I’ve been having an invigorating debate on Facebook with Pam Manney about some candidates running as Republicans in Goffstown.  I like Pam, but I think we’re just going to have to disagree on a few things.  She seems to think I am making claims without evidence, particularly with regard to candidate Barbara Griffin.  I guess years of checklists showing her voting Democrat in primaries and General elections is not evidence.

Like I said, we’ll have to agree to disagree.

But I do have some suggestions that might help the ‘”Republicans” she is supporting clear up any concerns.

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Seriously – you watched the video and you can’t tell if you are plastered or not?  True, the first one, maybe not so much.  Second one – dude, you are seriously spinning (and it is SO obvious!) while praying to the political Gods (“Oh God, I promise, promise, promise that alcohol never touch my lips if I get out of this!!!”). S’alright – we got more videos; you’ll have a few more shots (heh!) to see if you were drunk or not.  Stay tuned for tomorrow morning – but I digress.

Playing stoopid is not a strategy – especially when you are saying that while on your knees.  Glad to see, however, that NH State Senator Dave Boutin agrees with me that his performance in the last video was “poor judgment”.  I’m just disappointed that he didn’t contact us at GraniteGrok to discuss – but running to the Establishment mouthpiece for Establishment Republicans makes sense.  Here’s a few snippets of what he said at NH Journal (reformatted a bit, emphasis mine):

CONCORD — State Sen. David Boutin on Wednesday apologized for using “poor judgment” at a local bar more than a year ago when he was captured on video making offensive remarks to other male patrons.

All I was trying to say in the videos so far posted is exactly that – poor judgment.  But he decides to keep on digging;

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My apologies for the Stamford link in my previous post, stating that Democrat Barbara J. Griffin of Goffstown marched in two parades for Joe Lieberman in 2004.  That was not the Democrat we were looking for.   What is not a mistake is that Democrat Barbara J. Griffin of 84 Merrill Road, Goffstown, NH is a Democrat.  Well, she’s been registering and voting as one for years, even ran for office as one.

Here are two snapshots from recent Goffstown voter checklists….

From the 2012 Goffstown Voter Checklist

From the 2010 Checklist…

GRIFFIN,  BARBARA,   J     092004449     84MERRILL RD  GOFFSTOWN           DEM

And we’ve still got this…

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I don’t think David Boutin was much of a Republican before he got elected to the State Senate but he wasn’t the Democrat.  Over the past year his voting record has demonstrated that he has gone native and can no longer be trusted to protect us from the expansive and intrusive state.

He has come out to apologize for more of the behavior you will see here.  He has said it was bad judgment.  Everyone has judgement issues David.  I’m not all that comfortable posting video of you being an ass in public, if you must know.   But you’ve taken your bad judgement to Concord and that will affect my family, and very family in New Hampshire, perhaps forever.  And for dessert you punched free speech in the throat, very likely to minimize the damage those bad votes could have on your political career.    Bad judgement.  Free political speech is sacred to me, whether I agree with it or not.

I don’t care whose political speech it is.  No one puts Free speech in the corner.

Video three on the jump.  (15 seconds)

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“The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified.”

– President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09

Just thought I’d pass this by you all as great example of how Obama thinks his government works (emphasis mine):

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Drug Enforcement Administration paid an Amtrak secretary $854,460 over nearly 20 years to obtain confidential information about train passengers, which the DEA could have lawfully obtained for free through a law enforcement network, The Associated Press has learned.

That’s a lot of money.  $42K per year extra for this Federal Govt employee for, effectively, spying on one government program’s customers to give to another government program.  Our money, too.  But wait, it gets worse….

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 “A record as dismal as Obama’s does not happen by accident.”

That is as good a definition for Determined Weakness as any, especially the “does not happen by accident.”  A snippet from the post after the jump:

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“…There is no mention of GraniteGrok, or Mike Rogers, as the source.  (I’ll let Skip or Mike tackle those who use their links without proper attribution.)…”

Well, it is getting closer to Primary Election day and stuff is heating up.  You’ll be seeing the ‘Grok doing more and more election stuff up to the Sept 9, then a lull, and then the last sprint to the General Election in November.  We’ll keep you posted and updated….updated!  Yes, an update is needed!  Last night, I emailed and left a vmail for Gary Lambert (running for the NH GOP nomination for US Congress in NH CD2).  Well, he called around 3pm this afternoon, asking what I was asking for.  Simple: 1)  An apology   2) A notice on his website.

He seemed happy to do the first – a true apology – and he said as much.  A standup guy for doing so. – and I thanked him (meant it, too). The second, well, he stumbled a bit – I think he thought that I figured he’d go right to the website and do it right then.  I laughed: “yes Gary, you’re a lawyer and not a programmer – I know you have to get someone else to do it”.  He sounded relieved but he promised he talk to his folks.

And he kept his promise – all good on him.  The next call inbound from “his folks”, Josh Davidson his campaign manager, not so much:

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I first picked up the story of 20-year-old Dartmouth College Student Taylor Woolrich when Susan Olsen posted a link from the UK Daily Mail on Facebook.   The issue was that of a college student with a stalker who had requested the right to carry concealed on campus for her own safety but had been denied.

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Democrats are running as Republicans in Goffstown, NH.  The Town committee knows it.  The Hillsborough County Republican Committee knows it.  Elected Republicans know it, and some have been vocal about the problem.  But no one in Republican party leadership seems willing or able to do anything about it.

This is an ongoing problem in Goffstown, by the way, which we’ll get to eventually, but let us start with something simple.  Barbara J. Griffin.

Barbara J. Griffin is running for the NH House from Goffstown as a Republican.  This is an ideological calling she adopted just before the candidate filing deadline.  She did it because her political agenda would never win her a house seat in that town unless she lied to the voters about who she really is, and what she would do once elected.

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More and more I keep having discussions that I NEVER would have believed that I’d be having a lot with folks that I otherwise find to be very sober and sober-minded.  Topics that I would never thought to hear, which in the past would be considered tin-hat conspiracy theories, are coming up more and more.  So why should I be surprised at this post headline that seems to fit right into what seems to be a never ending series of “dense pack” crisis, one leading to the next one in rapid succession:

Obama presides over unraveling of his predecessors’ foreign policy accomplishments

I am a news and politics junkie – I may not be a an expert on any one topic but I think I know more than just a little about quite a bit.  I can’t, for the life of me, think of a single instance, a single area, in which the US is still seen to be trustworthy, a stalwart ally, taking the good side, and doing a good job.  It seems that Obama has the Midas touch – everything in the foreign policy arena is (or has already) turned into a rusty muffler.  NOwhere has there been success unless it is viewed from the lens of Determined Weakness – everything in the Obama Administration’s term has turned Orwellian in that the good is now an ill, virtue is now a vice, encouragement is now a beat down, rugged individualism is now to be seen as anti-social, success is to be diminished, being on the dole lifts one up as High Victimhood, and voluntary association (& the ability to NOT be associated) has been replaced by forced collectivism. 

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“…There is no mention of GraniteGrok, or Mike Rogers, as the source.  (I’ll let Skip or Mike tackle those who use their links without proper attribution.)…”

As one of the great philosophers of our recent past once said “Here I am, Moe“!  Given Steve’s post, from whence that quote emanated, where he was questioning why the Gary Lambert for Congress campaign would use material associated with the ‘Grok without attribution, I decided to ask so I emailed them a bit ago.  Not hearing back, I decided that perhaps a nudge might be in order:

From: “skipdcm” <Skip@GraniteGrok.com>
To: josh@lambertforcongress.com; gary@lambertforcongress.com
Sent: 8/12/2014 6:23:28 PM
Subject: Use of GraniteGrok materials without attribution

Gentlemen,
Why Doesn’t Lambert for Congress Mailer Cite GraniteGrok.com?
This is what Steve wrote this post earlier today; please read it for the details.

I have always maintained that any candidate is welcome to use any video or audio that we create in listening to them speak, or talking / interviewing them provided that the give attribution credit to GraniteGrok.

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