Governor Groomer, Chris Sununu, isn’t just aggravating the grassroots with his vetoes. Inside the State Republican Party apparatus, they’ve taken up our call for change.
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All of NH Governor Chris Sununu’s 22 Vetoes Upheld by the NH House
There were not nearly as many vetoes from Governor Sununu this session as last, but then there were. One Omnibus piece of legislation was a trash can bill stuffed with some 40 odds and ends the Democrats wanted pushed through the COVID fearmongering amended legislative session.
Five More Bills I Would have Vetoed as Governor
Many want to applaud Governor Chris Sununu for the record number of bills he actively vetoed over the past 3 years. And certainly, he was the firewall against increased taxes and assaults against the 2nd Amendment. However, too many bills that he signed or allowed to become law are destructive to you and your children.
Democrats Campaign for Sununu ahead of State of the State
First off, let me remind Governor Sununu to use the word ‘beclown’ in his State of the State. Pet mission. Secondly, thank you to the Democrats for continuing to campaign for Sununu by reminding the electorate all he did to protect the New Hampshire Advantage and the Live Free or Die State. Ahead of today’s … Read more
So kids, what did we learn from Wednesday’s House Session (01/08/20)?
We learned that the NH House lost a truly wonderful, educated and endearing State Representative. We all will miss Rep. Dick Marple and it was appropriate to take time to remember him during the start of session today and pass an unanimous resolution memorializing him and his accomplishments. May his memory be a blessing always. … Read more
So kids, what did we learn from Wednesday’s House Session (09/18/19)?
We learned that Veto Day can be a satisfying endeavor even for the Minority Party Republicans and that saving NH from radical legislation can be fun and rewarding.
Blood Dancers Gathering in Concord Monday
“Chris Sununu, like Kelly Ayotte before him, should fully expect to face the wrath of Granite Staters who are sick and tired of weak-kneed politicians who aren’t willing to stand up and take bold action to reduce gun violence. Join us for this press conference to call out Sununu and launch our accountability efforts.” … Read more
Dem State Rep LIES About Being ‘Fearful’ at his School Over Sununu Vetoes
Governor Sununu rightfully vetoed the Bloomberg-backed legislation that Democrats in the house and senate shoved through the legislature. Of course, they were all in a tizzy about it over on Twitter, apparently their backer, Michael Bloomberg, probably isn’t going to be happy with his little Muppets. For the record, it was Grassroots Granite Staters who … Read more
Today Governor Sununu Signed Twenty Bills and Vetoed Eight
I’m not familiar with everything on the list of bills that left the Governor’s desk today. But I do recognize a few of the vetoed bills and New Hampshire should be happy he rejected them.
Sununu: Some Bills are Going to Get Vetoed
Rumor has it the current governor has a goal in mind. He means to veto more useless partisan legislation than any governor before him. Especially political stuff. “[M]ost of those will get vetoed, absolutely.”
Sununu Veto Tracker post: Let’s see if the Guv lives up to his own “veto hype”?
As Kimberly pointed out, Gov. Sununu vetoed SB1 today. I’m going to keep updating this post to keep track of all the bills that do get such treatment. Thus, let’s see if he beats Mel Thompson’s record of 73 vetoes. After all, the Democrats have certainly given him a target rich environment from which to … Read more
NH Bills that are going to receive vetoes from Gov. Sununu
There has been a lot of angst from you, GraniteGrok readers, that I have seen both here in comments here on the ‘Grok as well as on Facebook. Most of them surround “where is my State heading? What is happening to the ‘Live Free or Die’ ethos we grew up with (or moved here for)? … Read more
HOUSE JOINS SENATE, OVERRIDES SENATE BILL 88 VETO
“A moment’s reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.” —Francis Parker Yockey
The House voted today to override the Governors’ veto of Senate Bill 88 on the heels of the Senate voting to override last week. The vote was 251 to 111. It should be important to note that the Governor and his faithful went into overdrive to build support for sustaining the veto, to include a walking tour of Lincoln street area of Manchester in the vicinity of Hayward and Somerville Streets. It was there where Attorney General stated, “And we will be providing drug dealers and street gangsters with a new right to respond using more violence in public places…”
At the Governor’s press conference the morning before the house leaders’ press conference, Chief Robert Wharem, President of the New Hampshire Association of Chiefs of Police, told WMUR, “Senate Bill 88 is one of the most dangerous bills we’ve had come before us in our time…” while he had roughly a dozen other police chiefs gathered around him, seeming to imply he speaks for all New Hampshire Chiefs. The difference here is many likely opted to stay home and not politicize this bill, remaining within the confines of their sworn oaths.
At the end of the day, none of their Charlatanry, pandering or demagoguing held any political water, resulting in the veto override which now means the bill is law. Now SB 88 is law. The streets will not run red with blood and responsible, law-abiding citizens will not be prosecuted for lawfully defending themselves against violent attacks.
But to be expected, whenever there is a gun crime it will be certain that the critics of the bill will point to this law as a manifestation of that crime, ignoring the fact that criminals with guns will still commit crimes. They did so before this law and will continue to do so even after this law.
This law protects law-abiding citizens, not Criminals. On the coattails of Senate Bill 88’s passage we will likely hear be hearing next from the Brady Bunch about the enormous social costs of gun violence. Guy Smith, Author of Gun Facts, has undertaken a most complete compilation of data. Here are just a few examples:
Myth: The social cost of gun violence is enormous
Fact: Because guns are used an estimated 2.5 million times per year to prevent crimes, the cost savings in personal losses, police work, and court and prison expenses vastly outweighs the cost of criminal gun violence and gun accidents. The net savings, under a worst-case scenario, is about $3.5 billion a year.257
SB88 Opposition: Same Crowd, Same Tired Untruths
“Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn’t make it” ~Douglas William Jerrold Is the average citizen really not all that smart? Is the average citizen not capable of making competent decisions about self-defense? That is what seems to be conveyed in this latest political campaign of untruths from unelected … Read more
SB 88 VETO: More Of The Same Lies, Pandering and Demagoguery
“The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue’s sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.”~George William Curtis, Author, Social Reformer (1824-1896)
Governor John Lynch vetoed Senate Bill 88 yesterday, once again affirming allegiance to yet another unelected, unaccountable constituency: The New Hampshire Police Chiefs Association. Despite thirty-one states adopting “stand your ground” laws and eliminating such duties to retreat, Lynch takes his counsel from those who think of themselves as smarter, wiser and more intuitive than the very people they were hired to serve.
As I pointed out in earlier blogs, back in 2006, I went on TV-50 in Derry and debated then N.H. Association of Police Chiefs‘ President, Nathaniel “Chip” Sawyer on this issue. I also pointed out that it wasn’t much of a debate and Chief Sawyer didn’t put up much of a spirited counter-argument because he didn’t have to. He already had Lynch’s fidelity and the veto was already a done deal.
When she was Attorney General, Senator Kelly Ayotte urged Lynch to veto the Castle Doctrine Bill in 2006 (SB318) Yet, when she became a candidate for U.S. Senate, she quickly flip-flopped on the issue. In 2006, SB 318 passed with arguable bi-partisan support in the house and it was Ayotte and her cronies that decried the bills’ passage with red-herring-esque”, arguments that somehow, “the use of deadly force on street corners, in shopping malls, public parks, and in retail stores. Drug dealers and other felons who brandish weapons will be further emboldened to use their weapons, while prosecution of those criminals will be made more difficult because of this bill’s expansion of the right to use deadly force.” That has not happened in the other thirty-one states who have passed the measure. As I recall, one assistant AG characterized the, “streets running red with blood,” if the bill became law.
Standing ones ground and owing no duty to retreat is not a new doctrine. There is a considerable body of case law addressing this very question. In Beard v. U.S. (1895) that a man who was, “[W]here he had the right to be” when he came under attack and “…did not provoke the assault, and had at the time reasonable grounds to believe, and in good faith believed, that the deceased intended to take his life, or do him great bodily harm…was not obliged to retreat, nor to consider whether he could safely retreat, but was entitled to stand his ground.”
Headline: Bi-Partisan Coalition Overrides Lynch Vetoes
So after yesterday we have a little bit more freedom, parents have more rights over their minor children, and minimum wage competition has achieved parity with the region. And Leftists will hate it all, and not just because it dog-ears a corner of their evil plot…