The State Supreme court announced that is sees a conflict between current state law and spending cap initiatives approved by voters (Manchester in particular). This is not unexpected but it is fortuitous, and to some degree ironic. In their quest to defend any liberal-leaning municipalities desire to spend beyond the ability of their residents to pay for it, groups like Keep Manchester Moving have just financed the blueprint by which the now Republican super-majority state government can adroitly engineer a fix.
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H/T to Publius at Big Government.com
The Biggest Special Interest Of All
There’s something you might want to keep in mind about the state level Democrat wind machine as we move forward toward 2012. It has been their practice to ignore their own out of state campaign dollars as they attack anyone or anything on the Republican side with even the most tenuous connection to influence from outside the state. Even the governor has stood up and declared that he is against the influence of money from outside the state, while hundreds of thousands have poured into his pockets from places farther and wider than the political borders of the Granite State. But that’s all superficial by comparison to this.
How do governor Lynch, Chairman Buckley, presumptive democrat candidates for 2012 at every level, the whole of the democrat party, even their RINO sympathizers, explain why they embrace massive infusions of out of state money and all the disruptive influence it has at the state and local level…from the federal government?
Can Gene Chandler Salvage The Liberal Agenda?
Provocative title, yes? Well before you complain about it ask yourself a question. Why does Dean "Bob" Barker, and the leftistas prefer Chandler over O’Brien? "That the Dems, if unified, can play a role in preventing him [O’Brien]from being House Speaker, is good news. Dean is part and parcel to the entire Buckley/Sullivan progressive fringe … Read more
Freshman Get A Voice
November 9, 2010 Dear Freshman Member–Elect, As you prepare to come to Washington for Orientation during the week of November 14th, we wanted to bring to your attention the various leadership opportunities available to your class. The incoming GOP freshman class for the 112th Congress is no ordinary freshman class, and this is no ordinary … Read more
Taking All The ‘Air’ Out Of “Fair”
The Nashua Telegraph spent most of the election season giving up huge chunks of their Sunday commentary page to the mouth-pieces of special interests promoting left wing causes like health care deform, so why stop now that the election has passed? This week we get the implausible assumptions of Cathy Silber, the coordinator of the Granite State Fair Tax Coalition (GSFTC), who upon seeing the blood in the water on November 3rd, has attempted a preemptive strike for her pet special interest project–an income tax for New Hampshire.
Silber has been fighting "The Pledge," an oath signed by Granite State candidates who promise to vote against any sales or income tax should they meet that big bad wolf tax on the way to Grandmothers house, or anywhere else. So Silber is the "Anti-pledger," plying class warfare rhetoric dressed as "fairness" in her quest to drag New Hampshire down the broad based tax rabbit hole, with the lie that it would take pressure off property taxes and create a more fair redistribution of wealth…oops I mean a more fair distribution of the tax burden. Wait. I had it right the first time.
What, you don’t think GSFTC is seeking the redistribution of wealth?
Take a look at who is in the "fair tax" coalition. Union heavyweights; the NEA-NH, SEIU-1984(NH), and the NH State Employees Association, our state government employees union. Who else? How about a slew of social justice groups like the Unitarian Universalist’s and the NH Council of Churches, anti gun, pro-global warming, supporting redistribution of wealth, all left wing causes aided in their minds by a new broad based tax.
Takes all the ‘Air’ out of Fair, don’t you think?
A Word From The Chairman Of New Hampshire’s Super Minority Party
Over on Facebook last week the Chairman of the New Hampshire Democrat party wished we had this law on the books.
British Election Overturned Because of "False Statements"
The Independent reports that former British immigration minister Phil Woolas "lost his seat as an MP today after an election court ruled that he knowingly made false statements about an opponent in May’s general election."
Bloomberg notes Woolas was guilty of "an illegal practice" by making statements "he had no reasonable grounds for believing were true and did not believe were true."
"It is the first time in 99 years that an election has been overturned as a result of a candidate making false statements. Woolas told reporters he is applying for a judicial review of the decision."
Why? Mr. Buckley claims that if we had this law…
"Hardly a Republican would hold office in New Hampshire if we had this law here…"
November 3rd
Someone asked to know what the colors meant. Good question. This is an interactive map (H/T to Hot Air) over at the NYT web site Link here. You should check out the map. You can highlight every district and see the results; even zoom in on metropolitan "hard to reach" areas. It’s cool. For those … Read more
Does The GOP Want That New Direction Or Not
Should the New Hampshire Republican House Caucus have the opportunity to vote for their Majority leader? That’s majority leader not Speaker. Traditional wisdom says yes but today, rumor has it, that three of the four candidates for speaker are said to have voted no on the matter.
Playing 52 Pick Up, And Then Some
New Hampshire Election Information (http://nhelection.info/) has the results posted of its 52-pick up page an effort to identify and track the replacement of fifty-two "of the most statist and the most vulnerable legislators in the New Hampshire House of Representatives."
The final accounting is impressive.
Only four of the fifty two reps listed survived the 2010 election season; Evalyn Merrick (Coos 2), Peter Ramsey (Hills 8), Daniel Sullivan (Hills 8), and Nick ‘The Nuke’ Lavasseur (Hills 11) survived. The other 48 got washed out in the roughly 296 seat sweep of the House.
National Organization for Marriage Quotes The Grok
Brian Brown, the President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), just released his post election update and Granite Grok is both mentioned and quoted. Gov. John Lynch narrowly survived our "Lynch Lied" campaign, but thanks to the huge veto-proof majorities in the new New Hampshire senate and house, he will be the lamest of … Read more
Inconveninet Truths About The October Jobs Numbers
Jobs numbers are tricky things. Politicians will always tell you what you want to hear and leave out what they don’t want you to hear. So it is no surprise that we are getting the same old song and dance, that "the economy created private sector jobs again." That’s a nice thing to hear, but is it an improvement or are we still arranging deck chairs on the Titanic?
Deck chair anyone?
Unemployment is still at 9.6 percent and despite claims of job growth for ten months, unemployment has been at or above 9.6% for 20 months.
The numbers do not add up.
From The Strange But True File…
Courtesy of Moe Lane at Red State, apparently a group called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) had a pledge they wanted candidates to sign on to. This petition was to show support for Net Neutrality rules. For those not versed, Net Neutrality is another left wing Utopian nightmare spun as fairness, and promoted by the big players like Google, who stand to benefit from it. Think of it simply as the path to a corporate socialist internet. Google has donors to the PCCC PAC, and is even listed as a major expenditure by the PAC. Google would win big if this crap ever saw the light of day.
The PCCC itself is co-founded by it’s treasurer Adam Green a professional left winger, and is powered by MoveOn.Org and big labor. It’s goal is to elect progressives to replace anyone to their right including moderate democrats, though it looks like they started with open seat contests at first with an eye on "progressing" toward unseating Blue Dogs later on.
A left wing observer explained the PCCC like this…
Looking For Closure?
I thought you might want to know. Cynthia Dokmo, the RINO Write-in candidate from Amherst who chose to ignore the will of her primary voters came in dead last. Out of 15 candidates (7 GOP, 7 DEMO, plus Dokmo) Cynthia collected 2012 votes. That’s less than half (43%) of the number needed to make the cut.
But her endorsement seems to have carried some weight. Dokmo endorsed Democrat Shannon Chandley for the NH House, and Shannon made first loser, failing to make the grade by a paltry 741 votes. All the other DEM’s fell in between, as the Republicans not only swept the district they denied Dokmo twice.
There is however room for some speculation, and a correction perhaps to my previous estimation that Dokmo could skim off enough votes from a real Republican to allow a Democrat (Chandley as it turns out) to sneak in.
Feds Play The Lynch Shell Game With Themselves
Taking a page from the John Lynch Playbook, the Federal Reserve is planning to buy 500 billion in treasury bonds. This is the Federal Government taking money from it’s right pocket, putting it in its’ left pocket, then putting it back in the right pocket, and claiming to have 500 billion more to spend.
The Bonfire Of The Misogynists
I’m still awaiting the blistering criticism due Governor Lynch from Democrat spokesperson Harrell Kirstein, for accepting praise from the misogynist in Chief, the impeached serial sex offender and perjurer, former president William Jefferson Clinton, who came to New Hampshire to campaign for floundering democrats and the little governor that could. President Bubba, the benefactor of a countless number of Bimbo eruptions, demonstrates to us the true value that democrats place on marriage–none, and to women in general, not in the fabricated terms Kirstein would attribute to others, but in their actual context.
Clinton continues to be coveted very likely because of his indiscretions, but more prominently for being the most visible evidence that the democrat party is a cabal of liars because he was impeached for lying–and lying about his casual abuse of women to boot.
So I guess Governor Lynch endorses this kind of behavior then. He certainly emulates it. (The lying) Which means he must also be defending his parties other abuses of women, seeing as we’ve heard nothing denouncing it, from his office, his state party, or anyone in it for that matter.
Election Day Open Thread
Today’s the big day. I voted around 8:30 AM. Polling traffic was not steady–no lines to get the ballot but most of the voting booths were occupied. Tell us what’s happening at your polling place, give a shout out, guess the final spread on your candidates victory…whatever. It’s the November 2nd, 2010 Election day open … Read more
Liberal Trunk Monkeys
There are plenty of places in this country where democrats manage to find lost ballot boxes filled with statistically improbable numbers of votes for democrats during troubling recounts that continue to produce Republican winners. Washington State, Illinois, and most recently in Minnesota. If totals are tight we should expect more of this in Nevada, Illinois and at least a half dozen other locales as the left wing ruling class commit rampant voter fraud to salvage something from November 2nd 2010 besides pink butts and rosy cheeks.
Given that Soros is buying of Secretaries of State, and the left has been building up its stable of willing judges, these found votes will continue to be accepted. But there is an opportunity to be had. Sue the crap out of everyone. from the democrat opponent to the people who "find" the ballots, to the manufacturer of the car the ballots were found in. File suit against the opposing lawyers, the clerks, and the Secretaries of state. Then find a microphone and keep talking about it to anyone who will listen.
That’s what the liberals do. Make it so damn expensive for them that even if they do manage to steal the election it becomes a Pyrrhic victory.
Or maybe they need to be taken away like the naughty little Trunk Monkeys that they are.
What do I mean?