GrokTV Special Interview: Bob Burns (candidate for NH Executive Council District 4) – Q3: How would the Executive Council advance your vision of Government?

Obligatory question for almost everyone I interview – and now adding in “and what would you do about that?”  In this case, Bob Burns was asked the same question  to find out what he thinks how the Executive Council could “progress forward” (heh!  take THAT Libs!) to his vision of a smaller government?  Given what … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Susan Olsen,NH House Candidate (Merrimack-7) – Question 6 – Too big, too small, or just right? Scale State agencies up or down?

After talking about if State Agencies are responsive to citizen requests or needs (and what could be done if they don’t), it made sense to move from ground zero to the 10,000 foot level and ask the next appropriate topic: Question 6: Proper Role of Government: Too big, too small, or just right?  Scale State … Read more

I still can’t wrap my head around this: little scooter……Big Andy Sanborn. But it seems to be working…

We get Press Releases (“Pressers”) all the time and now it is becoming a torrent – this one announcing this position, another one attacking somebody else, or commenting on some current event That How They Feel Should Matter To Me.  Right….er, no.  Don’t get me wrong, keep sending them, but I’m going to be more likely to look at something different, and this one was.  In fact, I have to admit it, I giggled a bit when this came in:

Andy Sanborn Beep BeepI just can’t get the visualization right….I keep thinking “He should be a Segway kinda guy”.  But still, it seems to be working for him:

…announced today that his campaign has reached over 1,300 households and plans to reach 5,000 before the September 11th primary by going door to door on motorized scooters.

“From Bedford to Richmond, residents tell me that I am the first politician to ever stand at their door step and introduce myself,” Sen. Sanborn said.  “They have been incredibly appreciative of my effort and supportive of my candidacy because they know that I am out there every day, working for their vote.  To me, it is so important to actually meet someone face to face and have a direct conversation.  The scooters are efficient, economical, and a lot of fun, and they are enabling us to meet many more people than we would be able to traveling by foot or car.”

Entire presser after the jump.

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So, Ray Burton (NH Executive Councilor, District 1, Grafton County Commissioner) is pulling a Governor Peterson in endorsing….a Democrat??

This came over the transom:

‘Republican’ Ray Burton has endorsed Democrat County Commissioner Michael Cryans for reelection.  Burton has also refused to endorse Republican Omer Ahern for re-election as District 2 Grafton County Commissioner against Democrat Martha Richards. Omer has been a great advocate for reigning in Grafton County spending and keeping Grafton County property taxes low. Burton and Cryans have consistently opposed Ahern’s pro-taxpayer initiatives

Apparently, the news was in the Valley News at the end of the week 6/16/2012 – I have tried to verify that by asking if anyone has hardcopy as the Valley News site is so horrible it is all but useless.  For full disclosure, Omer is a personal friend and I KNOW that he has been a long term Republican and active in the Party structure.  More importantly, he is a great TEA Party / Conservative kind of guy (which is probably why Burton despises him).  He supports the Republican Party Platform but more important to me, he realizes that Government serves a purpose – and it is not to be used to spread influence and to buy votes. Government should be limited, frugal, unintrusive and stays within bounds and lie LIGHTLY upon taxpayerst.

That is not Ray Burton’s vision – IMHO, he has used it to enhance himself.  To NOT give a nod to Omer over his Dem opponent basically is bring up the specter that Burton (er, weak news flash??) is more a Progressive Republican, happy to grow government and aide those that sojourn in that process (like Dems) than a constitutionally based one.  In short, a candidate for one of Rick’s weekly reports. Much is forgiven by him as he doesn’t just bring home the bacon to the North Country – he brings home the whole herd.  Everytime I turn around, it seems there’s a whole flock of folks that owe him favors in return for what he has dragged from Concord.  Is that the NH way, or has he just toned down a Chicago system way of “doing business”.  And of course, don’t forget about this about his wanting to raise taxes and that (“He has become a parody of a good old boy politician.” – and people and other politicians keep kissing his arse).

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How about a justification for slavery?

Last Friday President Obama gave a speech in Virginia where he said, among other things, “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own….If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute blog “Ideas” observed that the underlying meaning of those statements is this:

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On NH GOP Chairman Wayne MacDonald’s version of Political Courage…

Or “What ever happened to that pair we saw Wayne MacDonald with when he debated NH Dem Chair Ray Buckley on Close-up“?

Or “Leadership by cowering“?

Or “See no evil, hear no evil, speak pablum”

Problem outlined and question posited here.  Well, I got my requested answer (credit for that, anyways) and Tory Mazolla, the Executive Director of the NH GOP sent the response by NH GOP Chairman Wayne MacDonald along to me:

“We’re disappointed anytime a Republican doesn’t support the entire GOP ticket and all of its candidates.  That said, I understand that there are always Republicans who fail to close ranks as we would like.   We will support the full ticket in November as determined by our Republican voters, but we’re not supporting any candidates in a contested primary.  All of our nominees in the general election will be supported, but the normal practice of the Party doesn’t include direct financial support to candidates.” – NHGOP Chairman Wayne MacDonald

I read it once.  I read it twice. I started to read it a third and said “screw this” and fingers went to keyboard to fisk it:

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Finally Some School Choice in NH

New Hampshire parents and children should annually celebrate June 27th.  On that day, the NH Legislature enacted SB 372 which helps the children of low and middle income families attend the schools of their choice rather than being trapped in failing and mediocre public schools.

 

On June 27th 251 Republicans and one Democrat overrode Governor Lynch’s veto of SB 372.  The other Democrat legislators joined Governor Lynch in trying to protect the teacher’s unions and the educational establishment which provides Democrats so much campaign support but which has been increasingly failing the children of New Hampshire and the United States for the last 50 years.

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Another Fanciful Editorial in The Citizen of Laconia

One marvels at the audacity of the falsehoods in The Citizen of Laconia’s July 12 editorial.  Seeing a claim that Republicans refused to engage in the healthcare debate and that is why Obamacare is “flawed” makes one wonder if The Citizen is an arm of the Obama campaign.   

Republicans promoted things which are popular and have demonstrated success in reducing costs: tort reform, Health Savings Accounts, more competition, fewer mandates and bureaucratic regulations, full deductibility of health insurance premiums, returning health care “insurance” to the purpose of insurance, providing for unexpected events, and more personal responsibility especially by people who can afford, but don’t buy, insurance.     

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I’d Like to Know What New Hampshire Democrats Think About This?

I’d like to know what New Hampshire Democrats think about this? Under President Obama’s healthcare law, the HHS can levy $100 per employee, per day against institutions that won’t comply with the (contraceptive) mandate. Therefore, religious employers with hundreds of employees could be fined millions of dollars each year. A 50-employee institution, for example, would … Read more

GrokTV Event – Rumney home event for Ovide Lamontagne (Candidate, NH Governor) – Question 3 – Do any tort reforms in the State in order to help us?

The last question was on Obamacare and how to protect NH business owners from it; this question concerns the legal ramifications as well – tort reform.  It is almost obligatory to say that the Democrats are so beholden to the trial lawyers (along with Big Unions, Big Environmentalism, and Wall Street) that their legislation often … Read more

Abortion is an Act of Tyranny

Abortion is an act of tyranny.  It is the expression of  legal force against another life that denies that life the right to the property of living and every expression of existence that follows from it.  It denies these rights solely for the benefit of another (others), who have exchanged the risk of creation for their own pleasure.

Denying life for your own selfish pleasure; even excusing it because the state has made it legal?   How is that not tyranny?

The pursuit of pleasure is a function of human existence–an animal instinct.  And the promise of physical pleasure drives us toward intimate human contact.   Societies try to manage this relationship with institutions like religion, marriage, even our government, but in recent decades the government has viewed these institutions as inimical to “personal freedom,” and sought to enact laws that prevent these social or cultural institutions from functioning as a brake on the unbridled human weakness for sexual pleasure.  While the state should have a very limited if marginal interest in managing the terms of otherwise natural and productive human relationships, somewhere along the way the State has legalized a form of tyranny.

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Wal-Mart: Making Stuff Up as We Merrily Go Along

“Wal-mart… do they like make walls there?” —Paris Hilton

I truly dislike Walmart. Back in April, I detailed in my column why Wal-Mart is anti-gun, “but it’s a secret.” Having gone to Wal-Mart for some tires, I felt myself lectured and admonished by a technician over the mere presence of an unloaded firearm present in my vehicle. I told the Wal-Mart lackey in no uncertain terms that he was full of crap and that he was making stuff up.

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THIS is the end result of creating a modern “welfare state”

You voted for it, over and over. You wanted “free stuff” from the government. You thought “we’re a rich country, we can afford it.” You have voted crooks and fraudsters into power again and again. Now you will face the result of creating a so-called “welfare state.” Enjoy the future, suckers.

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