In Part II of our conversation with Bill O’Brien we explore how NH Senator Kelly Ayotte ran as a conservative but quickly demonstrated (once elected) that what “Washington” wants comes before campaign promises, GOP Platforms, or even the US Constitution.
Bill O’Brien joins us to talk about last weeks meeting of grassroots activists; they are looking for a single Republican candidate to primary NH Sen. Kelly Ayotte. We discuss why she can’t win the General and how she got here from there–after running in 2010 under the Tea Party banner. http://granitegrok.com/GrokTalk/By-Snippets/2015-11-07%20Bill%20O%27Brien.mp3
The abandonment of first principles by New Hampshire Republicans in congress is a point of contention and it should be. Speaking for myself, and I’d bet most of the writers here at GraniteGrok, we’re about principles before people or party.
Is Gov. Hassan going to challenge Kelly Ayotte for a US Senate seat in NH? If not, who? And what about Kelly and the new PAC that has risen to support her called “Commitments Kept”?
George Lambert announces his campaign to organize a special meeting of party voting delegates who will be asked to defend the abuses and usurpations of their leadership or replace the party Chair. We also talk about how Senator Kelly Ayotte’s meddling comes with a political price, and how the NH GOP is chasing the Massachusetts … Read more
How about a judge giving legal rights to Chimpanzees in a US court of law? “Where would you stick it?” Cigars for Hillary. Kelly McAyotte rubber-stamping the Loretta Lynch nomination. And while we’re there, we revisit why Republican leadership in congress is shaping up to be the GOP’s worst enemy.
Senator Kelly Ayotte was on WGIR with Jack Heath the other morning (per-recorded interview if I’m not mistaken) to talk about the effects of a recent decision affecting the local Fishing industry. She is trying to overcome the arbitrary observations of a local regional board, that have resulted in a decision with the force of law, that now prohibits these small businesses from fishing Cod beyond newly established limits which the Fisherman find absurd. The effect can and will likely have a crippling effect on New Hampshire Fisherman, their livelihood, and their families.
This is a prime example of how bureaucratic power expands as a result of enabling legislation and then acts based on the interests of those who populate such organs, directed by like-minded special interests, to the detriment of everyone else.
Out of State funded, Colorado Model, intrusive Democrat Agenda-thumper Zandra Rice Hawkins of Granite State Progress, is a progressive mole, and paid lobbyist, planted by the out of state agenda-mill Progress Nowto operate as a “local” left wing propaganda machine. (Progress Now is an extension or partner with Democracy Alliance both of which are funded by politically connected liberal millionaires none of whom are from or live in New Hampshire).
Out-of-state-funded-So-called in-state activist Hawkins latest event featured out of state parents whose children were tragically killed in a different state from ours, so that they could come here and tell our US Senator (Kelly Ayotte) how she should vote.
This is not to excuse some of the national types. They story was there in the audience. Ayotte’s team was able to pack the audience the same way gun control groups artificially packed the audience. But Team Ayotte wasn’t doing any effective blocking and tackling either. Just one example: with all the Republican sheriffs who backed Ayotte in 2010, no one was put out there to defend Ayotte?
Well, for starters, James Pindell, there was at least one “Republican” Sheriff at one of Kelly’s town halls: Craig Wiggin of Belknap County at the Tilton event. Two friends of mine was there and relayed these takes on how “supportive” the Sheriff was:
We were told at the door by a police officer that no signs were allowed in the auditorium. We complied and played by the rules. However, the left wing radicals were allowed to display two signs while in the auditorium, one disparaging Ayotte and the other a pro-gun control slogan and nothing was done about it. These signs were not far from Ayotte where the media could film and exploit them for their usual purposes. Jeb Bradley who moderated this said nothing while the media cameras kept rolling.
So, who actually made a stink about following the rules and trying to knock this down for Kelly? Well, the other friend made it clear that it was neither Jeb Bradley or Sheriff Wiggin:
You can not, shall not have a gun, This banning craze has just begun… Guns and bullets make me ill, Pass the Kool-Aid if you will… You don’t really need a gun, From violent criminals you can run! And when the violent felons come … You have scissors, but don’t you run! And to defenseless … Read more
Who in the New Hampshire Democrat party reached out to Erica Lafferty–the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung–to encourage her to leave her own state, which has all kinds of background checks for gun purchases that did no good at all, to come to New Hampshire and lean on our State Senator?
Talk about out of state influence.
With all due respect and deepest condolences to Ms. Lafferty for her loss, you are being played. All you did was reduce your very real tragedy to a tragic comedy by coming to my state to intimidate my Senator for not voting to pass a bill that would not have done one damn thing to prevent what happened to your mother. Or didn’t the Democrats, or the magazine editors, or the folks on the Today show, or whomever they’ve had you with or in front of tell you that yet?
This just in from a liberty & freedom activist who attended the Tilton meeting set up for regressives to attack Kelly Ayotte last night: I just attended the Ayotte Town Hall Meeting in Tilton this evening with some fellow patriots to counter the constitution-burning, left-wing “progressives” who showed up to…
Yesterday morning hapless Harrell ‘Jersey Shore’ Kirstein (The New Hampshire Democrat Propaganda Minister) tweeted this.
PPP is left leaning and always suspect, with a tendency to over-sample for favorable Democrat outcomes, but maybe HK was just looking for a silver lining seeing as the UNH Poll, albeit with a smaller sample, came out with some contradictory results he chose NOT to share.
New Hampshire’s junior senator, Republican Kelly Ayotte, has also seen her favorability rating largely unchanged since February. Currently, 50% of New Hampshire adults have a favorable opinion of Ayotte, 25% have an unfavorable opinion of her, 9% are neutral and 16% don’t know enough about her to say. Ayotte’s net favorability rating is +25%, up from +23% in February. Her net favorability remains high among Republicans at +74% and low among Democrats where it is at -21%. Her net favorability rating among Independents has also stayed steady at +38%.
Emphasis mine… because in the UNH poll she owns Republicans, and most importantly …with independents she is +38. No point in sharing that, eh Harrell. But while we’re ‘sharing, that UNH poll had some other important news that might be of even greater concern to Democrats like Kirstein, given that Ayotte is not facing re-election next year and New Hampshire’s two Democrat congress-critters are.
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We all know that the Democrat party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of our socialist-in-chief, Obama. I mean, this guy hates people having the means to defend themselves. That’s why the Democrats are in such a frenzy to ban guns. Here’s an example of what’s coming from the Democrat “community organizer” network (paid for, no doubt, by our tax money):
Senator Kelly Ayotte Telling Andrea Mitchel she opposes a filibuster of the gun control bill
Yeah, I couldn’t help but notice that it seems that Kelly, even though she did vote to kill the gun control filibuster, has now signaled that the Manchin / Twoomey “compromise” background check gets the back of her hand. With that, the M/T bill is now in worse shape than a spent 12 gauge shotgun shell laying on the ground. Good riddance to it, as both of those senators said that their bill would not have stopped either Aurora or Sandy Hook.
Thus, in my mind, this is the perfect example of why sometimes the best thing is to do nothing instead of the knee jerk reaction “Hey, we’re supposed to be charge – WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING!” And then we get bills that impinge on people in a myriad of small, incremental ways – but don’t solve the actual problem. Or worse, charge ahead to solve problems that extremely few have – or create solutions to which no problem exists.
And that is why before we give a thumbs up to Kelly on HER legislation, we need to see if it:
Actually keeps guns away from evil doers instead of just making it harder on law abiding folks
Actually starts to address the flip side – how to keep firearms out of the hands of the likes of Lanza and Holmes (Sandy Hook and Aurora, respectively) without it becoming a backdoor gun confiscation process (like declaring that returning vets have PTSD, so you loose your Constitutional Right).
And that is the main thing that most won’t bring up –
Susan DeLemus shared this. It is a link to a pdf file; Kelly Ayotte’s complete 2010 New Hampshire Firearms Coalition Survey (NHFC). In it she identifies herself as pro-gun. Very much so. It looks like she answered all the questions ‘right.’ So I expect, having gone back in time to this 2010 survey, that moving … Read more
Yes, the Andy Leach of the Title is the same Andy Leach that I mentioned here (e.g., NH GOP Chair Jennifer Horn’s email to NH GOP Treasurer Robert Scott; “Nice Treasurership you got there; a shame if anything were to happen to it…”):
QUESTION???? Why is Andy Leach, in his capacity of CoS to Kelly Ayotte, being copied on this kind of matter? Yes, she may well be on the E-Board, but what does she OR Leach have to do with this internal governance spitting match? Can someone tell me, your lowly blogger, the why of this, please? After all, there are many folks out there that truly believe that I am of the dimmest bulb sort – I look to be enlightened! Or is it as simple of what I have heard in rumor: simply one of a few whispers behind the throne?
Anyways, CoS stands for Chief of Staff – Kelly right hand man. But I digress. This post is not about him but rather the Jr. Senator from NH, Republican Kelly Ayotte.
The Sunday Union Leader has a staff editorial in which it comes to the defense of Senator Ayotte accepting and attending an invite to dinner with Mr. Obama and a number of other ‘Ranking’ (see also Rank) GOP Senators.
To suggest that there is no value in conveying that message to the President in person, in a casual setting in which a working relationship might develop, is to misunderstand the way politics works.
Last August, Sen. Tom Coburn (who attended last Wednesday’s dinner) came to the defense of the Tea Party during an interview on MSNBC. Among his points was that Tea Party activists “understand that you’ve got to have human relations to get along in this world.” It is amazing and disappointing that so many activists on both sides think that progress is made by refusing to work with anyone in the other camp.
This is the way politics works, except in the case of Mr. Obama’s politics, this only works for him.
