Democrat Candidate Jeanne Dietsch likes to tout her business experience as a reason to elect her to the New Hampshire State Senate in (Dist 9). How about her “business experience” profiting from someone else’s work? Deitsch and her company (ActivMedia Robotics, LLC) profited for years by stealing someone else’s work until a NH jury ordered her company to pay over … Read more
People have asked me why I support Dan Hynes for Senate over Terry Wolf– especially since I respect and like Terry very much.
Terry has always been cordial to me, and I appreciate that in a public servant. She served for several years on the Bedford School Board and has served as Bedford’s State Representative. She has made many decisions and voted enough for me to know that her political views do not line up with what I believed was best for Bedford residents or myself.
For almost four decades, I have been responding to Plainfield and Cornish homes and roads as an EMT with Cornish Rescue. As a result, I have seen the opioid epidemic up close, and I have also seen the many medical, physical, and financial challenges our senior citizens face.
By Dan Hynes,
My name is Dan Hynes, and I am running for State Senate in District 9 covering Bedford, Dublin, Fitzwilliam, Greenfield, Hancock, Jaffrey, Lyndeborough, Mont Vernon, New Boston, Peterborough, Richmond, Sharon, Temple, and Troy. I will be a strong conservative voice in Concord. While a State Representative, I received a score of 100% from the American Conservative Union Foundation.
Accomplishments?
We always try to spend “a little time with GraniteGrok” and with Andy Sanborn (running for reelection to the NH Senate in District 9), we came to the realization that we had spent a lot more time than just a little. So, we decided to end our interrogation interview with him with this last question.
Question 8:
What things have you accomplished since our first interview last cycle? Not get done?
We did all agree that we needed to come back and yak with Andy strictly on some issues rather than on the concentration on how the State does what it does – but it is nice to know that SOMEBODY has this in their head that not only do Legislators create laws for the rest of us but also how the “back of the house” (as Andy the restauranteur would put it) is doing as well. After all, they ARE supposed to be serving us, the citizens.
To fix a perceived problem (which Questions 5 & 6 brought up), you have to know all about the problem – or at least the biggest and most influential parts of the problem. In discussing State Agencies, we wanted to know if there was a sense of “us vs them”, if State Agencies had drifted into a condition of reversing the proper role of government serving the people and morphing into one of “we will ensure that YOU follow OUR rules”.
Question 7:
Adversarial relationship between State agencies vs ordinary folks?
Most people want to see that the potholes are filled, the snow is plowed, and that the police and firemen are there when needed. That’s how most decide who to vote for – its the stuff they see. To us, however, philosophy counts as well – for that leads to the next “upward” step of … Read more
Increasingly, we see NH State Agencies setting their own level of taxation (fees, fines, et al) outside of authorization of the Legislature. It is the Executive Branch to self-fund and making itself independent of the taxation authority of the Legislature. And of course, it goes without saying that while Legislators are accountable to the voters, … Read more
One of the hot button issues this past legislative session (the last two years here in NH) was to get rid of RGGI – Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Simply put, it is an aggregation of States here in the Northeast that decided to put a broad based carbon tax on anyone using electricity in those … Read more
I HAD to ask this question, based on his Presser showing the cute little scooters that he is using in meeting the folks (“residents tell me that I am the first politician to ever stand at their door step and introduce myself,”) in Bedford that is the new NH Senate District 9. Why would he … Read more
The ‘Grok was welcomed to The Draft (Concord, NH) when we interviewed NH State Senator Andy Sanborn (owner) as to why he was running for “virtual” re-election in a newly constructed district (“virtual”, as his original district was drawn out of existence). We had all kinds of questions but did not get the chance to … Read more