Elect Bob Smith to Start Fixing Congress

Congress has a well-deserved 77% disapprove rating.  Congress’s members are irresponsible, wasteful, dishonest, and they don’t solve America’s problems.  Illegal immigration is tolerated and even rewarded, politicians spend future generations into debt to buy votes today, welfare keeps people poor rather than leading them to be successful, public education declines after forty years of Federal government “help”, etc.

So why do the American people keep sending the same people, or people like them, to Congress?  Because special interest groups, which get billions of dollars and special privileges from our corrupt and dysfunctional Congress, spend hundreds of millions of dollars to reward supporters and to fight against the election of anyone who might threaten their generous incomes and privileges.

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‘Grok Endorsement’ – Jim Lawrence for Congress in CD-2

Update: We changed our voting given several Groksters now having had the time to talk with and research the elected history of Jim Lawrence.  Effective immediately, we are changing our stance from declining to promote any candidate, in CD-2.  We are endorsing Jim Lawrence based on his voting record, individual Groksters speaking with him, and his interview (late as it was in the Primary season) on GrokTALK! yesterday with Mike and Steve.

I also think it a bit hilarious that WMUR had to come to GrokTALK! to interview him – welcome MSM! Again, here is the GrokTALK! segment with Jim that Steve just put up – although not present yesterday, I am processing the livestream video and will put that up as quickly as I can here.

Please note: we are also issuing a Negative Endorsement in CD-2 for Gary Lambert due to his ad and debate accusations that we hold to be false.  We may be hard on Republicans (sometimes, we seem to be the only ones) that don’t follow the platform, but it seems that Gary has ticked off a LOT of folks – even Establishment Republicans.

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As I said here for our endorsement for Bob Smith (and for Andrew Hemingway for NH Governor and for Jane Cormier for NH State Senate District 16), we are being “stingy” this cycle – extremely so.  We are 

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GrokTALK! Sept. 6th, 2014 with NH CD2 Candidate Jim Lawrence

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Jim Lawrence joins us to talk about his primary to challenge Democrat Ann Kuster for the NH CD-2 Congressional two seat.

Jim talks legislative priorities, families, small business, Ann Kuster, Barack Obama, the regulatory state, immigration, how he views both of his primary opponents as damaged goods, and why he is the best candidate to send to Congress from NH Congressional District 2.

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Leading Cable News Story But Only If…Asked By A Republican…

Washington Times In a letter to the Watertown Daily Times, Michael Flynn asks Republican New York congressional candidate Elise Stefanik whether she has “a private relationship” with anyone. Flynn, who writes that he is a supporter of Stefanik’s Democratic opponent in the 21st Congressional district, Aaron Woolf, argues that candidates should disclose all personal relationships … Read more

Hemingway: Brilliant, Accomplished, Fighting for the People

Do you ever wonder how some candidates can put signs on every street corner, flood the airways with advertisements, and fill your mailbox with their ads? The special interests and political establishments are richly funding their chosen candidates. Do you believe that the special interests and political establishments are funding these candidates because they expect these candidates to put the interests of the people ahead of their interests?

For example, there are two main candidates in the the primary race for Governor, Walt Havenstein and Andrew Hemingway. Havenstein’s signs, mailings, and advertisements are everywhere, he has raised about 20 times as much money as Andrew Hemingway. You can be certain that all that money didn’t come in small donations from middle-income Americans.

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Smith is a Conservative, Brown is Shaheen-lite

Why would Republicans want Scott Brown in the Senate?  Brown’s Senate voting record went from fair to poor to bad.  In 2012 Brown voted more like Senator Shaheen than Senator Ayotte on key issues.

Senator Brown voted against the ban on insider trading for members of Congress, against domestic energy production, for energy subsidies, against efforts to stop government fraud and waste, for Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bailouts, and subsidies for mortgages over $700,000.  He consistently votes to restrict our Second Amendment rights.  Scott Brown’s votes don’t benefit the American people.

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Belknap County Republicans Fight for People, not Special Interests

Two years ago the Belknap County Commissioners tried to foist on Belknap County residents a new 5 Star jail.  This jail not only had a $42 million price tag, but it would increase, not reduce, operating costs.  The proposal would double the current jail costs and significantly increase County taxes for every Belknap County property owner.

Fortunately the Republican led Belknap County Delegation refused to be railroaded into a quick decision and required further investigation into our county’s jail situation.  While the Commissioners, Democrats, and special interests reacted viciously to the Delegation’s requirement for further investigation, investigating further was a wise decision.

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GrokTALK! Sept. 6th, 2014 – The Video

Steve has the complete audio here.  Yesterday, GrokTALK! had:

  • Segment 1 – News of the Day and the Week
  • Segment 2 – Ambassador Francis Rooney, author of the new book, “The Global Vatican“
  • Segment 3 – Keith Ammon, running for NH House in Hillsborough County District 40
  • Segment 4 – Jim Lawrence, running for US Congress in NH’s CD -1

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Mr. Boutin just because you think you’re a big shot…doesn’t give you a right to push me or anyone around…

…wrote one of the gentlemen who captured a drunk and belligerent David Boutin on video December 6, 2012.  Union Leader, August 13, 2014:

Boutin said he has no idea who might be behind the recent videos, but said it might be people who don’t want to see him reelected to the state Senate and are trying to discourage him.”

Seems this may not be true.   Turns out, on December 7, 2012, the day after Boutin’s video performance, two separate people called the gentleman in what are described as attempts to intervene on Boutin’s behalf.  One blamed Boutin’s performance on his “sugar”, which we can only presume is a reference to some form of diabetes (we have no knowledge of Boutin suffering from it but are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt);  the second pleaded  for him not to harm Boutin’s “good name and reputation” (we are paraphrasing here).  In fact, the gentleman had written this earlier:

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GrokTALK! Live Stream for September 6th, 2014

Live stream is a work in progress – (Skip’s off this week).  We hope to have it up as soon as we can. This Week On GrokTALK! we will be joined by Ambassador Francis Rooney – US Ambassador to the Vatican under George W. Bush;  NH House Rep. Keith Ammon;  and  NH CD-2 congressional candidate … Read more

“Gary Lambert is no friend of law abiding gun owners…”

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From the New Hamsphire Firearms Coalition early this morning:

Dear NHFC Members and Friends,

When the NHFC grades politicians, there will inevitably be those who, like Former State Senator Gary Lambert, will try to obscure their anti-gun record.  I want to set the record straight, and tell you directly why we believe Former Senator Lambert is no friend to firearms owners.

Former State Senator Gary Lambert doesn’t like his D – rating. He says he supports the Second Amendment.  The official records of the New Hampshire Senate say otherwise.

While a one-term State Senator in 2012, Gary Lambert voted AGAINST your civil right to own firearms 5 out of 6 times. Lets examine the record in detail:

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NHGOP: Some in leadership are showing the integrity that we need in NH, where are the others?

A BIG thank you to Honorable David Bates for having the courage and convictions to stand up for what is right.

Judges 17:6 talks about times like this: New American Standard Bible
“In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.” 

  • Is it right to pretend to be a Marine when you have been discharged in a dishonorable fashion? 
  • Is it right to claim to have gone to OCS, when you were kicked out of the program for lying on the application to get in?
  • Is it right to pretend to be a person of integrity when you have been disbarred because of integrity issues?
  • More important: WHY is the rest of the NHGOP “leadership” not stepping up and condemning this behavior?

In Senate district 19, we have an issue with one of the candidates, see articles on Foley ( here, and here) and Former member and candidate for State Rep. David Bates took a stand for the values that we hold dear.  Today he stepped down from a position of leadership within a local GOP chapter so he could stand up for his principles.  We need more men and women like him in Concord.

The press release is issued below!

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NH CD-2 Race Makes The Weekly Standard

TWS Garcia, a 31-year-old state representative named a “rising star” by the RNC, has long been seen as more conservative than Lambert, a former state senator who has taken liberal positions on abortion and cap-and-trade. “Early in his campaign for Congress, Gary Lambert was privately telling Republicans that they should choose him because Marilinda Garcia was too … Read more

More Places to hear GrokTALK!?

One of the features at Spreaker.com is the option to share the audio on YouTube…which I had forgotten about.  I turned that back on reentry so that each weeks audio version of GrokTALK! is also available on my YouTube page. You Can Also Listen or Download Here, on the on the podcast page , on … Read more

NAGR also takes a “shot” at Lambert

It seems that other groups have concerns on Lambert’s lack of willingness to support gun rights!  Please see email below that came in today!  Please call Lambert and ask him to send in NAGR’s survey.


Dear Gun Owner,

If ever there was a time for gun owners to charge up the hill to reclaim the high ground from our anti-gun enemies, it’s right now.

And one person standing on top of that hill in New Hampshire is anti-gun Congresswoman Ann McLane Kuster.

But, to make matters worse, one of Kuster’s Republican challengers, Gary Lambert, is showing serious early signs he may share Congresswoman Ann Kuster’s anti-gun views.

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