Former NH Speaker of the House, Bill O’Brien, the gift that keeps on giving! Remember when The Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers gave Bill O’Brien the “Golden Hammer Award” for his successful effort in preventing an income tax by erasing the Democrat $800 million deficit? Kudos to Republican conservatives as well. Check out Bill O’Brien’s … Read more
I’d bet someone else’s money that New Hampshire Democrats are jealous of Connecticut and Dannel Malloy. Since 2011 he’s raised taxes at least three times, and instead of balancing the budget with those taxes he overspent each time creating a new deficit requiring more tax increases. If we jumped in our way-back machine to the mid-to-late … Read more
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP IS TAKING ACTION ON DRUG ADDICTION AND THE OPIOID CRISIS “The best way to prevent drug addiction and overdose is to prevent people from abusing drugs in the first place. If they don’t start, they won’t have a problem.” – President Donald J. Trump DRUG ADDICTION AND OPIOIDS ARE RAVAGING AMERICA: … Read more
Back on May 17th, the New Hampshire Senate Ways and Means Committee produced revenue estimates $14 million below what the House handed to them. By May 21st, they had changed their mind. In an unusual move, the Senate Ways and Means Committee opted to revisit the revenue estimates for the General and Education Trust Funds … Read more
This year’s March Madness is coming to a close without the fawning media coverage of Barack Obama’s brackets. But the theme of brackets reminds me that back in October of 2010 Mary Jane Wellner and Marjorie Smith of the Committee to elect House Democrats tried to fundraise on some brackets of their own. They called … Read more
Sunday, October 23, 2016 From the Nashua Telegraph, forwarded to me by NH Sen. Kevin Avard. Sunday, October 23, 2016 We have focused on ways to reduce the cost of doing business in NH by removing regulatory burdens. The state budget is arguably the single most important piece of legislation that directly impacts all … Read more
We talked about this with Max Saturday morning and look!, the day before veto override day and it’s here. A backroom budget deal. The big reveal is sometime today so it’s hard to say what’s what but the Union Leader has this. Business tax cuts touted by Republicans as a way to improve the state’s business climate … Read more
Democrat Cindy Rosnwald made an “interesting” observation on twitter yesterday afternoon. She would like everyone to know that Finance Committee Republicans “cut $2 million from community health centers.” Before we get to Senator Andy Sanborn’s very relevant follow-up question to New Hampshire Democrat Cindy Rosenwald (also via twitter), let me first remind you what kind … Read more
Soon to be former NH House Speaker Teri Norelli’s (D- Taxenspend) greatest achievement could have been leaving New Hampshire with an $800 million dollar structural deficit. It was a huge hole, intentionally created with irresponsible spending, budgetary gymnastics (fraud), and one-time money, meant to force consideration of a broad based tax. But the Republican majority … Read more
Right out of the liberal playbook there appears the tired old news collaboration we have seen in this small state so often. State Representative Bill O’Brien, a Republican thorn in the side of tax and spenders from both parties for a decade or more, has been elected Speaker of the House once again. And within … Read more
Yesterday the Republican Legislators in the New Hampshire House of Representatives elected their Speaker. The election was between former Speakers Bill O’Brien and Gene Chandler. Laurie Sanborn had also been in the race but dropped out due to family health issues. This was the race in which Senator Kelly Ayotte decided to (for the first time … Read more
I know they won’t listen to me but if only Charlie Brown was here to tell the Establishment Republicans not to try and kick the ball the Democrats are holding for them. But there is no talking sense to people who are scared of their own shadow and principals. Here we go. Bill O’Brien is … Read more
On a positive note, there were 11 states whose governors ranked worse than Maggie Hassan. New Hampshire Maggie Hassan, Democrat Legislature: Divided Grade: D Took Office: January 2013 Governor Hassan’s tenure as New Hampshire governor is moving the state in the wrong fiscal direction. In 2013 she proposed a cigarette tax increase of 30 cents … Read more
NH Journal is reporting that Bill O’Brien (R- Mont Vernon) will run for the House again. O’Brien has also stated that if the Republicans get the majority he will run for Speaker. NH Democrat state party Circus Master Ray Buckley was ahead of the curve on this. He started fundraising on the rumor last week. … Read more
You could do a lot of good with a growing economy that results in a state with a nearly Billion Dollar Surplus. Meanwhile, here in New Hampshire, Democrats are already spending that Medicaid Money and looking for new taxes. Limbaugh cited an Associated Press report run Wednesday on page A14 of the New York Times … Read more
If NH Senate Republicans would like to do some more math on just how much that best-case scenario 10% is going to cost their New Hampshire constituents over the long haul, (Democrats don’t care, by the way) they might want to factor this in as well. c/o The Daily Caller Using government data, in his … Read more
Fraud supporting Nashua Democrat Cindy Rosenwald has submitted the Medicaid expansion amendment to avoid having to holding public hearings or any actual legislative discussion about a multi-billion dollar entitlement expansion in New Hampshire. Nashua Rep Cindy Rosenwald. You remember her? She’s the Democrat who let the cat out of the bag regarding that $802 million … Read more
Everyone loves a good show but the decision of New Hampshire’s Kangaroo Court medicaid Expansion Commission, tasked with determining if the state should take the Federal bait and make Medicaid bigger, was always a foregone conclusion. State Rep. Cindy Rosenwald, D-Nashua, credited the nine-person panel with staying focused on the task at hand. “Even though … Read more
New Hampshire Democrat Cindy Rosenwald should have become infamous for her remarks on the Patch in which she admitted that the departing Democrat legislative majority, and party leadership, knew there was an $800 million dollar hole in the New Hampshire budget and that they (Democrats) knew they would have to cut. This was all forgotten … Read more
Beware Democrat Majority New Hampshire House Committees Bearing Revenue Estimates. The Union Leader headline says it all; “Committee ups revenue estimates as budget talks start” The House Ways and Means Committee Tuesday upped its revenue estimate for the next two fiscal years before House and Senate budget writers sit down Friday to begin negotiations over … Read more