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Hidey-Hodes

by Steve MacDonald

The Hodes campaign has made its priorities clear.  I’m referring to the attack ads on Republican primary candidate Kelly Ayotte, whom they have for whatever reason anointed as the primary winner.   What does this tell us about Paul Hodes?  Nothing we did not already know. He intends to distort the facts in pursuit of … Read more

Sugar Daddy

by Steve MacDonald

Paul Hodes has a dirty little secret.  His ‘commitment’ to green energy has strings attached that lead directly to the sugar industry and a significant campaign cash “Thank You.”  Back in 2007 and 2008 Congress waged an epic battle over the Farm Bill.  They didn’t call it the farm bill they called it the Food … Read more

Impressions on the Rochester 9/12 US Senatorial Debate (Republican) held last night

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Luckily, I was able to attend the Senate Candidate debate last night in Rochester. I watched last week’s NHIOP "debate" (online) but heard that the Rochester event might be more of a true debate, where candidates actually engage each other. Well, it didn’t exactly go that way, but it was better than the ‘infommerical" that … Read more

It’s Not A Toomah

by Steve MacDonald

Arnold Schwarzenegger, (Ahnold) in the movie Kindergarten cop, had that great line when he told the class that he did not have a tumor.  “It’s not a toomah.” But sometimes people believe what they want to, and this applies to Senators and the media and the groundlings who just don’t know any better more often … Read more

Hodes: Does his mother even like him?

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From the NHGOP: Recall, GraniteGrok chased him up the steps of the LOB back during the end of summer recess…

So, what is she saying… she VOTED for Lynch, INSTEAD of Kenney or Coburn?

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.    So I’m reading the in-depth piece by John DiStaso in today’s Union Leader on former Attorney General-turned Washington GOP darling and establishment-crowned US Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte, and was struck by her continued hesitance at answering many questions deemed important to Granite State conservatives. Fresh on the heels of her disastrous appearance at … Read more

He’s talking about YOU, Ms. Ayotte!

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                           .                                                                Sean Mahoney has an excellent Op-Ed in today’s New Hampshire Union Leader in which he lays out five principles that should guide the Republican Party as it climbs its way back toward relevance in political life. In it, Mahoney also lobs a salvo at the candidate of the Washington establishment, Kelly … Read more

Poor Kelly. When compared to the competition, is there no doubt she belongs down in the farm league?

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  With yesterday’s news that Sean Mahoney is looking at taking a run for NH’s soon to be vacated US Senate seat presently held by Judd Gregg, we now have a two man race… A REAL one. "Doug, you must mean between Mahoney and Ayotte– a man and WOMAN race, right?" Er, not really. I was kinda … Read more

Hodes: I believe it’s important to be open and accessible”

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  Here’s a video showing NH’s 2nd Congressional District representative Paul Hodes taking heat before and after press conference for not allowing constituents accessibility in an open town hall style meeting. With the canned response obviously stuck in his head, the hard to find Democratic Congressman claims he has "spoken to thousands of constituents in … Read more

Playing Congressional Whack-A-Mole. Hard to catch Hodes eludes NH players…

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2nd CongressionalDistrict Representative (and aspiring US Senator) Democrat Paul Hodes continues his elusive ways as he seeks to avoid getting "whacked" by angry constituents. From the NHGOP: HODES LETS DOWN NEW HAMPSHIRE, WON’T HOLD TOWN HALL MEETINGS Embattled Congressman Won’t Hold Traditional, Face-To-Face Meeting With Voters CONCORD – The Union Leader (9/2) reports that Paul Hodes announced … Read more

Summer Reading Assignment

by Doug

Hodes Shea Porter

Pulp?  

From the NRCC: 

Washington- With two weeks left in the summer recess and one step closer to the possibility of a government- run healthcare system, has Carol Shea-Porter read the monstrosity that is the Democrats 1,018- page healthcare bill? Has she read about the job-killing, tax-hiking, and government-run mess that is HR 3200? Well, for New Hampshire residents’ sake, they better hope so.

HR 3200: printed BOTH sides

“If Democrats like Carol Shea-Porter have yet to read the writing on the wall that Americans are opposed to government-run healthcare, the least they can do is promise to read their party’s unpopular bill,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain. “Given the Democrats’ track record, a bill that large could have anything in it. Shea-Porter has a responsibility to hold her party bosses accountable for the content.  After blindly supporting a wasteful $1 trillion stimulus package, Shea-Porter owes it to her constituents to demand that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t strong-arm a massive healthcare takeover through Congress without giving lawmakers the chance to read it in its entirety.”

In one the worst recessions in history, the Democrats’ healthcare takeover could lead to even higher unemployment rates:

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Time to get the hook?

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It may be time for Kelly Ayotte to get a new spokesman. Last week we dinged Ayotte’s campaign manager Brooks Kochvar for attempting to convince the Union Leader’s John DiStaso that a National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraiser in DC for Ayotte wasn’t really being hosted by the NRSC. This week it’s Kevin Landrigan’s column in … Read more

Hell freezes over. Pigs have taken flight. The moon is blue. Corpses have spun. There is a topic on which this Grokster and Blue Hampshire are one!

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That’s right. I’m perusing the liberal Blue Hampshire blog, our always worthy counterparts on the left, and came across this video put out by New Hampshire Democrats. Now don’t get me wrong, by "worthy counterpart" I mean the ying to the ‘Grok’s yang. We stand poles apart on most issues, especially when it comes to the role of government in our lives, and the funding thereof. Then I watched this posted on the site. Quite frankly, there’s little to disagree with here, save for its negative characterization of our friend Karen Testerman.

While I admit that the sentiments expressed by Kelly Ayotte shown in the video certainly cater to a conservative point of view, I am suspicious as to whether it’s real. Let’s not forget that she told GraniteGrok she would have voted yes on the Sotomayer confirmation had she been in the Senate in Judd Gregg’s place (who voted in the affirmative), despite the strong conservative case that had been made in the contrary.

The other interesting point– one which comes close to home, btw— is what candidate Ayotte says regarding "stimulus" versus what she was saying a scant few months back. Is she REALLY opposed to stimulus now? Is stimulus bad… for everybody else, but ours GOOD? This raises the legitimate question as to whether she will REALLY shrink government, having been a creature of same for many years, or simply pay lip service to such notions? A Nashua Telegraph story appearing today on Drudge reports that that stimulus money created or saved 796 New Hampshire jobs,

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Ayotte manager doesn’t want to ‘mislead’

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  Kochvar and Ayotte Kelly Ayotte’s mysterious campaign manager Brooks Kochvar, the same gentleman who tells Ayotte when to stop talking, is in John DiStaso’s Union Leader column today attempting to argue that the National Republican Senatorial Committee fundraiser for Kelly Ayotte in Washington, DC on September 22nd isn’t really an NRSC fundraiser. "It’s our … Read more

Maybe they should try one of those alerts?

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Fox News is reporting that Carol Shea Porter and Paul Hodes, NH’s House representative have turned up missing… This is, of course, a result of the stories originally running here and here. I would add our two US Senators Shaheen and Gregg to the list of those among the missing. Just as I got ready to … Read more

Prospective GOP Senate Candidate Ayotte on Sotomayer: Yes

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  Ayotte chats with party faithful in Wolfeboro Despite earlier reports to the contrary, cameras were indeed rolling at tonight’s Winnipesaukee GOP social gathering in Wolfeboro when former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte made her first official public appearance on the ground in New Hampshire, starting her quest for the Republican nomination for the US Senate seat … Read more

[UPDATED] Maybe Ayotte should see if she can borrow the Popemobile to help keep her better insulated from the people?

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  Official game of NH politicians? [UPDATE] GraniteFrok cameras will be on the scene for this, along with other media including WMUR, apparently. Hopefully this represents a new trend of welcoming those who wish to cover politicians and events for people who cannot attend. The technology is here to stay. Get over it!   Cross-posted at NowHampshire.com: … Read more

Er, hey Kelly, aren’t you forgetting someone?

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Ayotte James Pindell is reporting that probable US Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte, free of the NH AG’s office, has hit the road as she starts her quest to replace Judd Gregg. I can hear them now: "See Doug, we told you," the Ayotte acolytes will say… "NOW you’ll see why she’s a good choice for conservatives!" … Read more

Tausch: NOT running in 2010

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James Pindell is reporting at NHPoliticalReport.com that businessman Fred Tausch, head of the grassroots group STEWARD of Prosperity has announced he will  NOT run for office in 2010, allaying rumors and speculation of a run for the US Senate seat being vacated by Judd Gregg… That still doesn’t take away from Fred’s message decrying the … Read more

Ayotte jumps in. Color me unconvinced…

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Kelly Ayotte

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As reported yesterday by James Pindell at NHPoliticalReport.com, the now former NH Attorney General Kelly Ayotte has

filed papers opening up an exploratory committee for the U.S. Senate, a source close to Ayotte said. 

The source said Ayotte will begin raising money immediately and begin a conversation with New Hampshire Republicans.

Regular readers know that this conservative blogger remains skeptical of both her candidacy and her conservative credentials. Bolstering my concern, Pindell’s report further noted

As a first time candidate Ayotte has advantages and unknowns. Her advantages include the backing of U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg and much of the Republican establishment, good name recognition, and a bi-partisan resume.

Does anybody really think this sounds like a candidate that will go to Washington with a single purpose of reducing the size of government thereby putting a halt to the socialism starting to engulf us? And really, as a conservative, what has the so-called Republican "establishment" done for ME lately?

I’m not just some lone guy in the wilderness on this one. Former state representative and one-time fill-in Union Leader Editorial Page Director Dean Dexter of Laconia has a few questions and observations, too:

 

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