It goes without saying that you can tell a lot about a person by the political contributions they’ve made.

There are many, many candidates and political organizations (PACs) to choose from, and people obviously tend to favor those that most closely align with their passions and principles. We give our precious time and money to particular candidates and organizations, to help them win elections and further causes that match our personal goals and desires.

So, what sort of political contributions has Walt Havenstein, candidate for New Hampshire Governor, made over the years?

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Dunno if I’m right, but I’m, as always, willing to play along.  And, I bet a better than .500 average to boot.  So Political Scoop’s questions (emphasis mine):

When will it start to bother the major players in Washington that Scott Brown is down double digits in two polls in a row?

I would think it’s already started.  Once is a warning flag, twice is panic button when there’s onl 58 days left until the Primary and the Old Bull in the race (e.g., former Senator Bob Smith) is horns down and charging into the margin of error.  It is now mid summer and the “almost activists” are starting to nose around politics.  Given that it will be the most conservative voters turning out, unlike the Ayotte / Ovide race where Ovide just barely ran out of track in the 2010 Senatorial race, Brown ‘s tires may already be rubbing and making smoke (appropriate for NASCAR weekend) – and it may be that a pit stop won’t get the job done.

Objectively speaking, where should the anti-Brown Republican vote go?

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From Weekend Pundit:

David Starr comments on the Federal Highway Trust Fund, its original purpose, and how it is now being used for anything but maintaining our highways. He also has some suggestions about dealing with it now that the money is running dry.

Better, would be to shut down the Highway Trust Fund altogether.  Lay off all the bureaucrats who run it. Cancel the Federal gasoline tax.  Let the states, who do the roadwork, pay for road maintenance out of state funds.  The states could even hike their gas taxes if needed.  With the Federal gas tax removed, the states could take a much bigger bite without raising the price of gas.

Indeed.

Ayup.  Too often I have to say “what is happening in DC is happening in Concord”; the politicians of BOTH stripes have created this man-made crisis – set up the Fund(s) for a specific purpose and unable to exert discipline over themselves to leave the monies alone and siphoned it off in multiple ways… 

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Every year hundreds of thousands of ’rounds’ of fireworks are discharged in New Hampshire–or elsewhere after having been purchased in New Hampshire–by regular folk hoping to make their celebration special.  You can hear them in your neighborhoods, sometimes well past 10 or 11 pm, all through July, and quite often throughout the year.

Fireworks can give any party a kick in the pants and New Hampshire still has its advantage: You can buy and use a wide range of them in the Granite State that are illegal in every state that surrounds us.

This year, as is the case every year, someone gets hurt using fireworks, and like clockwork, someone comes out and says we could have prevented that if we had banned them.  If we ban them now….

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The lead story on my digital copy of the New Hampshire Union Leader is…”NH Traffic Death Take Sharp Decline.”

We’re on track to have a record low number of traffic related fatalities for New Hampshire for 2014.  That would be the total number of actual deaths without regard to the kinds of factors the National Transportation Safety folks use like per million Vehicle Miles Travelled.  We could have 80 deaths and still have more deaths per VMT, if there was significantly less estimated road traffic, though that seems unlikely.

All this without the impending implementation of the unenforceable and inane electronic devices (cell phone ban) bill the Governor…did not apparently sign into law yet?

According to the General Court Bill Status HB 1360 is not yet chaptered law.  Did someone cling to it?  Does that matter?

Opportunity Knocks.  Could the busy-body Knee-Jerk Progresssives see this as an opportunity to jerk their knees back the other way?

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There is no clearer indication that the false outrage over the Hobby Lobby verdict isn’t getting the rhetorical job done than a bunch of Democrats writing a Bill they know will never pass to fix what they were too afraid to put in the original ACA to begin with.

Knowing it would never pass with an abortion mandate the Democrats left one out of the Affordable Care Act–promising it was not going to be some sort of abortion mandate–even though they left enough loopholes in it to make getting there from here as easy as a “The Secretary Shall.”

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In the second segment of yesterday’s GrokTALK!, Matt Murphy from Citizens for a Strong New Hampshire was opining on the mysteries of SB120, the NH Incumbent protection Act.  SB120 would skew speech rights in favor of politicians (just search SB120 on the Grok for ample details if you are unfamiliar).  He was wondering why the bill had not gone to the Governor’s desk.  Why was it still sitting in NH Democrat House Speaker Terie Norelli’s Office.

I know why, and had I remembered I’d have suggested it at the time.

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