“Winning is only a precursor; it is what you do afterwards that is most important”

And we are not close to being done (close, but a coupla/few more posts).  This time, the plethora of areas where NH must be begged “Daddy, may I earn a living?” instead of just getting to the job of doing a job.  I also tried to go back to the meme that we are hearing from moderate and “only winning is important” Republicans – Bill O’Brien can’t win simply because Democrats hate him.  This is a reason?  Seriously?  Or is the real reason deeper than that?

Question 13: Speaking of bringing businesses to NH: we have a lot of certifications and licensing for businesses – cartels, I like to call them where you have to get permission from a certain group of people in order to operate your business in a certain way. How would you address that?

Question 14: Follow on to Jane’s question (Question 12): obviously the Democrats have tried to DEMONIZE you according to Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (Rule #12, isolate, personalize, demonize). Ed

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These next two question were in the area of the growing Administrative State – unelected and unaccountable to the voters making decisions that will affect those voters with the force of law without the legislative process.  It has overtaken the Federal Government and Obama is playing that violin much to our detriment – and it is growing here in NH as well:

Question 5:

New Hampshire has a number of unelected commissions who can circumvent elected officials/the voice of the taxpayers. What can/should the legislature do to keep/make them accountable to the people or move their responsibilities to people who are accountable?  Would it be easier to shift/consolidate whatever it is those commissions do, to elected officials who are accountable to voters?

Question 6:

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This court hearing (7am this past Monday at the Laconia Court) is the result of William Baer (“Billy Baer”) being arrested by the Gilford Police at the behest of Gilford School District Kent Hemingway as Mr. Baer was complaining about the sexually explicit book (“Nineteen Minutes” by self-proclaimed Progressive Jodie Picoult (previous posts: here, here, ehere,  here,  here,  here,  here,  here,  here,  here,  here,  here,  and  here).

The judge’s decision of whether or not the misdemeanor charges will be thrown out may take a few days of waiting.

Parts 2 & 3 after the jump

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“Winning is merely a precursor – it is what you do afterwards that is most important”

And the NH Speaker of the House will have most to do regarding what is done.  Last night the GraniteGrok Editorial Board met with NH State Rep. Bill O’Brien, who is running for re-election for the NH Speaker of the House position, to ask him questions.  Lots of questions on a variety of topics and issue.  Not only were we trying to get answers on specific issues, but we wanted to see what the underlying philosophy was that led him to that decision.  To us, if the question is answered correctly (to OUR outlook, at least) is insufficient if it is merely mouthed – the reasoning, the foundation for that answer must match without equivocation (otherwise, we know someone is trying to tell us what THEY think we want to hear).

After the introduction, Grokster Steve had the first question and he chose RSA 91-A, NH’s Right To Know law and the outlandish costs that can be charged by Government simply because a Citizen wants to know what the Government may not wish for them to know:

Original written question:

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The next question was on Obamacare – specifically the pending doom that that the US Supreme Court may deal to the IRS for writing its Obamacare tax subsidy rule directly counter to what the plain text of the Obamacare law states (tax subsidies are only to be given through State Obamacare Exchanges and not Federal ones):

Question 2:

NH Has no state exchange. If the Supreme court strikes down Federal assistance for plans on the Federal exchange, is there a chance we can we legislate our way to a more open market with buffet plans–to get those trapped by the Affordable care acts sloppy language into some truely affordable coverage, (as well as offer relief and alternatives for others whose rates became unaffordable under the affordable care act?).

After the jump, I had yet another followup on the first question concerning Right To Know problems; previous question links as well.

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When you are seated in front of Groksters, there are ALWAYS plenty of questions launched toward you; a couple more here:

• Q3: How do we transition people from Obamacare’s Expanded Medicaid before it sunsets?
• Q4: Energy costs are stifling business – what should be done legislatively about the PUC, regulations and the whole entwined system that we have right now which is one of the reasons the costs are so high against some neighboring states which are lower?

Question 3                                                              Question 4

Previous Questions:

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‘Or we Could have had a cure for Ebola‘ might have to ask ‘If you like your plan you can keep your plan’ to slide over a bit so it can sit next to it on the Democrat bench of all time classic talking-point blunders.  We are referring to that Democrat rhetoric by which Republican spending priorities (as in spending less) is WHY we do not already have a cure for Ebola–something that had to blow up in their faces.

Democrats wasted trillions.  TRILLIONS.  Jeanne Shaheen and company had their way with more than 21 trillion dollars, nearly doubling the debt to 17.9 Trillion in just six years.   

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From Big Government: Stephanopoulos will be hosting Thursday night’s debate between former Sen. Scott Brown and Shaheen, despite this conflict—he’s on video as a political activist accepting Shaheen’s endorsement of President Clinton—and another conflict. As Breitbart News reported on Tuesday, Stephanopoulos has a longtime personal and political relationship with Shaheen campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald.

Remember that – asking Romney about States Rights’ and whether or not they could take away contraceptives?  Certainly a “Democrat with a by-line”; that was the opening shot of the “War on Women” and Georgie as the point of the spear of the Democrat Party that night during the 2008 Republican Prez debates.  Planned, executed, ambush complete – a meme that the Dems are still using.  And as a “journalist”, he executed what the Democrat Party wanted – after all, he was Clinton’s Whiz Kid in the White House and once political, always political.

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Or, that would be Dr. Elliot Lasky.  You know, the husband of current (at the time, former) NH State Senator Bette Lasky – the guy that was caught redhanded pulling up Republican campaign signs (Steve had the news here, here, and here)?

Well, he has a counterpart in Delaware – except there, the police are actually following the law and are trying to arrest his butt:

Police in Middletown, Delaware, issued an arrest warrant for the husband of state Sen. Bethany Hall-Long on Wednesday after he was caught on video allegedly stealing campaign signs put up by Republicans.  The suspect, identified as Dana Armon Long, has been charged with a Class A misdemeanor for theft under $1,500. He faces up to one year in prison and a fine of up to $2,300.

On Wednesday, Republican campaign volunteers reportedly set up a camera at the location in Middletown where dozens of their political signs kept disappearing. Some of the signs apparently read, “Fix the Economy! Vote Republican.”

“We got you, brother! We got the license plate, your face, and everything,” one of the volunteers says in the video.

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