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Next to last question in this series with John Hikel who has decided to forgo a relatively safe seat in the NH House to “move up” to the NH Senate. As with most politicians, he is facing an election and in his case, two. Here, he talks about the probably Primary he will have to … Read more
And more politicians at the Rye Republican Town Committee event held this last Sunday. These next two gentlemen are local NH State Reps that have made a difference both for the Seacoast communities and for the State as a whole.
Brian Murphy:
Will Smith:
One of the very puzzling (and often, very frustating) things that has happened this session between the NH House and the NH Senate is the amount of bills passed by overwhelmingly by the supermajority of Republican in the House getting tabled or voted down by the supermajority of Republicans in the NH Senate. GraniteGrok asked … Read more
When we go to almost all of the events that we cover, we are welcomed by the event hosts, they make sure we have what we need, and then we get to work and do the live streaming, the interviews, and the recording that we feel is part of our straight citizen journalism. We don’t … Read more
Political event? Politicians! And politicians generally mean elections which means candidates – and from the Rye Republican Town Committee event that we live streamed, we had two more we wish to bring to your attention: Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith – both are running to become the NH GOP’s nominee for NH Governor. Each has their own style and stances. Take a listen, ya hear?
Ovide Lamontagne:
Kevin Smith:
Certainly two of the most talked about political movements of the last three years are Occupy Wall Street and TEA Party. Pretty much the only thing that they agree upon is that the conflation of Big Government and Big Business has resulted is Crony Capitalism / State Corporatism – and vehemently disagree with the remedy. … Read more
One of the most important questions that the electorate can ask a candidate is “what is your platform”? Now, there is a lot to ask John Hikel and by no means is this an all encompassing round on this question. But, it’s a start and at some point, we’ll circle back with John and start … Read more
Continuing on with our coverage of the Sunday afternoon event that the Rye Republican Town Committee (holding their “Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates” at the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH) let’s go to the next set of videos: As I wrote in the last post (“Intro Ceremonies“) “Given such a name for an event, a number of NH GOP candidates vying for seats in 2012 did attend the sold-out crowd”; here are the first three that spoke to the crowd (appearing in order of speaking during the event):
Dennis Lamare:
National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:
Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.
And! Continuing with our coverage of this event (Intro, Hon. Dan Itse & Hon. Paul Mirski), we had two more NH State Representatives speak to different aspects of this issue: is the NH Judiciary out of control, and if so, is there a remedy, and what can the Citizens do about it?
NH State Rep. Gregory Sorg:
NH State Rep. Paul Ingbretson:
One of the biggest items that this two year session of the NH House has had to face was cleaning up the budget left by the Democrat supermajorities in the House and Senate that left the Republican supermajorities between a $600 million to a $1 Billion deficit. They handled it by cutting the budget back … Read more
At the end of the event sponsored by the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:
Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.
was a Question and Answer period moderated by the M.C. for the evening, Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear. Questions were taken from the well attended crowd and it lasted about 45 minutes (which I have split into 3 parts, with parts 2 & 3 after the jump).
Part 1:
Previous posts:
In all of the hubbub of the weekend, I kinda forgot to keep this going – but after seeing John this weekend, he certainly is not! We continue on with our interview as he is making a run to step up from the the NH House of Representatives (where he is a two term legislator) … Read more
This afternoon, the Rye Republican Town Committee held their “Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates” at the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH and GraniteGrok was there to livestream the event. Given such a name for an event, a number of NH GOP candidates vying for seats in 2012 did attend the sold-out crowd of about 250 – 300. The keynote speaker was James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, who Skyped in to give that address.
This video is the Intro Ceremonies (National Anthem, Invocation, Pledge).
The next clip is Jeff Chidester being introduce as Master of Ceremonies and Congressman Frank Guinta (R-NH, CD1) addressing the crowd at the top of the event:
Last night, we were at the Institute of Politics at St. Anselm College in Manchester, NH for an event hosted by the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution: Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: … Read more
National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:
Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.
After the Intro Ceremonies conducted by M.C. Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear, NH State Representative Dan Itse took the podium to give his take on the NH Constitution, a history lesson, some comparisons with other state constitutions, and his general take on the relationship of the people to those that are stewards of the peoples’ power by election and appointment:
After the jump, NH State Rep. Paul Mirski continues the discussion:
This afternoon, the Rye Republican Town Committee held their “Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates” at the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH and GraniteGrok was there to livestream the event. Given such a name, a number of NH GOP candidates for seats in 2012 did attend the sold-out crowd of about 250. However, the … Read more
Some people think too much when they review a movie. Not so at GraniteGrok. I just spent a few hours with my kids at the movies. This is impressive because movies cost too damn much, I don’t make a lot of money, and my preference for Red Box is well documented. For me to haul … Read more
Continuing on with the interview with John Hikel, who is running for NH State Senate in District 20, we started to veer into one of my favorite questions: Should Govt be in the role of selling services and goods? because it always leads to my favorite topics: what is the proper role of Government? For … Read more
GraniteGrok has known NH State Rep John Hikel for a couple of years now an have interviewed him on a number of occasions. This time, it is a little bit different as he has decided to “up the ante” – last night at St. Anselm’s Institute of Politics, we had the chance to interview NH … Read more
After the NRCC event finished last night, I had the opportunity to have a quick interview with Howie Carr on tips on holding government accountable for its actions:
Also had the chance to talk with Jack Kimball and what is now up for the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC, and a bonus “after event” interview from the DaTechGuy as he talks with NH Rep. Timothy Twombley.