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GrokTALK! February, 14th 2015

Steve MacDonald

After a week off we are back with Greg Moore on the governors budget; storm-chaser Ron Moore with weather and climate; Ed Naile has interstate vote-fraud news; Josh Youssef and Billy Baer discuss how a local school district was illegally wire-tapping students for years; and we talk SB 116 and introduce the call of the … Read more

April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment Four: Guest – NH Business Owner Josh Youssef

Steve MacDonald

In Segment four we talk with Josh Youssef, local small business owner and former candidate for the New Hampshire State Senate,  about HB 370 (repealing education choice),  State Senator Andrew Hosmer, education in general, what the Teachers Unions are actually after, and more.  (With Dr. Julianne Cooper who sticks around to add to the conversation.) … Read more

April 20th GrokTALK! Snippets – Segment One: CNHT, Bombs, Drones, Liberty, Immigration…

Steve MacDonald

Skip and Steve talk about…bombers, the honoring your oath ralley–and how the media keeps getting it wrong, getting kicked out of NH-GOP meetings, GrokDrones, Immigration, setting people up to fail, and a lot more… Note: Individual guest segements will be posted throughout the day today.  You can hear the entire podcast here. Please support this … Read more

All New GrokTALK! April 20th, 2013

Steve MacDonald

This week on GrokTALK! – Dr. Julianne Cooper visits to talk about a Liberal education, Common Core, Teenage brains, surviving 25 years in the White Tower, Learning 9 to 5, and how those ‘new’ progressive ideas you keep hearing about are not as new as you think. – We talk with Josh Youssef about HB … Read more

This Week On GrokTALK!

Steve MacDonald

In just a few hours we’ll be recording this weeks podcast- aired Sunday on GraniteGrok.com and Tuesday 7pm EST on AC Nation Radio. This week we talk to Seacoast Liberty activist Max Abramson about next weeks Seacoast Freedom Festival. Dr. Julianne Cooper from Liberty Acadamy will be on the program to discuss Common Core and … Read more

GrokWatch: So, has AutoServ of Tilton added a new line of cars: “Politicized”??? And what else are those cars being used for?

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AutoServ of Tilton - Phone NumberThere are two folks running in NH State Senate District 7 in which I reside: Republican Josh Youssef  and Democrat Andrew Hosmer.  We did endorse Josh in the Primary and believe him to be a better candidate still than Hosmer – a Progressive big-taxer centralizing-power Democrat.

While Josh is an entrepreneur, Hosmer married into the family that owns AutoServ – and is the General Manager there.  Well, I got a call last night.  Actually and to be truthful, TMEW got the call – she beat me to the phone so she had the opportunity to be the confused one – her brow furrowed.

“Who?”, she said.  “Brittney Murphy?  Are you sure….no, there is no Brittney that live here…..yes, I will be voting in the upcoming election.  Um, no, I will not be voting for Andrew Hosmer…g’nite.”

“Skip, would you look at this number, please?”

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GraniteGrok Endorsement – NH State Senate District 7: Josh Youssef

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OK, I have to admit that I’m a wee bit tardy on rolling out these endorsements that the Groksters have discussed and voted upon.  No, we are not doing every single race – for that we are leaving the a lot of that to the Republican Liberty Caucus of NH (RLCNH) and Cornerstone Action (yes, go look at their candidate scores, recommendations, and endorsements).  But there are those that we believe we wish to bring to your attention – so here is one more.

One of the most interesting races for us is that in NH State Senate District 7 – a district that is brand new due to the decadal rewriting  of the lines due to the census.  Here we have a classic Establishment leaning moderate vs a Liberty candidate: Grimm vs Youssef.  I watched how Grimm  presented himself at the Belknap County Republican “Contested Primary” evening; as I said then: “Grimm is not exactly “heads on and out front” on his answers”.  It didn’t help his cause when I saw his campaign sign on the lawn of one of our former RINO of the Week award winners Alida Milham.  If Grimm is Alida’s dandy pick, that should tell you a lot.

Meanwhile, even if a bit rough around the edges (and aren’t most first time candidates?), Josh showed in his interview series with us that his political mindset was correct and aligned with ours (see the links to that interview series after the jump)

We fully endorse Josh for NH State Senate and ask for your vote for him.

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“All Politics is local” – Meet / Greet some good Conservative NH House Candidates from Belknap County 5 and District 7

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That quote is from former Democrat Tip O’Neal from Bawston, MA who served many years as the US Speaker of the House.  He meant it that national political wars are waged locally.  We took it sideways – our local politics are your’s where ever you are, albeit with different names and slightly different issues.  That … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Josh Youssef for NH State Senate. Question 9: Proper Role of Government – Too big, just right, or too small?

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Of course, my favorite question has to be wedged in somewhere during an interview, and with Josh Youssef, it was (and is) the last question of the series.  One of the most telling differences between Statists / Big Government folks and Conservatives / Liberty and Freedom folks is what their idea of what Government is … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Josh Youssef for NH State Senate. Question 6: How / can will you manage without the Republican supermajorities, or if they become a minority?

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It is easier to govern when your Party is in power and hold the majority and even easier still when that hold on power is a supermajority (factional Party problems aside).  We saw that in 2006 and 2008 with the Democrat Party and in 2010 it flipped to the Rs.  Where Josh had some ideas … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Josh Youssef for NH State Senate. Question 5:If the State is determining Educational curriculum, how is that local control? Or should it be “suggest” vs “determine”?

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It’s been a bit since I posted the last interview question I posed to Josh Youseff – but never fear, we have more to put up!  Here, Josh talks about the role of the State in eduction here in NH (especially with the failure of CACR 12).  The question is, where is the line between … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Josh Youssef for NH State Senate. Question 4: Devolvement of power back to the local level from Concord? And unfunded mandates?

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To a large degree, the voters kicked out the extreme spending Democrats in 2010 and decided that Republicans would be better at governing the State.  Part of what the Republicans have done is to try to return power, that the Democrats gathered into Concord, back to local communities.  I asked Josh about his stance on … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Josh Youssef for NH State Senate. Question 3: Philosophical: more in favor of self-governance vs the Progressive external governance?

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Given Josh’s answer to the second question, I just had to ask the quintessential philosophical question that can go to the heart of “are you a Conservative or are you a Progressive?” – who controls you?  What governs your behavior?  And is one better than another? Previous Questions: Question 1: Why are you running? Question … Read more

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