Earlier this week, we shared some video of Kamala Harris’ (latest) horrible speech. One of the jokes that began making the rounds, or maybe it just got momentum from another phoned-in performance, was that her speechwriter was six years old.
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Newfields, NH Quietly Passes Ordinance Prohibiting Political Protests Outside Gov. Chris Sununu’s Home
If there’s reporting on this, I can’t find it, so I guess this is breaking news. Newfields, New Hampshire, where Republican Governor Chris Sununu lives, has passed an ordinance that makes it illegal to protest outside residential homes, including his.
Jim Babcock’s “Stealing Campaign Signs” Hall of Shame – Justice delayed and all that…
The hearing on Jim Babcock’s theft of Grokster Norm’s campaign sign WAS supposed to be August 20th. But the wheels of Justice, as we are seeing, sometimes turn very slow. And right now slow is just plain “No.”
Jim Babcock’s “Stealing Campaign Signs” Hall of Shame – Time of reckoning?
The Due Process that is afforded to all alleged do-badders is getting ready to take its next formal step for Jim Babcock (who stole Grokster Norm’s political sign back a while ago. As I posted before, I took the liberty of adapting my own instance of Norm’s sign and added my own:
We Now Know Which Nashua Democrat Tried to Shut Down GraniteGrok (And Failed)
So our hosting company coughed up the email complaint against GraniteGrok as requested. Much surprise as to who it was – not.
GraniteGrok Goes to “Twitter Jail” For Tweeting Actual News
When I clicked the “button,” to find out what was wrong…Seriously? Steve “tweeted” out actual news and the twits at Twitter banned GraniteGrok? The only remedy they give is to remove the tweet or do an “appeal”. It’s not fake news, not hate speech, no rant. Steve reported the actual New Zealand vote to take … Read more
“The GraniteGrok Full Employment Act” – SB106
And this here in the “Live Free or Die” State – King Dan Feltes wants to put duct tape on your mouth. All three of these (enumerated below) Constitutional protections to your right to Free Speech in matters political are under attack in SB106 sponsored by NH State Senator Dan Feltes to protect himself (and … Read more
Yes, Steve, the Manchester Democrats really do hate Rich Girard AND lawyer Karen Hewes invokes the Streisand Effect
MANCHESTER — An attorney representing a Manchester High School Central senior has sent a letter to At Large school board member Rich Girard, requesting he stop discussing her publicly or during meetings or face legal action, after he contacted her through a district-operated student email account regarding an opinion piece she authored in a student newspaper. The student, Rachel Phelan, 18, wrote an editorial in the Sept. 28 edition of “The Little Green,” Central’s student newspaper, urging support for city teachers currently working without a contract.
And said attorney is identified later on in the article as Karen Hewes of EdLaw New England in Bedford. Who accuses Girard of violating FERPA, the Federal law that protect students’ Personal Indentifiable Information (“PII”) as Grokster Ann Marie talked about here. Yet, I dryly note that her letter to Girard to stop talking about Rachel Phelan was leaked to the UL (do ya really think it was Rich that would have done that?). Naw, this boob of an attorney
Sidenote: Wanna make a bet I’ll hear about that as either being sexual harrassment or politically incorrectly for simply using a common American English slang phrase? First Amendment, baby – just like Rachel Phelan “outed” herself as an adult, so has this nitwit.
not is just trying to threaten Rick Girard – she also outed her client to everyone in NH. Great job, just a great job. Which brings up the case – for fee or pro bono? Truth or self-aggrandizment? Or just being self-unaware of invoking the Streisand Effect? OK, to recap (thank you, Steve):
Kathy Sullivan tells us her Democrat Party’s don’t stink
Normally I either bypass her Op-Eds in the Union Leader completely or just glance through them. They generally are the usual drivel that would come from a former NH Democrat Party chair (and a DNC vice-chair). Don’t worry, I generally think JHo’s (former NH GOP chair) to be similar screeds. In this case, though, I found at least the premise of the Op-Ed to be both true and false at the same time concerning campaign finance report.
This Should Be Illegal – Unions Use Taxpayer Funded Payroll Systems to collect Money for Partisan Political Purposes
We need to challenge how and why it is permissible for unions to use taxpayer-funded public resources (payroll systems) to collect union Dues or other political donations directly from public union employee paychecks.
Hey! Dufus! Why the Hell Aren’t You Covering “This!?”
Shawn Millerick, the head of the political fiction section at NH Journal, wanted to know why we at GraniteGrok were not covering the real world story about Ann McKluster Kuster not paying her property taxes. The appropriate response was to provide a link to the story I actually wrote on February 5th about how Ann McKluster Kuster was not paying her property taxes. A story I updated with additional comments from the Chairs of both political parties and a bit of exposition with regard to the sources.
It was a story posted the same day as the first story at NH Journal about how Ann McKluster Kuster was not paying her taxes, at roughly 6 am, perhaps even before NHJ pushed out their version; a story with the eponymous title…”Annie McKluster Doesn’t Pay Her Taxes?”
How hard could that be to find? I’m pondering a pithy epithet for the NHJ Political Fiction Department that involves an ass, both hands, and a flashlight.
The Promise of The Democrat Police State
Democrats obstructing speech they object to continued… after yesterdays post, which produced some necessary followup. Obama campaign officials obstructed a Pennsylvania reporter from speaking to Obama supporters waiting outside, in line for an Obama rally. A Commenter, C. dog, responded with a link to this story from 2008, at the Democrat National Convention, in Denver.
ABC reporter Asa Eslocker was filming for a story about the financial influence of lobbyists and wealthy donors. While taking pictures of Democrat Senators and others on a public sidewalk he was arrested and detained by the police.
HB 1704 – Republicans doing the dirty work by resurrecting HassanSpeech? Part 2
OK, Part 1 is here – which simply pulled out a couple of nuggets from the proposed HB 1704 as found at NH.GOV. While there was enough uproar to have the NH Senate table it last week, it is supposedly coming back from the dead. I have already made the pitch that the bill needs to be amended so that donors / contributors / supporters no longer be listed. The reason for that as the Progressives have pushed politics into ever more parts of Society at large (instead of keeping it simply in the Governmental / Political sphere), they are coming up against The Law of Diminishing Returns which states that the next incremental “gain” for them (which I consider a loss when compared to traditional Western Liberalism / Constitutionalism) costs more and requires more. Thus, the new tactic now in wide deploy of finding and deliberately creating damage to their political opposition; no, not just in the political realm but in and to their personal lives and families. Their scorched earth mentality is to so punish ordinary citizens (often, whose only “political crime” is to defend traditional American values) that these folks will either remain silent or destitute on the street (after all, they are just following Obama’s lead in intending to bankrupt the coal industry and from EPA Regional Administrator whose “leadership style concerning energy companies was to “crucify the first five to pacify the rest” and by that, silence dissent.
I have to admit, the person that titled this amendment to HB 1704 is out to:
- Protect the Political Class (and yes, Establishment Republicans are certainly often part of this Class)
- Silence the opposition to their rule
I hate to have to keep repeating it, but when our Political Class is either seemingly incapable of remembering this or willfully wish to disregard it, I feel like I have to be an elementary school teacher and repeat, repeat, and repeat some more:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
So, here be the beginning of the fisking of the “Protect the Politicans’ Ass Amendment” (full text later in this post).
HB 1704 – Republicans doing the dirty work by resurrecting HassanSpeech? Part 1
Steve has written about this already, and I did as well, but in the time that the NH Senate decided table the bill last week, word is (Jeb Bradley from the Senate floor, from what I’m told) that this bill is going to be brought up AGAIN an voted upon on Wednesday. Why are we bringing this up? Once again, simple words that should be taken literally by ALL politicians are these words by the Founders:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Freedom of Speech; and the type of Speech with which they were most concerned with was Political Speech, which this bill addresses and not in a flattering way – in fact, in a really BAD way. Political Speech – that category of speaking (be it audio, written, video, or other) that criticizes or upholds the actions of the Government pertaining to the issues of the day. They KNEW that this was a pillar holding up our new country – putting any strictures on it in the political realm would be tantamount to opening the door to bad cronyistic government at best and tyranny at worst. And if the Amendments that I know about, if some of the wording that has already made it into the bill stays, I have two questions for the Senate Republicans:
Yo, chuckleheads! What part of “abridging the freedom of speech” do you not get? And WHY, in this time where many of you were put into office by folks who, more and more are Constitutionally minded, you think that your hides are more valuable than our ability to speak our minds freely to rip your hides to shreds (having earned such treatment or not) and therefore, wish to act contrary to that Constitutional philosophy??
In a lot of ways, what the Republicans are about to do is pass the hated HassanSpeech simply because THEY don’t want to be criticized by others. Simpletons all – you all put yourselves out there voluntarily, and if what you think that the “incoming” is bad now, go read your political history again and see the stuff that was passed around in the late 1700s and early 1800s for electioneering. Whether you think it “civil” or not is not the point and to be blunt, should matter not a whit. Anyone should be able to say what ever they want in the political sphere (calling for violence and the like is obviously not in the political realm and remains defenseless and vile). I maintain that the real damage is NOT allowing politicians to pass laws to protect themselves but that this law will codify bullying of private citizens by forcing those engaging in political speech to list their Donor records.
Either reason is enough to kill this bill off as soon as possible (although Sean Doherty is right in trying to clarify how much can be collected for races – except I would raise the amounts much higher). That said, let’s first start with identifying the bad parts of the bill as shown at NH.GOV as well as the three amendments that I know of are bad for political speech. Also, there are parts of the current RSA that are NOT amended – and our Chuckleheads should be brought to account for not reviewing those given the current political retributions now taking place across the country (and, to be blunt, by the Obama campaign’s example).
Subsequent posts will fisk the amendments, which are FAR, FAR worse than what is listed below