As posted here, tonight the New Hampshire chapter of Americans for Prosperity had the second stop in their “Wrong for NH” tour in which the topic was Obamacare – indeed, wrong for NH (and, pretty much everywhere else as well).  Given that this was a Monday night on a beautiful August summer day, the Pittman Freight Room was full of folks that wanted to hear and ask questions.  Given that it was in Laconia, how could I NOT show up (er, finally an event where the car needed filling upon returning home!).

Yes, folks were there – and I will point out that we were even joined by Our Most Favorite Progressive in NH – Zandra Rice-Hawkins of Granite State Progress!!  Along with her camera to help her be a “tracker”, I’m betting that I won’t make even her cutting room floor.  After all, I am only her most favoritist “hateful, cold-hearted, selfish,  TEA Party (er, she’d use another word there), homophobic, misogynist, blogger”.  Sigh…I’m just sure she just doesn’t know me well enough; she keeps forgetting “Neanderthal”.  Yeah, she doesn’t much like us much here at GraniteGrok – because we stand for absolutely everything she doesn’t – enhanced personal Liberty, Freedom and Choice, Free Markets, Limited Government (in size, cost, and intrusion), and a moral code (after all, socialism IS immoral).  Remember, all of that is part and parcel of both US & NH Constitutions and the Declaration of Independence, and no Progressive can agree with that!  At least tonight, she didn’t rush the stage like she did at a Frank Guinta townhall like a wild woman waving her cell phone over her head “I have the answer!!”  (and everyone else thinking “who IS this nutcase??”).  But I digress.

Sidenote: it will be interesting to see what she or the NH Democrat Party Tracker will use from tonite.  Originally, I was simply going to be a simple attendee (for once) and left the regular equipment at home.  Given what trackers do, I whipped out ye olde Flipcam – just to make sure that full context is up in case they do try to make somebody look silly by quoting someone out of context.

Here is Greg Moore, AFP / NH‘s Executive Director, with introductory remarks:

HonoraryAFP/NH Chair and NH Conservative Activist Tom Thomson also spoke with his famous and rebranded Ax:

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Of course, doing the interview with Col. Allen West not was not the only reason why we went to the Nashua GOP “Steak Out” – he was, after all, the featured speaker and that speech will be posted later on.  However, this event is also about local races – State wide and local as the Federal positions are up for grabs (both Congressional seats and one of the Senatorial ones).  We’ll start off with the Congressional ones in CD-2 (No one for CD-1, I guess):

Karen Testerman                                                                  Jim Rubens

       Conservative activist                                                    former NH State Senator

After the jump is the video of the Intro Ceremonies

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Another clip from WMUR’s “Closeup” where Voter Fraud was the topic.  I did put up an excerpt quoting Grant Bosse from the Josiah Bartlett Center here where the take away was:

“We should just set up voting booths at the airport and at rest stops.”

In reviewing both segments again, the operative word that the Democrat leaning lawyer Martin “Marty” Honigberg and Uber-Progressive (and paid with by outside-the-State monies) Zandra Rice-Hawkins clung to like a life preserver off the Titanic was this: intent.  In essence, both of them incredulously exclaimed, in effect, how can ANYONE know what someone else’s intent about anything is.  Hey, perfect!  Intent in the Progressive redefinition project is similar to that of Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak – now you see me and now I have no idea who you are.  Or where.  Or what you think.  Or even if you think.  Because when you use that Democrat Invisibility “Intention” Cloak, not only does it hide’s somebody’s intent, but makes a Democrat go brain-dead.  Or in the vernacular of some – the butt of that phrase “don’t get stuck on Stupid”.  Seemingly, though, with respect to election law, it’s a great place for them to be.

Here’s the amalgam of how the word is used by Marty Honigberg:

• It’s up to the individual

• I don’t know WHAT her intention was and unless we talk to her and got inside her head [which we’ve tried to do]  which is something we can’t do

Based on that, Grant had the best summary of this line of thinking:

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Once again, we had the GrokCam rolling for your viewing pleasure!

Segment 1:  Groksters Steve, Mike and Skip talk Obamacare, Government kills a Bambi named “Giggles, Big Govt Nannies:”we won’t stop until you do EXACTLY what we want you to do”……Ed Naile, CNHT Chair, comes in to talk about Voter Fraud.

Segment 2:  Groksters Steve, Mike and Skip are joined by David Hurst and Bob Burns to talk more about Voter Fraud, elections in general, and “stuff” gong around in the State.

Videos for Segments 1-4 after the jump:

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I sometimes despair of what our educational system is handing to our society.  Really – allowing for 4/3 of a gestational period abortion?  And none of these clucks caught this – even for the sociology or education majors  that actually have a full hand of fingers?

Video auto plays…on the jump.

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Once again, the gang of Groksters brings you GrokTALK! – our weekly podcast where we talk about the stories and posts of the past week, current events, and interesting guests.  We not only write from a Conservative / libertarian standpoint – we talk that way too (and sometimes, all at once!).  Agree, disagree – we hope that we make for an interesting time for you – and we thank you for watching!  The audio podcast will be up soon to either listen on line or downloading for that “listening when *I* want it” experience.

Segment 1                                                                                   Segment 2

Segment one: Groksters Mike, Steve and I yak about Voter Fraud here in NH, “Martha’s Motel”, Weiner / Spitzer / Sanford / Barry / Filner – are we now in amoral elections?  And is Government needed for EVERYthing like Progressives would have us believe?

Segment two:  Jim Rubens, who is contemplating a possible US Senatorial run comes in to talk with the gang.  We covered obamacare, healthcare, the importance of free markets, IRS and the tax code.  A half hour, as it turned out, was not enough – we have asked that he come back!

Segments 3 & 4 after the jump:

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