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Indeed – Question 13 and closing candidate remarks from the
Question 13:
“What would you do so that the Veterans finally get a full service VA here in NH?“
Closing remarks by Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith, vying to become the Republican nominee for NH Governor:
A lot of people avoid politics because it seems so complex. And there are plenty of people who make it that way on purpose to keep those very same people from getting involved. If you are not involved you are more likely to buy into the nonsense or not pay much attention. But I’m here today to make it as simple as I can. It’s Friday. Things should be simple on Friday.
So here we go.
New Hampshire Democrats want to raise your taxes. (Just look at 2007-2010 if you doubt me.) They are convinced that the government needs the money more than you do and with Democrats the government always comes first. So the first thing they do is spend it, then find ways to tax it out of you.
Most New Hampshire Republicans would disagree. While there are some things government could do, can do, and maybe even should do, none of them take priority over you and your family, or your job or your business. And that is on the good days. In this economy we really don’t need to add to the cost of unnecessary government which is why the Republicans cut spending and the deficit, and cut unnecessary taxes and still balanced the budget, rather than taking money from you to do it. They wanted you to keep more of your own money, especially in these trying fiscal times.
Last night was the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate that was hosted and moderated by John Burt. The two candidates seeking the Republican nomination for NH were Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith. Questioners were Alex Talcott (Communications Director for 4RG) and Speaker of the NH House Bill ‘Brien. The debate lasted about … Read more
Debates are all about the questions – and Speaker Bill O’Brien and Alex Talcott asked some pretty good questions of Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith. . The first four are here (questions 2 – 4 are after the jump).
Question 1:
“What names are Democrat politicians or others calling you that distort or oversimply what you are about and why are they wrong?“
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Question 2:
Continuing on with the questions from the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Debate featuring Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith, here are the next four questions:
Question 5:
“Got my hair cut. Stylist complained about high gas costs. General thoughts on energy costs?”
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Question 6:
And now for the third set of four questions (list of previous questions and their links after the jump) from the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate that was hosted by John Burt, questions asked by Speaker Bill O’Brien and Alex Talcott , and answered by the Candidates for the Republican nomination for NH Governor, Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith.
Question 9:
“One of the least known aspects of Obamacare is how it seeks to hijack State finances in order to expand insurance coverage particularly in the area of Medicaid. One area it does this in is doubling income elegibility. That’s the aspect to bring forward the decision. That’s the aspect and the reason for the Supreme Court decision that it is optional to the States. Can you tell us whether or not NH should take up that option and expand its population? As part of your answer, can you tell us where Medicaid is going in NH and how NH is going to finally be able to protect its sovereignty from the Federal Government trying to push us to overspending here in NH?”
Question 10:
Last night, it was a full house at the Granite State Institute of Politics Republican Gov. Debate hosted by John Burt. In fact – it was an overflow event; over 500 tickets sold when the event was estimated to pull in 400. It goes to show that the intensity is quite high on the Republican … Read more
[Updated and Bumped- I added the Republican House Rep A+ grades on the jump. Grok Updates by county etc coming soon.]
AFP-NH has released its 2011-2012 Legislative scorecard for New Hampshire. In my review of the score card results there is not much that will surprise anyone who makes it a habit of paying attention to what happens in Concord. But not everyone lurks in the Political sausage factory so lets take a quick review.
Every Democrat in the New Hampshire House received an ‘F’ except for Domingo Baldwin in Stafford County and John Gilmas in Hillsborough; They both got a C.
Randall Brownrigg (Hills-27), Patricia Dowling (Rock-05), Richard Drisko (Hills-05), Laura Gandia (Hills-27), David Knox (Carroll-04), Michael McCarthy (Hills-21), Herbert Richardson (Coos-02), Tony Soltani (Merr-08), Frankilin Sterling (Cheshire-07), and Steve Vallincourt (Hills-15).
Michael Buxton (Hills-24), Tim Copeland (Rock-13), Russell Day (Hills-07). Mark Proulx (Hills-15), David Robbins (Hills-26), Jeffery Shackett (Grafton-08), and James Waddell (Rock-15)
Peter Bolster (Belknap-05), Julie Brown (Strafford-01), Susan Emerson (Cheshire-07), Carolyn Gargasz (Hills-05), Tim Hogan (Hills-23), Karen Hutchinson (Rock-03), Kevin Janvrin (Rock-14), David Kidder (Merr-01), Priscilla lockwood (Merr-06), Irene Messier (Hills-17), Alida Millham (Belknap-05), William Panek (Strafford-03), Amy & Lawrence Perkins (Rock-14), Marshall & Matt Quandt (Rock-13), and William Remick (Coos-02)
So who got an A or an A+?
Jeb Bush is out there shilling for compromise. “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for … Read more
In New Hampshire it is time to announce your plans to run for public office this November. We’d like to encourage every good Conservative and Libertarian with the time and inclination to consider running for the New Hampshire House, Senate, or any elected office.
Now you may say to yourself, you know what, we’ll probably have a bunch of Republicans running, and there are plenty running for re-election…I’m not sure there’s room for me? Well the Grok is here to help you work that out. We want you to look at who is running for election, and re-election, and ask yourself if they could use a Republican Repair kit (available on the jump).
If the answer is yes, you should run for office. And then you should contact us so we can interview you and post it here. Don’t wait too long to decide. Your state needs you. We still have a lot of work left to do.
Note: They wont all need the Repair kit….but a few of them probably do…and we all know who they are.
Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…
Back to “Really, Judd?”
But what is the point, if you govern out of control, at cross-odds to Constitutional philosophy, once you get there, as the Democrats now wish to?
Oops, this time, its Republicans showing a lack of knowledge of Constitutional values – and respect as well. All I can say is that I am really glad that I’m not in NY (or my server). The Daily Caller has the story:
Nearly half of the Republicans serving in the New York State Assembly have proposed legislation that would ban anonymous online comments.
If enacted, the legislation would require websites — including social networks and online newspapers — to remove all anonymous comments that are brought to the attention of administrators.
An anonymous comment could remain if the author “agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate.”
Yeah – their version of NH’s HB1704 (sideways) – we will silence speech, particular that which might be critical of others. The Founders had the equivalent problem of anonymous speech back then – only then, it was not computers and servers it was hand operated paper and ink printing presses (re: slow, laborious, and expensive). In fact, if looking at history, we might still be singing “God save the Queen” without that anonymous speech.
Oh, that pesky parchment that is the foundation for all our laws? Was THAT considered? Er, no:
We’ve been reporting the theft of services by an SEIU Union Chapter VP and NH DES employee Richard de Seve for months as we struggle with the Department of Environmental Services and the State’s IT department, and their resistance to part with data, in response to our Right to Know Requests about state employees using … Read more
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:
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).
Damn. There is one hell of a row going on at the excellent RLCNH email discussion list over the proposed state constitutional amendment regarding education—CACR12—which, one way or another, will put the responsibility
for implementing and funding a “state system” of education in the hands of the state legislature, not the towns (where it has traditionally and historically resided).
More importantly, the battle is heating up amongst the best, smartest, and most activist political players in the state, i.e. the movement conservatives, the libertarians, the Tea Partiers, the Constitutionalists, the libertarian-conservatives, and others.
Some are….
I regularly get into political scrums with leftists in various venues.
What follows is one where I got set off enough to pen a major lecture to a local socialist (I’ll call him “Chuck”). He was going on about what a successful President Barack Obama is, and how he truly deserves to be re-elected, and how all the “minorities” and “groups” targeted by Obama will vote for him.
So it began like this. I told him….
Standing Up For New Hampshire Families was, and is, a faux group funded from outside the state, run by a lobbyist. Measuring it’s effectiveness is merely a measure of the hypocrisy of Democrats who deride outside influence and the ignorance of Republicans who are too lazy to see where the message is coming from. The guy running it is Tyler Deaton. Tyler, like Mo Baxley before him, is propped up by national, out of state money, running their national, out of state agenda. It is neither local, nor grassroots, nor the pulse of public opinion unless the power of a nationally funded propaganda campaign counts.
The New Hampshire Republicans for Equality PAC (nHrFe), the latest, “popped up out of nowhere” web presence to splash ads across your facebook pages and web sites of New Hampshire, has something in common with Standing Up. Tyler Deaton is the front man for both (nHrFe, SUFNHF) and is even listed as the “Treasurer” of the nHrFe PAC.
Same hired gun. Same agenda. And probably the same out of state money. Not really New Hampshire. Not really Republicans. Not that surprising.
GOP Rep. John Hikel has sponsored a bill that will allow bottled spirits of all types to be sold in markets, grocery stores, convenience stores, and other outlets. This change in the law will obviously benefit the free market and consumers in New Hampshire, but it will also result in the creation of lots of jobs, and lots more work for truckers, delivery people, stockers, etc. A Commerce Committee hearing will be held this coming Tuesday, February 7th, at 2:15 p.m. in Room 302 of the Legislative Office Building in Concord. You should be there and testify in FAVOR of the bill.
But wait! There’s a problem! To understand it, consider the famous picture above. You thought it was a raucous party of drunks in Concord, right? What might result if we allow expanded consumer choice and convenience in New Hampshire, and pass Rep. Hikel’s bill? No, you idiot. Read on to find out what the real problem will be….
Mitt Romney owned the New Hampshire Primary. Period. Turnout was good and steady but not unusual. Nothing dramatic happened. People just gave up and voted for Mittens. With 95% reporting Governor Romney took 39% of the vote. Ron Paul came in second with 23%. Governor Huntsman managed third with 17%. Gingrich and Santorum both had … Read more
I find this both accurate and amusing.
And the last of the videos from Friday nite: Senator Rand Paul spoke in his father’s (Congressman Ron Paul) stead: Notice: the cacophony that was in former NH Gov. Sununu’s clip disappeared as he began to speak…