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Greetings from Loudon! I am indeed running again for NH State Representative. Here’s a BLOG link to a brief bio. I love being at the State House and am very proud of my work there. In my very purple district, re-election is a challenge. I’m 3-3 in House races, and while .500 is a great baseball batting average, … Read more
Phil Scott is by some accounts the most popular governor in the United States with an approval rating of around eighty percent. Ergo, lots of political pundits and big dollar donors who want to change the direction of state policy advise aspiring politicians to “be like Phil” to get elected. Yes and no. But mostly … Read more
Mayor Donchess has no interest in providing fact-based answers to citizens. He is all too comfortable misrepresenting information to the public, particularly when questioned. In the first Mayoral Debate last year against Mike Soucy, when questioned about the $7,108,850 Loan the City gave to NPAC Corp., a private corporation, the Mayor stated that no loan … Read more
Almost everyone in New Hampshire knows about The Claremont Decisions. The courts decided they were legislators and could determine what adequate school funding was about. More recently, they’ve been at it again. The ConVal ruling (Contoocook Valley School District v. State of New Hampshire) tells the legislature to amp up school funding despite the absence … Read more
By Spec Bowers – David Nagel’s short voting record puts him in the bottom (i.e., worst) 10 of all Republicans for the current biennium. More than 95% of Republican Reps supported SB272 (Parents’ Bill of Rights in Education), which, among other things, says that teachers should not lie to parents about potential gender transitioning of … Read more
The Grok faithful should already be familiar with the very contentious senate primary in District 23. The establishment elite is circling the wagons and playing dirty to protect RTK tax cosponsor Senator Gannon against his challenger, Rep Emily Phillips. Anyone not up to speed is encouraged to use the archive search for many recent Grok … Read more
Friday, news broke that a transgirl who had been working so hard at summer soccer had been denied a spot on the girl’s team because those evil Republicans passed a bill that sorts sports by birth sex. Her parents are not just suing; they are asking the court to stay the law while the case … Read more
New Hampshire residents will understand when Nantucket resident Pat McEvoy says the Feds jammed green energy (offshore wind) down their throats and that “We were not represented in this process.” Development in the Gulf of Maine has been fast-tracked thanks to State Senator David “This will look good on my resume” Watters. Dead whales didn’t stop it. … Read more
On June 17th, 2024, the Board of Alderman held its annual FY24-25 budget hearing. The hearing permits citizens to question spending in any City division or department on a $320,000,000 budget. Alderman Dowd has established ground rules but often changes them during the hearing. If he doesn’t like how citizens question the spending of taxpayer … Read more
The crown jewel of endorsements for any woman on the enemy camp candidate slate is from what a family member refers to as “That B****,” but there’s so many of them. Therefore clarification is in order and it’s Hillary. Instead of aligning with Annie Kuster and endorsing Colin Van Ostern (CVO), Hillary chose Goodlander, and … Read more
Former Democrat State Senator Jeff Woodburn has been back in the news for trying to dodge a 30-day stint in stir. That was not (it seems) enough drama for him. He took a little trip to Maine, where he coincidentally found himself within shouting distance of his former fiancé. The woman whose arm he bit, … Read more
Joseph Guthrie has a terrible voting record. Rockingham 15 has a 3 for 2-primary. One opponent, Lilli Walsh, has a middle-of-the-road record. The other, Cale Houston, does not have a record. Lilli Walsh contact info: Lilli@lilliwalsh.com, (978) 228-5116 Cale Houston’s contact info: [Not available at publication] Bad votes by Guthrie, Joseph (R, Hampstead) Cost of Living voted … Read more
It never ceases to amaze me how deaf some people are to their own rhetoric. Take Sanford, Maine, Mayor Becky Brink. As part of a consolidation plan to take the city from three polling places to one, she expressed some concerns about one location in particular. The move to consolidate the polling locations was purportedly … Read more
I have a few points of fact regarding Senator Bill Gannon’s so-called conservative record. There is a widening lack of transparency in our state Senate due to a lack of roll calling being done which makes it impossible to know how individual Senator’s vote. The striking fact is Gannon’s rating is a C+ from the … Read more
I am interested in knowing more about some money trails related to the cost of renewing my New Hampshire vehicle registration. With the price of a stamp jacked up a few cents last month, I’d like to know the costs compared to the current online processing fee they push (should a local vehicle owner want to … Read more
At the end of July, the Vermont State Supreme Court issued a decision on a lawsuit brought by parents whose grade-school child had been injected with a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ against their will. According to the school, the six-year-old was inoculated in error, for which they apologized, but the parents sued them … Read more
There has been a lot of talk on social media and around town. I thought I would share a little and offer some insight to folks. Rye Harbor, Hampton Harbor, and the Portsmouth Commercial Pier are all managed by the Pease Department Authority. Please see my attached image of who the board members are and … Read more
Forty years ago, give or take, the State of Maine created a program whose purpose was to create a slush fund to provide legal services to people who could not afford them. Interest earned on Lawyer’s Trust fund accounts (IOLTA) is pooled, and the fund is dispersed to pay for lawyers fees. The Maine Justice … Read more
David Bickford has one of the worst voting records of all time. Bickford’s opponent in Strafford 3 is Susan DeRoy. She does not have a record, but her website (https://deroy4nh.com) suggests that she will vote well. She describes herself as a constitutionalist and lists her main issues as “End Wasteful Spending, Embrace Educational Freedom, Reduce Energy Costs, … Read more
The details are behind a paywall, but according to Morning Consult, Vermont Governor Phil Scott has an 81 percent approval rating. Did they poll people who don’t live in Vermont, or, more likely, he’s seen sympathetically as an abused spouse? Scott is a victim, like them, of the immovable object that is Vermont’s current veto-proof … Read more