This Week’s GrokTALK 11-13-2010

A mixture of politics, culture, current events, and well, politics, it is an Internet Radio show streaming live audio and video directly from GraniteGrok. Using a solidly Conservative and Rational Libertarian lens, we’ll take on almost any topic and have notables from the news, political figures, authors, and other opinionated folks for your edification and amusement.

Did SB500 Work?

Correct me if I am wrong, like you wouldn’t anyway, but were we not told repeatedly that the best thing about SB500 was that it would allow the former inmates to work their way back into society under a more supervised regiment than if required to serve out their entire sentence.

Contact your NEW State Representatives…

Wondering how to contact your new NH House Representatives? Well, if they were re-elected, you can easily find their contact info on nh.gov.  But if they are new to the House, you really have to dig to find their phone/email. The GraniteGrok has done that for you – see this spreadsheet.  We’ve found about 90% … Read more

To Spend And Protect

Image Courtesy of The Tizona GroupThe State Supreme court announced that is sees a conflict between current state law and spending cap initiatives approved by voters (Manchester in particular).  This is not unexpected but it is fortuitous, and to some degree ironic.  In their quest to defend any liberal-leaning municipalities desire to spend beyond the ability of their residents to pay for it, groups like Keep Manchester Moving have just financed the blueprint by which the now Republican super-majority state government can adroitly engineer a fix.

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The Biggest Special Interest Of All

Two Sheets PleaseThere’s something you might want to keep in mind about the state level Democrat wind machine as we move forward toward 2012.  It has been their practice to ignore their own out of state campaign dollars as they attack anyone or anything on the Republican side with even the most tenuous connection to influence from outside the state.  Even the governor has stood up and declared that he is against the influence of money from outside the state, while hundreds of thousands have poured into his pockets from places farther  and wider than the political borders of the Granite State.  But that’s all superficial by comparison to this.

How do governor Lynch, Chairman Buckley, presumptive democrat candidates for 2012 at every level, the whole of the democrat party, even their RINO sympathizers, explain why they embrace massive infusions of out of state money and all the disruptive influence it has at the state and local level…from the federal government?

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Oh yeah, I’m getting one of these…

Virgina wll soon offer a special Gadsden license plate option to its residents. Texas is talking about it as well. Now that we’ll have a sensible House and Senate on Concord, maybe New Hampshire can follow suit.

The plot THICKENS! Is Chandler plotting with the Democrats to seize the Speakership?

In the latest twist in this fast-developing story, it turns out that Rep. Bill O’Brien, candidate for Speaker of the House, wanted to insert a new rule for GOP Caucus which will be held next week on the 18th. But the other main candidate for Speaker of the House, Gene Chandler, opposes the new rule. What is it? Read on….

 

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BREAKING: Gene Chandler asserts he 100% Republican and 100% loyal to his party

Just a few hours ago Union Leader political columnist John DiStaso came out with an apparent clarification of the intent of Republican Speaker of the House candidate Gene Chandler, after the GraniteGrok posting below created a political firestorm among the new majority Republicans. Chandler indicated that he will not run for Speaker with Democrat support if he loses … Read more

Are we INSANE?

The United States is BANKRUPT. WE. ARE. OUT. OF. MONEY. We are BROKE, you idiots! Yet…here it is: Just pure insanity. No, wait, it’s not "us." It’s our political/government/ruling class. THEY are insane. READ THIS, from Thomson Reuters:   U.S. gives [an ADDITIONAL] $150 MILLION to Palestinian Authority 10 Nov 2010 15:29:14 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Nov 10 … Read more

Why Bill O’Brien for Speaker: Reason #3

As promised, I now turn to the third reason—actually a "bundle of reasons"—why the new Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives should be Bill O’Brien.

But first, I must state that it is not my intent to launch a personal attack against Gene Chandler. He was the last "real" Republican Speaker of the House in 2003 and 2004, and is now running for that position again. He led his party honorably in the past, but unfortunately not ably. In addition, he fell victim to what can only charitably be called "glaring mistakes of judgment." Because of those mistakes, he was convicted of political corruption, fined $2,000, sentenced to community service in a court of law, driven out of the race for Speaker of the House in 2004, and in 2005 nearly driven from elective office itself. The result was chaos in the Republican Party, the election of a Democrat-supported turncoat Republican to Speaker of the House in 2006, and the eventual destruction of the Republican majority in 2006.

It is not pleasant to dredge up this past political history, but it is necessary. There is an unprecedentedly large freshman class of state representatives, almost all elected as New Republicans upon their promises to fix the damage wrought upon our state over the past four years of rule by the Democrats. Most of these freshmen Republican representatives—and many other Republicans—are unaware of this history. They are also unaware that it would be extremely unwise to elect Gene Chandler to be Speaker of the House of Representatives. Or why.

Accordingly, and unfortunately, all must be explained….

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Voice of Democracy – Fellowship Christian Academy: Christi!

OK, took a wee bit of time for other things – time for me to get back to these papers!  Latest one is now from Christi (previous: Previous papers were from  Peter, Maggie, Laura, Kathryn, Grace & Tim, Catherine, Ben, Tyler, Jillian, & Michael)

 (Picture credit: Alan Glassman; FCA students)
 
Does my generation play a role in America’s future?

A wise man once said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” The man who spoke these words was Mahatma Gandhi, a very influential leader who changed all of India. So in answer to this question, yes, I do believe that my generation does play a role in America’s future but the role which we will play is dependent upon each individual of this generation.

Martin Luther King Junior was probably one of our country’s most inspiring leaders. He was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was smart, well raised, and had almost everything a child could want except one thing: freedom. Although he was able to live as a free man he did not have the basic rights every human deserves. He was treated as second-class citizen and, almost as the member of an entirely different race, but none of this held him back. “I have a dream” he shouted on the steps of Lincoln’s Memorial, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of it’s creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal’” These very words forever changed the heart of America in a way no one thought possible. This one man was able to…

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Taking All The ‘Air’ Out Of “Fair”

The Nashua Telegraph spent most of the election season giving up huge chunks of their Sunday commentary page to the mouth-pieces of special interests promoting left wing causes like health care deform, so why stop now that the election has passed?  This week we get the implausible assumptions of Cathy Silber, the coordinator of the Granite State Fair Tax Coalition (GSFTC), who upon seeing the blood in the water on November 3rd, has attempted a preemptive strike for her pet special interest project–an income tax for New Hampshire.

Silber has been fighting "The Pledge," an oath signed by Granite State candidates who promise to vote against any sales or income tax should they meet that big bad wolf tax on the way to Grandmothers house, or anywhere else.  So Silber is the "Anti-pledger," plying class warfare rhetoric dressed as "fairness" in her quest to drag New Hampshire down the broad based tax rabbit hole, with the lie that it would take pressure off property taxes and create a more fair redistribution of wealth…oops I mean a more fair distribution of the tax burden.  Wait.  I had it right the first time.

What, you don’t think GSFTC is seeking the redistribution of wealth?

Take a look at who is in the "fair tax" coalition.  Union heavyweights; the NEA-NH, SEIU-1984(NH), and the NH State Employees Association, our state government employees union.  Who else?  How about a slew of social justice groups like the Unitarian Universalist’s and the NH Council of Churches, anti gun, pro-global warming, supporting redistribution of wealth, all left wing causes aided in their minds by a new broad based tax.

Takes all the ‘Air’ out of Fair, don’t you think? 

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Why Bill O’Brien for Speaker? Reason #1

 

 

From Concord, NH to Washington, DC a new political age is dawning. The Tea Party movement has made it clear that the old, corrupt way of "politics as usual" will no longer be tolerated. On the national scene we see tomorrow’s legislative leadership emerging in the Republican Party: Jim DeMint from South Carolina, Pat Toomey from Pennsylvania, Marco Rubio from Florida, Rand Paul from Kentucky, and many others.

New Hampshire has its own new emerging legislative leaders: Dan Itse, Carol McGuire, Bob Mead, Jennifer Coffey, Steve Stepanek, Paul Mirski, and many others. Assisting them all in bringing forth a New Republican Party is Rep. Bill O’Brien, candidate for Speaker of the State House of Representatives….

 

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Former State Rep. and Dover City Council Member Dave Scott Speaks Out on Bill O’Brien and the Speakership Race

Dave Scott was a State Representative during the 2002-2003 period when Gene Chandler was last the Speaker of the House. Scott, the holder of an MBA from Harvard University, was also a crusading member of the Dover city council in uncovering local government corruption. He now sends the following thoughts about his experience in the State House and his support of Bill O’Brien for Speaker of the House:

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