Well, Saturday’s event at the Seacoast Republican Women / Rockingham County Republican Committee Brunch at the Portsmouth Country Club was fun to be there.  Even though I was under the weather (and in coming down from Central NH where some of the snow squalls were starting to go whiteout, that’s setting a low bar to crawl under), I was glad I went (and for the first time in a long time, TMEW came with me – she wanted to see Ted Cruz in person and not just posted on GraniteGrok.

So, time to play catchup and post what we livestreamed:

• SRW/RCRC Brunch with Ted Cruz – Intro Banter
• SRW/RCRC Brunch with Ted Cruz – Interview with Joe Barton
• SRW/RCRC Brunch with Ted Cruz – Interview with Jack Kimball and Jo Horvath
• SRW/RCRC Brunch with Ted Cruz – Interview with Jeff Chidester

Intro Banter:

And of course Steve has been posting the audio as well!  More video for this post and more video from the event in the next post:

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During the House Education Committee hearing today, Rep. Myler representing Merrimack District 10, rebuked the large number of parents who e-mailed him in support of SB101 saying he’s sick of hearing from the people who are e-mailing him. (Video on the jump)

Isn’t it the duty of our elected Representatives serving on these committees to consider all testimony and even when there is disagreement, encourage individuals to speak up? Doesn’t this kind of rant discourage people from weighing in on important legislation?

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When US Senator Ted Cruz had finished with his address to the crowd and the questions, he did come over to the ‘Grok area where we had set up to talk for a few moments.  Knowing that time was valuable in getting to a couple of other meetings / events that day, it was nice to meet him in person; we had time for two quick qestions:

• What Constitutional matters did we miss yesterday (he was on GrokTALK! the day before: “..the most substantive, serious conversation I’ve had in terms of a discussion of the issues,”  and he went on to “complement the degree of depth we got into on constitutional issues.”)?
• The importance of politicians believing in “Honor Your Oath”

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From last week’s Ted Cruz event comes a couple of more questions from the audience:

• Question 5 – From former NH GOP Chair Jack Kimball: “will you push MORE against Obama’s Constitutional Lawlessness?
• Question 6 – From a teacher:  what would you do about Common Core?

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• “The Wallet” – I’m not sure how to describe this segment where a man in the front row went on a bit of a rant in support of a Ted Cruz penalty to the point of throwing his wallet in front of Ted Cruz (e.g., an open check)
• “Snowflake” – a cute story about a new dog and the White House

The Wallet                                                                    Snowflake

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Unfortunately, the UStream servers had hiccups during Segment 2 with Hal Shurtleff on the Article V Convention of the States, so apologies.  In the mean time:

• Pre-Show – Steve, Mike, and Skip just yak for a bit
• Segment 1 – Judiciary Update with NH State Rep Max Abramson
• Segment 3 – Dr. Betsy McCaughey comes on to talk about the Supreme Court case of King vs Burrell where the issue is whether or not the black & white words in the actual Obamacare law are to be obeyed – or not.
• Segment 4 – More with Max

Pre-show                                                             Segment 1

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OK, next tranche of videos from Liberty Forum (er, now two weeks old….sigh).

• Segment 9 – former NH State Rep. Emily Sandblade wraps up and Grokster Mike arrives
• Segment 10 -NH State Rep Amanda Boldin and Grokster Rick

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• Segment 11 – Former RNC Committeeman (R-MI) Saul Anuzis comes on to talk Presidential politics and Aaron Day of the Atlas Society comes on to talk about “The Cronies” award
• Segment 12 – Matt Philips comes on to talk about PorcFest! and  former RLCNH Chair and NH Governor candidate Andrew Hemingway comes on to also talk about Presidential politics with an emphasis on Carly Fiorina.

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And the questions continued for US Senator Ted Cruz at Sunday’s event at Turbocam:

• Question 3 – From retired US Marine and current NH State Rep Al Baldasaro: Why are ALL Senators sitting back and doing nothing on military readiness and helping the vets that need it?
• Question 4 – Conservative Constitutionalists want to know: When are you announcing your candidacy in running for President?

Question 3                                                               Question 4

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OK, I ‘fess up – it’s been a while since the last post from Liberty Forum went up from me so time to put it into gear again:

• Segment 7 – We talk with Alvin about Liberty Forum and again, thank him immensely for donating the funds for 1 of the two headsets we are looking to add to the equipment roster as we often have more people in studio than we can put on air.  We also talk with Matt Simon who has been a long time marijuana advocate here in NH; he talks about the bills running their courses at the State Capital.
• Segment 8 – former NH State Rep Emily Sandblade joins with Groksters Susan, Skip, and Steve and she introduces a new legislative concept for us: “Sunrise Law” (as opposed to a sunset law that fades out after some time or date).  She reflects on “too many bills” and the conversation turns to Kelly Ayotte and (again!) “White Chicken Chili”.

Segment 7                                                                Segment 6

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