Republican Governor Chris Sununu lost big today as all four Republicans on the State’s Executive Council voted against federal contracts he has pushed hard to approve.
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NH Democrats Rally for Right to Abortion up Until Moment of Birth
Yesterday, we attended the Defend Abortion Rights NH Rally featuring Democrat congresspeople Chris Pappas and Ann Kuster, Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington, Ronelle Tshiela, co-founder of BLM Manchester, and former Executive Councilor Andru Volinsky.
“Rally for Abortion Justice” Saturday
Planned Parenthood is promoting “Rally for Abortion Justice” events organized by the Women’s March and being held around New Hampshire and the country on Saturday, October 2.
Join us to OPPOSE federal DHHS money and STAND UP for medical freedom
Executive Council Protest – Wed, Sept 29 @ 7:30 AM – We need to send a LOUD message to the Executive Council that we DO NOT WANT federal grants with strings attached and 13 new vaccine propaganda bureaucrats.
New Hampshire Blocks Taxpayer Funding For Planned Parenthood
Wednesday morning, the NH Executive Council met at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Nashua to vote on awarding family planning contracts. When the councilors arrived for breakfast at 8 am, they were greeted by Jason Hennessey, President of New Hampshire Right to Life, and Mariah, Regional Coordinator for Students for Life, and their supporters.
A 2am Summary – 2020 Electoral Results – President, NH State Wide, and Other Races That Amuse Me.
UPDATE (Wednesday 7:36am): A few numbers have changed but not real “change” in the outcomes – yet. More later. US House – Republicans have picked up 4 seats but Dems still have the majority (predictions that Dems would add to their majority were wrong).
A Back and Forth that Seems a Bit Sordid, and Needs Sorting Out
I would like to talk about the Executive Council and the District 5 primary race in particular. I am a proud, but relatively recent Granite Stater (6 years). If I had known about the free state project, I would have signed up before moving, having originally taken a job in Maskachussetts only after confirming I could handle the commute from up here in America.
Will Bob Clegg Vote to Fund Planned Parenthood if it “meets the requirements and has the ability to perform”
In Bob Clegg’s mailers, he claims that he will “Oppose Planned Parenthood Funding” and he will “Stop government funding of Planned-Parenthood.”
“Structural Political Racism” White NH Democrats on the Executive Council “Reject” Another Black Nominee…
Just watched the Segment on WMUR: Eddie Edwards has pulled his name from NH Executive Council nomination. He is charging head honcho Selfish Andru (Volinsky) and his white-faced sidekicks of committing an overt act of racism.
Volinsky, Cryans, and Pignatelli – Great optics, guys, with your racist NO vote on Ryan Terrell
Ed Mosca and I concentrated on L’il Andru Volinsky because, well, he’s made himself a big target with his pandering at the Black Lives Matter rally and now voting down Ryan Terrell for the NH Board of Education.
NH Executive Council Democrat votes on Ryan Terrell: Bigots and Racists
So much for your Collective Wailing About Oppressed Minorities, eh Executive Councilors Volinsky, Pignatelli, and Cryans? Your vote on Ryan Terrell yesterday was proof that the Civil War / Jim Crow Southern Democrat racists are alive today in NH. All we’ve heard since the death of George Floyd have been Democrats saying that this needs … Read more
MacDonald’s N.H. Supreme Court Nomination Defeated
The Executive Council today rejected Governor Sununu’s nomination of Attorney General Gordon MacDonald to be Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. The vote was along party lines, with Councilors Russell Prescott and Ted Gatsas in favor, and Michael Cryans, Andru Volinsky, and Debora Pignatelli opposed. The vote follows Cryans’s announcement in a Valley … Read more
Who’s Influencing State Supreme Court Nomination?
What follows is cross-posted from a Cornerstone alert sent out today, with fair warning about Executive Councilor(s) trying to inject abortion into the nomination of Gordon MacDonald to the state Supreme Court, and with due acknowledgment that I’m a Cornerstone consultant. Governor Sununu has nominated Attorney General Gordon MacDonald to be Chief Justice of the New Hampshire … Read more
Andru Volinsky – trying to outdo Grimm’s fairy tales?
Recently, Executive Councilor Andu Volinsky suggested that gubernatorial vetoes should be subject to Executive Council approval. Fortunately, there is one thing that stands between Councilor Volinsky and vetoes: The Constitution of the State of New Hampshire. This isn’t the first time Councilor Volinsky has tried to end run the Constitution. Most of you may not … Read more
BREAKING NEWS – NH Executive Council gives Joe Barton a pardon
This has been several years in the making since the day that the NH AG’s investigator decided to get into a fight with Joe Barton as he was watching voters (more background here). Long story short, his appeals were denied to the NH Supreme Court; he ended up petitioning the NH Executive Council for a … Read more
I’m now betting that the NH GOP wished Jane Cormier had won
I’m speaking of the race now between Ted “The Empty Chair” Gatsas, who beat Jane in the primary, and Democrat Gray Chynoweth for NH Executive Council. (reformatted, emphasis mine): The debate over debates has infiltrated the open seat for Executive Council that Pappas is leaving to run for Congress, the 4th District. Democratic nominee and Manchester … Read more
Chris Pappas – Spoken like a true Collectivist! He’s not grooving to “Live Free or Die”
UPDATED and BUMPED (from 10/16/2012): Chris Pappas, now running for Congress instead of NH Exec. Council back then, hates our “Live Free or Die” motto – said so himself. He’s all about putting the “Common Good” above your Freedom. You need to send him a message of “no, it isn’t”:
“…it is clear that the idea of Freedom necessarily is subservient to what he believes to be the constant Progressive Ideal: “the Common Good”.
(H/T: Tom for reminding me I wrote this back then)
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Got a tip from a loyal reader of an article that appeared on FaceBook – one that shows that one Democrat Progressive Chris Pappas would be self-righteously fine with New Hampshire getting rid of our State Motto, “Live Free or Die”. He said so himself in a Hippo Press article back in Dec 15, 2005. True, a long time ago both in real time and political epochs. But when you read what he wrote, you may take the attitude of “Humpf, this is an ‘tude not easy to ditch or change” (at least what my takeaway is). That article is after the jump.
Now, at some sundry times, do make a wee joke about that New Hampshire’s beloved icon [The Old Man In The Mountain] lays in rubble at the bottom, but the motto is not just a phrase or a marketing blurb. It is not just a motto – it is a philosophical statement. Sure, it was a toast uttered by General John Stark, but it is one of the most succinct and pithy summaries of what Freedom is all about. It is a truism from one that was willing to lay down his life for Freedom – the complete and all encompassing meaning of the word “Live Free or die – death is not the worst of all evils”. Would you be willing to compromise your life, nay, lay it down, for a faux version of it?
Apparently, Chris Pappas would. Read that article – it is clear that his idea of Freedom necessarily is subservient to what he believes to be the constant Progressive Ideal: “the Common Good”. The article was written around the time that smoking was banned in many public spaces here in NH – especially restaurants.
He confuses what he perceives to be the tyranny of a few taking away a Right of the many (a few smokers, a lot of people “forced” to endure their “freedom”. He, and the others that passed the law, truly believe that their “seeing the future benefit for all” was sufficient to take away just one more Liberty from those that do something with which they disagree and take away just one more aspect of owning, well, what used to be Private Property (you know, the ability of restaurant owners to actually set their own policies. He also believes that the well-to-do should have to give up more of their Private Property (er, their money, which when you get to the blunt point, time from their lives) simply because they are “privileged” (and he has better ways to spend it than they do).
What concerns me the most, being a candidate for the NH Executive Council, is that he will continue this errant philosophy – that the Common Good always should trump Individual Freedoms, and that Private Property, when needed by the Common Good, is subject to the will of the Common Good.
Which doesn’t make it all that Free, nor all that Private, does it?
Cornerstone Action: endorses Jane Cormier in the NH Executive Council District 4 Primary race
Cornerstone Action Political Action Committee Announces Candidate Endorsements for September 11 Primary Election Cornerstone Action PAC endorses the following candidates for state-level offices. Each of these candidates has a contested primary race. Endorsements are based on high scores on the Cornerstone candidate survey, on voting records, and on consistency between surveys and votes. The Cornerstone Action PAC … Read more
GrokEndorsement Executive Council, District 4. This is Very Impressive!
To date, we have only issued one endorsement: Steve Negron running to represent New Hampshire from NH’s Second Congressional District (“CD-2”). Today, we add another.
While all writers have the freedom to endorse anyone they want as individuals, official GraniteGrok endorsements require a majority of all of the writers voting (not everyone votes). While we may all “read” the same on the issues, we do vary on candidates and sometimes “enthusiastically” (behind closed email/Slack doors). Most of our endorsements are contested – some of them highly so. As the title of this post implies, the result is impressive as all of the following writers at GraniteGrok.com have cast their ballot for one person (alphabetical order):
GrokDebates – yes, we want to do them. We ARE going to do them going forward
Over the years, GraniteGrok has made it part of our Citizen Journalism to cover debates. One reason is that we like listening (and critiquing) who was there, what was said, and to determine their political philosophies with respect to the NH Constitution, US Constitution, and to date, the NH GOP. We did debates, and covered them in unique ways, that the mainstream press just couldn’t or wouldn’t. Part of the later is either just a lack of time (on TV News) or space (newspaper “inches” or word counts. We, on the other hand, have neither limitation.
We also covered debates that they didn’t – they (and often the NH GOP) are only interested in the top of the ticket races: Governor, US Congress, US Senate. The other races?
Pound sand. Well, no longer. I’ve been yakking about taking GraniteGrok to the “next” level – debates will be part of that. While we will still cover other folks’ debates, we believe it is time to do our own. And we shall.