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Juliana Bergeron – One Term Committeewoman?

I won’t waste time listing the dramatis personae of ‘Conservative-esque’ and ‘Libertarian-ish’ Republicans who probably fell for whatever passed as Juliana Bergeron’s Faustian bargain to earn their vote.   I’ll just say, “we-told-you-so” instead.  I know, that sounds divisive.  So let’s see what your new Committeewoman has to say about that. Keene Sentinel; Juliana is … Read more

Indeed: “…the TEA Party lives on in grassroots activists determined to see change.” Final thoughts on yesterday’s NH GOP Annual meeting

Indeed, indeed. Those involved in the TEA Party movement are still around.  They were lambasted three years ago for being “amateurs”, thinking that holding clever signs would change things, that they were too white, too middle class, leaderless, and if the media and Democrats were to be believed, would soon go home to their living rooms and resume a more normal life of simply grumbling at their TV sets and wringing their hands.  H/T to Instapundit for this:

AN A.P. REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE TEA PARTY: Dead it’s not — the tea party lives on in grassroots activists determined to see change. “Dead the tea party is not. Changed? Perhaps. But still very much alive, in the back room of a Jim’s Restaurant in San Antonio and many other places across the land. . . . Perhaps nowhere is the persistent power of the tea party more at work today than at the local and state level, where many grassroots activists have decided to shift the focus of their efforts. More tea party-backed candidates are running for county and state Republican leadership positions, with the aim of having a bigger say in the party’s agenda and direction.”

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

And I see no end to it soon.  Sure, there will be the rallies going forward, as Steve points out for one today in Manchester, NH and as I’ve posted here for next Saturday in Dover (sponsored by the Granite State Patriot Liberty PAC).  But change, REAL change comes only after real hard works over a longish amount of time.  In Glen’s second link, he outlines what the Utah TEA Party was doing in participating in personal democracy – moving the Utah Republican Party back to its roots of not just lip-serving for smaller government but actually making it happen.  They did it rather quickly – but as I just told another activist concerning a different issue on the phone, be prepared for change to come slowly.

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GraniteGrok Endorsement: Ovide Lamontagne for NH Governor

Ovide Lamontagne For NH Governor 2012We have known Ovide Lamontagne for a number of years now, and the longer we have known him, the surer we are of his Conservative Principles and his stances on current events based on those Principles.  We have seen him refuse to take more politically expedient paths, ways the could yield better political outcomes for him personally, simply because it meant that he would have to cut corners instead of following those foundational guiding philosophies.  Many times, you might hear that a politician is a man of his politics.  That’s not Ovide; instead, you get a politician of steadfast convictions.  Enough so that we endorsed him for US Senate this last cycle.  Every stance is a Conservative one – we like an appreciate it. You know us – and we know Ovide Lamontagne.

Have no doubt, the Democrats will be putting up an extremist Progressive – and our bet is that Ovide will present the best alternative to those that will try (and make no mistake – they are campaigning on it right now) to recreate the Big Government go-round of 2006 / 2008?

Is this still the Live Free or Die State?  If you agree that it is, but that it hangs in the balance, consider this: It needs a Live Free or Die Governor!  One that not only can say the words but means, that lives, the philosophy behind it. That person, that Governor, is Ovide Lamontagne, the Happy Warrior!

We ask that when it comes to vote in the NH Republican primary in the Fall, please vote for Ovide.  And then again in November.

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When NH State Senator Jeanne Forrester had house event back February, Ovide Lamontagne was gracious in granting us an exclusive interview after having already spent  a couple of hours giving a talk to those present and then answered questions from them.  Both parts of that interview:

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NH GOP National Committeewoman race – Or is it the “whisper race”?

From Michelle:

Alas, if you’re a conservative mom, you’re damned if you do stay home and damned if you don’t. In 2008, Howard Gutman, a member of the Obama campaign’s national finance committee, attacked GOP vice presidential candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s ability to be a good parent and have a high-powered public life at the same time. “Your responsibility is to put your family first,” Gutman lectured as he singled out Palin’s Down syndrome baby and then-pregnant teenage daughter. “The proper attack is not that a woman shouldn’t run for vice president with five kids; it’s that a parent, when they have a family in need…” should get out of the public sphere and stay home.

Sound familiar? Wait, haven’t I JUST HEARD THIS from a Republican?  Oh yeah…

Last time around and if my memory serves me well, four people were running for this position.  It seemed, at the time, that the candidates ran on the issues and their stances – what happens in most races, the dirty side, seemed to be invisible.  This time, not so much – it seems that it has come back near the end of this race – just like any other political race.  This time, it seems to have been launched against Pam Tucker; a sample:

Pam Tucker has come highly recommended by her peers.  I am thrilled that she is so competent at the State House, so much that I feel we NEED her there.   I understand that she will again seek office as a State Rep in the fall.  Her time is currently, and will be in the future, divided between her young family, her constituents from her district, and the added responsibilities as Deputy Speaker of the House.  I have heard Pam speak several times, each time stating that she will be able to attend the necessary meetings.

But are attending just the necessary meetings enough to build strong relationships with other states, and therefore retaining New Hampshire’s First in the Nation Status?

The underlying message:  She’s good, but not good ENOUGH.  She works hard. but couldn’t POSSIBLY add another task.  How COULD she abandon her family, her kids??  Sounds like a sexist argument to me – what about Dad, or is yet the next inference to be made is that he’s an incompetent boob who can’t be trusted to keep his “young family” alive without her?  My gosh!  She’s being split in too many ways – she can’t POSSIBLY do everything well!

Nonsense.  Well, I’ve never been one to be quiet – but “whisper campaigns” are not my style.  If someone has to rely on innuendo and whispers to secure a seat, well, that says:

  • You can’t win on your own in the public arena of ideas?
  • You are, perhaps, running as someone you aren’t and need “cover”?
  • It says something about “character”

So, in being loud, let’s dredge something up from the near deep recesses of the ‘Grok about newly “Conservative to the core” Juliana Bergeron from the Chair race:

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GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker-RNC Committeewoman Candidate. Question 11 – Get the NH GOP to become more active in local elections?

Since this series of questions was done, most towns have had their local elections (be they SB2 based or the traditional formats).  This season, a number of conservatives and libertarians who are Republicans lost their bid for local offices and were replaced by rather hard-left leaning folks (e.g., Carla Horn, a real self-avowed Leftist that would fit in well with the Democrat Socialists of American won over a really good conservative, Colette Worseman up in Meredith; I and a few others lost in Gilford).  Many politically active folks on the Right have been watching the ‘staff up’ being done by the Dems, ostensibly for the Presidential election – it is now evident that they had active hands in organizing in these elections too (as well as the Unions).

Thus, this question,  a future-now-past,  proves that there is a problem: Can you, as Committeewoman, help nudge the NH GOP to better assist local elections “below the NH House races (think: farm team)?

Previous Questions: (on the jump)

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Pam Tucker: New Hampshire’s answer to Sarah Palin?

In one week the New Hampshire Republican Party will hold its annual meeting. At that meeting the members of the Republican State Committee will vote on various matters, including

State Rep. Pam Tucker

the election of two members to the Republican National Committee (RNC) from New Hampshire. The winners of the two elections—one man and one woman—will sit on the RNC along with 164 other members.

State Representative Pam Tucker, who lives in Greenland with her husband and children, is running for one of the NH Republican National Committee seats on Saturday. She is the vice chairman of the powerful State House Rules Committee, a deputy speaker of the State House, and is the best kind of Republican: As a strong conservative activist for the NH GOP, she believes in all the values in our state party platform. She has a nice dash of the proverbial “libertarian tendencies” too. All of which makes her acceptable to all branches of the NH Republican Party, including the establishment, the Main Street Republicans, the social conservatives, the free marketeers, the Tea Partiers, and my own libertarian-conservative Republicans.

Sound familiar? This lady has it all, just like Sarah Palin (who is standing the test of time far better than those who ran the smear campaigns against her in 2008).

But there’s more….

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From James Pindell’s Political Standing

Really? “Is there any truth to the rumor that next weekend Republican National Committeeman Steve Duprey will be challenged on the floor from an opponent from the right flank?” Interesting rumor…

GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker-RNC Committeewoman Candidate. Question 10 – TEA Party and 9/12 Project?

Next to last question and again to the grassroots organization.  As with the other interviews, the idea is to get a sense of what people in leadership within the NH GOP (as she is the Deputy Speaker) are thinking about the Liberty and Freedom groups that have a stand off view of the NH GOP.  Can and will these pitches be believed – and should the L & F groups once again think there is a place for them other than as shock troops:

Your message to the TEA Party and 9/12 Project members?

Previous Questions:

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GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker-RNC Committeewoman Candidate. Question 7 – As RNC Committeewoman, how can you sharpen the diferences between Republican and Democrat positions?

Continuing on the same theme as our sixth question (“How verbose will you be in defending Republican ideals as Committeewoman during the election season?”)to Pam Tucker as she is striving to be the next RNC Committeewoman from NH  is still oriented to the upcoming election season as we know that the Democrats are now cranking … Read more

NH GOP Annual Meeting – By Law amendments

As a member of the NH GOP Committee, I get to vote for this inside baseball Republican style stuff.  Two folks have put forward amendments: Sylvia Smith and Diane Bitter.   Both are about the same subject matter – how a sitting NH GOP Chair can be removed from their position.  Right now, it is … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker-Candidate RNC Committeewoman Candidate. Q6:How verbose will you be in defending Republican ideals as Committeewoman during the election season?

Given that my opinion is that the current NH GOP Chair is not being all that vocal concerning Republican ideals and stances into the public square, this was a natural question for me to ask – heck, all Republicans ought to be asking their NH GOP organizational “higher ups” (like Chairs, Secretaries, Treasurers, and the … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker-Candidate RNC Committeewoman Candidate. Q5: What part of the NH GOP Platform is in danger and why should people rally around it?

More questions, and more answers.  I picked up on something that Pam had said earlier and bluntly asked – what needs to be protected in the NH GOP platform?  And here was her response: Note: Also, we have been getting some observations and questions in the previous posts’ comments, mostly from Commenter “C. dog e. … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker-Candidate RNC Committeewoman Candidate. Q4 – Why should NH Committee members choose you over your opponent?

Ah yes, the second point – the pitch.  The first point is that every politician has to know why they are running.  The latter can be simple (“somebody asked me to, and I said ‘why not?’”)  involved (i.e., a whole series of either interlocked or random issues that finally, in toto, reached a tipping point), … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker – NH House Deputy Speaker, Candidate NH GOP RNC Committeewoman – Question 2

Continuing on with GraniteGrok’s interview with Pam Tucker (currently the Deputy Speaker of the NH House of Representatives) who is running to be the next RNC (Republican National Committee) Committeewoman from NH.  We have a series of questions that we asked; here is Question 2: Why should the ordinary Republican care who their RNC Committeewoman … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker – NH House Deputy Speaker, Candidate NH GOP RNC Committeewoman – Question 3

Continuing on with our interview with Pam Tucker who is running to be the next RNC (Republican National Committee) Committeewoman from the NH Republican Party, we switched our emphasis to that of the Party platform.  This document represents the approved (by the State Committee in toto) philosophy and political stances of the NH GOP.  As … Read more

GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker – NH House Deputy Speaker, Candidate NH GOP RNC Committeewoman – Question 1: Why?

Last night, GraniteGrok interviewed Pam Tucker who is the Deputy Speaker of the NH House of Representatives.  She is also running to be the next RNC (Republican National Committee) Committeewoman from NH, as Phyllis Woods is not seeking another term.  Meeting at The Draft in Concord, NH, she graciously took our questions. This is Question … Read more

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