Mike Bordes Archives - Granite Grok

BRADLEY: Support for Bruce Cheney for Mayor

October 3, 2025October 3, 2025 Marie Bradley

I would like to offer a comparison of the two candidates running for Mayor of Laconia, Councilor Bruce Cheney and Michael Bordes. Voters have a choice between two different candidates, and I hope to make a clear distinction between them. On one hand we have Michael Bordes who moved to Laconia approximately 10 years ago … Read more

NH Rep. Mike Bordes Loves Cats and Vermin More Than Babies

January 22, 2025 Beth Scaer

For the second year in a row, NH Rep. Mike Bordes is the prime sponsor of a bill banning cat declawing, HB201. Related: NH Rep Mike Bordes Wants to Protect Cats but Not Babies Rep. Bordes defended the bill to The Concord Monitor: If your child draws with a crayon on the wall, are you … Read more

The Bordes Ban Is Back

January 7, 2025 Steve MacDonald

There’s a lot of injustice in the world, and not all its victims have a voice. Enter New Hampshire State Representative Mike Bordes. He’s a ‘republican’ from the Lakes region who voted to allow abortions in the late months of pregnancy. He’s also anti-parental rights and blocked efforts to remove porn from public schools, which … Read more

Mike Bordes Pimps Travis O’Hara’s “Attendance” as Reason to Vote for Him?

September 1, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Neither Mike Bordes nor Travis O’Hara should be allowed to go back to Concord, and while they’d be better than most Democrats, you’d actually have to show up for that to work, which makes this rather amusing. Bordes wrote an Op-Ed for the Laconia Daily Sun, pimping O’Hara as prepared and present for County Delegation … Read more

Rino Report -Mike Bordes

April 10, 2025August 12, 2024 Spec Bowers

In his four years, Bordes has gone from poor to bad to terrible. In the last two years, he has been ranked second or third worst among Republicans. In 2023, Mike Bordes had the second-worst score of all 200 Republicans. He voted 37 times with Democrats against a supermajority of Republicans, in most cases 95%. … Read more

Will The Bald B-Team Members Be Team Players?

November 19, 2024March 7, 2024 Julie Smith

What do I mean by “the Bald B-Team?” Let it be known that their moniker was inspired by the Red Sox’s “Killer Bs.” I’m referring to RINO Reps Bordes and Boyd, both well-known monkey wrenches and Sununu water carriers, who do their part as members of the House’s R-Team.

Bad Start: “New” ‘Republican’ Matt Coker, Has Lunch with a Union Lobbyist, and Three Lousy ‘republicans.’

February 8, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Fresh from his transition from Democrat to Republican, Matt Coker (who changed parties before lunch) was spotted having lunch with Labor Union lobbyist (AFL-CIO NH President) Glenn Brackett and notoriously small ‘r’ Republicans Mike Bordes, Doug Trottier, and Travis O’Hara.

Guy Who Denied Parents’ Rights Takes Out Full Page Ad Claiming He is a Parental Rights Advocate

December 20, 2023December 19, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Laconia Republican* Mike Bordes is not the best Republican. You could do better. His NH House Republican Alliance Score is 78%. His NH Liberty rating is a more disappointing 66%. In other words, he’s not the best Republican, but that’s not what concerns him.

RINO Report – Belknap County

July 5, 2023 Op-Ed

For someone who analyzes voting records, it is sad to see how Belknap has changed. For the last decade, the Belknap delegation (the group of State Reps from Belknap) has had the best voting record of all counties.

A.I Says Entities Opposing NH’s Parental Rights Bill Are All Supported by Your Tax Dollars

June 25, 2023June 25, 2023 Skip

When I asked Bard – Google’s AI product now competing with ChatGPT AI (Artificial Intelligence) – who was against SB272, I got answers that were not surprising – using REPUBLICAN NH Representative Mike Bordes (R-Laconia) as my entree into the subject.

So NH State Rep Mike Bordes (RINO-Belmont) Is Looking to Gut The NH Senate’s Parental Rights Bill With These Amendments

May 14, 2023May 14, 2023 Skip

Effectively, NH State Rep Mike Bordes is SCREAMING: PARENTS – Your children belong to Government!! SCREW YOU, PARENTS! And the vote is this Thursday (according to the House Republican Leadership, from what I’ve been told). Here’s the floor amendment that will be put forward by him, via a different State Rep, for the vote on … Read more

What Will His Ardent State Rep “Anti Parental Rights Bill” Supporters Do Now That Sununu “Supports” SB272?

May 7, 2023 Skip

“Spank’em when they’re wrong but thank’em when they do right.” So yes, I have to be nice to NH Governor Chris Sununu (on a preliminary basis – the NH House hasn’t voted on SB272 yet but has passed the Senate) on this news:

NH Rep. Mike Bordes Has No Defense for His Inhumanity

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023 Beth Scaer

I recently wrote about NH Rep. Mike Bordes of Laconia and his vote for HB224, which would remove all penalties from the Fetal Life Protection Act, which would make it risk-free for doctors to perform abortions on babies past 24 weeks gestation.

EMail Doodlings – A Comment about Mike Bordes and the Republican Schism Caused by the Democrat PAC Citizens For Belknap.

March 29, 2023 Skip

With permission from an email conversation – emphasis mine: The reason some Republican folks get lumped in with the Citizens for Belknap types, and they know this, is because they align with people like Mike Bordes who out and out supported C4B, endorsed their leftist views, played along with them, and accepted their support. They … Read more

Baby Huey Sununu as dr and Mike Bordes as his hairless cat

So Belknap County’s “Republican” Mike Bordes Is Either Upset That His Poor Voting Record Has Been Outed – Or He Doesn’t Care a Whit

March 28, 2023 Skip

Spec’s RINO Report is here and it listed the top 10 RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) using a formula that picks out Republicans (ahem!) State Reps that vote counter to the majority of Republicans on a given bill. It’s not emotional, it’s just about the numbers. Bordes had a reaction to my posting and I … Read more

NH Rep Mike Bordes Wants to Protect Cats but Not Babies

March 27, 2023 Beth Scaer

This week 189 New Hampshire Democrat state representatives joined with 16 Republicans to gut the Fetal Life Protection Act with the goal of making abortion legal up until birth in New Hampshire.

I Blame the Democrat PAC, Citizens For Belknap, In Getting Republicans to Vote like Democrats on Important Stuff…

March 26, 2023 Skip

I’m betting that Ronnie Abbott will either have a cow over Spec’s post and this OR, perhaps (a “slight” perhaps?) a brightening bulb will appear over his uppermost? He’s the commenter that is unhappy with me because I continue to write Republicans that won’t talk, act, and legislate like Republicans here in Belknap County. After … Read more

RINO Report, Prelim – 03/25/23

March 28, 2023March 26, 2023 Op-Ed

This is a preview of the RINO Report that will come out after the votes of April 6 (Crossover day – when the NH Senate’s bills go to the NH House and the NH House’s go to the NH Senate).

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NH House Republicans Have a Splendid Vehicle to Maintain Discipline – They Just Won’t Use It

March 25, 2023 Skip

Again, some unsolicited advice that I wrote on Nov. 12, 2016: “If the NH Republican Party wants to win, and win Consistently, act like you believe in the Platform. Speak like you do and at each and every turn. ”

Daily Sun Has an Article on Belknap County Sheriff Bill Wright and It’s Not a Flattering One.

March 16, 2023March 16, 2023 Skip

Now, I don’t have any dog in this fight but the Daily Sun doesn’t go after most elected officials (the Gunstock Incident excepted and they did kinda pick sides). I read the article and I have no insight or expertise on Human Resource so I’m not going to comment on the thrust of what reporter … Read more