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MACDONALD: Friends In High Places [Update 2]

October 20, 2025October 19, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Garth Brooks has friends in low places. The 1990 hit spent four weeks at number one (Country Chart) and won a bunch of awards. Someone else who has won a lot of awards is Jason Osborne, but the current Republican majority leader has friends in high places. You’ll have heard by now, more than likely, … Read more

MACDONALD: Two Down, The Big One to Go

October 10, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Last February, I posted a series of articles about three campaign finance complaints that had been filed with both the SOS’s and AG’s offices in relation to three members of the NH House. My efforts included a countdown clock to see when those so accused would respond. Interestingly, no other media outlet chose to cover … Read more

Mr. Speaker: Is it Money Laundering Or Something Else?

February 6, 2025 Steve MacDonald

While we wait for the Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) to explain where nearly 170,000.00 dollars went between 2022 and 2024, other related matters require our attention. Let me preface with this. If you are married, it is not a good look if you are seen frequently in public in the private company of … Read more

House Leadership Needs To Explain Where The Money Went

February 10, 2025February 4, 2025 Steve MacDonald

Yesterday, we published a story on an election law complaint citing discrepancies between donations to the Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) and the campaign finance reporting. Just under 170,000 dollars is unaccounted for. When asked for comment, Majority Leader Jason Osborne replied (in part) that, While this does not excuse the oversight, had Rep. … Read more

Election Law Complaints Filed Against NH House Leadership [Updated]

February 3, 2025February 3, 2025 Steve MacDonald

I have received a number of anonymous election law complaints filed with the New Hampshire Secretary of State’s Office. The first is related to the Committee to Elect House Republicans (CTEHR) The complaint purports to identify several significant discrepancies amounting to nearly $170,000.00 in missing funds for which there is no obvious expenditure in the … Read more

Shame on AFP

December 11, 2024December 11, 2024 Julie Smith

I received an email from AFP this morning that announced this year’s Defender of Liberty award. Below is an excerpt from that email. “Americans for Prosperity-New Hampshire is proud to announce Joe Sweeney as our 2024 winner of the Tom Thomson Defender of Liberty award! Joe has spent the last year tirelessly fighting for lower … Read more

Irony Alert … Ross Berry

May 3, 2024 Ed Mosca

Here is a good one: Ross Berry criticizes union leadership on X for not representing union workers. The irony apparently escapes Berry. Berry and his fellow Republican “leaders,” Jason Osborne, Joe Sweeney, etc., do NOT represent Republicans.

Southern New Hampshire and Northern Massganistan

April 11, 2024 Op-Ed

Since the 1930s, governments, politicians, leaders, and members of freedom-crushing movements have been using the word “Crisis” to accomplish goals that “The People” would never have voted for or allowed to occur if we were not told that it would “Solve a Crisis” of some type.

Did State Reps Know What They Were Voting For?

April 10, 2024April 9, 2024 Op-Ed

This is an open letter to the 67 Republicans who voted with 152 Democrats to pass bills in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals on March 28, 2024. Did you realize what you were voting for?

Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho … Jo(k)e Sweeney Has Got To Go

April 8, 2024 Ed Mosca

Read the comments to Jo(k)e Sweeney’s Manifesto attempting to rationalize the outlawing of single-family zoning (the very “big government” approach to governance that he claims to oppose). It is undeniable from the comments that Jo(k)e does NOT represent real Republicans. So he should NOT be part of House GOP leadership.

No Jo(k)e … Outlawing Single-Family Housing Will Drive What Remains Of Real Republicans Out Of New Hampshire

April 7, 2024 Ed Mosca

The NHGOP is a noxious, dysfunctional amalgam of Rockefeller Republicans (or RINOs, if you prefer), Corporatists, Koch-bots, Free-Staters (or libertarians choosing to run for political office as Republicans, if you prefer), and a shrinking number of real Republicans.

Question For Chuck And Kelly … Do You Support The NH-UniParty’s Push To Outlaw Single-Family Zoning?

April 6, 2024 Ed Mosca

It’s more than fifteen minutes after you drove home and finally you find a parking space in what once was your single-family zoned neighborhood. But the NH-UniParty outlawed single-family zoning in 2024, and your once picturesque, safe neighborhood is now an eyesore of “accessory dwelling units” crammed into what once was your neighbor’s front and … Read more

A Call for Reason and Liberty in New Hampshire’s Housing Debate

April 4, 2024 Op-Ed

As a lifelong Granite Stater with roots stretching back to when my grandparents first sought a better life in Salem in 1954, I feel a deep connection to this land and its people. My story is not unique; it’s woven from the same fabric of hope and opportunity that has drawn countless others to New Hampshire.

Night Cap: If It’s Urban Density You Want, Then Move To Massachusetts

April 1, 2024 Ed Mosca

Apparently, according to NHGOP “leaders” in the House, the most important issue facing New Hampshire is that there is just not enough urban density. There is a simple solution … Ross Berry, Joe Sweeney, and anyone else who wants to see (and I mean literally see) more apartment complexes can move to Massachusetts.

Thanks For Nothing

March 29, 2024 Ed Mosca

So Annie Kuster is finally going to retire to her dacha (or perhaps dachas) … after spending over a decade voting to “transform” America into a dystopian hellhole of illegal aliens, open borders, late-term abortions, and forever wars.

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BLM In Hudson? … I Know Just What To Do … Here’s The Plan!!!

March 29, 2024March 28, 2024 Ed Mosca

This is in response to Ann Marie Banfield’s Hudson” Alvirine High School Calls In Black Lives Matter to Meet with Students, which exposed that under the pretext of “diversity” and “inclusion,” Black Lives Matter would be indoctrinating high school students regarding “microaggressions” and “privilege.”

Hey Joe … Your “Good Friend,” Rosemarie, Is A Communist

May 8, 2023May 7, 2023 Ed Mosca

Joe Sweeney is supposedly one of the NHGOP’s “leaders,” “young-guns,” “the future of the Party” etc., etc., etc., … he’s much, much, much smarter than those boomer-GOP’rs … he knows how to win in New Hampshire … OR so he would like you to believe. Actually, Joe is simply regurgitating the failed, losing mantra of … Read more

One Member Of State Party NOT Suffering From Low Testosterone

April 9, 2023 Ed Mosca

This post is about my agreement with a recent tweet from Ryan Terrell, the NHGOP Vice Chair … because (1) that tweet is spot on and (2) that he tweeted it shows that unlike most of the “leaders” of the NHGOP he is NOT suffering from low testosterone. The tweet: Note that he is NOT … Read more

It’s ALWAYS About Democrats Keeping YOUR Money – Law Doesn’t Matter. Bait and Switch, Baby!

January 17, 2023 Skip

Taxpayer Bill of Rights in Colorado was supposed to keep taxpayers safe from ravenous politicians. And the shysters even went along with it – while campaigning. AFTER the campaign, the true colors came out – emphasis mine, reformatted Last year, Colorado Democrats championed TABOR refunds as they campaigned for reelection. Yet not a week into … Read more

Some Truly Stupid Political Advice From The NHGOP Establishment

September 17, 2022 Ed Mosca

According to no less an authority than Joe Sweeney … campaign manager for Chuck Morse … GOP candidates should NOT talk about anything but the so-called pocketbook issues. This is truly STUPID political advice, which shows the fundamental disconnect between GOP “leadership” and GOP voters: