“NH Voters Embraced ‘O’Brien’ Budget & Agenda in 2014“: Attention: newly elected Conservative & Libertarian leaning NH House Republicans considering for whom to cast their votes for Repubs Bill O’Brien, Gene Chandler, or Lori Sanborn:

• NEW: “Also, I have heard that Merrill, Duprey, Ayotte, Guinta, and Benson are working on a joint letter in support of Chandler.”

Turning out to be the Establishment vs the grassroots, all over again….capitalizing on the Democrat demonization of him, eh?

• Is it the case that Gene Chandler is amassing support for himself only to say at the very last moment “I am stepping aside to give Laurie Sanborn ‘her time” – switch your votes to her” so as to “lock out” Bill O’Brien?
• Why is US Senator Kelly Ayotte going to go all out in campaigning AGAINST Bill O’Brien?

Why are we ONLY hearing rumored actions against O’Brien? 

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I had put up a post here about campaign finance that in the grand scheme of things, the amount of money spent on campaigns PALES in comparison to what Americans spend on other stuff.  Jim Rubens piped in on a comment speaking up for such a thing to be applied upon our Free Speech because Fairness – I disagreed.  Anyways,  I caught these quotes concerning Larry Lessig (the Harvard Prof behind the Mayday PAC that spent money for Jim Rubens) from a bit ago (5 days – yes, almost an eternity in blogging time), bookmarked them, and didn’t do anything at the time:

Another reform advocate who has worked with Lessig said “The last thing that the progressive movement needs is another ivory tower egghead trying to play political operative and sucking up valuable donations and resources for his personal vanity project. For the sake of reforming money in politics, I wish Larry Lessig would please stop.” . . .

“Behold the power of super smart people pursuing a boutique policy solution that the average American could not give a damn about if you poked them in the eye with it,” said veteran GOP consultant Rick Wilson about the group’s efforts.

And I think that last one pretty much sums it all up –

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Mrs Conclusion: Hello, Mrs Premise.

Mrs Premise: Hello, Mrs Conclusion.

Mrs Conclusion: Busy day?

Mrs Premise: Busy! I’ve just spent four hours burying the cat.

Mrs Conclusion: Four hours to bury a cat?

Mrs Premise: Yes! It wouldn’t keep still, wriggling about howling its head off.

Mrs Conclusion: Oh – it wasn’t dead then?

Mrs Premise: Well, no, no, but it’s not at all a well cat so as we were going away for a fortnight’s holiday, I thought I’d better bury it just to be on the safe side.

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Schadenfreude for real – Drudge headline-a-like time (sorta, sideways):

PRO-GUN CANDIDATE HOLDS 341 VOTE LEAD FOR GABBY GIFFORDS’ FORMER SEAT

Pro-life candidate wins seat vacated by Wendy ‘Abortion Barbie’ Davis

Yeah, that’s right – people the total opposite replaced them in their seats.  Texas Democrat State Senator Wendy Davis, who came to fame in filibustering a pro-life bill in pink sneakers (and a catheter) tried and got whomped in running for Texas Governor (being vacated by Rick Perry) – Texas voters decided that her claim to fame was oh so 15 months ago.  Only the pro-baby killing throng decided to try to milk that 15 minutes for all its worth.

Wendy Davis, the Democrat gubernatorial candidate in Texas, lost her state senate seat in addition to the federal one. And to add insult to injury, the seat was claimed by a pro-life Tea Party activist woman (Konni Burton).

Gee, I know of another gubernatorial candidate here in NH that was, in part, done in by Pro-life TEA Party folks.  Can I hear an “AMEN!”?

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Cuomo had a secret re-election ‘pact’ with Republicans

The state’s most powerful Republican secretly worked for months to help Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo win re-election — in exchange for Cuomo’s promise not to aid Senate Democrats in their Long Island races, a top New York GOP leader has charged.

We here at GraniteGrok get excoriated all the time by Establishment Republicans for supporting the NH GOP Platform,  our Constitutions, and the values espoused therein. Clearly there have been Republicans that we have not supported, but we would not do what this Republican did – or Doug Scammon (short version: conspired with Democrats to become the NH Speaker of the House years ago).  This disturbing story out of NY continues (reformatted, emphasis mine):

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 Go Maine…

The federal waiver that has been in place since 2010 because of the recession has been allowed to expire in the state of Maine. This allows Maine to reinstate a mandate requiring able-bodied adults who are 18 to 50 years old and have no children to work or volunteer 20 hours per week or they will be limited to three months of food stamp benefits over a three-year period.

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Jean Wade, in her 50’s, said she lives modestly on disability payments. As she carried bags of food to her car one recent morning, she said that too many young people in the area, including her own son, are willing to accept food stamps and work under the table. “They sneak around doing odd jobs and getting paid,” she said. “We need to be whipped into shape.”

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Bums: “Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.” —D. H. Lawrence

County Attorney Elect Patricia Conway is a bum. Conway has no self control. Patricia Conway is as unfit to hold her office. As much as it was believed that James Reames was unfit to hold the office. Patricia Conway’s first act as county attorney was to serve her own personal whims of retribution. Conway’s Police-Officer-husband, Eric Lamb, a card-carrying member of the Rockingham County Laurie List, was “mistakenly” cleared from the list. It was Blanchard who tipped off the Attorney Generals office such was not the case.  Lamb belonged on this list. Conway denies having access to the list. She is a bum.

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The Democrats ran a statewide campaign to tie every House Republican candidate to Bill O’Brien before the election.

They didn’t run a statewide campaign against Gene Chandler or anyone else who might want to be speaker.  The Obama agenda is apparently not threatened by Gene Chandler or scheming Party insiders.  Only Bill O’Brien.

So if Bill O’Brien represents the single biggest threat to the Democrats Obama agenda in New Hampshire before the election, is it safe to say he represents the biggest threat to the Obama agenda after the election?  Democrats thought so and still do.

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NH GOP Leadership – Taking hostage of the NH GOP Platform continues!

Update: or maybe not the last one?

Update 11/10 – the Last One. For Won they didn’t.  NOW, a week after the election, the NH GOP finally updated its platform…timely, very timely boys and gals.  Ya think it was…..politically motivated?  Couldn’t be, these pristine, white as the drifting snow, NH GOP Leaders we have – nothing but our best interest at heart (honest – their say-so says so!).  Good lot it did in protecting your chosen top two, eh, from the vicissitudes of “personhood”.  Oh, those “icky social issues that plague us so”.  Except this time, those “social issues” bit you in the ass!

Why?  Because real people that have real jobs and are trying to raise real families have to contend with the politicization of those social issues by the Democrats – and you told us you don’t care.  What you said was that you don’t have the political cajones to stand up and fight for your base – so they rejected you.   They realized that you craved the middle more than you did for them; that  you disdain your base.  You broke the Trust you didn’t realize you need.  You sent the message – we listened.  We actually listened.

You sounded like Democrats: against Conservatives, against the TEA Party values, against Pro-Life and against the Second Amendment. Holding back the changes to the NH GOP Platform was petty, self serving – and sent the message that you delighted in rubbing our noses in it.  Obviously, all those high priced consultants got their money for their wrong advice – and for your money, you got the shaft from us for free. Satisfied? Stark and Langdon. Like I said here: “I will say that our John Stark for Governor and John Langdon was first done as a lark” but….

Imagine what might happen if we really got serious about this over the next two years?

Changing the perception of the voter paradigm – that it is too precious a thing to waste MY Vote on those that not only do not hold MY beliefs but actively campaign against them.  Two years, folks, two years.  Just imagine…

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It’s intellectually weak, morally bankrupt, and self-delusion.  Selling oneself that way

Sidenote: which, tangentially, was the basic theme of Walt Havenstein’s campaign – “I can manage it better”.  Perhaps true.  But it also shows a complete acceptance of the status quo.  Voters across the nation said “not enough” to that, a complete rejection of the Leftist Progressive vision that the Dems brought.  Liberty, Freedom, less government, more choices that individuals can and should make their own decisions and not those in Govt usurping that role – that’s what the vote was about this past Tuesday.

is limiting, shallow, and trite.  Yesterday on Meet the Press – Chuck Todd was interviewing Scott Walker, the man that beat the Democrats three times in the last four years, in a DEEP BLUE State, to retain his governorship.  Here he talks, not about being timid and not making waves (which is the track that the NH GOP Establishment wants in its fervor to “control” the NH Speaker of the House in trying to “lock out” Bill O’Brien; emphasis mine) but in governing by the Republican ideals:

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