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Executive Council Candidate Jane Cormier Announces The “Real Change or More of the Same” Tour

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jane Cormier Ph: 603-781-5695 Email: Jane@JaneCormier.org Executive Council Candidate Jane Cormier Announces The “Real Change or More of the Same” Tour Hooksett, NH – Executive Council District 4 candidate and Former State Rep. Jane Cormier announced her “Real Change or More of the Same Tour” with over 20 events … Read more

Jane Cormier to File for Executive Council 4 – Kick-Off/BBQ Event at LFGC

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Jane Cormier to File for Executive Council 4
Kick-Off Event at Londonderry Fish And Game Club!

Jane Cormier and her campaign cordially invite you to join her as she files at the Secretary of State’s office on Friday, June 8, 2018 at 4:00 PM.Jane has decided to run for this office because “the hard-working people in District 4 deserve to have an Executive Councilor who will be their eyes and ears in Concord. The New Hampshire taxpayer has been ignored for far too long”.

Come show your support for Jane!

After filing with the Secretary of State, the campaign will hold a free, special kick off event at Londonderry Fish and Game, 5 Lund Street, Litchfield, NH. 

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The Honorable William O’Brien Endorses Jane Cormier for Executive Council

Jane Cormier State HousePress Release

Cormier for Executive Council 4
Phone: 603.781.5695
Email: jane@janecormier.org

For Immediate Release

Former Speaker William O’Brien Endorses Jane Cormier For NH Executive Council District 4

Hooksett, NH – Jane Cormier is proud to announce the endorsement of her campaign for Executive Council District 4 by former Speaker of the House William O’Brien:

“As a former NH House Speaker, I heartily endorse Jane Cormier for the Executive Council. While Jane and I served together as state representatives, I came to know her as a dedicated, tireless, and effective advocate for the hardworking women and men of New Hampshire. The very qualities that make a great Executive Councilor – a dedication to detail while never losing sight of broader requirements, an openness to listening and working with others across the political spectrum, and courage, courtesy and coolness in the face of today’s harsh political rhetoric – are what Jane has become known for among her colleagues and constituents.

New Hampshire will be exceedingly well-served with Jane Cormier on the Executive Council and you have a great opportunity to make this happen.”

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New Hampshire Democrats Continue to Push for Discrimination Against Religious Schools

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Executive Council Chambers

Earlier this week, the Executive Council voted on a $4.1 million scholarship plan.

From the Concord Monitor:

The program, approved by legislators last year, will provide for scholarship funding for 23 post-secondary institutions and training programs. Open to any New Hampshire high school graduates who are eligible to receive Pell Grants, the scholarships are set to be available for the next school year.

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Jane Cormier Announces Run for Executive Council District 4

Jane Cormier State HousePress Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Jane Cormier
Ph: 603-781-5695
Email: jane4ec@gmail.com

Hooksett, NH – The Honorable Jane Cormier, has announced her run for the Executive Council District 4. “The Executive Council provides many important responsibilities to the citizens of New Hampshire, including the oversight and approval of approximately $5.2 billion dollars of the annual expenditures that are appropriated by the legislature”, said Cormier, who served in the NH House from 2012 – 2014.

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It’s Not About Women’s Healthcare

We open our 150th episode on the topic of taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood (PP). We talk about how much they spend on lobbying to get it your money. And the tens of millions spent on political action that could go to women’s healthcare if it actually had anything to do with that.  

Rail Propaganda Campaign Approved By NH Executive Council

If a big pharmaceutical company was given $40,000.00 by the New Hampshire’s Executive Council to advertise the benefits of a drug therapy that had Commuter Rail - The lefts ideological trophy wifenot only not yet been approved but was not even known to be viable, would people be up in arms about that?  I think they probably would.  So how about some outrage over this?

The New Hampshire Executive Council, by a vote of 4 – 1, has just spent $40,000.00 so that the NH-DOT and the New Hampshire Rail Transit Authority can hire…

“… a consultant for the sole purpose of public outreach and public relations to increase the public awareness of the mission of the NHRTA … and to educate the public on the benefits of rail as part of a comprehensive multi-modal transportation system, both statewide and specifically within the N.H. Capital Corridor.”

The NHRTA’s sole reason for existing is to develop commuter rail in the Granite State without regard for long term costs, efficiency, or even need, all questions which have been answered time and again, but not to the satisfaction of proponents because the answers were not favorable to their cause.

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NH Executive Council Votes To Explore Boondoggle

The Executive Council, by a vote of 4-1, has approved a 3.7 million dollar feasibility study–all three Democrats and sometime Republican Ray Burton voted to approve the expense. “Expanded rail service to Nashua and beyond has the potential to boost New Hampshire’s economy and create jobs. The only way we can understand the full impact … Read more

About That Chairman of the NHGOP Works For Free Thing…

half mast GOP FlagAnyone ever wonder what possible advantage there might be to keeping the job of Republican Party Chairman of New Hampshire as an unpaid position?  I’m sure there are people with a pat answer but I have a theory.

Seems to me that this would guarantee that only well-connected, moderate party insiders could ever hold the job.  People who’ve earned it instead of people who’d actually work for their paycheck.  People who have to know people to raise any money as opposed to someone who would raise money like their paycheck depended on it.  Hardly what I’d call a governing conservative principle, passing the job along like a crown because the only people who can afford to do it don’t need the money it might otherwise pay were it a paid position.

And having delegates vote for the chairman only seems to work if the people who hand off the crown like the person they voted for.

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Will Planned Parenthood in NH Lose Its Pharmacist Licenses

Don’t ask why but I got this story from of all places, Think Progress…

State law requires a licensed pharmacist to dispense prescriptions, but it contains an exemption for family-planning clinics if they operate under contract with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.

In April, Right to Life filed a complaint with the Board of Pharmacy claiming that exemption no longer applies.

The presumption is that when the NH Executive council terminated State funding the relationship with NH-DES ended, thereby…um…aborting the exemption.

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Weakling Republicans and Activist Judges….

Last week the Executive Council held hearings on Gov. Lynch’s latest judicial-activist nomination to the NH Supreme Court. On Tuesday I posted at GraniteGrok that the 5-0 Republican majority on the Executive Council—which has the

Politics is war: Is this "the NH Republican"?
Or is this? CHOOSE RIGHT!

power of advice and consent to the governor’s judicial nominations—should refuse to confirm the nomination. Why? Because the nomee, Jim Bassett testified in response to questions by the Executive Council last week that he would uphold and abide by the infamous (and anti-constitutional) “Claremont decisions” made by past NH Supreme Court justices. In other words…

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“New Hampshire politics just threw a wrench into this,” Heck, I wish it was the final nail…

No, not as in this picture:   

Transcontinental railroad last spike        

This one:  

Last Nail In the Coffin

Headline:  Executive council derails rail study

Railroads, at least passenger ones, are a waste of time and a waste of taxpayer money.  Face it – the rolling stock is old, the infrastructure sucks, and even in the best place in the country, the Northeast Corridor where the Acela runs, there are often delays, malfunctions, and now the TSA wants to start doing security there as well.  In addition, Acela’s and The Downeaster’s (which runs from Maine through NH to Mass) parent, Amtrak run on huge taxpayer subsidies.  Like this (US DOT data from Jan 2011):



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Occupancy Fare / Per
City State Train Name % Trip Trip






Portland ME Downeaster 19.6 $14.07 $19.49

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See that?  Taxpayers have to subsidize more than 58% of a fare to make a go of it.  And yet, there are those that are proclaiming that this a roaring success!  And yet, there are some “stalled in the Golden Age of Railroad” politicians that even want to do more spending of “money of the more for the rides of the few”.  Glad to see this follow on has got these folk’s panties in a wad:

CONCORD — A $3.65 million contract to study a Concord-to-Boston rail line was rejected by the Executive Council Wednesday on a 2-3 vote.

Executive Councilors David Wheeler, Chris Sununu and Dan St.Hilaire all voted to oppose the project, which was favored by Nashua officials and rail advocates who had gone to Washington to secure the funding.

And the panty-wadder?

“New Hampshire politics just threw a wrench into this,” said Peter Hoe Burling, former chair of the state rail authority board.

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Executive Council’s Defunding of Planned Parenthood Is Sinister

“The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” ~Margaret Sanger, founder, Planned Parenthood

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Kate Lancor, former Moultonborough welfare director decries the Executive council’s recent vote to defund Planned Parenthood. In her Union Leader Opposite Editorial entitled, Women need the services Planned Parenthood provides, Ms. Lancor characterizes the council vote as, “A pathetic lack of creative thinking in this [sic]country’s elected bodies that even allow such choices to be made.”

While giving readers a thumbnail history of Planned Parenthood and extolling its “community virtues,” Lancor admonishes, “Don’t politicize this, and make it an abortion issue, but rather a health care issue for millions of needy women. Buried underneath the portrayal of Planned Parenthood by lobbyists and politicians as trained abortionists lies years of providing family-planning education and much-needed affordable healthcare to millions of women and men.” 

Lancor nails the talking points flawlessly in stating that, “Planned Parenthood provides contraceptives; breast, cervical and testicular cancer screenings; pregnancy testing and counseling; testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases; comprehensive sexuality education, menopause treatments; vasectomies, tubal ligations and abortion.”  Kate Lancor paints us a picture of a multi-faceted, healthcare-focused organization that is invaluable to communities.  Now who could possibly argue with that? Indeed, Ms. Lancor makes the case for its virtues. Ms. Lancor however overlooks the many problems with Planned Parenthood as an organization. So I’ll take them up where Ms. Lancor has conveniently left off.

Planned Parenthood is a corrupt organization. Despite repeated requests, Planned Parenthood will not open its books. Planned Parenthood spent more than $1 Million dollars in the 2010 election cycle supporting their candidates.

Planned Parenthood has provided services to men characterized as traffickers in the sex trade. Planned Parenthood has been the defendant in lawsuits charging the organization covered up the rapes of under-aged girls. Finally, numerous media reports detail clinics that overbilled by millions.

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