And it seems that the Senate Dems are going vote for it as well: Chuck Schumer: ‘No Democrats Will Object’ in the Senate to $2,000 Stimulus Checks Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said no Senate Democrats will object to increasing $600 coronavirus relief stimulus checks to $2,000. He made the announcement Sunday night following … Read more
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Update: 6:16 pm – JFK Library event may now have just been an electrical fire. Looks like the authorities are slowing down the “immediate” news releases as we get past the first couple / few hours after the initial explosions. If someone wanted max media exposure for the after effects, they got it.
Stacie Laughton has now changed her mind again, and decided that she will accept the House seat won on November 6th, according to an updated article at unionleader.com Earlier this morning we reported that Laughton was planning to step down. Now she is stepping back up. Although it is not final. Laughton is seeking guidance … Read more
The union leader is reporting this morning that newly elected Democrat House member Stacie ‘The Beloved‘ Laughton (Hills Dist 31/Nashua) has decided to resign.
Laughton is disappointed, and states that no one asked her to resign, but that she was asked to consider all the things that have been presented.
Call me cynical but if you are elected to a post, and some unpleasantry from your past emerges, and people ask you to ‘consider’ things…they want you to resign. They are just afraid to say it because their identity politics prevents them from going on the record.
Personally, I’m not done with this and it has nothing to do with Laughton.
This just in. Judge Lewis (the Fixer) in Strafford County Court, has caved to the League of Women Voters and other left wing interests and tossed the New Hampshire voter ID law under the bus.
I do not have the specifics of the decision, but it is already being challenged and will likely have go the State Supreme Court for further review.
At least one motion to intervene has been submitted and received (full text on the jump), and at least one additional challenge has been submitted as I write this.
This is still developing…
Hours before anyone else in New Hampshire, GraniteGrok had a detailed post up on the joint statement released by the people formerly known as Michele Bachmann’s New Hampshire campaign staff.
Despite the efforts of Governor Lynch, his Attorney General and a hand full of unelected Police Chiefs around the state, The New Hampshire Senate voted this afternoon to 
override the Governor’s veto on a vote of 17 to 7. The Bill now goes to the House where it will become law upon concurrence with the Senate Veto override.
During his walking parade through some of the meaner streets of Manchester, several demagoguery cards were used falsely implying SB 88’s becoming law would empower gang members…Which I find rather bizarre since Local Law Enforcement here will tell you we don’t have a significant gang problem.
During his many rants, Governor Lynch challenged the need for this law, claiming supporters of the SB88, “have not been able to identify a single case in New Hampshire where someone has been wrongly prosecuted for using deadly force to protect themselves or others. In fact, current law puts the burden on the state to disprove beyond reasonable doubt claims of self-defense.”
Well Thanks to Attorney Penny Dean of Concord, who provided reference and source materials, the challenge is accepted….
STATE V. JOSEPH BROWN
Superior Court, Carroll County No. 05-S-358
Joseph Gleason, an over six-foot tall and 200-pound burley fellow with a criminal record for violence, pursued Brown off of a highway, characterized as a fit of “road rage.” The five-foot, four-inch 140-pound Brown (with no prior criminal record) now found himself trapped at a traffic light behind other vehicles, with no route of escape from Gleason, as the 280-pound Gleason exited his vehicle and began screaming, yelling, swearing and pounding on Brown’s vehicle punching on the windows of Brown’s Buick.
With no way to escape, and fearing for his safety, Joseph Brown produced a handgun, merely showing it, but never pointing it at Gleason. Brown was subsequently arrested, charged and forced to stand trial. After considerable legal expense the case was noll prosequied.
During Joseph Brown’s arrest, N.H. State Trooper Beth Keyes asserted, “Your right to self defense is your right to call 911…”.
STATE V. PHILLIP TUFANO
Superior Court, Merrimack County 2008
Tufano of Londonderry was charged with threatening Paul DeFilippo with a handgun in August of 2008 following a road rage incident on Route 93. Tufano charged after he held up his “still-holstered” gun in an effort to diffuse the situation when DeFilippo ran him off the roadway, causing him to fear for his life.
…have New Hampshire’s low tax, local government, just leave me alone voters decided that a tax and spend, intrusive big government guy like Perry is the new (old) direction they want to pursue?
” I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.” ~Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Jeff Poor of the Daily Caller Live television has its drawbacks. A big one is that you never know when an accident might happen. Exhibit “A”: Monday night’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” on … Read more
Christopher Hill is running for president. Who? Chris Hill. Chris is a gulf war fighter pilot who spent time in New Hampshire working in grass roots Republican politics. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1985. I met Chris about a year and half ago, and about twelve moths ago he told me over lunch that he was fed up with the government, and was interested in running for public office. He told me he was going to run for president.
The New Hampshire House and Senate have just overridden New Hampshire Governor John Lynches veto of the parental notification bill
Ding-Dong Osama’s Dead…(you can do the rest.)
The net-sphere’s are of course buzzing with the news. Osama Bin Laden, the guy with the grudge, is fetching his 72 virgins as we speak, and there is so much being said that I decided to curate some of that for you here.
Katie Pavlich – Town Hall (Text and video)
President Obama spoke directly to the American people tonight, confirming to the world the death of the man behind the September 11 attacks, Osama Bin Laden. After years of tireless work from the United States’ military and U.S. intelligence agencies, the President said over a week ago he had enough intelligence to successfully follow through with an operation to finally kill Bin Laden
WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was slain in his luxury hideout in Pakistan early Monday in a firefight with U.S. forces, ending a manhunt that spanned a frustrating decade.
Latest reports via Fox News live right now are that he was killed over a week ago by a US missile. There are conflicting reports on whether he was killed in Afghanistan (CBS) or Pakistan (CNN). CNN reporting that it was a “CIA asset” (read: human ground operation?) that killed bin Laden. [11:24pm Eastern update – Pakistani government tells Fox News that bin Laden was killed in Pakistan…TODAY…more: one of bin Laden’s sons also killed, along with two male couriers and a female human shield]
Tons more on the jump…
On Wednesday night, Republican senators convened and removed fiscal items from the bill so that they could vote on other issues, including the collective bargaining rights of public employee unions. The vote to pass the remaining bill was 18-1.
Some of the establishment ‘insiders’ in the New Hampshire political news firmament are clinging to their status as the connected resource for information, defending their political crack house like some kind of punditry-pusher for the news junkies in the Granite state.
One of their weapons is the exclusive. They need them to feel relevant.
Case in point, James Pindell, who unknown to most, had posted the news of Jack Kimball’s announcement to seek the state GOP chairmanship as a WMUR/Political Scoop exclusive. But he did it after it had been posted by GraniteGrok, on GarniteGrok.com, the Grok’s facebook page, each of the Groksters facebook pages, at NH Insider.com, at the NHRVC web page, at my Live Free or Die WordPress page, and on several email lists like those of the NHRVC and RLCNH.
After a conversation with one of the Grok’s contributors, the word "exclusive" was reportedly removed from the Political Scoop post, but the act of trying to claim exclusivity still remains, embedded in the original web address to the article as posted.
http://politicalscoop.wmur.com/exclusive-kimball-to-run-for-nhgop-chair
[Emphasis mine]
It’s just like little foot prints in the digital snow, staggering away from the scene of a crime.
September 16, 2010 2:00 AM (2AM?) WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced his intent to nominate Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to serve as representative of the United States to the 65th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. "I am honored to have the opportunity to serve as representative of the United … Read more
According to Human Events late last night the Democrat majority Congress attached a document which ‘Deemed as passed’ a 1.12 trillion dollar budget. The document was attached to the War supplemental bill and approved on partisan lines (despite bi-partisan objection) 215-210. It will come as no surprise to New Hampshire residents that Both Paul … Read more
There’s a new facebook page up with the unoriginal goal of making Kelly Ayotte look goofy. It’s called Kelly Ayatch. The page features a rather unflattering picture of Kelly Ayotte with an angry look. And Kelly’s favorite television show…Rachel Maddow. And this may come as a surprise but several of the four Kelly Ayatch friends, like Barack Obama. The page’s first friend … Read more
In a statement released today by the Ovide for Senate 2010 campaign Steve Forbes has formally endorsed Ovide Lamontagne for the US Senate.