More incoming: you know, if people were happy with the anointing of Juliana Bergeron, why would this even be a story?  

The Nashua City Republican Committee Meeting was this past week and it was a heavily attended meeting. The invited speaking schedule:

• Radio host Jeff Chidester,
• State Senator Jim Luther
• State Senator Gary Lambert
• Jack Kimball

Well before it started, Juliana Bergeron swept in encircled by some of her supporters with JULIANA stickers. Some members immediately commented how “crass” the stickers were. 

Me?  A big deal?  Stickers?  Running for the NH GOP Chair and showing up at (gasp!) a meeting of Republicans where some might actually be Members that could vote for her on Saturday for NH GOP Chair?  I’d be shocked if she didn’t…

Oh wait! Shades of a Christmas Card? 

There were comments swirling around the meme that they were surprised to see Juliana again as she was not a regular attender of their meeting.  In fact, the only other time she had appeared at their  meeting was when she appeared as a speaker in at their previous meeting in December.

Some felt it was “disrespectful,” and was meant to “tweak” Jack (which it did not).

Sounds like some Republicans around here – show up for a couple of meetings just before an election, never see them again. However, as they say in the infomercials: "But wait – there’s more!"

The members became even more upset when Juliana Bergeron campaign manager, Liz Christoffersen approached the committee and “demanded” that Juliana be afforded “equal” time to address the audience (since Jack was there).  Liz was reminded that Juliana had already had her turn as she had already talked to the group back in December; fair was fair and tonight was Jack’s turn to address the members. Liz then insisted that Juliana be given at least a few minutes to say “hi.” Again, Liz was reminded that Juliana already had her chance and that it would not be fair to Jack.

OK.  That’s the job – persistence and advocating.  I do think that the Committee had it right – equal opportunity.  One try is fine, twice should have been enough; having done so, you’ve shown and done what you should have.  The correct thing to have at that point was to accept "the loss", be polite, accept the fact that the Committee has made the rule, and abide by it.

Er, nope – that was not the reaction.  Direct opposition to the will of the Committee:

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Not only is Bedford immersed in controversy over a pro-Marxist anti-Christian book assigned in the Personal Finance class, Juniors and Seniors are offered classes from the controversial International Baccalaureate Program (IB) too.  It seems you are either for or against IB in Bedford.

One of the biggest problems with IB is, its ability to divide the community. When a school implements a program that is laced with political overtones, it’s sure to ruffle the feathers of taxpayers.  That’s exactly what’s happened in Bedford.

IB is in partnership with the education arm of the United Nations: (UNESCO).  The U.N. is a controversial organization in its own right.  From lobbying for Cap-n-Trade to anti-Americanism, this organization comes with controversial political baggage.
 
Some residents over the past year have raised concerns over the IB program.  Some have taken their message to the local papers others have e-mailed school board members to voice their opposition to an expensive program that many see as a method to politically indoctrinate students.
 
Bedford residents have been told that IB can be "Bedfortized".  The local school has the authority to guide students through the IB course of study.  However IB’s own documentation states clearly that the IB program must carry out the IB mission.  One needs to dig a little deeper to truly understand the mission of IB and how their mission does not always support the foundation of our U.S. Republic.

Representative Mark Olson presented on the House floor in Minnesota why he believes IB indoctrinates against America instead of educates for America.  He references the United Nations Declaration on…

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Guest post by Robert Jursik who covered Ovide Lamontagne’s Granite Oath series of speakers this past Tuesday night.  The featured speaker was Rick Santorum, former Senator from PA.

Granite staters are renowned for our caustic dismissal of snow storms, yet we are not foolish about them either. With a massive one only hours away, we would not travel blithely beyond our homes – certainly not for politics and most certainly not for wine and cheese. Yet, there we were, nearly 200 of us, squeezed elbow-to-elbow into the Lamontagne family home in Manchester for a purpose too great for mere snow to deter: the first event of Ovide’s Granite Oath PAC’s Presidential Series – a reception for former US Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

Santorum has started out of the gate early for a presumed Presidential candidacy. While media heavyweights like Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin carefully compose op/ed pieces from the comfort of their warm homes, Santorum is here shaking hands, learning names and faces, and recruiting serious people around him to make a presumed candidacy sing. His attendance with Ovide this evening was a natural harmony of two generationally-close men with nearly identical belief systems: Catholic, conservative, Republican, family-oriented, ardently pro-life and strongly supportive of both the Constitution and national security – a combination particularly attractive to the conservative Republican audience attending tonight.

And what an audience! Guests arrived from nearly every corner of the state, a potent mix of veteran party leadership, rank-and-file activists, curious media personalities looking for news, every Lamontagne relative within a 50-mile radius, free cheese-and-cracker hounds (like me), and – perhaps most importantly – campaign professionals gauging Santorum’s value as a candidate for whom they might one day work. Already, the formidable Mike Biundo, still radiant from his management of the hugely-successful Guinta congressional campaign, has signed on to manage Santorum’s America’s Foundation PAC in New Hampshire – a telling endorsement from him of Santorum’s electoral capability. Another campaign veteran who had only recently managed a US Senate bid described Santorum as “on his short list” of Presidential aspirants. Here in this house, crammed as it was like a Republican sardine can, was assembled the grand collection of the best conservative political architects in the state, presented with Presidential Job Applicant “Santorum” – and they were interested.

Should they be? Frankly,…

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