Fish and Game officers in New Hampshire are free to perform a wide range of warrant-less searches. Almost nothing you own is protected from a search if they invoke probable cause. That means “because they feel like it.” House Bill 282 sought to limit that abuse. But 98% of elected NH House Democrats are comfortable with … Read more
The Town of Merrimack has something it has never had in all the years I have lived here. More than one Democrat in the New Hampshire House. We may have two at one time. But with eights seats to fill, for the first time I can recall, Merrimack sent four Democrats to Concord. It might … Read more
By a vote of 207 to 136 the NH House advanced Obama Care Medicaid Expansion legislation that will inevitably lead to a broad-based income or sales tax in the Granite State. We’ve talked about the expansion, the effects, consequences, and costs already, so let’s get down to the votes. Who, in the NH House, just … Read more
I just wanted to drop a quick note to all my Republican House Reps from Merrimack, New Hampshire: The small government, conservative vote on SB 30 was NO. The Freshman legislator, Josh Moore, is the only one from my town who got it “right.” House Rep Party County District Vote Balcom, John Republican Hillsborough 21 … 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
Constitutional Carry Passed the NH House 212 -150. Now it is on to Governor Margaret Wood Hassan who is an odds-on favorite to veto the legislation cuz her peep’s are all freaked out. But if you want to be more like Vermont you have to start somewhere. Contact Governor Hassan and tell her to sign … Read more
Thomas Crown, a former director at Red State, makes it clear why. I counsel you to go read the whole thing (reformatted and emphasis mine): The Republican Party was founded on the principle that all human beings are possessed of inherent dignity. In some manner or another, for one hundred and fifty years and more, … Read more
Last week on GrokTALK! I remarked on a site that tracked donations to votes in congress and how New Hampshire Congress Person Carol Shea-Porter had a remarkable record. Remarkable in that 93 percent of Carol-Shea Pay to Play’s votes could be correlated with cash donations to her Campaign within 30 days of her vote. Out … Read more
HB1360 (Relative to using certain electronic devices while driving) is HB1117’s cell phone ban twin, and 192 New Hampshire House reps voted in favor of it last week, even though there is no evidence it would make any difference–unless inconveniencing everyone, all the time, was the difference they were hoping to make. NHTSA – Most … Read more
The process of ending HB 1589 began with the vote to amend the bill and turn it into a committee to… study the correlation between current New Hampshire law and the low violent crime rate in this state. Democrats cry, and whine, and demand, and spout their talking points about guns and background checks, misrepresenting … Read more
So many Bill’s so little time, and between the vote fraud and trying to sort through upcoming votes, we sometimes miss the follow up post on something we’ve been vocal about before the vote. I am referring to License plate scanners per HB 675. The Bill went down in flames. HB 675 came out of … Read more
The vote has been cast. New Hampshire Democrats want you to finance in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. Slap! (Full breakdown of the Roll Call available on the jump) HB 474 passed 188 Yea 155 Nay, with 8 “republicans” joining the Democrat majority. The usual suspects, of course, Kidder, Gargasz, Lockwood, and a few others. It … Read more
Someone, bless their heart, has compiled a well-sourced (their words) list of 519 examples of Barack Obama’s lying, corruption, law-breaking and cronyism. I am posting it as is with the understanding that it may take me days or even weeks to go through it, if I ever do manage to get through it. I encourage … Read more
From Spec Bowers… Casino bill was defeated by large margin, 199-164. I thought it would be close. I thought it would be closer as well but gambling is one of those issues that has broad bi-partisan opposition. There are factions on the left that are hard core progressive wellsprings that oppose gambling as if they … Read more
Accountability – a most hated word in politics. Oh sure, whoever the Political Class doesn’t like will be held to such (after all, they wield the power). But they never like it when the masses play the “turnabout fair play” game (or journalists, from what I seem, but I repeat myself as many in journalism … Read more
The short answer is yes. Yes, it does. (The long answer will be nothing but excuses from its proponents.) Part II, Article 6-a, states that any money raised through gas taxes (gas road tolls), must be used exclusively for public highways and “no part of such revenues shall, by transfer or funds or otherwise, be diverted to any other … Read more
“If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ – I would have!”—Diane Feinstein The list below are all the pediatricians who signed onto the February 3, 2013 Open letter in the New Hampshire Union Leader Sunday News. Gwendolyn “Wendy” Gladstone, MD Elizabeth R Brown, MD, FAAP Gilbert … Read more
Children and poor families hit hardest So which Republicans’ voted against private scholarships for poor kids in New Hampshire? Ann Marie Banfield provided a list, with contact info, and reminds us (On Facebook), a vote against will actually cost taxpayers more. (I talked about it here yesterday.) The HB370 (repeal) passed 188 to 155 and … Read more
“A FEW years ago, I awoke at 2:30 a.m. to more than a “rapping, rapping at my chamber door.” It was a full-force pounding of a body trying to break into my little house in Washington, D.C. It was the sound and scenario that, as a single woman living alone, I feared more than spiders … Read more