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Really New Hampshire GOP? The Life of a Heinous Cop-Killer More Important Than the Lives of Seven, Eight, Nine Month Old Unborn Babies?

May 17, 2019 Ed Mosca

This: The last time somebody was executed in New Hampshire was 1939. The only person affected by repealing the statutory death penalty is a convicted cop-killer, whom nobody argues was falsely convicted. Contrast this to the real death penalty that takes place probably daily in New Hampshire. The most permissive abortion laws in the country. … Read more

Andru Volinsky – trying to outdo Grimm’s fairy tales?

May 6, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Recently, Executive Councilor Andu Volinsky suggested that gubernatorial vetoes should be subject to Executive Council approval. Fortunately, there is one thing that stands between Councilor Volinsky and vetoes: The Constitution of the State of New Hampshire. This isn’t the first time Councilor Volinsky has tried to end run the Constitution. Most of you may not … Read more

The #VolinskyAgenda’s Silly Coup Attempt

May 5, 2019 Ed Mosca

This breathless tweet from Democrat operative -oops, I mean WMUR crack political reporter- Johnny DiStaso: In the underlying article, DiStaso writes: In a statement to WMUR, Volinsky said, “A slim majority of the New Hampshire Supreme Court decided last year that the Executive Council has a role in advising the governor with respect to vetoes. … Read more

Press Conference: Womens’ Defense League of NH – Veto these bills!

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 Skip

This morning, the Womens’ Defense League of NH (“WDLNH”) had a press conference in the Legislative Office Building at 8:30am. Despite the slavish attention that NH’s Media gives the anti-Constitution/civilian disarmament folks, none of them were to be found covering “the other side”. Only GraniteGrok and Tony Schinella from Patch were there: The topic: to … Read more

Granite State Taxpayers Rally – Gov. Chris Sununu

March 30, 2019March 30, 2019 Skip

The message that the House and the Senate want to send to the Governor is “we are with you Governor! On all your vetoes, Governor, we’re going to stand with you!” The Granite State Taxpayers held a rally today at the State House (Concord, NH) – Speakers included Ray Chadwick (Chair, GST), NH State Rep … Read more

Breaking: House Fails to Override Trump Veto – National Emergency Declaration Stands

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Mr. Trump’s first and only veto has been sustained. The US House of Representatives was unable to rally the votes needed to override the President’s veto of a resolution to terminate his declaration of a national emergency.

Will Gov Chris Sununu veto SB241?

March 1, 2019February 28, 2019 Skip

Our standard of measure (an engineering term that Gov. Sununu should know well) here at GraniteGrok includes the NH Constitution. SB241 is yet another attempt to implement a 19th-century technology, a choo-choo train, for the benefit of a very few at the expense of very many. And of course, they are at it again with a … Read more

The Red Pen Governor

February 4, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The liberty and freedom we’ve enjoyed in New Hampshire is under direct attack. And it’s the worst it has ever been. Fresh off their November election wins, Democrats fired up their campaign to restrict rights and grow government. And, unfortunately, they control the House, Senate and Executive Council. But fortunately, we still have a Republican governor … Read more

The Silence of the Sununu

January 12, 2019 Ed Mosca

This: What NHPR means by “Roll Back Voter Residency Restrictions” is repealing House Bill 1264 and once again allowing out-of-State college students to vote in New Hampshire elections while remaining residents of their home States. In other words, these college students will once again have a special, privileged status under the law, under which they … Read more

John Kasich’s Gun Rights Veto Overridden by Ohio Legislature

December 28, 2018 Steve MacDonald

On Christmas Eve we reported on Governor John Kasich’s veto of some bills including “gun-rights” legislation. Kasich was emphatic in his rejection. “If you think I’m going to sign a bill that gives more power to the gun folks, are you kidding me?” The State Legislature wasn’t kidding when they sent it to his desk. So … Read more

Quick Thought: Not so much “free market”, eh Tom, when you want others to pay for “weeding your garden”?

September 26, 2018August 25, 2018 Skip

So, Tom Thomson (son of Gov. Thomson of “low spending yields low taxes” fame) who for years was the honorary chair of AFP-NH which argues for Free Markets, has decided to go the Full Monty and arguing that electric rate payers (that would be you and I) should pay for his timber to be cut (e.g., override the biomass vetoes by Gov Sununu on SB 446 and SB 365 which would promulgate the over $2 Billion overcharges to keep the North Country Biomass subsidies for electrical generation plants that turn crap wood into overpriced electricity). Sure, Free Market until it comes to be “get me some” and have Government continue to institute a undeserved and mandated “tax” on the rest of us:

Tom Thomson, a timberland owner of 2,600 acres and the conservative son of former Gov. Mel Thomson, spoke at the event in favor of overriding the veto. “You have to weed your garden if you want healthy vegetables,” Thomson said. “It’s the same thing with forests.”

Hey, go weed your own dang garden, Tom, and leave my wallet alone. If you have any intellectual honesty at all, stop privatizing your profits and socializing your risk. You can’t find folks to buy your timber? Too bad – that’s the risk of being in business: reward AND failure. To paraphrase the line in your Op-Ed in the Concord Monitor:

Yes, Jim Rubens and I had a bit of a dust up over his calling for Corporate Welfare

September 26, 2018July 12, 2018 Skip

Steve alluded to it here and I DID have the intention of putting up the thread but, well, with the start of putting in new technology, things rolled off my “table” as it were. It was all about Gov. Sununu doing the right thing and denying wood electrical generational plants a subsidy. No, not one that would have come directly from the State of NH but one in which the State would force us all to give our own personal money to them via higher electrical costs. The fact that the House and the Senate, and the Republicans therein, decided “This Is A Great Idea!” is awful, given the NH GOP Platform:

Sanctioning Government Plunder and Big Money in Politics

September 26, 2018July 11, 2018 Steve MacDonald

You probably didn’t know this but in an offline thread Skip and Jim Rubens traded debate ‘punches’ on Mr. Sununu’s veto of Biomass subsidies. We have opposed the plunder. Mr. Rubens considered the Biomass bailout to be worthwhile.

In an email, via Jim Rubens.com, Jim gives a nod to that debate and perhaps others and then defends his support to override Governor Sununu’s veto.

North Country “Wood Welfare”

September 26, 2018July 6, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The legislature passes a policy that drives up the cost of a product or service to keep a favored business or industry afloat. Without this protection money, those who benefit may no longer be able to enjoy the lifestyle to which they’ve become accustomed.

This is the story of the green energy business. New Hampshire’s biggest player in this redistribution scheme is the timber industry which peddles “low grade” leftovers to biomass plants that convert it into expensive electricity the police-state forces on ratepayers.

Governor Sununu recently vetoed two bills passed by the legislature to foment this money laundering scheme and the “former” recipients of that plunder are not happy.

Gov. Sununu Vetoes “Energy” Bills That Would Drive Up Electric Rates

September 26, 2018June 20, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Last week we shared a rumor that Governor Chris Sununu was prepared to veto SB 365 and SB 466. Both pieces of legislation were bipartisan sops to green energy that would drive up our already unreasonably high electric rates.

That rumor is now a fact.

In his veto statement on Tuesday, Sununu said the two bills would cost Granite State ratepayers approximately $100 million over the next three years in higher electricity costs, placing a strain on the elderly, those on fixed incomes and businesses.

Various and Sundry

July 15, 2024June 3, 2016 Steve MacDonald

We discuss Gov. Hassan’s veto of a bill to make the pistol revolver license optional; the demise of Rockingham Park, Trump’s on-again-off-again debate with Bernie Sanders; and a drunk driver who committed vehicular manslaughter claims that only the restaurant that served him is liable in a wrongful death suit.

The Right to Opt Kids Out Of Assessments

July 15, 2024September 15, 2015 Steve MacDonald

We discuss the parental right to opt their children out of state-wide assessments. The NH Legislature meets on Wednesday to cast override votes on the Governors Vetoes, including a bill to secure those right.

NH Gov. Plays DC Politics With State Budget

July 15, 2024June 21, 2015 Steve MacDonald

AFP New Hampshire state Director Greg Moore joins us to discuss the real numbers on the New Hampshire budget and whether Governor Maggie Hassan can actually veto the state budget and survive politically.

Hoplophobes To Oppose Three Gun Bills

September 26, 2018January 2, 2012 Rick Olson

”Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty’s teeth.”—George Washington

Governor Lynch and his hoplophobite cronies at the New Hampshire Police Chiefs Association are ramping up once again to put the kibosh on three Gun Bills slated to taken up this week by the legislature.

House Bill 334, relative to the state’s authority to prohibit or regulate firearms, firearms components, ammunition, or firearms supplies. Many find this legislation confusing because there is a belief that Public institutions fund with tax payer dollars already fall within the purview of RSA 159:26. In fact, Attorney Penny Dean told the Union Leader, current state law prohibits the University System from banning guns. Yet, somehow those educrats have carved out a little niche of unaccountability and have made an end-run around the legislature, ruling over their fiefdoms as they see fit.
“I think this would be a huge mistake considering the age of the students here, and to have some possess firearms would be extremely dangerous,” UNH Police Chief Nicholas Halias tells the Union Leader. “Some students use alcohol and others use drugs, and having any weapon available would be catastrophic.”

Right-to-Work Benefits Workers

September 26, 2018May 24, 2011 Don

To the Editor:

In his letter of May 19 in the Laconia Daily Sun Martin Carney incorrectly claims that workers in Right-to-Work (RTW) states are worse off than those in forced unionization states. Actually they are better off.

First. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, average unemployment in the forced unionization states is 8.31%, in the 22 RTW states it is 7.95%. In addition, 13 of the 22 RTW states are significantly below the national average unemployment rate while only 13 of the 28 forced unionization states are below the national average. So, workers are more likely to find a job in a RTW state.