Consistency builds Trust yielding Votes.  Been saying that for a while now but it seems that the Elected Republicans, members of the so called “Stupid Party”  can’t even figure out this simple truth.  So why should they be surprised when their Inconsistency to their so called Principles yields “UNtrust” – and less voters.  From a comment left on my post on Republicans being the Jr. Partners of the Democrat Party in raising the gas tax:

I personally have had it with the NH GOP. I have been calling and calling and done all the things you’re supposed to do but the NH GOP has turned a deaf ear to NH republicans. This is the last straw. I was waiting to give the Republicans a chance to save the day but they simply refuse to side with the people in this downward economic death spiral our country is in.

I will go down to my town hall today and un-enroll as a Republican and now declare myself an Independent.

And this is how it will go, until the NH GOP becomes a token party as it is in Massachusetts.

Not me saying this but from yet another voter that has decided to let the Party sail over the horizon without them.  I know who he is – a very principled fellow that no longer believes the Party’s rhetoric as its actions of its elected politicians drown out the rhetoric’s now hollow words.  I’ve been telling the Party Elite and high elected politicians this for a while – and they just won’t take to heart that they are doing this to themselves.  So, once more I will drag out that “conversation” for emphasis: 

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(Last I heard the hearing for SB120 is this afternoon at the legislative office building- 1:00- 1:30pm)

Lesson number one – Money is speech.

If money isn’t speech why do candidates need so much of it to get their ‘message’ out?  The message is political speech.  The money is the vehicle to effective political speech–speech that reaches enough ears and eyes to matter.  These two cannot be separated and any effort to do so by politicians is never anything more than a way to expand their market share.  Their domination.  Their monopoly on money used for political speech.

Bills like SB 120 impair the ability of anyone but the entrenched to optimize their message.  They take the Free out of speech and hide it in a Rube-Goldbergian maze filled with traps and pitfalls. If you are lucky enough to find your free speech, should you present an idea or do so in a manner that the new  speaking class (see also ruling class) objects, you may find yourself in front of some lawyers desk defending what used to be your birth right but is now an expensive exercise in bureaucratic buggery.

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Kimberly Morin reports that governor Hassan continues to use the debunked lie that women only earn .77 cents to every dollar a man makes because… it fits Hassan’s false narrative.

This author was in attendance and asked the Governor why she continues to use the study that claims women earn .77 to a man’s $1.00 even though the study has been proven inaccurate by the Department of Labor. Her response was less than stellar.

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The Attorney Generals Report on Duckgate is an amusing read up to the part where the AG concedes that it cannot or will not prosecute anyone because it lacks the ability to do so.  But there is one breathtaking takeaway from the entire report.

While Campbell’s and Pappas’s versions of the events in many regards are simply not credible, their actions do not give rise to criminal violations…”.

“Simply not credible…”

I’m quit sure I remarked often about how no one would be charged with a crime–except for the minor violation and fine Campbell paid for taking waterfowl with a BMW out of season.  But while the report does not result in further action of a criminal nature, it does reveal that these two men when through a series of wild contortions to ensure that result.

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The Jr. Senator from NH was on the Howie Carr show as TMEW and I went out to do some errands right after supper tonight.  We missed the beginning of her segment but it was clear that people were switching from talking about Obamacare to illegal aliens, immigration, and Amnesty.  And they were not happy!  And I really don’t think that Kelly Ayotte was all that happy about having to defend her Kerry-esque monster flip-flop on this issue as she had campaigned for really being against amnesty.  The segment has already been posted over at WRKO.com and a rough transcript (automated? It really IS rough) is there as well (I have put the relevant part of the transcript after the jump).  The title of this post comes from the fact that Howie went after her about deporting the illegals that are here.  Howie does lay into her and almost all of the callers, especially those from NH, go even further All she could do is balefully try to deflect by demanding “I’ve not seen the plan” by which 11 million illegals would be transported as if Howie and his callers had to PROVE to her they had done her legwork – to fulfill HER campaign rhetoric!

Why not? On this issue, she’s given us the classic Establishment Republican “bait and switch” (aka “I was against it before I’m now for it”) when it comes to illegal aliens and Amnesty.  She is now willing to support Amnesty as shown by her vote to pass the Senate’s “comprehensive immigration reform” bill as opposed to when she was campaigning. How do I know this?  Well, this is why politicians hate to be recorded – and GraniteGrok was at the AFP/NH – Cornerstone action Senatorial debate on June 9th, 2010 when she was campaigning.  Video after the jump for Question 11:

Do you support the actions taken by the State of Arizona by enacting this [illegal immigration] law and further, what more should Federal Government be doing in this area?

 I just transcribed her answer – here’s the money quote from her answer: 

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“Under Maggie Hassan’s watch, S&P has downgraded NH’s financial outlook rating from ‘stable’ to ‘negative.’ I believe that this grading falls squarely on Governor Hassan’s inability to manage state finances. This will have dire consequences and cost ramifications for NH businesses and taxpayers. Her Status Quo mentality and failure to advance New Hampshire’s economy, on any level, is at fault here. Governor Hassan should be held accountable on November 4th.” — Andrew Hemingway

We at the ‘Grok have received nothing from the Havenstein campaign on this as of posting time.  From the Telegraph:

S&P downgrades NH’s credit outlook to negative (emphasis mine, reformatted): 

CONCORD – A Wall Street rating group slapped a black mark onto New Hampshire’s credit outlook, warning policy makers the state is in a “thin financial position” because a state tax ruled unconstitutional has few resources to replace it. The outlook of Standard & Poor’s on Tuesday sent political leaders in both parties scrambling, some to affix blame on the opposition for the fiscal mess and others, like Gov. Maggie Hassan, urging this be the turning point to bring about a bipartisan compromise. The startling statement comes less than two weeks after a Hillsborough County Superior Court judge found the Medicaid Enhancement Tax unlawful because hospitals pay it and other health care providers do not.  The finding does not raise the cost of New Hampshire lending, but in changing the state’s outlook from “stable” to “negative,” it signals investors should watch and policy makers should act in these closing weeks of the 2014 session. 

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And to think that our own US Senator Jeanne Shaheen and her sidekick US CongressCritter Carol SEIU-Porter were in on this lie gag on the American people.  Sure, we laughed at the website – that was a bonus (and, umm, it still doesn’t work on the backside either) but we also claimed “supply and demand” would be a huge problem and access to actual medical care (instead of access to just healthcare insurance) is the next huge Democrat bottomless hole.  After all, while Obama can change the law seemingly at whim (and why Shaheen & CSP let him both create and execute Law, effectively making Congress irrelevant in our Republic form of govt), he can’t just snap his fingers and FORCE doctors to take his Obamacare enrollees.  Or will Shaheen, Kuster, and Shea-Porter let him?  From PJ Tatler (emphasis mine, reformatted):

While open enrollment for coverage under the Affordable Care Act is closed, many of the newly insured are finding they can’t find doctors, landing them into a state described as “medical homelessness.”

And I thought “homelessness” was only a condition brought on by Republican Presidents?? 

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Once You Sets Foot on The New Hampshire Speech Plantation…you best know the rules before speaking.

Free speech exists to protect us from government tyranny so whenever the government or one of its surrogates tries to argue in favor of using government force to control political speech you need to pay attention.  When they actually write themselves a law to do it, you need to stop it.  New Hampshire’s SB 120 is just such a bill.

SB 120 gives the people with the most to fear from free speech (Politicians, bureaucrats, government agencies and the non-profit and lobbyist/Lawyer pilot fish that feed off the taxpayer dollars that fund government) the ability to limit everyone elses speech on their terms; terms that always favor the elected and entrenched over the rest of us.  They might as well be princes invoking the royal ‘We,’ as in “We will decide who can speak, where, when, and how much–about what we are doing with your money.”

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