Granite Grok has already endorsed Bill O’Brien for Speaker of the House, and you can see our video interview of Bill to get some idea of his priorities. But since we happen to be here at the NHGOP convention we have the opportunity to find out what the other candidates for speaker deem as priorities for the next session.
I’ve grabbed some of their literature–everyone is in the convention at the moment–to get a taste of their priorities and one in particular caught my attention–and not in the most flattering way. Susan Emerson’s hand out to the GOP delegates includes the following bullet points which I have taken to be so important to her in her quest to get the job that they have received this much prominence.
I would…like to continue establishing bipartisan relationships to work collectively on bills that will include the following.
-To provide equal opportunities for students.
-To provide access to adequate health care
-To create and promote tax relief incentives for businesses.
Given the wide range of damage done by liberals this is the best we can expect from Susan Emerson as Speaker of the House? Given her otherwise impressive voting history, this is not impressive at all.
A few months back I discovered that Paul Hodes had received a one time $10,000.00 donation from American Crystal Sugar (A major US Sugar conglomerate), at about the same time as the 288 billion dollar 2007/2008 Farm bill was being pushed through congress, and vetoes overrode. US Sugar is a protected industry with a good amount of political influence. American Crystal Sugar wanted to get into the ethanol industry but could not justify the up front costs. Hodes and the farm billed solved that problem with your money. 
Yahoo! News has a morning headline titled "How Democrats Lost ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal." 
I was watching the online web cast of Hillsdale College’s commemoration of the Kirby Center (on Constitution Day) in Washington DC, and Dr. Charles Kessler of Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Kessler is a constitutional scholar and early on in his speech he makes the following observation about the current clash between the government and the people, and the rise of the Tea Party
There’s some dispute regarding appearance standards in which a young woman has insisted that her pierced nose is part of her religious beliefs. Long story short–she does not want to remove the piercing on religious grounds because she is a member of the "Church of Body Modification."