I couldn’t BEGIN to imagine how many bloggers have written about the Democrats who are complaining about Red States being a “Threat to Democracy” in redoing election maps when they themselves, at any opportunity, are doing the same thing.
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NH House Committee Votes on New Redistricting Maps
This week, the redistricting committee met to vote on all the maps. First, we voted unanimously to interim study HB 51 (state senate districts) and HB 53 (executive council districts), since the Senate will deal with them.
Your State House 11/15/21: Childcare, Emergency Powers, Redistricting
This week, my committee met for the last time this year, to finish three bills we’d held over. HB 457, changing the duties of the legislative youth advisory council, was amended to simply allow some of their meetings to be held virtually. This should help the lack of geographic diversity on the council, especially since … Read more
Your State House 11/5/21 – Redistricting
This week, the special committee on redistricting met for two days to agree on plans for the public listening sessions next week. As expected, the plans for county commissioner were covered very quickly. The Democrats on the committee were generally pleased with the current plans and made only minor tweaks to them. I started with … Read more
Democrats Speak with Forked Tongues over “Redistricting”
Democrats screaming about “independent redistricting commissions” are being partisan hacks about the whole process. When the Federal Census Bureau, to account for population growth, decrease, and movement finishes its mandated “census a every year ending in a Zero,” redistricting shall happen.
Your State House 9/6/21
The House is resuming work after the summer break. My committee is meeting on our retained bills: the subcommittee I’m on met and agreed that HB 84, declaring Ona “Oney” Judge Day and naming the new terminal at the Pease international airport in her honor should be simplified to a one-time celebration, using her preferred … Read more
BREAKING – The Sun-King Says GOP Voters Should NOT Have Representation in Congress
This: Translation: Sun-King’s seat in the United States Senate is far, far more important than GOP voters in New Hampshire having representation in the House. Such a team player.
Is Franklin ‘Mayor’ Olivia Zink, Using That Office to Shill for Her Progressive Left-Wing Action Group?
Is Franklin, NH mayor, Olivia Zink, using that office to shill for her progressive left-wing action group? Karen Testerman has some observations about the electioneering of Mayor Zink, who is also the Executive Director of Open Democracy here in NH.
The GOP Reps on House Election Law Are Incorrigible Quislings
This: This bill, as I noted in a previous post, eliminates the power of the voters to have any say in redistricting by giving all the power over redistricting to the Party Bosses, by allowing them to hand-pick the members of the redistricting commission. The rank-and-file legislators can only give a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down … Read more
New Hampshire Democrats Still Can’t Get Over Redistricting Commission Fail
I guess you call it keeping the dream alive. What dream? An unelected commission filled with the sorts of politically connected goons the 17th Amendment promised to end for US Senate Seats. Am 17 created more problems than it solved. So would HB706.
Far-Left Can’t Stop Bitchin’ About Sustained Veto of Unconstitutional ‘Bipartisan’ Bill
You can always tell the worst (of the worst) bills by who complains the most about them failing. Gov. Sununu vetoed HB706 because it was unconstitutional. The effort to give redistricting authority away to unelected pawns. Republicans in the House refused to override the veto, and the Dingbats are off their wingnut.
The Brennan Center: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing!
It would be my guess that not many people in New Hampshire have heard or know much about the Brennan Center organization whose representatives recently appeared in Concord to lobby our legislators into adopting a bill creating a so-called unelected “independent” redistricting commission for our state. Fortunately, Governor Sununu has vetoed that bill, leaving the … Read more
The Myth of Gerrymandering
I have been very active on twitter opposing HB 706, the misnamed (purposefully) “Independent Redistricting Commission” and supporting the Governor’s veto. For example: I recently had a twitter skirmish with a Socialist-robot who was apoplectic that HB 706 had been vetoed. In part: To be clear, of course the GOP attempted to “gerrymander” in 2012. … Read more
Governor Sununu Forces Legislature to ‘Do Your Job’ on Redistricting
This isn’t a sexy topic like stopping forced wage mandates. And it is not, to paraphrase Judge Napolitano, about how the right to bear arms is not a gift from the government that they can take away. But this veto needs to be sustained too!
EMILY’s List to Dump 20 Million on State Legislative Races
One of the PACs that own Senator Jeanne Shaheen is focusing its influence peddling operation on State Legislatures in 2020. EMILY’s List, the kill them if they are moving pro-abortion PAC wants to get Lefties Elected in State Houses to improve redistricting for Democrats.
Stop Calling It an “Independent Redistricting Commission” … It’s Anything But
So I saw this tweet from NHPR (which should be NHDR as in New Hampshire Democrat Radio) this morning: Other “press” have described it the same way, as have the bill’s (HB 706) supporters. They are NOT telling the truth. Here is how the members of the commission are chosen: 662-B:2 Eligibility to Serve on … Read more
The New Hampshire GOP Shows -Yet Again- Why It Is The STUPID PARTY
This: The bill in issue is House Bill 706. While it is styled as creating an independent redistricting commission, if you read the bill, you will see that is a misnomer. It is a Democrat redistricting commission. Let’s begin with the composition of the commission. The bill provides for 15 members split equally between the … Read more
“NH House Redistricting Plan Stands” – But Steve, I object!
>> The correct word for that particualr [sic] vintage is stooge.” While I loved the Three Stooges growing up, am not thinking that I am a “stooge” in this regard. However, I’m not happy with the redistricting as it affects my town of Gilford. We have sufficient residents, 7400, to have rated 2 NH House … Read more
GrokTV Event: NH Speaker Bill O’Brien Town Hall – NH Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien
Following Pam Tucker and DJ Bettencourt, Bill O’Brien spoke for about 30 minutes on the budget, jobs, creating a pro-business environment here in NH, reforming public pensions, the process of redistricting, and a new site, ConcordFactCheck.org: