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NH Ballot Question: Vote NO!

November 3, 2024 Doris Hohensee

It’s age discrimination to require sheriffs to retire at 70 years of age while extending judges’ retirement age to 75. A retired judge who lost sight of equal treatment before the law initiated this ballot question. Now you can plainly see what an elitist cabal our judiciary is. What’s also troubling is that voters aren’t fully informed. They aren’t … Read more

Retiring Judges at Age 70 (The Conversation Continues)

October 29, 2024 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire has an amendment on the November Ballot that would allow judges to serve until age 75. We currently retire them at 70. I confess that, until the past week, I paid no attention to this whatsoever, but others have. ‘Grok author Laurie Ortolano dropped a piece on the amendment (opposed), to which occasional … Read more

Re: Nov 5th Vote No …

October 27, 2024October 27, 2024 Spike

Laurie Ortolano writes a piece that purports to give readers guidance on the ballot question raising the age limit for judges from 70 to 75. But the text quickly turns to recap Laurie’s mistreatment by the New Hampshire judiciary and by specific persons. Thanks to Spike for the Op-Ed. Send yours to steve@granitegrok.com Let’s stipulate … Read more

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Nov. 5th Vote NO on the Constitutional Amendment permitting Judges to serve until age 75

October 25, 2024October 25, 2024 Laurie Ortolano

RebuildNH recently posted an article to their followers encouraging them to Vote NO on the Constitutional amendment to permit judges to serve until the age of 75: The following question will appear on the ballot this year: “Are you in favor of amending article 78 of the second part of the constitution to read as … Read more

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Vermonters Will Get to Vote on Making Abortion a Constitutional Right

February 14, 2022 Steve MacDonald

The Vermont General Assembly has advanced a proposal that will appear on the November 2022 ballot. If approved, it would make abortion a constitutionally protected right.

So Kids, What Did We Learn From Friday’s NH House Session (04/09/21)?

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Judy Aron

We learned that it took us a full day from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm to get through 33 House bills. All were recommended by their committee as Ought To Pass (OTP) by their respective committees, except for the last 3 bills that were recommended as Inexpedient To Legislate (ITL) by their respective committees.

The Head of a VOTER Organization Doesn’t Trust Voters to Decide.

August 25, 2020August 24, 2020 Skip

The Union Leader has a piece on a Constitutional Amendment that died years ago: the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment). The long and short of it is that didn’t pass within the time period set by Congress.

CACR14 -The Rediculously Bad Constitutional Abortion Amendment Has Been Tabled in the NH House

CACR14 -The Ridiculously Bad Constitutional Abortion Amendment Has Been Tabled in the NH House

March 5, 2020 Steve MacDonald

By a vote of 244 t0 105, the Democrat majority New Hampshire House voted to table CACR14, a ridiculously bad effort to enshrine “reproductive rights” into the State Constitution. So, bad it came out of a majority Democrat committee with an 18-2 vote to, for lack of a better word, to kill it.

Constitutional Convention: Yea or Nay?

January 27, 2020
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In 2012 New Hampshire’s legislature passed a Concurrent Resolution requesting an Article V Constitutional Convention of States, one of the two ways to amend the Constitution. ‘We’ did this, requesting a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution, in 1979 also, and a handful of times before that for other various reasons. On Wednesday, the … Read more

Grok Poll Results: Amend the NH Constitution to Get the Courts Out of Education Funding?

September 26, 2018July 5, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Not a lot of votes on this one but the overall consensus of those who took the time is that they would “support an effort to get the courts out of the educational funding morass.”

Brave souls, knowing as they do that Constitutional amendments – heck, Constitutions – are not what they once were.

To that end, there were a few comments added in the ‘other’ field which I’ve shared on the jump.

The CACR Trojan Horse: “The perfect is NOT the enemy of the good in this case.”

September 26, 2018June 5, 2012

Here’s an email exchange I’ve had with a good friend and a great conservative earlier today about the CACR-12 vote coming up tomorrow. It responded to my earlier post in GraniteGrok about why CACR-12 must be killed this year. “Tim: I am not sure I understand your reasoning. The Claremont decision shifted power from the … Read more