitution means in its original intent – or whether they are willing to trade those Freedoms for the “culture of the day” will o’wisp at best – or at worst, throwing in with the opposition.  Following in Steve’s suit, I decided to go over to the Dark Side and see how the illiberal opposition (that would be Granite State Progress) rated Shawn Jasper on Second Amendment issues rather than us being cited for “right wing bias” against RINOs:

• Rep. Jasper voted against allowing someone who was denied a handgun license to petition directly to the Superior court and skip the local process. (HB29, Roll Call #7, 1/4/2012)
• Rep. Jasper voted against allowing guns on college campuses and dorms, in athletic stadiums and public parks and beaches. This bill additionally restricted local communities from making local decisions regarding firearms in these areas. (HB334, Roll Call #11, 1/4/2012)

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Dear Gun Owner,

I am troubled.  We thought that our Second Amendment Rights would be well protected when the Republican Caucus in the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted for Rep. Bill O’Brien as their choice for Speaker of the House.  Unfortunately, I have learned there is a mutiny afoot in the what now appears to be a fractured Republican Party.  More on that later, first I want to explain why it is so very important that we support Rep. O’Brien.

As many of you may know, the Speaker does much more than just preside over the House and moderate debate.  The Speaker is responsible for assigning committee members and chairmen as well as “steering” favored bills through the legislative process.  Rep. O’Brien did all of this and more when he was Speaker in the 2011/2012 session.  He made sure that anti-gun bills died and pro-gun bills such as “no duty to retreat” were passed over the Governor’s veto.  To be honest, we need Rep. Bill O’Brien as Speaker of the House.

I am troubled because I have learned that NHFC D rated, anti-gun Rep. Shawn Jasper is leading the mutiny to elect some other anti-gun Speaker of the House.  Rep. Jasper is looking to make a deal with the anti-gun Democrats to elect an anti-gun speaker.  Rep. Shawn Jasper is an elitist power hungry politician who will do anything for his own selfish reasons.

We are not sure exactly what promises have been made, but one thing is certain, the Democrats have nominated NHFC F rated Rep. Stephen Shurtleff as their choice for Speaker.  D rated Rep. Jasper or F rated Rep. Shurtleff, or A rated Rep. Bill O’Brien.  The choice seems obvious to me.

Time is of the essence, we must act now, the House will vote for Speaker on Wednesday, December 3, 2014.

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Yes, a lot of Democrats probably are telling Republican Shawn Jasper that they will “vote for him” for speaker.  But they wont.

Democrats are not going to vote for Shawn Jasper because he has no chance of winning and his mere presence in the race gives them hope…

Why?

Jasper watering down the Republican vote is the only chance the left has to get a left-wing Democrat nut job like Stephen Shurtleff as speaker of a Republican majority House.  So every Democrat Rep will be whipped to vote for the Democrat candidate for speaker.   Jasper just has to get enough Republicans to vote for him to give Shurtleff the nod.

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KnifeRight’s.org just had its first annual best and worst places in the US for Knife Owners.  NH tied for first place as a Best place along with Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, Tennessee, and Utah.

Tied for First Place: Alaska / Arizona / Kansas / New Hampshire / Tennessee / Utah
Second Place: Georgia
Tied for Third Place: Arkansas / South Carolina / South Dakota

Law-abiding knife owners face no restrictions on the knives they can own or carry in Alaska, Arizona, Kansas, New Hampshire, Tennessee and Utah. In all these states only the criminal misuse of a knife is illegal. In Georgia, the only restriction is that knives carried are limited to a 5-inch blade.

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