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In another fine example of the people addressing a problem the government doesn’t have the time or talent to tackle, election integrity activists have successfully identified a completed-ballot storage security issue and communicated it to the people who need to know. Concerned citizens discovered a problem with the tamper-proof tape used on boxes of completed … Read more
A few sentences into his recent piece in InDepthNH (and other places), Andru Volinsky demonstrates that he has no idea how the statewide education tax actually works, let alone how it should work. First, no one gets excused from paying anything. Every district collects the full SWEPT tax, spends it on adequacy, and applies … Read more
Voters in Salem have another opportunity this Tuesday to keep Betty Gay out of the New Hampshire House. Some locals consider this so important that they’ve rebooted their No Way Betty Gay website. It appeared in 2022 and successfully kept Betty out of the NH House. It has resurfaced in 2024 with the same goal. … Read more
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJ) is hearing oral arguments today on the appeal of Commonwealth vs. O’Donnell, a case dismissed by a lower court. As reported previously, These challenges to the state’s firearms licensing scheme stem in part from the prosecution of two motorists, Dean Donnell and Philip Marquis, who were both charged with … Read more
With just two days until our Republican Primary, there’s much to be optimistic and excited about. That said, I’m writing to you now to implore you to ensure, that in the these waning primary days, that you and your committees abide by the hard rule that we are NEUTRAL through the primary. Completely neutral. This is a … Read more
THE PRIMARY is coming September 10th and with it more social media ads, more postcards in our mailboxes and more confusion. Have you ever stopped to wonder where the money for all of this advertising comes from? Why are these groups so concerned about local elections and spending so much on them? Big marijuana is … Read more
At the August 29th Kearsarge School District meeting, the school board members voted 6-1 to allow a junior boy to play on the Girl’s Soccer team. This reversed their decision from two weeks prior to follow the new NH state law HB 1205 that prohibits biological boys from playing on a girl only team from … Read more
With the recent ruling by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, parents were issued a warning shot: GET YOUR KIDS OUT OF HERE. That first came when the attorney for the school district told the New Hampshire Supreme Court Justices that parents can remove their children from the school if they don’t like it. In this … Read more
Just like Congressional candidate Lily Tang Williams, I also fear that the country that I love — the United States — is becoming too much like the country that she left — China. As a state representative finishing up my first term, I originally ran two years ago due to this fear. It has become … Read more
Friday, we broke a story about issues related to securing stored and completed ballots after an election. Activists did a test run of the procedure outlined in the state’s election manual got a test, and it failed. They were able to remove the tamper-resistant tape without leaving evidence of tampering. [T]he election integrity watchdog demonstrated … Read more
Kamala Harris visited the New Hampshire Seacoast last Wednesday for a speech to discuss her economic plan. I have never been so angered by a political speech, and the Harris appearance had many overtones to raise the hair on the back of a Conservative’s neck. The speech focused on the small business incentives proposed by … Read more
When Julie Moore, Secretary of Natural Resources, said the Clean Heat Standards “carbon credit” tax on home heating fuels could drive up costs by 70 cents per gallon, the advocates of the program shouted her down and said, “Wait for the official analysis done by the real experts, you know-nothing, political hack!” (I’m consolidating and … Read more
Regular readers will know that the Donchess regime in Nashua is very selective about the flags it allows on the citizen’s pole—almost, dare I say, partisan in its rejection. Most recently, Stephen and Beth Scaer (who both write for GraniteGrok) asked the city to fly the de-trans flag. It was rejected, and an appeal to … Read more
Most readers already know, at the federal level, which national media personalities are NOT desirable choices for moderating presidential debates. It’s also well known that the participating candidates are to agree upon the format and other details prior to the event. They often “do a walk-through” at the studio or other event site to iron … Read more
Following up on my recent posts about RINOs and Good Guys, these are my recommendations for many of the September 10 primaries. Click the towns to see the earlier posts. Belknap 5 (Laconia 1, 3, 4, 5, 6) Belknap 6 (Gilford, Gilmanton, Laconia 2) Belknap 7 (Alton, Barnstead) Grafton 3 (Lincoln, Woodstock, Easton, Livermore) Disclosure: … Read more
Way back when Rep. Ben Ming first took possession of Sue Homola’s seat in the NH House, he wasted no time in deploying woke identity politics. When he bragged in a tweet that he’s the first Asian to have a seat in the House, I replied that I voted for who would have been the … Read more
Education Options held our first two EdOpt Expos at the Richards Free Library in Newport in August. While there are many things for us to learn, we’re off to a good start. The best part was that all the attendees could point to something that they learned there. I know I was part of a … Read more
I don’t have their responses (yet), but the fact that WMUR even asked this question is (something of) a surprise. Chris later shared a video of the question being asked. pic.twitter.com/ilijmtdzXH — Chris Maidment (@ChrisMaidmentNH) September 5, 2024 Based on the downstream comments, they didn’t answer the question, which is the only safe response. As … Read more
“Your Sheriff is the highest authority in your county, even over the federal government. The sheriff has the authority to deny enforcement of state, federal, and local laws that do not serve your rights or work contrary to your rights. Sherriff Brad Rogers from Elkhart, IN, stood up to the federal government. The FDA and … Read more
As a lawyer in the State of New Hampshire for over 50 years, I am beyond outraged at the recent idiotic decision of the New Hampshire Supreme Court (NHSCOTUS) abridging and destroying parental rights. The leftist intimidation has reached the point where the plaintiff defaults to “DOE” rather than use her Christian name. We want … Read more