Besides the keynote speaker, Dr. Betsy McCaughey, two other ladies also had speaking opportunities during the meeting:

• Karen Testerman, conservative activist and exploring a run for the NH GOP nomination for US Senate
• Ann Marie Banfield, math whiz and educational liason for Cornerstone Policy Research, on Common Core

Karen Testerman (with whom we had a “pre-meeting” interview here):

Ann Marie Banfield on Common Core:

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It’s been a few days since I reported that a Democrat Candidate running for office in Nashua this November harbored an out of state campaigner who voted absentee in New Hampshire using that candidates address.  The candidate is Latha Mangipudi, Democrat, from Nashua.  The vote stealer is Alysha Tyranny Tierney.  And isn’t it about time we added some screen grabs to the story?

Let us begin with this.

Alysha registered to vote in NH and claimed to live at the home of Democrat candidate Latha Mangipudi.

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First on the Socialists – an observation from El Rushbo:

Let me give you an interesting observation on William F. Buckley. It’s a quote, but it’s more an observation. Buckley pointed out that in the ’30s we were told we had to “collectivize the nation,” i.e., big government. Go socialist. We had to collectivize the nation because the people were so poor, and now we’re told that we have to collectivize because the people are so rich — and he’s right.

Back in the thirties, FDR, all the boys? “Oh, yeah, we got way too many poor people! We need to go socialism so that we can raise standards of living.” Today why are we doing it? “‘Cause we got too many rich people, and they’re stealing everybody’s everything, and we gotta take it from ’em.” I think it’s a great observation.

And from the Globull Warmists?

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“Koch Brothers 30 year Plot to Destroy Public Television…” is a great headline because it will attract progressives haters the way blood attracts sharks.  Maybe we’ll even get some of that Democrat civility we always hear about.  You know, the rhetoric about arsonists, extortionists and terrorists, and that’s just from Democrats in congress and the media.  The full-blown left-wing-nut-roots crowd who are  just one twig-snap away from being the next Adam Lanza, Andrew Engeldinger, or James Holmes, all Democrats who committed mass shootings, could very likely write some very entertaining things from which we can milk posts for weeks.

So why that headline?  Well, there is an ellipses so let me finish it, and yes it is about the Koch Brothers and Public Television and a protest.

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Political Scoop – every Friday (mostly – he’s not as prolific as we are) Pindell puts up his Political Standing weekly and it generally has a Questions of the Week in it. Given that he mentioned us, I’ll play along with it:

• What are we to make of the Union Leader linking to Granite Grok on its homepage?

Well, thanks for the mention and I have a great answer for you, although many MSMers might lift an eyebrow (given the natural ideological bent of the newsroom)…

Here’s the snap shot.  And here is the link to Grokster Steve post.

For me, this is the money quote from the post: The states have an excellent opportunity to take back their responsibilities from Uncle Sam and give them back to local agencies, municipalities,  and the people who pay for all of it; who may then see what it is that really needs doing, and reapportion those funds accordingly, even if that means giving them back to the people who earned them.

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The government has shut down 17 times. Obama is the first president to ever issue an order to lock veterans out of military cemeteries.

— Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) October 4, 2013

Washington Examiner:

…The American Battle Monuments Commission attributed the closure to the government shutdown. “Due to a lack of funding for ABMC operations (U.S. Government shutdown), ABMC cemeteries and memorials are temporarily closed,” the commission said.

…Ferguson told the Washington Examiner that the commission has $85 million left over from fiscal year 2012.

Remember – if Obama is willing to use Veterans in an Alinsky action:

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OFA Ballot Box Stuffer Melissa Shohet’s LinkedIn Profile is gone.  Vanished.  Disappeared.  Who is Melissa Shohet?  Allow me to remind you.

When Melissa Shohet votes in New Hampshire, she claims to live at 5 Stone Post Road in Salem New Hampshire, the home of Michael and Christine Brown.   Michael K. Brown.  Michael K. Brown is a Sr. Assistant Attorney General for the state of New Hampshire.  The same attorney General’s office that…all together now; just exonerated New Hampshire Democrat State Senator Martha Fuller Clark for having what? For having a number of OFA campaign professionals registered to vote from her home in the historic voter-fraud district in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one of whom is a Lawyer from Arkansas who voted absentee….from her Portsmouth address.

Given that she was one of many rising stars in the OFA vote stealing firmament, dumping her LinkedIn profile is a bit suspicious.

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Fresh updates from the nations capitol, (we’ll just call it Obama-bad).  Looks like the Administration has made itself quite clear about what the goals are for Park Service employees during the partial government shutdown.

Wes Pruden reports…

The Park Service appears to be closing streets on mere whim and caprice. The rangers even closed the parking lot at Mount Vernon, where the plantation home of George Washington is a favorite tourist destination. That was after they barred the new World War II Memorial on the Mall to veterans of World War II. But the government does not own Mount Vernon;

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…not that I ever truly expected one.

Good day Rep Schlachman,

An LSR of yours has stirred up some interest and I was looking to get some details; your thoughts on the purpose of this proposed legislation.

Would you care to elaborate on what “enabling municipalities to dispose of certain firearms” would entail?

Best Regards

>Steve Mac Donald

Blogger/Editor- GraniteGrok.com
email: steve@granitegrok.com
Twitter – @nhstevemacd
Facebook.com/nh.steve

Something tells me this, “Blogger/Editor- GraniteGrok.com,” caused her hand to mouse over the delete key and erase it.

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Rhode Island Liberty-xenophobe (and New Hampshire House Democrat) Cynthia Chase has submitted a Legislative Service Request (LSR) “relative to accountability requirements for HOME EDUCATION programs.”

2014 – LSR 2591-R .

I can see where she’d be concerned.  Home Schooled kids are not typically the kind of progressive drones a liberty-fearing Trotsky-ite like Chase has much tolerance for.  They ask questions and challenge assumptions made by the lefty-media and government institutions, including ones Chase would use  “…to make the environment here so unwelcoming that some (Free Staters) will choose not to come, and some may actually leave.”

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Latha Mangipudi isn’t just a Nashua Democrat running for the New Hampshire House (in a special election on November 5th, 2013), she also aids and abets vote fraud by letting an out of state campaign worker claim residence in her home at 20 Salmon Brook Drive in  Nashua, New Hampshire.

The out of state campaigner is Alysha Marie Tierney (pronounced like “tyranny”).  Alysha lives at 5 N Arthur St Ludlow, MA 01056-1849.  She is currently a Staff Assistant at Harvard Kennedy School of Government (according to her LinkedIn page) but before that she was a college student at the University of Virginia.

Massachusetts, Virginia, Massachusetts….

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