A topic of much discussion today on GrokTALK! were the recent remarks by NHGOP Chair Jennifer Horn.  She fired up the GOP unity bus (see attached video for J-Ho Go Team! Rah-Rah from the Rockingham County Republican Dinner just last Weekend) and publicly backed it over Congressman Guinta.

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Today’s Union Leader, from James A. Kimble

BRENTWOOD — A judge declared a mistrial for an ex-Seabrook police officer accused of assaulting a 19-yearold drunken driving suspect while on duty.

The jury in the Mark Richardson trial told Judge N. William Delker at least twice on Tuesday that they were deadlocked on reaching a verdict before they were released from duty. “There was more than a lone holdout. I don’t think we ever got a number,” defense lawyer Peter Perroni said late Tuesday.

Richardson, 40, faced a single count of simple assault by an on-duty law enforcement officer for slamming Michael Bergeron into a cement wall at the Seabrook police station on Nov. 11, 2009.

Not Guilty? You can watch the video and decide for yourself.

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Monday night I had the pleasure of meeting with a small contingent of five South Korean politicos (and two interpreters) at the offices of CNHT in Concord.  They are touring the United States in search of how we deal with government corruption; CNHT was chosen for our nationally known experience (and success) in ferreting out and stopping local government officials acting badly.  We were also selected because we help other volunteers in doing this and build up that expertise and institutional knowledge that can be shared.

This workshop revolved around NH’s Right To Know statute: RSA 91-a and how ordinary citizens can and do use it quite effectively in a variety of ways of keep a government entity that may be trying to become unaccountable highly accountable to its citizens. After, it IS Government that is supposed to report to us – not the other way around.

As Skip is always saying “The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen”.  Being an aborist, think of RSA 91-a as the citizenry’s chainsaw (pruning government gone bad).

Parts 1 & 2 (3 and 4 later on today):

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Prager University has released two short videos to help you grasp the brilliance of the electoral college.  Wait, I know.  You already knew this stuff.  But how good are you are explaining it?  And how handy would it be to have a quick resource to share for those who are still struggling?

Here you go.

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“Defeating Islamic terror, shrinking government, growing the economy. These are the issues that matter most.  Instead, we’re debating social issues like abortion and gay rights. They’re a distraction and only help to elect Hillary.  After 8 years of Obama style socialism, we need to shrink government, not let Big Government tell us how to live our lives.”

That’s from a George Pataki ad (if you don’t know, he thinks he can be the next Prez) – just ignore them, a nothing burger on the grander scheme of things.  And he’s completely oblivious that Big Government IS using those issues and demanding that we live our lives accordingly.  THAT is why she AND Obama are emphasizing them! Take a read

• Former US Secretary of State, US Senator, First Lady and Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton: “Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
• President Obama suggested that people of faith should focus more on helping the poor, instead of focusing on divisive issues such as gay marriage and abortion…“I think it would be powerful for our faith-based organizations to speak out on this in a more forceful fashion,”

Religious beliefs – abortion, gay marriage. Change them, BANISH them,  they say.  Ignore them, he says – even as, for instance, gay marriage is being used to change the Law.  That’s a big deal, George!

And Pataki is right there

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Full day, fun discussions! Except for the beginning when our streaming PC decided that some vital parts could continue to sleep instead of getting the show on the cyber-road (it may be time to rethink some of the technology).  Anyways, a full GrokTALK! today:

• Groksters Steve, Mike, and Skip start things off with Odds and Sods: winter weather, weather for California Gov. Moonbeam and how environmentalists are responsible for their woeful water infrastructure
• BH State Rep Max Abramson comes on for a long Legislative Update due all the important bills flowing the NH House & Senate (among them, SB30 (“Balsams Bailout”) and SB116 (“Constitutional Carry”)
• Greg Klein, a blogger at Red Maryland, comes on to talk about Baltimore: the incident, the riots, and the politics
• Ron Moore – storm chaser – updates us on weather and climate.  Note: if you liked the last two winters, you have something to look forward too!

Segment 1a                                                                 Segment 1b

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Yes, tech problems this morning galore and as a result, the video from the first segment on GrokTALK! with NH State Rep Max Abramson on a Legislative Update was lost (the livestream cam kept cutting out – sorry Max!). However, we marshalled on and hopefully next week, things will go a bit better.

• Segment 1b – Jane Cormier, President of NH Right to Life comes on for an RTL Update
• Segment 2 – Ed Naile, Chair of CNHT, comes on for a Voter Fraud Update (and yes, that includes you,Jared Steven Cram; a previous posts here, here, here, here, and here.
• Segment 3 – Kimberly Morin comes on to talk about the Balsams Boondoggle – whereby Les Otten wants NH Taxpayers to be on the hook to restore his North Country Palace The Balsams Resort and politicians all too willing to do just that via Senate Bill SB30.  She gives us more sordid details as well (conservation ownership, unstated timber $$$, toxic dump, and (?) water rights broken).
• Segment 4a – David Bozell, Executive Director of ForAmerica, comes on to talk about tax reform (and a bunch of other things as we led him down a few other paths)
• Segment 4b –

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The resurgent talk about the US Constitution’s Tenth Amendment and States’ Rights was the object of Mike Roger’s speech to the crowd, a subject of no little interest lately with the overreach of the current Obama Administration trying to wend its way into every nook and cranny of everyone’s commercial and private lives.  After all, it was the States that created the Federal Government – and not the other way around.  Trevor Loudon come up from down under and this New Zealander speaks about the danger he sees for American with “The enemy within – Marxism” and unlimited illegal immigration (either by de facto or allowed / encouraged by the Obama Administration).

Mike Rogers                                                           Trevor Loudon

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Next in line as speakers for the 603 Alliance Grassroot Summit:

• From the Center for Immigration Studies came Jessica Vaughn (Director of Policy Studies) to talk about, well, immigration.
• She was followed by Fredo Aria-King, industrialist, who was described to me as a real Renaissance Man for all of the varied projects he is involved in.

Jessica Vaughn                                                     Fredo Aria-King

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