So, a church would be able to control its facilities – how big of Lindsey Graham on his definition of Religious Freedom.

“But nobody doing business should be allowed to discriminate against another American.  At the end of the day, you’re trying to protect religious freedom, the right to be able to follow your conscience religiously but the goal is not to discriminate against people.  If you are traveling, you want to stay someplace to eat, you know go to eat, rent a hotel, you should be able to do so regardless of your sexual preference.”

My take on this? 

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Well, no Pre-Show this week as the livestreaming software decided to be quite contrary and refused to start a few times.  But, a good show with Max Abramson, Jorge Mesa-Tejada, Carly Fiorina, Pete Ingemi, and Kevin Bloom all giving up a part of their Saturday morning to be with us – and you!

• Segment 1a – NH State Rep Max Abramson – an update on his court case in Rockingham County.
• Segment 1b – Jorge Mesa-Tejada came on for his next installment of Educational Update.  This week, he talks about the What and Why of NH’s S.A.U.s
• Segment 2a – Former HP CEO (and possible Republican Presidential Candidate) Carly Fiorina comes on to talk about bureaucracy bloat, returning to Congressional responsibilities, Tax code, Common Core, and Customer service.
• Segment 2b – NH State Rep Max Abramson – Judiciary Update
• Segment 3a – Pete Ingemi (“DaTechGuy”) comes on for a quick report from the NH GOP First in the Nation Leadership event
• Segment 3b – NH State Rep Max Abramson continues with his Update, “Jasperism Retribution” (by the Democrat appointed NH Speaker of the House Shawn Jasper), and Roll calls in the House.
• Segment 4a – Frequent contributor Kevin Bloom comes on to give us an update on SB30 – a NH piece of legislation where Big Government joins up with Crony Capitalism at The Balsams.  Taxpayers will be on the hook for failure while the Crony will laugh his way away if things go south financially.
• Segment 4b – and more with NH State Rep Max Abramson

Segment 1:

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As posted out here, Mike was there to livestream the Dr. Ben Carson talk at the Alpine Grove in Hollis, NH.

The question and answer part is still uploading; see it after the jump when it is ready:

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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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