Last night, it was a full house at the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate hosted by John Burt. In fact – it was an overflow event; over 500 tickets sold when the event was estimated to pull in 400. It goes to show that the intensity is quite high on the Republican … Read more
We will be at the debate later on tonite and will be live streaming (Internet bandwidth and UStream servers , God willing) as well as recording it. Grokster Steve and I are planning on being there, and others may be as well. Certainly, we’ll be recording it for later posting and trying to get some … Read more
Well, more than just the “top” positions in the State (e.g., NH Governor,NH Senate, NH House) are being sought here in New Hampshire – and a few of those candidates did show up at the CNHT Annual Picnic. In order of appearance:
Frank Szabo (Sheriff, Hillsboro) Michael Tierney (NH Exec. Council, District 2)
And we come to the end of the speakers at the CNHT Annual Picnic (“Old Home Day for Conservatives!”). Fittingly enough (although he spoke early in the agenda), we have the Speaker of the NH House of Representatives, Bill O’Brien:
The speech transcript:
Coalition of NH Taxpayers – July 7, 2012
“Will we continue to bring government back to essential purpose of protecting freedoms and not assuming that it must find a solution to every problem, real or imagined?“
In concluding his 3rd State of the Union Speech almost 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan left us a guide for the never-ending battle for freedom. He said,
Let us be sure that those who come after will say . . . that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
The Great Communicator also warned us that,
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
In our time – this legislative term in New Hampshire in Concord – there are those among us who did everything we could.
We cut state-funded spending by 18% because the over-spenders had left us almost a $900 million deficit.
Well, it has been a few days since Question 1 (“Why are you running”) was asked of Susan Olsen (last Thursday). On the other hand, when starting this post, I thought it had been several days since Question 1 had posted (only yesterday). In some ways, this question is led from part of her answer … Read more
Unlike most interviews that we do with candidates, which tend to just touch on philosophy, this one with Susan Olsen stayed mostly philosophical. Think about it – we have asked candidates all kinds of questions about all kinds of issues, and then we backtrack those answers to figure out what their foundations are. And where ever … Read more
Even with all of other events going on, there were enough folks running for the NH House of Representatives to take quite some time as well! In order of speaking appearance at the CNHT Picnic:
Bill Walker, Plainfield Susan Olsen, Warner / Webster
Well, you DIDN’T think that we’d leave the NH Senate out, didja? And yes, there were a number of candidates and incumbents running for the NH Senate. Once again, in order of the speaking order at the CNHT Annual
Yesterday was the annual CNHT picnic – a gathering that attracts right of center activists (Conservatives, Liberals, and fed-up Democrats) every year for the last 14 years. Well, we did try to live stream the CNHT (Coalition of NH Taxpayers) annual picnic but due to bandwith problems, the UStream servers kept complaining so I apologize … Read more
We are a busy bunch here at GraniteGrok – and sometimes we get behind in the post-production phase of one event because we have to go to yet another one – and such is the case here. This past Thursday, GraniteGrok took the opportunity to interview Susan Olsen who is running for the NH House … Read more
The second speaker of the afternoon was Jason Rink who Skyped in (via the technical abilities from Grokster Mike!). Associated with the Tenth Amendment movement, he directed and produced The Nullification Documentary – Nullification: The Rightful Remedy. What do we do when the Federal Government steps outside of it’s constitutional boundaries? Do we ask … Read more
When contemplating all of the videos, and doubtful that folks would want to see a post for each and every one, we’re going to follow a more functional approach. This post contains all of the folks that spoke for the various candidates for NH Governor on the Republican & Libertarian tickets. Sidenote: strange; I am … Read more
At yesterday’s CNHT Annual Picnic, there were a number of folks running for US Congress (both of NH’s Congressional Districts) that wanted to get their name out there and try to convince some of the activists there “Hey, look! You should back me!”.
In order of their speaking yesterday:
Congressman Charlie Bass (CD-2) Rick Parent (Candidate, CD-1)
We are here at the Hillsborough American Legion hall for CNHT’s annual “Old Home Day” for Conservative / Libertarian / Right of Center activists. Full slate of folks will be speaking and we’ll be live streaming as long as no one kicks out the Ethernet wire! Live video from your Android device on Ustream Please … Read more
Rosa Koire continued to talk this past Tuesday night about how the UN Agenda 21 program has made its way into the Federal bureaucracy and what it means for New Hampshire citizens, their private property, and the traditional NH town life. She outlined how representatives from the EPA, DOT, and HUD are out to change … Read more
Tuesday night, the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC presented Rosa Koire, author of the book “BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: U.N. Agenda 21” – The Agenda for the 21st Century Sustainable Development.
She spent two hours talking about how zoning laws have been targeted by those wishing implement mandatory high density housing, the community data compiled by local towns and cities that would be used against them in attempts to “provide justice against institutionalized racism”, the attacks on personal property by calls to move to a commutarian philosophy (where the “common good” outweighs any Rights of the individual), and a forced move from personal cars to an all public transportation model. Governance would go from elected and accountable officials to an unaccountable and unelected bureaucratic regionalism model.
Ken Eyring continues and finishes his presentation of some of the paperwork that just never seems to stop once a local community signs onto the “Granite State Future Plan” (the NH adaptation of the Federal program called “Sustainable Communities Initiative” operated by a consortium of the Federal EPA, the Federal Dept. of Transportation, and the Federal Housing and Urban Development).
Sidenote: viewed from one angle, that last department’s name is indicative of the goal – to fundamentally transform how Americans will be allowed to live by creating “urban development” villages with high density housing and just public transit: not just bringing the city to rural areas but making rural communities into “micro-cities” where everyone is forced to live together instead of the types of town NH has historically had).
Some main points, overall:
The endpoint has already been established
Local control will be a thing of the past
Why is taxpayer money being used against taxpayers best interest?
Those presenting “the plan” are not being honest – they are not upfront about what towns are about to get themselves into and not honest about the techniques being used to do so.
Eileen Mashimo next addressed the Brookfield Planning Board and added some of the connections to some of the groups that are behind the scenes of this initiative, how the people and the groups all interconnect, and the methods by which this “Granite State Future Plan” is being rammed through the process (it is rather manipulative). All said and done, it is clear that those behind this do not have the standard model of democracy in mind, nor values that our Founders would agree with or give their blessing to them.
Monday night, the Brookfield, NH Planning Board heard a presentation by Ken Eyring and Eileen Mishimo on their research concerning the Federal Government pushing their Sustainable Communities Initiative (called Granite State Future Plan here in NH, a “massive entitlement / welfare program”). Those that are pushing this agenda are doing so by making it seem innocuous in the beginning but based on the hundreds of hours of research that Ken and Eileen have done on primary documents, it results in a virtual takeover of local communities by land use and zoning changes and collected demographic studies that are then used in lawsuits when Federal “standards” are broached by local communities (i.e., how local towns give up their sovereignty via “Federal money with invisible strings attached” and “strumg up” by their own efforts to comply with ensnaring federal regulations and mandates).
Ken Eyring from the Southern NH 9.12 Project presented first in his slow, quiet, methodical manner (hey, he’s a software engineer – what else would you expect!). Here are the first two segments:
Bill Whittle’s latest Afterburner punches the Obama Administration and their media lackeys right in the onions over Fast and Furious. Using the theme ‘Follow the Ideology’ he covers territory I tread over repeatedly going all the way back to May of 2011, September 2011; I even asked in October 2011 if the DOJ was ignoring … Read more
