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Governor Chris Sununu has informed the State Senate Finance Committee looking at HB628 that as written he won’t support it.
“I cannot support HB 628 until a comprehensive actuarial analysis is conducted,” …
That’s not a rejection of the idea of a state mandate but niggling over details. A point he affirms later in the same reporting.
A quick 45 second sound bite from Steve Bannon from the 603 Alliance fundraiser on Russia, Republicans, and collusion.
Medicaid Expansion in NH is now inevitable. The majority (registered) Republican legislature has guaranteed passage (the NH House passed it today). We discuss the last hearing, the lobbyists, and their water carriers in government.
Da Tech Guy Pete Ingemi joins us to discuss Republican Primary candidates and the conservative battle against big government (Republicans) before the TEA Party.
In this segment we did a dual broadcast live with Pete Ingemi who was broadcasting live on WCRN at the same time. The topic? The Republican Debates.
Regional AFP Direceto Mark Lucas joins us to discuss the Road to Reform, the Export-Import Bank, disappointment in Republicans after the elections and how and why you need to hold these elected officials accountable.
House Rep Frank Edelblut synthesizes the path to legislative success (and failure?) in under ten minutes; your caucus (your party) needs a vision, and then a legislative strategy to achieve it, but reality is often something very different. (And yes, I forgot the stingers before and after…) Learn more about the 603 Alliance at http://603Alliance.org … Read more
Osgood via doubleyouemyouare……..
So why didn’t Chairman Issa hold an investigative hearing a year ago? Why didn’t Chairman Camp, all Republicans, hold an investigative hearing a year ago, and all the other tripping over themselves right now? I’ll tell you why. Because the establishment Republicans, the RINO Republicans, despise the Tea Party. They despise the conservative movement. We … Read more
By that, we supposedly put two Republican mens’ butts into US House Representatives chairs with one and only one main major mission – cut the spending. Each time a Continuing Resolution showed up that could have stopped the national madness that has been adding to the National debt, they folded on their promises and folded on the courageous vote to stand athwart the gunnels of our sinking financial ship and scream “No further!”.
True, the Senate never passed a budget – but now they are crafting one. Yet, have Republicans learned their lesson about the debt ceiling? McCain is trotting out the “Trust us, we’re Republicans!” and being emphatic that Republicans will deal honestly with Democrats over the Budget. Been there, done that, see above. Maybe Establishment Republicans believe that no R can do no wrong (after all, Gene Chandler set the policy here in NH “Any Republican that helps us regain power is a good Republican“). We cannot agree with McCain. We at the ‘Grok believe that Trust is first earned – it HAS to be earned for if it is merely given, it will be first be taken advantage of and then abused. It takes very little to lose earned Trust – to maintain Trust demands Consistency within Principles – not an attitude that “something must be or has to be done”. It is that latter ‘tude that has given us our $16 Trillion deficit. How’s that gonna work out for our kids’ children, eh?
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-AZ) has it exactly right (emphasis mine):
During the Belknap County Conservative Republicans’ Family Fun Day (at least, the time I was there), the Chair of the Blackwater Conservative Republican Committee (and fellow Grokster) Susan Olsen addressed the crowd on the topic and importance of the Second Amendment: See more from Susan both here on the ‘Grok and at Protect the … Read more
The last interview from the Belknap County Conservative Republicans’ Family Fun Day was with Greg Moore, the Executive Director of the New Hampshire chapter of Americans for Prosperity. His mission as Exec. Dir., as always, is to reach out to all kinds of groups, current and new (as the BCCR group is) and let them know what AFP is all about and see if there is common ground on which the groups might be able to collaborate.
This is a three part interview (split for time, and at the end, for technical issues (er, bad cable yielding lots of static – and again, apologies to Colette Worseman and Susan Olsen for the time they spent with me graciously doing interviews which will never be heard).
Parts 2 & 3 after the jump:
After doing GrokTALK! first thing in the morning in Concord, I headed up to Laconia to Funspot where the Belknap County Conservative Republicans were having their Family Fun Day – under the tent, free food, and opening up their arms to the public at large to talk about the Republican Party Platform, Constitutional values, and conservative values. One example of their literature contained information on their mission, who they are, where they stand, and an answer to those that disagree that their group should even exist (full info after the jump). While I was there, I took the opportunity to get a couple of interviews. This first one with is long time conservative activist and co-founder of the group, Don Walker:
Technical note: normally I just use a shotgun mic on the camera but the ambient noise level was just too high for that configuration. Instead, we were wearing headsets due to the noise level and then trying to pipe that into the camera via a soundboard – something I have seldomly done in the past. Post-processing, it became clear that one of the cables used to do this went bad – I apologize to Susan Olsen and Colette Worseman as their interviews were too static-y to use, and I had to edit Greg Moore’s near the end as well.
You know, I can’t remember the last time that the “official” Belknap County Republican Committee had such an event – estimates were that between 125 – 175 people came over at some point during the day.
Our Mission:
Belknap County Conservative Republicans Hear ye! Hear Ye! Calling All Conservatives! Belknap County is now home to a new political group in town, Belknap County Conservative Republicans. This political grassroots organization is dedicated to offering conservative solutions for contemporary issues. Don Walker, one of the founders of BCCR: “We believe that progressivism, in all of … Read more
When I first announced the return of GrokTALK! a few weeks ago, in pursuit of likely guests, the very first response I got on my status update from a Republican Facebook page was, “Great, just what we need, more anti-Republican crap.”
In some respects yes, but not because the objects of our remarks happen to “claim” to be Republicans. It would be a result of their behaving as something other than a Republican. (And yes, I probably am a better arbiter of who is or is not behaving like a Republican, as we shall see shortly.)
And while we (I will include all of us on the Grok) are more than willing to accept the 80-20 rule in a general sense, there are specific issues and some votes that are just too important to let slide.
And when Party leadership itself does stupid things, yes–we will be all over that, as any regular reader already knows.
Here’s a recent example.
Democrats are not (NOT) suggesting that Democrat Dick Patten resign–he is accused of stalking and what amounts to sexual harassment.
“A city man has received a temporary stalking order against Rep. Dick Patten, D-Concord, after the man complained Patten allegedly tried to kiss him and was repeatedly calling and texting him, according to the Concord Monitor, which broke the story Tuesday.”
(The Democrats may have managed to spike that story about Dick in major media so it would not outshine the Tremblay remarks that they wanted to push. No comment on that either.)
Democrats did not suggest that Rep Cynthia Chase resign when she said straight out that Democrats and the state government could use the power of the state to”…make the environment here so unwelcoming that some will choose not to come, and some may actually leave.” The Castro brothers would have loved that. And that was awfully embarrassing to New Hampshire. Chase is still in office isn’t she? Oh yea…here she is, a few weeks ago, doing the “peoples” work.
But they are trying to get Rep. Stella Tremblay to resign for simply remarking on Glenn Becks web site that the government is somehow involved in the goings-on with the Boston Marathon Bombing.
So Dick may be guilty of a crime. Cynthia Chase is guilty of fomenting legislative tyranny. Stella is guilty of exercising free speech and not trusting the government. It’s a typical day in the hypocrats tyrannical, left-wing, homosexual bullying neighborhood.
Hear ye! Hear Ye! Calling All Conservatives! Belknap County is now home to a new political group in town, the Belknap County Conservative Republicans. This political grassroots organization is dedicated to offering conservative solutions for contemporary issues. Don Walker, one of the BCCR founders, says: “We believe that progressivism, in all of its forms, has corrupted … Read more
The current New Hampshire Republican Party has devolved away from being any kind of bulwark against creeping progressivism and the ardent promotion of candidates who will man the bulwark or (God help us) take us into battle, to little more than an exclusive group for hand-picked political insiders, partying away in the captain’s quarters of our anchored and sinking fleet.
Send me in, coach – Isaiah 6:8
Grok Friend Spec Bowers just posted this on facebook. (Talk about a bridge too far.) A friend was talking with a neighbor about the gas tax. The neighbor said, “Yeah, that’s what you get when you vote Republican.” My friend told him the bill is being pushed by the Democrats. His neighbor replied, “No the … Read more