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Ortolano: In Defense of Dissent: A Response to Alderman Thibeault’s Rebuttal

June 12, 2025 Laurie Ortolano

Nashua Alderman Derek Thibeault’s May 31, 2025, Union Leader op-ed response to my piece on the dangers of politicizing public input does more to affirm my concerns than refute them. In attempting to discredit me personally, rather than addressing the underlying issues I raised, he reinforces the troubling pattern of dismissing dissent that is taking … Read more

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Texas School Board Has Parents Arrested in Their Own Homes for Dissenting against School Policies

January 1, 2022 Skip

At least the Gilford School Board hasn’t gone this far – yet. If so, my entire wardrobe would be made up of orange jumpsuits. Reformatted, emphasis mine: Armed Agents in Texas School District Arrest Concerned Parents in Their Own Homes

It’s Part of the Reason GraniteGrok left Twitter and Facebook: “There can be no Dissent from the Narrative”

May 7, 2021 Skip

The Left believes it is in the ascendant. Why not? They’ve all but accomplished Italian Socialist Antonio Gramcie’s strategy for America: if you can’t openly wage economic class warfare, then make Culture that battleground instead and insert Race into it. Capture the Media, Capture Education, they’ve rejiggered Societal norms, they’ve demonized traditional they’re Capturing Capitalism, … Read more

Does this mean that Zandra Rice-Hawkins is gonna call me a misogynist again (and again and again)? – Part 2

May 23, 2020 Skip

Yes, the Executive Director of out-of-state-financed Granite State Progress and Concord City Councilor (what a scary thought from a Liberty standpoint of those two positions co-joined at the ankles) Zandra Rice-Hawkins has oft not been enthralled with GraniteGrok. This won’t help as it is strictly politically incorrect – I can see the steam coming out … Read more

NH Dem Party Chair seeking to silence a Conservative on FB – you know what to do

August 31, 2019 Skip

Go here to help out. As Kimberly mentioned, the Left is REALLY losing it over having Jan Schmidt’s own words being posted. There are a ton of Lefty Democrat Socialists there decrying that what has been done is both bullying and harassment of an elected official. They state it, over and over, in separate comments … Read more

Alleged Assault by NH Rep Debra Altschiller on Susan Olsen – Part 6 (take two)

April 18, 2019 Skip

And we come to the end of this series – and we finish off with a further discussion of the Left’s completely unhinged “projection”: And of course, these Progressives (NH State Rep Debra Altschiller and Zandra Rice-Hawkins) just had to try to turn the tables: Conservatives, take heed of Miss Susan’s response to these pusillanimous … Read more

RRftSotRP – I get stuff. Last lesson: “Unity! Voters!”. Yeah, “unity” – sure thing

September 26, 2018August 2, 2018 Skip

Oft time the NH GOP rails against folks like we Groksters because we “upset the apple cart”. For instance, as Steve reminded us (recently), the current NH GOP Chair said this about we bloggers at GraniteGrok back in 2013:

He told me that he was not going to waste his time discussing the vote with me. Oh yeah … and he also said that people who blog are those who are “ruining” the party.

I riffed off his post soon after with this: “And his main point – why are bloggers out on point instead of the the NH GOP?”