Yesterday there was a full page ad in New Hampshire’s Union Leader, paid for by New York gun control organization Everytown for Gun Safety. The gun safety part is emphasized because these people aren’t for gun safety at all, they are for gun bans and gun control. This is an organization run by New York … Read more
Democrat NH AG Joe Foster, like a lot of Democrat hacks, just played the religious liberty card to support their opposition to the Trump 90-day hiatus on unrestricted travel from terrorist nations. “Religious liberty has been and always will be a bedrock principle of our country and no President can change that truth. Targeting immigrants and … Read more
Yesterday a new, fearmongering ad appeared in New Hampshire social media that featuresPortsmouth Police Commissioner Joe Plaia. The ad was created by Independence USA PAC, an out-of-state PAC run by New York City billionaire and gun control addict, Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg has been spending millions of dollars to push gun control and Maggie Hassan in New … Read more
Back in 2014, Democrat New Hampshire House Rep. Timmy Horrigan sponsored a change to election law that would make it illegal to share a picture of your completed ballot online. It passed 156 to 121 (135 Democrats and 21 Republicans favored the change), and Democrat Governor Maggie Hassan Signed it into law. The First Circuit Court of … Read more
Today there was a series of votes to override some of Governor Maggie Hassan’s ridiculous vetoes against legislation passed by both the New Hampshire House and Senate. Senate Bill 336, a bill that would end abuse of New Hampshire citizens by police chiefs and other governing authorities over pistol/revolver licensing, was one of them.
Last night WMUR held two gubernatorial debates – one between the Republican candidates and one between the Democrat candidates. In each debate it seemed some candidates were trying to out-progressive (Democrats) or out-conservative (Republicans) each other.
On Sunday the Women’s Defense League of New Hampshire held their 2nd annual ‘Gun Rights Are Women’s Rights’ rally at the state house in Concord. Last year the organization made history by holding the first ever 2nd Amendment rally organized by women in the state. They are the only women’s 2nd Amendment organization in the … Read more
Shot: NH Senate President, Republican Chuck Morse – in implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion: this will protect NH Taxpayers Chaser: NH Rep Dale Sprague (D-Somersworth) – in arguing that NH ought to have a choo-choo train to Boston: The House also ignored the fact that the $4 million project development phase can be completed without impacting New Hampshire … Read more
Now that the NH FITN Prez Wannabe Beauty Contest is now long gone, we can start turning our attentions to what matters: NH (e.g., “screw DC, save NH”). That certainly means it’s time to start watching and evaluating NH specific races which certainly includes the Governor one. Ann Marie Banfield has an extensive email list … Read more
Yesterday Maggie Hassan attacked Senator Kelly Ayotte because she voted against closing the ‘supposed’ terrorist gun loophole. What Hassan failed to mention is that Ayotte wants to vote on closing this ‘supposed’ loophole but with added features like giving innocent people who find themselves on the ‘No Fly List’ or the ‘Terror Watch List’ the … Read more
“I am politically incorrect, that’s true. Political correctness to me is just intellectual terrorism. I find that really scary, and I won’t be intimidated into changing my mind. Everyone isn’t going to love you all the time.” –Mel Gibson Candidate Donald J. Trump declared that he wants to stop all Muslims from entering the … Read more
Last year was this author’s first annual ‘Turkey Awards’ handed out to people or political organization in New Hampshire politics. On Monday they will be discussed on ‘Politically Buzzed.’ It was quite the list last year and again is quite the list this year. These awards are all based on stories written over the past … Read more
Yesterday the Texas Legislature passed a bill that would allow open carry. Current law in Texas only allows concealed carry if a person has a pistol license. The new bill, which Governor Abbott already said he will sign into law will allow those with pistol licenses to openly carry firearms whereas before it only allowed … Read more
On Tuesday the Women’s Defense League of New Hampshire held a press conference to discuss the results of a poll they conducted. The poll proves that a majority of Granite Staters are against allowing the state-sanctioned discrimination of the current pistol license law to continue. The poll also showed that a whopping 89% of voters … Read more
Today ‘School Choice for New Hampshire’ wrote about the latest compromise in House Bill 323 – “An Act relative to the administration of the statewide assessment program.” Proponents of the original bill want to take local control out of the hands of parents and school boards and have it at a regional level. Opponents are … Read more
May 19th will be a special election in Rockingham District 32 which incorporates Nottingham, Northwood, Deerfield and Candia. The candidates in the running are Yvonne Dean-Bailey (Republican) and Maureen Mann (Democrat). Maureen Mann is a former state rep who lost her re-election bid which means she has a voting record. Yvonne Dean-Bailey is a college … Read more
The NH House put the No in Casino yet again. Update – 156 to 208 on the OTP (Failed) 82 Democrats and 126 Republicans voted no to Casinos in NH. 66 Democrats and 90 Republicans voted for Casinos in NH. Democrat Governor Hassan had called for a Dem Caucus for full party support in favor–that … Read more
In what was often an insanely frustrating (the live feed kept going down) and sometimes amusing election for Speaker of the House on Wednesday, Republican Representative Shawn Jasper was elected as Speaker by a majority of Democrats. The majority in the Republican Caucus voted for O’Brien. If you recall, the Republican race for Speaker was … Read more
That from the meme of “Consistency breeds Trust yields Votes”, and yes, NH House Representatives, we at GraniteGrok are unanimous in endorsing Bill O’Brien once again for the most powerful political position in New Hampshire. Beyond “deserving” it (a hackneyed worn our phrase in this Entitlement Age), he has earned it. While we have a … Read more
Oh yeah, let’s also add “Free Stater” to that list, too! Take those words out of their lexicon, all you’d have left would be jaws going up and down. Without those adjectives (hurled as epithats), they’d have nothing to say and no one to excoriate. And that would suck for them. Listen to Ray Buckley, … Read more