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And more politicians at the Rye Republican Town Committee event held this last Sunday. These next two gentlemen are local NH State Reps that have made a difference both for the Seacoast communities and for the State as a whole.
Brian Murphy:
Will Smith:
We interviewed Buddy Roemer a lot during this primary season; he was a hoot to talk to and did have some interesting ideas. But given that he is the former Governor of LA as well as one of its former Congressman (and building a billion dollar bank is no small feat), I always scratched my head wondering why he didn’t get even a wee bit more traction in the Republican field. Then he decided to switch to that online “Party”, Americans Elect, and he kinda dropped off the radar screen. But apparently, he kept us on his email list (emphasis mine):
Roemer Refuses to Play Spoiler
Baton Rouge, LA – Governor Buddy Roemer issued the following statement in regard to speculation of him being a “spoiler” for Governor Romney and/or President Obama:
…I run to win. I am not a single-issue candidate or someone who is merely trying to make a statement. I am not Ralph Nader. I am a former Governor of a corrupt state that I helped clean up; I am former four-term Congressman who worked closely with President Reagan to help our country; and for the last twenty years I have been a successful businessman creating jobs.
I am currently polling at 7% in the most recent national survey and I am confident once I receive the Americans Elect nomination that I can attain 15% standing which will then qualify me to participate in the national debates this fall. Obama, Romney and Roemer. Again, I run to win.
If, during the last month of the campaign I discover I have no realistic chance of winning, I will ask my supporters to vote their conscience or for their second choice so the issue of spoiler can be dropped once and for all.
This is NOT good. These reports from Rasmussen (from yesterday on the left, today on the right) cannot be sending message a “thrill of victory” up Chris Matthew’s leg either. That is a big drop from one day to another, but even if this is still way early in the campaign, there is no way … Read more
Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals #5:
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon
I also ran across this:
“Our job is a much simpler one: Point and laugh at all of it. The contortions, the spins, the lies — they’re all so pathetically and rib-achingly funny. In three-plus decades of watching politics, I’ve never witnessed anything so desperately, hysterically funny.”
TMEW (The Most Esteemed Wife) has had to put up with peals of hilarity all week long as I have watched one attempt after another by the Obama campaign to gain traction. My take has been “This isn’t even the Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight”, these guys are the “Guys Who Can’t Even Pick Up the Gun”.
At every turn of trying to demonize Romney and the Right (after all, that is what Community Organizers do – they can’t build themselves up, they can only tear down others) with what Romney may have done wrong, the Right has been able to rebut the argument with something even worse (e.g., Romney cut some kid’s hair in high school – Obama admits do doing cocaine). Set up a Twitter hashtag? Watch conservatives hijack it. Watch the political event like North Carolina voting for a Constitutional amendment affirming traditional marriage? Just hold up a mirror to the real haters on the Left as they drop their “tolerance” masks.
As good as the Obama campaign was in 2008 with him as the unpainted canvas on which to be painted everybody’s Hope, this one is as bad. This is the result of when you outsource your own Presidency actions to others (i.e., let Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the other Democrat Socialists put together Obamacare for universal healthcare, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd to hamstring the financial sector, and the Green Environmentalists who wish to destroy the US Energy industry).
The other part of that above quote is after the jump:
One of the very puzzling (and often, very frustating) things that has happened this session between the NH House and the NH Senate is the amount of bills passed by overwhelmingly by the supermajority of Republican in the House getting tabled or voted down by the supermajority of Republicans in the NH Senate. GraniteGrok asked … Read more
When we go to almost all of the events that we cover, we are welcomed by the event hosts, they make sure we have what we need, and then we get to work and do the live streaming, the interviews, and the recording that we feel is part of our straight citizen journalism. We don’t … Read more
Political event? Politicians! And politicians generally mean elections which means candidates – and from the Rye Republican Town Committee event that we live streamed, we had two more we wish to bring to your attention: Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith – both are running to become the NH GOP’s nominee for NH Governor. Each has their own style and stances. Take a listen, ya hear?
Ovide Lamontagne:
Kevin Smith:
Certainly two of the most talked about political movements of the last three years are Occupy Wall Street and TEA Party. Pretty much the only thing that they agree upon is that the conflation of Big Government and Big Business has resulted is Crony Capitalism / State Corporatism – and vehemently disagree with the remedy. … Read more
Updated and bumped: Well, another loyal reader caught another Union Leader reporter, Paul Feely, making the same lazy mistake (emphasis mine): The video shows what appears to be New Hampshire election officials handing ballots to unidentified men, who videotaped the exchanges with hidden cameras at polls in Manchester and Nashua. Plural: ballots, men. I watched … Read more
One of the most important questions that the electorate can ask a candidate is “what is your platform”? Now, there is a lot to ask John Hikel and by no means is this an all encompassing round on this question. But, it’s a start and at some point, we’ll circle back with John and start … Read more
Continuing on with our coverage of the Sunday afternoon event that the Rye Republican Town Committee (holding their “Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates” at the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH) let’s go to the next set of videos: As I wrote in the last post (“Intro Ceremonies“) “Given such a name for an event, a number of NH GOP candidates vying for seats in 2012 did attend the sold-out crowd”; here are the first three that spoke to the crowd (appearing in order of speaking during the event):
Dennis Lamare:
National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:
Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.
And! Continuing with our coverage of this event (Intro, Hon. Dan Itse & Hon. Paul Mirski), we had two more NH State Representatives speak to different aspects of this issue: is the NH Judiciary out of control, and if so, is there a remedy, and what can the Citizens do about it?
NH State Rep. Gregory Sorg:
NH State Rep. Paul Ingbretson:
In his post on the TEA Party vs Occupy, DaTechGuy has it pretty well nailed down: OK you got one side cold cocking cops and the other side [is] beating sitting senators at the polls. Tell me which movement has a future again? Let’s also add in all the violence, the lawbreaking, and the defecating … Read more
President Obama has blamed his predecessor, President Bush, for three and a half years on the economy “we inherited”. Thoughts: I don’t remember President Reagan complaining suchly about his predecessor, President Jimmy Carter And for such a brilliant man (Punahoe, Columbia, Harvard), is this an admission that he is not a sufficiently good enough manager … Read more
One of the biggest items that this two year session of the NH House has had to face was cleaning up the budget left by the Democrat supermajorities in the House and Senate that left the Republican supermajorities between a $600 million to a $1 Billion deficit. They handled it by cutting the budget back … Read more
At the end of the event sponsored by the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:
Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.
was a Question and Answer period moderated by the M.C. for the evening, Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear. Questions were taken from the well attended crowd and it lasted about 45 minutes (which I have split into 3 parts, with parts 2 & 3 after the jump).
Part 1:
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In all of the hubbub of the weekend, I kinda forgot to keep this going – but after seeing John this weekend, he certainly is not! We continue on with our interview as he is making a run to step up from the the NH House of Representatives (where he is a two term legislator) … Read more
This afternoon, the Rye Republican Town Committee held their “Gala Reception for 2012 GOP Candidates” at the Abenaqui Country Club in Rye, NH and GraniteGrok was there to livestream the event. Given such a name for an event, a number of NH GOP candidates vying for seats in 2012 did attend the sold-out crowd of about 250 – 300. The keynote speaker was James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, who Skyped in to give that address.
This video is the Intro Ceremonies (National Anthem, Invocation, Pledge).
The next clip is Jeff Chidester being introduce as Master of Ceremonies and Congressman Frank Guinta (R-NH, CD1) addressing the crowd at the top of the event:
National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies on the NH Constitution:
Seminar and Panel Discussion on “Coming to terms with the rulemaking power of the Judicial Branch and its impact on personal liberty: Article 73-A.
After the Intro Ceremonies conducted by M.C. Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear, NH State Representative Dan Itse took the podium to give his take on the NH Constitution, a history lesson, some comparisons with other state constitutions, and his general take on the relationship of the people to those that are stewards of the peoples’ power by election and appointment:
After the jump, NH State Rep. Paul Mirski continues the discussion: