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GrokTV Event – Rumney home event for Ovide Lamontagne (Candidate, NH Governor) – Question 3 – Do any tort reforms in the State in order to help us?

September 26, 2018July 17, 2012 Skip

The last question was on Obamacare and how to protect NH business owners from it; this question concerns the legal ramifications as well – tort reform. It is almost obligatory to say that the Democrats are so beholden to the trial lawyers (along with Big Unions, Big Environmentalism, and Wall Street) that their legislation often … Read more

GrokTV Event – Rumney home event for Ovide Lamontagne (Candidate, NH Governor) – Question 2 – How protect NH against Obamacare?

September 26, 2018July 16, 2012 Skip

Continuing from the last post (Ovide’s speech and the first question), there is another question asked of Ovide. Sure, Obamacare has now been judged Constitutional but a lot of small business owners are fully concerned of the danger it poses to their viability. This one was asked by someone, fully cognizant that Obamacare was supposed … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Susan Olsen,NH House Candidate (Merrimack-7) – Question 5: Make NH State agencies more responsible to citizens?

September 26, 2018July 15, 2012 Skip

How many State Representatives talk about “reforming government” (as opposed to Obama, with his Pack of Regressive Progressives, which to “reform” us) – and the look in their eye says “and more than with lip service?? I got that opinion from Susan Olsen as she kicks off her run to get into the NH State … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Bob Burns, candidate for NH Executive Council District 4

September 26, 2018July 15, 2012 Skip

Another sponsor of the Smart Girl Politics / NH Armed and Fabulous event was Bob Burns who is running for the NH Executive Council for District 4. A long time member of the NRA, we took advantage of the opportunity to ask Bob – WHY? are you running? A number of folks may wish to comment … Read more

GrokTV Event – Rumney home event for Ovide Lamontagne (Candidate, NH Governor)

September 26, 2018July 15, 2012 Skip

Last nite GraniteGrok was invited to cover a house event for Ovide Lamontagne (candidate for the Republican nomination for NH Governor) that was hosted by Jerry Thibodeau of Rumney, NH. These tend to be small, intimate affairs where the attendees are much more in tune, politically, than most and it showed in the question and answer time that made up the bulk of the time. This video is Ovide addressing those that came:

From the Q and A session – Question 1: The Speaker has announced that he wants to cut an additional 2% out of the budget. what are your feelings on that?

GrokTV Special Interview – Rick Parent, candidate for US Congress in NH First Congressional District

September 26, 2018July 15, 2012 Skip

Yesterday at the Smart Girl Politics / NH Armed and Fabulous event, we met up with one of the event’s other sponsors: Rick Parent who is running for US Congress from NH’s First Congressional district (you know, THIS guy!). We had first interviewed him at the CNHT Annual Picnic but the audio from that was … Read more

GrokTV Event-Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate – Last question and Candidate closing remarks

September 26, 2018July 13, 2012 Skip

Indeed – Question 13 and closing candidate remarks from the

Question 13:

“What would you do so that the Veterans finally get a full service VA here in NH?“

Closing remarks by Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith, vying to become the Republican nominee for NH Governor:

GrokTV Special Interview: Susan Olsen,NH House Candidate (Merrimack-7) – Question 4: Go to be someone, or go to accomplish something?

September 26, 2018July 13, 2012 Skip

There are those, as we who watch politics know, who say they wish to do something but turn out later to be more in love with the title than with the doing. Face it, politicians have become, as one moves “up” the ladder to higher and higher office, our courtiers (harkening back to the Royal … Read more

GrokTV Special Interviews – CNHT in review – The “Micros” edition!

September 26, 2018July 13, 2012 Skip

Man, am I stacked up on video – apologies for not getting this up earlier from the CNHT Annual Picnic. While Grokster Steve manned our setup and watched over the live stream and the recording cameras, I snuck out a few times to get a few “micro-interviews”. So, here they are: Kevin Smith (Candidate, … Read more

GrokTV Event-Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate – Intro Ceremonies and Candidate Opening Remarks

September 26, 2018July 13, 2012 Skip

Last night was the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate that was hosted and moderated by John Burt. The two candidates seeking the Republican nomination for NH were Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith. Questioners were Alex Talcott (Communications Director for 4RG) and Speaker of the NH House Bill ‘Brien. The debate lasted about … Read more

GrokTV Event-Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate – First Four Questions for the Candidates

September 26, 2018July 13, 2012 Skip

Debates are all about the questions – and Speaker Bill O’Brien and Alex Talcott asked some pretty good questions of Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith. . The first four are here (questions 2 – 4 are after the jump).

Question 1:

“What names are Democrat politicians or others calling you that distort or oversimply what you are about and why are they wrong?“

Live Stream – GrokTV Event: The Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gubernatorial Debate
Recording of the Live Stream – GrokTV Event: The Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gubernatorial Debate
GrokTV Event-Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate – Intro Ceremonies and Candidate Opening Remarks

Question 2:

GrokTV Event-Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate – Next Four Questions for the Candidates

September 26, 2018July 13, 2012 Skip

Continuing on with the questions from the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Debate featuring Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith, here are the next four questions:

Question 5:

“Got my hair cut. Stylist complained about high gas costs. General thoughts on energy costs?”

Live Stream – GrokTV Event: The Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gubernatorial Debate
Recording of the Live Stream – GrokTV Event: The Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gubernatorial Debate
GrokTV Event-Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate – Intro Ceremonies and Candidate Opening Remarks
Question 1: What names are Democrat politicians or others calling you that distort or oversimply what you are about and why are they wrong?
Question 2: The Commissioner of Employment Security stepped down over fiscal corruption charges. What would you doto insure that ethics return to the Executive Branch?
Question 3: Salesman-in-Chief; why can’t Jackie Cilley or Maggie Hassan get on the horn and call up CEOs and credibly convince them to create jobs in NH as effectively the way you can?
Question 4: The Legislature left open the issue of education by the State this past term. Can you discuss what your understanding of the issue is, what its likely and possible impact will be on the State budget and how you would go about addressing it?

Question 6:

GrokTV Event-Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate – Questions 9 – 12

September 26, 2018July 13, 2012 Skip

And now for the third set of four questions (list of previous questions and their links after the jump) from the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate that was hosted by John Burt, questions asked by Speaker Bill O’Brien and Alex Talcott , and answered by the Candidates for the Republican nomination for NH Governor, Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith.

Question 9:

“One of the least known aspects of Obamacare is how it seeks to hijack State finances in order to expand insurance coverage particularly in the area of Medicaid. One area it does this in is doubling income elegibility. That’s the aspect to bring forward the decision. That’s the aspect and the reason for the Supreme Court decision that it is optional to the States. Can you tell us whether or not NH should take up that option and expand its population? As part of your answer, can you tell us where Medicaid is going in NH and how NH is going to finally be able to protect its sovereignty from the Federal Government trying to push us to overspending here in NH?”

Question 10:

GrokTV Event-Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate – If you couldn’t make it and want to watch the whole thing…

September 26, 2018July 12, 2012 Skip

Last night, it was a full house at the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate hosted by John Burt. In fact – it was an overflow event; over 500 tickets sold when the event was estimated to pull in 400. It goes to show that the intensity is quite high on the Republican … Read more

GrokTV Event: The Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gubernatorial Debate tonite!

September 26, 2018July 11, 2012 Skip

We will be at the debate later on tonite and will be live streaming (Internet bandwidth and UStream servers , God willing) as well as recording it. Grokster Steve and I are planning on being there, and others may be as well. Certainly, we’ll be recording it for later posting and trying to get some … Read more

GrokTV Event – CNHT in review – The “Specials” edition!

September 26, 2018July 10, 2012 Skip

Well, more than just the “top” positions in the State (e.g., NH Governor, NH Senate, NH House) are being sought here in New Hampshire – and a few of those candidates did show up at the CNHT Annual Picnic. In order of appearance:

Frank Szabo (Sheriff, Hillsboro) Michael Tierney (NH Exec. Council, District 2)

More after the jump. Previous Posts:

Intro Ceremony by Ed Naile, Chair of CNHT
Jason Rink (Nullifaction: The Right Remedy)
The “Governors” Edition!
The “Congressional” Edition!
The “NH House” Edition!
The “NH Senate” Edition!

GrokTV Event – CNHT in review – Speaker of the NH House, Bill O’Brien

September 26, 2018July 10, 2012 Skip

And we come to the end of the speakers at the CNHT Annual Picnic (“Old Home Day for Conservatives!”). Fittingly enough (although he spoke early in the agenda), we have the Speaker of the NH House of Representatives, Bill O’Brien:

The speech transcript:

Coalition of NH Taxpayers – July 7, 2012

“Will we continue to bring government back to essential purpose of protecting freedoms and not assuming that it must find a solution to every problem, real or imagined?“

In concluding his 3rd State of the Union Speech almost 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan left us a guide for the never-ending battle for freedom. He said,

Let us be sure that those who come after will say . . . that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

The Great Communicator also warned us that,

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

In our time – this legislative term in New Hampshire in Concord – there are those among us who did everything we could.

We cut state-funded spending by 18% because the over-spenders had left us almost a $900 million deficit.

GrokTV Special Interview: Susan Olsen,NH House Candidate (Merrimack-7) – Question 2: Contrast other governance with that of NH?

September 26, 2018July 10, 2012 Skip

Well, it has been a few days since Question 1 (“Why are you running”) was asked of Susan Olsen (last Thursday). On the other hand, when starting this post, I thought it had been several days since Question 1 had posted (only yesterday). In some ways, this question is led from part of her answer … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Susan Olsen,NH House Candidate (Merrimack-7) – Question 3: Governing Principles

September 26, 2018July 10, 2012 Skip

Unlike most interviews that we do with candidates, which tend to just touch on philosophy, this one with Susan Olsen stayed mostly philosophical. Think about it – we have asked candidates all kinds of questions about all kinds of issues, and then we backtrack those answers to figure out what their foundations are. And where ever … Read more

GrokTV Event – CNHT in review – The “NH House” edition!

September 26, 2018July 9, 2012 Skip

Even with all of other events going on, there were enough folks running for the NH House of Representatives to take quite some time as well! In order of speaking appearance at the CNHT Picnic: