According to the National School Board Association, I’m a self-acknowledged Domestic Terrorist. Eighty percent of the Gilford School Board agreed with them (after all, the Left has taught us that Silence is Complicity, right?) when I asked if they thought I was one.
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Are You a Casual China Watcher?
Are you a casual China watcher? If you are there was a key policy meeting, the four day plenum in Beijing this week. It wraps up came with a statement; China will not let external pressures sway it from becoming a great power. It goes on to say China is entering a period of ‘strategic … Read more
Everyone ‘Here’ Is All Happy Dance That Newsom Just Crowned Himself King
The eco-Socialists at Treehugger joyfully embraced California Governor Newsom’s unilateral Executive Order. To radically change Californians’ lives by no longer allowing gas-powered vehicles to be sold beginning in 2035. But he also said that gas cars could still be used up to and after that date.
Notable Quote – “You’re Negotiating a Surrender.”
On the idea that if our elected representatives are negotiating contracts with groups of government employees, they should be public.
Executive Council District 4: “I don’t need to do anything to win because I’m Ted Gatsas!” – Part 2
“HAVE A QUESTION FOR TED OR AN IDEA FOR THE CITY OF MANCHESTER?“
Previous post on Ted Gatsas insularity here. I say that because it turns out that I haven’t been the only one trying to reach out to their campaign to arrange a debate between him and Jane Cormier. Same result – no answers or blow offs. You’d think that the Gatsas campaign, with all of his experience as a former NH State Senator, a former Manchester Mayor, and a former Republican candidate for Governor, he would be enthusiastic to show his expertise. C’est la – I guess it isn’t to be. The silence is deafening.
In my last post, I posited ““what can you do for Ted instead of what Ted will do for you”. Well, that may be true as his website as I said before, is rather slim of details. How slim, you might ask? Let’s look at the front page of his website, shall we?
So Grant Bosse is advocating the same for the NH GOP as Obama actually did for immigration?
Grant is the Editorial Editor for the UL and with his latest missive, he’s both right – and horribly wrong. First for the good part (reformatted, emphasis mine; his editorial after the jump):
Where’s the big tent? NH Republicans hurting themselves
As a Republican’s Republican for the sake of the Republican Party (he leans more GOPe than Liberty) to say that the NH GOP and elected officials are off the rails is quite the stretch (careful Grant or they may revoke your hall pass!). He’s correct in that the NH GOPe Republicans hurt themselves but often doesn’t bring what really ails them to the attention of the general public.
Quick Thought – tell me where in the Private Sector that gets these kinds of “raises”?
And in this case, it’s always the taxpayer that is taking in the shorts when our elected officials don’t “cherish” (more on Andru Volinsky in an upcoming post) other peoples money. John Cataldo has a great Op-Ed about “sustainability” or rather, how fiscally unsustainable many financial decisions are (emphasis mine):
Roughly 50 percent of city employees are on some kind of step and longevity pay scale. In one year under Yarger-Decker, an employee on the index could receive a step increase at 3 percent, a longevity increase at 2 percent, and a cost of living adjustment (COLA) negotiated at 3 percent. That is a total pay increase of 8 percent in a single given year. Compare that to the increase in spending allowed under the tax cap this year at 1.63 percent, and it is simply not sustainable.
They’re not the ones that have to deal with the aftermath – the union members get their money, the officials get an easier ride to reelection because they didn’t rile up the Special Interest Group better known as unions; they go after taxpayer wallets because WILLIE SUTTON! (er, the guy who famously said “it’s where the money is” when asked why he kept robbing banks).