Saturday • May 18 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XX
Manchester, N.H.
From “Progressives and the Proper Role of Government – and your subservience to it”:
So why put those up? You folks know that I frequent (they’d say haunt) the Eco-Socialist site known as TreeHugger. There, they are all about Renewables, Sustainability – and about how your standard of living, in order to save the Earth, must be diminished. Add to that, because we, the unwashed and uneducated, refuse to do what they want us to do voluntarily, are now turning to Government to FORCE us to live as they demand. I’m there to render the expected judgment on them with a hearty “UP YOURS!”. And they generally have a hard with my arguments because I’m not their normal reader and bring uncomfortable questions – you know, like Ian Underwood does here!
This post here is about “Fatal California Crash Ignites Debate About Speed Limiters for Cars” post over there. But this post isn’t about my observations but my friend over there, Vindaloo Bugaboo chimed in. While the post is all about having Government put speed limiters on cars – for SAFETY! And making it clear that Govt should force manufacturers to do so. And not putting the responsibility on those that cause the accidents. It’s the usual and normal response from Socialists/The Left – EVERYONE must be punished for the actions of a few. Safety first – not Freedom. Well, VB wasn’t having ANY of that! Emphasis mine:
Vindaloo Bugaboo
Since when has the world had to be straightjacketed in bubble wrap to keep people safe? Where is the personal responsibility? Where is the enforcement of the law and why isn’t it being applied equally to everyone?I’m nearly 51 years old. As a kid, I drank water out of a garden hose lying in the sun for hours, played in my godfather’s cow yard throwing dried manure chips, jumped out of the hay loft into piles of hay below, climbed trees, jumped off swings, walked alone to and from school, rode my bike without a helmet, rode in the back seat of an old car that didn’t have seat belts, drank raw maple sap out of the bucket where the spiders and bugs and tree bark were all taking a swim in it as well, scrapped my knees/elbows/hands and didn’t put Bactine on it, and about a zillion other things that today’s health pundits either denounce or have outlawed. How is it I got to be this old and haven’t ended up worse for wear? Why is it that so much of that stuff today is verboten or in some cases even criminalized (like not wearing a bike helmet)? If ignorance of danger, combined with common sense, was sufficient to see me and millions of other kids of the 1970s into adulthood, why is EVERYTHING these days needing to be amended to protect us from our own stupidity?
See NH State Rep Kris Roberts’s quote at the top of this post.
I’ll tell you why.
Because ever since that old woman put a Styrofoam cup of hot McDonald’s coffee between her legs in her crotch, and then spilled it, lawyers have lawyered up and we’ve become a far more litigious society where personal responsibility is no longer the onus of the consumer. Tide pods? What idiot ever thought “Gee, we should film TikTok videos of us eating them!” as if that’s something a responsible individual—yes, teens are fully capable of making those decisions—cannot conceive they ought not to do? Or the cinnamon huffing challenge? Or any number of other narcissism fueled social media “challenges”?
People are growing stupider by the day, and I yearn for the day when we can collectively have people toughen up rather than resort to sucking thumbs and retreating to a room full of coloring books.
That’s why I see so many of these “improvements” as ill-conceived, Nio—because it separates people from each other and enables selfishness and incompetence to flourish.
Well said and I only had two things to add to it (more of clarification than anything):
That’s the key – 2 points:
1) Stop blaming everyone else and take responsibility for yourself instead of “somebody’s gotta do something about this!”
2) just leave other people alone to live their own lives without your meddling in it – just do it.
And then VB asked a question:
I cannot understand how this is a thing. It’s savage, barbarous, and uncivilized conduct.
Perhaps it would be best to enforce traffic laws we already have and rely on technology like red light cameras to catch people who CHOOSE to ignore safety and drive offensively instead of defensively.
I’ve long thought every driver should have mandatory recertification of their driver’s license at least every five years—written AND instructor-led—and for those who fail, pull their license on the spot. Arizona got rid of all their traffic cameras a few years ago (to much applause) because idiots were racing to get through the yellow light or hard braking so they wouldn’t be in the intersection and get fined, which caused an upswing in rear-end collisions. Some lights in the Phoenix metro area had yellow lights last for 3 seconds, some up to 6 seconds. The simple (and ignored!) fix would have been to program the yellow lights to flash 3 times, hold solid 3 seconds, then turn to red—that way any driver from a reasonable distance could know whether or not the light would be turning colour anytime soon. Instead, we got a statewide ban on traffic light cameras and even more idiots crashing their cars—similar to how speeding violations have gone through the roof because people think the freeway is their personal version of Tokyo Drift or GTA 5.
Isn’t the real question to ask is this:
Why do so many people feel that the law does not personally apply to them?
And I thought that the answer was clear and plain:
It is because of the entitlement mentality that has overcome our societies – only *I* matter – into the extreme. Norms have been removed, basic civic behaviors have been altered, and people wonder why things are going into the crapper?
I remember, before it became verboten and summoned the cancel mob, that merely saying “you look nice, today” WAS taken as a compliment and not as being misogynist. And v.v. Remove those kinds of societal “grease” and friction becomes the norm. And when friction goes to the extreme, all you end up with is a fire.
When the Left keep deciding that it has the Moral Superiority to not just ask but DEMAND that others MUST be forced to live as they demand, why are they surprised when the pushback is in the form of flamethrowers?
They refuse to acknowledge what I pointed out earlier – how about just leaving everyone else alone to live their own lives? Stop being the Borg in forcibly demanding assimilation into systems that other find abhorent?
There’s a lot more in the comments – VB was on fire and swinging (for personal Liberty and knocking all those deriding such) at almost anyone. A good model for ALL of us to utilize. Why?
If we don’t, who will? And I will tell you that when there is no response for Liberty and against the Collective, they believe they have won.
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The CT public school administrator has clearly revealed the true sophistry of the Woke/CRT/Anti-racist dogma. Likewise, (assuming this internal union leadership “warning memo” is genuine). Like the school administrator, this labor organization has also exposed its bigoted foundational beliefs.
Public educators would not have to be counseled to adhere to norms of secrecy, and conduct closed meetings beyond public scrutiny if this bigoted belief system was not well engrained in the Connecticut public education milieu:
As the specious mask of this bigoted Woke cause continues to slip; incident by incident, the source of the bigoted administrator’s “professional” decisions becomes clear. His profession’s value of “Diversity” is actually an ethical black hole. It’s justification for the intolerant and illegal discrimination against any group perceived out of lockstep with the vulgarity originating from the hate-laden, Woke/CRT, “Anti-racist” pulpit. Within this rubric, (now taught to our children), “inclusion” means embracing only their preconceived intersectional groups thus attaining “equity” among these conjured categories in an incomprehensible taxonomy that belies millennia of scientific research conclusions. Its purpose is as old as mankind; to deny equal protection under law and custom to others due to race, sex, or in the administrator’s action–to those with religious values of fairness and kindness.
We want to thank Dr. Michael D. Breen for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
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The ideological casualties have always included Catholic “Papists.” They are now coerced with the rest of Americans, to have their children instructed in accordance with a scientific-illiterate dogma, in violation of virtually all of our conscientious beliefs. Which is to say that white individuals, by virtue of their skin color, are irredeemably racist since infancy. Males are misogynistic due to the “toxic” immutable nature of their sex. Lastly, the dogma ignores countless scientific studies explaining disparities among groups as it asserts that great harm is done by these “other people” all functioning within an invisible and evidence-free structure of “White supremacy.” There is nothing new here. History has repeatedly instructed us that as these persecuted categories of citizens grow in frequency and volume, it will not end well.
The “Papists” have been targeted throughout history. A few generations after 41% of Catholics were deliberately killed in Ireland during centuries of persecution, they were specifically and repeatedly besieged along with Jewish and Blacks by hate groups in the United States such as the “Know Nothings” and the Ku Klux Klan. They were marginalized and persecuted with the identical anti-intellectual doctrine employed by this school administrator. Once again, history brings us the same lesson. If unrestrained, the same corrupt and intolerant convictions will produce the same bigoted behaviors and policies. This is what Martin Luther King meant when he said that he would “Go with love; that hate is too big a burden.”
I hope any investigation includes the authenticity of this meaningful internal memo supposedly originating with this union leadership. I want to believe that no organization could be so obtuse as to miss the point. The problem is not that this bigoted ideologue “got caught” expressing this corrupt, yet increasingly accepted, philosophy. The issue is why does this cult-like belief system exist in Connecticut’s public education milieu at all. This is an enormously significant violation of the public trust delegated to school boards, administrators and teachers, and unions. Does this union fail to understand this ethical failure? It seems that they must. Why would they frame the problem as insufficient secrecy surrounding the discrimination and demeaning of others? What have they done to eradicate this unwholesome and illegal norm functioning in their member’s work environment? For these reasons, I hope this internal memo is a hoax and not a further confirmation of an ideologically bigoted educational environment in Connecticut.
Finally, I taught in Connecticut. The teachers and school officials I know are understandably intimidated by these ideological bullies. I was surprised to learn that one old friend will not wear identifying jewelry that identifies her as a “Papist.” They are eager to work in a mutually respectful environment that stresses the dignity of all citizens absent the bullying and scapegoating of any. They are dedicated professionals who understand that this modeling of hate-laden discrimination is not simply a violation of our laws. It is an enormous ethical failure that cannot continue to be promoted in any American workplace and certainly has to stop being taught to children.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael D. Breen
President, New Hampshire No Left Turn in Education
Note by Skip: Dr. Breen is scheduled to speak about Critical Race Theory – and already the union is ginning up a protest. Will it, indeed, be “peaceful”? I have my thoughts about that:
Yeah, this person (English Teacher):
State Senate Campaign Volunteer Admits Role in Scheme to Obtain Public Election Funds
Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that TINA MANUS, 42, of Stratford, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a conspiracy offense related to her role in a scheme to obtain public funds for the 2018 Connecticut State Senate campaign of Dennis A. Bradley.According to court documents and statements made in court, in 2018, Manus was a campaign volunteer for the Bradley campaign. Between March and October 2018, Manus conspired with Bradley, his former campaign treasurer, Jessica Martinez, and others to defraud the Connecticut State Election Enforcement Commission (“SEEC”), the Citizens’ Election Fund, and the State of Connecticut by making misrepresentations concerning compliance with state election law and the requirements and restrictions of the Citizens’ Election Program (“CEP”), a voluntary public election-financing program under which candidates can apply to SEEC for grants to fund their primary and general election campaigns.
Manus pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.
Manus, who has agreed to cooperate in the ongoing investigation of this matter, is released on a $150,000 bond pending sentencing.
Another link here. A paywall’d one here. Again:
One would have thought she would have chosen to lay low and quiet for a while. These true believers, so it seem, are so Morally Superior to the rest of us that it doesn’t matter to them.
More here.
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Each Sunday, I take a step away from daily politics and focus on someone who has done extraordinary things or who we may need to know a little better. This week focuses on PGA golf superstar and 2022 FedEx Champion Rory McIlroy.
You might ask why I would be highlighting a golf pro who is also a mega-millionaire but stay with me. Rory deserves attention for more reasons than the clubs in his bag. I was pulling for Scottie Scheffler, who had a breakout season but fell short of closing out the FedEx after leading for most of the 72 holes. He faltered slightly, and the veteran McIlroy was ready to pounce. Scottie was a breath of fresh air in 2022 with multiple wins but a calming personality that endeared him to many fans. He was a modest family guy with many of his family members on hand to hopefully celebrate. They may be disappointed, but as his father said after one of his wins. “I am so proud of you. You are a great golfer, but even a better husband, father, and man”. High praise from his dad and deserved. But this week is about Rory.
With his win, Rory surpassed Tiger Woods as the only three-time winner of the FedExCup Championship, the ultimate prize in the PGA season. Any time you pass Tiger in any category, you have accomplished greatness. Scheffler held a comfortable six-stroke lead to start the final round, and it seemed like it was just an easy four-hour round to pick up the trophy and the $18 Million winners check. Not to be, as Rory played a near-perfect round to take home the cup and cash.
The 2022 PGA season has been unique and full of uncertainty as the upstart Saudi backed LIV league was picking off and buying the cream of the PGA crop every week. The LIV league has unlimited resources and is paying millions to entice players to turn their backs on the PGA. Phil Mickelson was the first player to jump ship and was reportedly paid $200 Million to do so. Players like DJ, DeChambeau, Koepka, and the latest, Open Champ Cameron Smith, have all taken the money and scorned the PGA. The PGA does not allow any LIV players to compete in any PGA event, including the Masters, PGA, or the Players.
So far, it looks like Rory will refrain from cashing in with the LIV and stay with the PGA. You might say that it is easy to stay with career winnings in excess of $64 Million, but he is probably leaving over $100 Million in Saudi funds on the table. He and Tiger have teamed up and are counseling the remaining PGA golfers on why they should stay with tradition and continue to support the PGA. It shows his maturity, commitment, and respect for the PGA tradition.
Rory has always been a polarizing member of the tour. People either loved him or not. But with age has come a better, easier to like Rory McIlroy, and that could be the best thing to happen to the PGA and golf this year. Rory turned pro in 2007 and has played for 15 years. He is in phenomenal condition, and if his body stays healthy, he should compete at the highest level for years to come. He will serve the PGA and younger players in two ways. He will be the excellence they can strive for and the quality of person we should all hope to be.
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Yeah, I said I wasn’t going to name your company anymore. Why should I as you’re doing it all by yourself (see the above image if you’ve missed it before)? Well, you set the New Rules when you said that you (and Jade Wood) both were going to resign if the Belknap County Delegation refused to bow to your demand to do something by 5 pm on July 29th).
…Frankly, during the second Public Session, both of them sounded like a pair of Doomsday Climatistias in which WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE IF <pick something> DOESN’T HAPPEN RIGHT NOW!!! It’s very much like they were Fire and Brimstone touring circus tent-based Evangelists warning of eternal damnation if you don’t get rid of your Devil. Or replicated by almost every candidate’s frenzied fundraising email that says the other side is going to win if you don’t give me $100 in 10 minutes. But that kind of rhetoric, when used in the political arena, is a tried and true part of the Saul Alinksy toolkit.
So, the “Wag the Dog” – Clinton bombed an aspirin factory in Libya in an attempt to take attention away from his political problems. Lambert and Wood tried the same thing:
IF THE DELEGATION DOESN’T DO SOMETHING BY 5 PM, WE’LL RESIGN TOO!
…At 5 p.m., they stood outside Gunstock’s ticket office with a half dozen employees and members of the Lambert family. Lambert folded and unfolded an unsigned resignation letter in his hands. “I had made up my mind to do this tonight,” Lambert said, referring to his letter if no action or action plan had come from the delegation. “But I owe this one last opportunity to the wonderful staff to make this work.”
Yeah, that didn’t happen as they both chickened out and made up excuses. Didn’t have the courage of their convictions. They hung themselves out to dry on their own petards. They thought they had the “juice”, at that time, to make it happen. And then it didn’t. Other people had to do their heavy lifting later on. He walked the political high wire a second time (re: NH Democrat Party Chair Ray Buckley being his most ignoble sense of himself) and fell off when their bluff was called. Taking me on is now a third time believing he can go after another political person he doesn’t like. So let’s revisit his latest threat:
A third high wire act. Which started to think about what you wrote (above):
I have your threatening message on my phone saved from last month.
and my response to it was (emphasis now):
And for the life of me, I can’t remember what I said a month ago – feel free to forward to me and I’ll post it here for EVERYONE to listen to. You know, openness and transparency – things you USED to stand for.
Hey Doug, I CHALLENGED you. So far, bupkis. No voicemail from you. I would have thought that if you had it, you’d have HAPPILY sent it over and have a great laugh at my expense in proving your allegation. If you had such, I know that you’d be acting just as gleeful as you were that Saturday morning calling out Ray Buckley on his birthday as I’d have to hear my own words. You still have the chance to rub your hands together if what you claim is true.
Is it? Or is this yet another bluff? Here I am, giving you the chance to embarrass me in front of my friends and my readers. As I said – openness and transparency. I don’t remember what I said so you have the Power in this offer – a second offer.
Or, like your resignation promise, are you bluffing again? Go ahead – prove me wrong.
So let’s get to the actual matter at hand – if there ISN’T a voice mail, what should Belknap County residents think of you? Truthful? Someone that they know isn’t double-dealing behind their backs? That when you tell them something, they can depend on what you say? That you are “apolitical” (snort) in all things? Or now that YOU are the political extremist willing to do what is necessary to achieve your end goal? Which to me, at this point, is protecting those people and hidden things that you were put onto the Commission in the first place? And then repudiated them? And canceled the Legal and Audit sub-committees that were looking into those rumored malfeasances?
Like you used to decry in years past? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
And how will they view you as a Commissioner that is supposed to be in overwatch mode now that you canned the investigations? Even after watching the videos I’ve taken and watched your behaviors?
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Lisa Dimartino wants to portray herself as a moderate politician, but as I have been saying, Democrats are going to be taking advantage of the utter chaos that the Democrat Political Action Committee, Citizens for Belknap (CoB), was causing.
Their strategist, Brian Beihl, politically maneuvered the Republicans on the Gunstock Area Commission to turn against each other. Doug Lambert and Jade Wood supported that end game by turning on their Republican colleagues with an engineered “emergency” with the cooperation of the Gunstock Sr Management by having them quit.
That had the Delegation’s moderate Republicans shaking fearing they wouldn’t get re-elected.
This simmering dissension within the Belknap Delegation, with the assistance of the “Tim Lang Gang” (that is also aligned with that Democrat PAC), pulled off a coup causing issues within the Belknap County Republican Committee by attacking GraniteGrok (thanks, Gregg Hough!).
Lisa DiMartino is a hard Left Democrat that wants to take advantage of the manmade chaos created by Citizens for Belknap and (and I have no other words to describe them) Democrat-affirming Republicans. After all, if they are helping this PAC achieve its end, even if unwittingly (even after being TOLD what they were doing), even if they were just using it to feed their own political ambitions. what else am I to call them?
Here’s her LtE to the Daily Sun – reformatted a bit:
It’s time for a change on the county delegation
I’m Lisa DiMartino from Gilford, and I’m running for state representative for Belknap 6, Gilford, Gilmanton and Laconia Ward 2.
Our family has lived in Gilford for 25 years, and our two children attended Gilford schools from elementary through high school. We are fortunate to have established roots in the community and made many friends throughout the years. I know many of you from working at the Gilford Public Library, and Lakes Region Community Services. I look forward to meeting many more of you while I’m out in the community introducing myself and listening to your concerns.
From 2012 to 2014, I was honored to serve as a state representative for Gilford and Meredith, and served on the Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee. I decided to run again, because I have a sincere interest in public service, and want to help enhance the health, safety and well-being of our citizens.
Let’s face it, these are challenging times with problems that affect us all regardless of political affiliation. The economy, inflation, health care, and affordable housing, just to name a few. I’ve been a disability rights and public health advocate for many years and currently serve on the New Hampshire Medical Care Advisory Committee. I’ve also served on numerous other nonpartisan state commissions, boards and nonprofits. If elected, I will be a dedicated, engaged and responsive advocate for our community.
And note the CoB tag team bit: the use of “extremists” which is just Democrat speak for “anyone that disagrees with us” just like Biden’s speech this past Thursday where the only good Republicans are those that already agree with him (you know, like all of the Republicans that our re-born RINO Reports have been spotlighting):
Over the past decade, extremists on our county delegation have eroded essential county and state services, jeopardized our nursing home, and brought Gunstock to the brink of disaster; it’s time for change. It’s time to bring more diverse, reasonable and responsible voices to the table. It’s time for healing, collaboration and making government work efficiently and effectively again.
Please consider voting for me on Nov. 8.
For more information, visit lisafornh.com.
Lisa DiMartino
Benign sounding, right? She’s anything BUT “diverse, reasonable and responsible” but the stage has been set for her and others As I say all the time, don’t just listen to politician’s words, research their actions. So, how DID she support parents and small businesses?
She voted to keep your kids locked into the teachers union run “public” schools:
voted FOR repealing education choice and scholarships for low-income families ( 2013 HB370 )
She voted to keep your Cost of Living higher than it could have been:
voted AGAINST lowering business taxes ( 2014 HB1475 )
voted AGAINST reducing business taxes ( 2013 HB354, 2013 HB434 )
voted AGAINST reducing the meals tax ( 2014 HB1597 )
voted AGAINST reducing tobacco taxes ( 2013 HB335 )
voted AGAINST requiring a 3/5 vote to raise taxes ( 2013 CACR1 )
voted FOR higher boat registration fees ( 2014 HB292 )
voted FOR higher energy rates ( 2013 SB148 )
voted FOR higher gas taxes ( 2014 SB367, 2013 HB617, 2013 HB617 )
voted FOR higher tobacco taxes ( 2013 HB659 )
Supporting your Constitutional Rights? Not so much – at all!
voted AGAINST the right to keep and bear arms ( 2014 HB1438, 2013 HB388, 2013 HB451 )
voted FOR banning free speech near abortion clinics ( 2014 SB319 )
voted FOR weakening the right of self-defense ( 2013 HB135 )
And for making it easier for outsiders to vote in NH elections:
voted FOR making it easier for non-residents to vote in NH ( 2013 HB119 )
voted FOR removing a deterrent to voter fraud ( 2013 HB595 )
Her LtE sounds so nice and middle of the road. Her actions say otherwise. Actions speak louder than words and these votes from her prior term in the NH House show that she wants a tighter Government grip over your children, that Government should always have more of your money and is pleased to have it keep taking your money, infringing on your Free Speech, and making sure that YOU have less of a say in your Government by supporting outsiders influence NH politics and policies.
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Now, just a word about the president’s speech Thursday night… Biden talked about MAGA Republicans. It should probably make us all both angry and nervous. Didn’t it seem to you like he was using language that could lead some to violence?
Biden’s language is absolutely dangerous. He’s not equivocating, not couching what he has to say in euphemisms. He is calling Americans white supremacists, fascists, and racists. In effect, he is inciting his followers to violence.
He is stirring up the fearful passions of his political base to win an election in November. That’s my conclusion because the data just do not match his claims. The data shows Mr. Biden got it dangerously wrong.
We want to thank Marc Abear (Host of Common Sense Radio, Belknap County Republican Committee Executive Committee member) for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
you would like us to consider, please submit it to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
Consider this; during the 2020 election, the Republican Party attracted over 70 million people to vote for its MAGA candidate Donald Trump. Exit polls conducted by Edison Research show that his block of over 70 million voters was the most diverse group of people the GOP had put together since 1960.
26% of Trump’s MAGA voters were non-white. That’s an increase from what he got back in 2016. If we break out those numbers. Compared to 2016 Trump got:
Like Trump or not, his movement is a growing rainbow coalition. It is diverse. It is not racist or fascist or white supremacist regardless of what Biden is claiming. Biden and his team know this. They just don’t care. They would rather lie and create panic and hysteria than lose an election.
To be honest, if we were talking about threats to America we would be talking about Joe Biden and his family. Let’s talk facts, not opinions. Joe Biden’s son Hunter abandoned a laptop at a repair shop 3 years ago. On that laptop, Hunter said he was giving his father Joe a 10% cut of a business deal between him and members of the CCP plus other Chinese citizens.
There is a grave national security threat. There is your threat to our democracy. Joe Biden has denied ever taking Beijing’s cash. He has denied ever talking to his son about any of his business dealings. We know from the laptop Joe Biden’s denials are an absolute lie.
We know Joe Biden was writing letters of recommendation to Hunter’s Chinese business partners so their kids could get into an American college. That’s just one example. That is a fact not an opinion. We have a man sitting in the White House who has been credibly accused by his own son of taking secret cash from the greatest enemy our country has ever faced.
How serious is that for you? For me, Joe Biden is a clear and present danger to this republic. Joseph Robinette Biden is a national security nightmare. If the CIA were doing its job, Joe Biden would be thrown out of office and convicted of his crimes.
Every single intelligence case he has touched must be assumed to have been compromised by the Chinese. No matter what Biden said Thursday. We must assume the words he is using and the actions he supports are not meant to strengthen America.
We have credible information suggesting he is not acting on behalf of the American people. He may be serving his own interests… He may be serving those of Beijing.
The point here is Biden was smearing his fellow Americans. He was using intimidation and lies for political purposes. It was dangerous and wherever it was intended to go it does not lead to unity.
On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 11:01 AM Pete Home <psandstrom7@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings NH State Republican Party:
Where are you folks on speaking out and condemning that outrageous speech given the other night by Biden…
I’m supposed to believe that I’m a terrorist, an extremist and that I live in a shadow of lies. Where’s my Republican party standing up for me and speaking out against this sort of Hitler style of propaganda and inverted truths?
I’ve never seen anything like this. Say something!!!
Sincerely
Pete Sandstrom, BCRC Member
P.S. can you imagine if Trump gave a red-light nighttime speech like that?
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Yes, gun sales have fallen from their 2020 all time highs but the last two years are nothing to sneer at either. They are still well above any other previous years as measured by NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) requests which most States use when someone purchases a gun (or several guns at a time which might mean UNDER reporting of guns actually sold in some time period) from an FFL (Federal Firearms License holder – generally a gun store).
Not shabby at all:
And we can just thank Democrat politicians and bureaucrats, who do NOT like civilians holding enough firepower relative to the Government, for being the best sellers of the notion that people should be exercising their Second Amendment Rights. While Biden still has a ways to go, his speech on Thursday (“Full Monty Mussolini“) and his threat to ban the politically generated phrase “assault weapons” again is just going to drive those numbers upward again.
(H/T: The Truth About Guns)
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A Kansas middle school teacher won a massive settlement against her former employer in a case surrounding preferred pronoun use and amidst a larger cultural battle in which radical gender theory continues to creep into modern life.
Teacher Pamela Ricard was awarded $95,000, thanks to the support of Alliance Defending Freedom. They rightly defended Ricard’s right to freely exercise her faith and express her own viewpoints after she was suspended for three days last March by using only the student’s enrolled name.
NBC News writes this about the settlement:
Pamela Ricard sued Geary County Schools in March, saying she was reprimanded and suspended for three days last year “for addressing a biologically female student by the student’s legal and enrolled last name.”
A school counselor at Fort Riley Middle School had told Ricard that the student preferred an alternative first name, and a classmate told Ricard that the student preferred he/him pronouns, the lawsuit said.
Ricard began addressing the student as “miss,” using the student’s last name, to avoid using the student’s preferred first name. Ricard believed addressing the student as “Miss (legal/enrolled last name)” respected the student while also upholding Ricard’s religious convictions, the lawsuit said.
NBC added that at the time the district did not have an official policy on the matter of using preferred pronouns. They quoted the lawsuit, noting the absence of a “formal policy regarding student preferred name and pronoun use at the time Ms. Ricard was suspended” did not preclude them from reprimanding her “under generic school district policies related to bullying by staff.”
In other words, the district was attempting to silence opposition to their groupthink by sanctioning Ms. Ricard under nebulous rules as a catchall for any dissent to their grotesque political narratives. Thankfully, saner minds prevailed in the courtroom.
The presence of preferred pronouns has taken the nation by storm as the ever-expanding alphabetized 2SLGBTQAI+ seek national prominence over even its communist allies like Black Lives Matter. Disney fell in with the intolerant fascists demanding not just acceptance, but celebration, of their mission after Ron DeSantis smacked down schools’ abilities to indoctrinate children in harmful radical gender theory.
Netflix also found itself at odds with the militant rainbow jihadis after it allowed a Dave Chappelle special to air with a crack at the transgender community. Employee protests made the company look foolish, and they eventually released a memo saying those under their employment could stop the social justice warrior nonsense or leave.
Still, for all of the pervasive social pressure to conform to their perverse ideology, individuals have time and again found victory after standing up to them.
A Shawnee State University professor refused to kowtow to the woke mob and use a student’s preferred pronouns. He was disciplined by the university and launched a massive counteract in court. He eventually won a huge settlement, collecting more than $400,000.
There is both truth and momentum on the side of conservatives if they have the courage to stand up to the woke mob.
Hailey Sanibel writes at The Blue State Conservative
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Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago, is the latest leftist to find herself faced with busloads of illegal immigrants from the US Southern border. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is sending them there, and she’s sending a mixed message in response.
She thinks Abbot is despicable on the one hand but welcomes the new arrivals with open arms on the other. A sort of cranky Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,” you irresponsible bastard.
Lightfoot said she is “happy to take and drain Texas of all its residents” because she “wouldn’t want to live in a state with a governor like that.” She then accused Abbott of stripping “people of their basic rights.” Of course, she only brought up abortion because that is totally a basic human right.
Wait. You need to hear this too.
Lightfoot wasted no time responding, saying her administration had spent weeks preparing for the possibility and criticizing Abbott for what she said were “racist,” inhumane and xenophobic acts.
“Gov. Abbott has confirmed what unfortunately many of us already had known that he is a man without any morals, humanity or shame,” Lightfoot said. “Instead of treating these individuals with respect that they deserve or the due process that our require. Gov. Abbott chose instead to inhumanely load them onto buses, send them on a more-than-12-hour journey across a country that they don’t known and drop them off without any regard for what the next steps are. These are human beings.
So, let’s say you were a Somali refugee who just walked across Central America and Mexico to get to Texas because Democrats like yourself promised them (for lack of a better term) free sh!t. They get to Texas by the tens of thousands, creating a humanitarian crisis. There is no feasible way to provide all of them with food, water, or shelter. So, Gov. Abbot hands them a sandwich and a bottle of Avian and puts them on an air-conditioned Dreamliner to Chicago, and there is a bathroom on the bus!
The horror.
But she may still have a point. Common Sense Gun Laws Chicago has had over 2500 shootings in 2022 and 480 homicides. It isn’t even Labor Day yet, and thirty-one people have been in September. Sending them to Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago could be more dangerous than the trip that got them to the Southern Border.
HT | Legal Insurrection
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Incumbent NH State Representative Jose’ Cambrils is running for re-election in Merrimack County District 4 – Canterbury / Loudon.
Jose’ was born in Victoria De Las Tunas, Cuba in 1960. He and his family immigrated (legally) to the United States in 1965 to escape from the Communist Castro regime. He was very proud to take the oath of citizenship and become an American in June of 1973.
He went on to earn a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University Boston, Mass. in 1983 and an MBA in Operations Management from the University of Massachusetts in Lowell, Mass. in 1987.
Jose’ moved to New Hampshire in 1987, fell in love with this great State, and has been here ever since. He and his wife Allison have been in Loudon for the past 6 years.
He has been a life-long “Reagan” Republican since voting for the first time in the 1980 election.
Jose’ worked for Honeywell, Wang Labs, Cal-comp, Sanders Associates, Lockheed-Martin, and BAE Systems over the course of his 35-year career as an Engineer and Engineering Manager in the Commercial and Military Electronics business.
He retired from BAE in September 2015 at the age of 55. He has remained very active in politics and supporting his local community. He is currently a volunteer member of the Board of Directors for the Gilmanton Winery assisting the business with quality, process, and business analysis. He is also a proud long-time member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and the American Numismatic Association (ANA).
Jose’ is a Republican State Delegate and he has been the treasurer of the Merrimack County Republican Committee since September 2017.
In 2020 Jose’ won the Republican primary and the general election for one of two seats for NH State Representative in Merrimack County District 9. He became the first Cuban refugee to hold high office in the State of New Hampshire. He is running for State Rep. in 2022 for Merrimack County District 4 – Canterbury/Loudon.
Jose’ is serving on the Science, Technology & Energy Committee. He is a member of the Freedom Caucus. He never missed a hearing or House session, and he has a 100% vote rating with the House Republican Alliance and the Liberty Alliance. He received the “General John Stark Protector of Freedom” Award from (Americans for Prosperity) in 2021 and a 100% voting record Gold Award from Granite State Taxpayers in 2022. Additionally, he has been endorsed by NRA, NHFC, Cornerstone, and RebuildNH with “A” ratings.
He is fluent in Spanish and his interests include fishing, hunting, coin collecting and doing Cuban-style pig roasts. VOTE FOR JOSE’.
Please check out his campaign commercial.
E-Mail: Jose4NH@comcast.net
WEB Site: Jose4NH.Org
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The foundational ideas underlying the Constitution took root long before the founders drafted the document. In fact, they began to take root in the earliest days of American colonialization.
The Constitution was the culmination of a radical shift in political thought. Instead of government making rules for itself, the people established rules for government and wrote them down. And instead of trusting a king to wield almost unlimited authority, the founding generation distributed power between various branches of government, as well as between the general government and the various states.
Writing about the American Revolution, John Adams described it as a revolution in thought.
“But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. … This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.”
This revolution in thought began long before the outbreak of hostilities. We see it in the resistance to various laws passed by Parliament that the colonists viewed as oppressive and unconstitutional. Later, as the colonies declared independence, their distrust of centralized power and vague unwritten constitutions was reflected in their written state constitutions. The ideas that drove these actions influence the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution that followed.
But we can trace this revolution of ideas back even further.
A little-known agreement drafted just 23 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock could be considered the great great great grandfather to the Constitution.
In the spring of 1643, delegates from the Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth colonies met with the intention of forming a confederation. The threat of attacks by the French, Dutch and Indians motivated these four Puritan colonies to consider forming an alliance. They also hoped to better regulate trade between the colonies and develop a mechanism to settle religious disputes.
On May 19, 1643, the delegates agreed to what became known as “The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England.” The document itself states the purpose of the confederation.
“We therefore do conceive it our bounder duty, without delay to enter into a present Consociation amongst ourselves, for mutual help and strength in all our future concernments: That, as in nation and religion, so in other respects, we be and continue one according to the tenor and true meaning of the ensuing articles: Wherefore it is fully agreed and concluded by and between the parties or Jurisdictions above named, and they jointly and severally do by these presents agree and conclude that they all be and henceforth be called by the name of the United Colonies of New England.”
The very structure of this union foreshadowed the union of states created by the Articles of Confederation more than a century later. It created a federated system, maintaining colonial sovereignty while delegating a few powers to a central authority with limited power.
The central “government” was made up of eight commissioners — two from each colony. This commission was empowered to set quotas for men and expenses during wartime and arbitrate disputes with foreign powers or other colonies. There were also provisions in the agreement to facilitate the extradition of escaped servants, prisoners, and other fugitives, and to regulate affairs with the native people.
In May 1843, John Quincy Adams delivered a speech at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston celebrating the bicentennial of the confederation. He called it the first significant effort by English colonists to form an intercolonial alliance for mutual benefit.
“The New England confederacy was destined to a life of less than forty years’ duration. Its history, like that of other confederacies, presents a record of incessant discord-of encroachments by the most powerful party upon the weaker members, and of disregard, by all the separate members, of the conclusions adopted by the whole body. Still the main purpose of the union was accomplished.”
Despite difficulties holding together such a loose alliance, the confederacy generally succeeded in the goal of mutual defense. As Adams explained, “the concerted effort of the Indian tribes was counteracted and defeated for the space of about 30 years.”
The confederation made use of its treaty-making power. In 1650, it entered into the Treaty of Hartford with the New Netherland colony. The treaty established clear boundaries between the English and Dutch colonies. Significantly, the New England Confederation never submitted the treaty for ratification in England. It was one of the earliest examples of colonial self-government beyond the management of their local affairs.
The confederation also declared war on the Wampanoag Indians, joining other English colonies in King Philip’s War in 1675. The Confederation raised an army of over 1,000 men.
The confederation began to unravel for good in 1684 when the Massachusetts Bay Colony resisted King Charles II’s efforts to exert more control over the colonies. Charles revoked the colony’s charter. Two years later, King James II merged the New England colonies into a larger colony known as the Dominion of New England. This officially brought the confederation to an end.
While the confederacy only lasted a little over four decades, it left a legacy that influence the development of American government a century later. As the History of Massachusetts website put it, “the 40-year history of the New England Confederation amply demonstrated that unity between colonies was both possible and beneficial.”
There are shades of the New England Confederation in Benjamin Franklin’s “Short hints towards a scheme for uniting the Northern Colonies,” which was used as a starting point for the Albany Plan in 1754. This in turn carried over to Franklin’s early plan for an American confederation drafted and submitted to the Second Continental Congress in 1775. A year later, ideas in Franklin’s plan found their way into the first draft of the Articles of Confederation. And of course, the Articles created the foundation for the U.S. Constitution.
In a very real sense, the New England Confederation was an early ancestor on the Constitution’s family tree.
Mike Maharrey | The Tenth Amendment Center
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In keeping with the Climate Cult’s inability to predict a damn thing (where are those Vegas odds I keep asking about?), the Atlantic hurricane season has stumped them again – with a feat not duplicated since 1941.
By the way, I feel confident that if there were Vegas odds and Climate Cult Elitists were betting men and women (with their own money), they’d be betting against the Cult the same way people like Obama buy beachfront after warning us about catastrophic sea level rise. In other words, they know it’s BS, and they’d be as happy to make more money on the fraud betting against themselves.
In sports, that gets you banned; in politics, you get rich, fat, and happy off the fruits of other people’s labor and invited to give commencement speeches for fat honorariums, at which you mention how you achieved success without the bits about swindling people.
Anyway, NOAA predicted an above-average hurricane season. We wrote about it here and how it was not going well, but it’s NOT GOING WELL!
There were zero named tropical storms or hurricanes between July 3 and Aug. 30, which is the first time such a phenomenon has occurred in more than 80 years, forecasters noted this week.
“It has been surprisingly and freakishly quiet in the Atlantic,” University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy told The Associated Press this week, pointing out that weak Tropical Storm Colin fizzled out on July 2 and there’s been nothing since.
Let me translate. Above average means that we can’t predict sh!t, which is not surprising to anyone who lives in the Northeast. They can’t get tomorrow right; six months or sixty years is just an impossible narrative to stomach, but the heart wants what it wants, eh?
Things are so bad that we will be doomed in 12 years if we don’t embrace socialism.
No mention that we’ll be doomed immediately after embracing socialism? They always leave that out, but that’s one prediction they could get right, unlike NOAA and the Hurrican forecast for 2022.
“For the first time since 1941, the Atlantic has had no named storm (e.g., tropical storm or hurricane) activity from July 3rd-August 30th,” wrote Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach on Twitter. …
For the first time in about 25 years, there was no named Atlantic storm—tropical storm or hurricane—for the month of August.
Should we cue the quiet before the storm narrative?
“It is important to remember the lessons of Hurricane Andrew, which devastated South Florida and Louisiana in an otherwise quiet year,” the NHC’s acting head, Jamie Rhome, said in an email, referring to the Category 5 storm that hit Florida in mid-August 1992, as reported by AP. “It only takes one landfalling hurricane to make it a bad season for you, and we still have many months to go in the hurricane season.”
It is true that we should never let down our guard, but it is more true that the experts have no damn clue. And after a summer of heatwaves, and gnashing of teeth over the climate apocalypse, we get a record-setting nothing.
Will we have hurricanes? Of course, we will. This century has been unsettling quiet despite the cult’s non-stop doom and gloom. It’s a natural phenomenon. We should expect them. And there is one “named” Hurricane in September. Danielle. She’s murking about (35 N 45W headed for Europe) in the upper Atlantic and projected to weaken before reaching land.
We have Earl, but he’s just a tropical storm with some potential for rain in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, but not much else before it putters out in the Atlantic.
Not an impressive start to an above-average year, but you know as well as I that all they need is one big storm, and we’ll be inundated with climate apocalypse dogma.
At least we don’t have Climate cops (yet).
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The modus operandi of the Biden administration has been to say something publicly and let the press secretary and staff walk the statements back or clarify the actual message the next day. The aftermath of the horrendous made-for-tv speech by Joe Biden follows the Biden MO to the letter.
Joe was doing his own walking backward on Friday in an attempt at damage control.
This methodology lends tremendous confusion to the messaging of the President and the White House. Since he took office, joe has made statements, and the next day, you get an honest response. This tactic is amateurish at best but also leads to questions. Take this week, for example. On Thursday, Joe Biden condemned MAGA Republicans as terrorists and a threat to our democracy.
On Friday, the story changed completely.
Joe Biden is now denying that he claimed all Trump supporters are evil, but the damage was done. People read the headlines. Nobody ever reads the retraction on page six. CNN was one of the few networks to carry the President’s speech live. I give the others credit for seeing through the White House’s intentions that this was a President’s speech to the country. They saw it as a political campaign speech for Biden and the Party.
Though CNN’s ratings are at their lowest ever, its viewers soaked up the President’s vile rhetoric and the positive, giddy commentary following. The folks at MSNBC were over the top on Friday with praise for the speech and the tone of the President’s message. Some went so far as to say this moment was why Joe Biden was elected. At the same time, the commentators at FOX News were calling this moment Joe Biden’s deplorable moment, referring the Hillary Clinton’s famous gaffe. Biden’s speech cannot be his shining and deplorable moment simultaneously.
The fact that Biden was correcting his words the next day seems to nullify both views of his speech. If he claims his words were spoken or misinterpreted, then the reaction received is of the same value as the speech. They are both a waste of time and only help to confuse American and world viewers.
So, other than confuse us all, what has the President done with these twenty-four minutes of political theater? He has riled up both sides of the aisle, but I think he has further damaged his leadership position. He has angered the Right, which will have a longer-lasting impact than the euphoria felt on the Left. His performance has given the Right considerable material to be used in campaign ads at every level to exemplify how out of touch and unrealistic the President and his Party are. The projection contained in the speech was evident to anyone apprised of the facts.
We have gone through the list ad infinitum. The Border Crisis, the rise in crime, inflation, energy shortages, supply chain issues, gas prices, Fentanyl deaths, and falling educational standards are all the products of bad Progressive policies. To blame the Conservatives for these issues is, at best disingenuous and, at worst, a lie. I guess we will have to wait for the President to finish his backward walk to know the truth. Hopefully, he doesn’t fall in the process.
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It is a humorous look at a humorless lot. A video “telling” of plot number 6,567.003 to take out Donald Trump. This time, for good. Or maybe not.
It’s outrageous, and it just keeps going…and going…
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My name is Colton Skorupan, and I am running for the NH State House in the new District 45 Floterial that includes Greenville, Mason, Brookline, and Hollis. I am a pro-freedom, pro-liberty Republican.
I am a USAF veteran with frequent trips to the middle east under my belt, a patriot, a husband, and a home-schooling parent. My motto is “Freedom First” because it must be our first principle, and it needs to be considered as part of every question. Every law restricts somebody’s liberty, even if only in some small way, and for that reason using the law to fix problems should be a last resort. The messy interactions of freedom are far better than an overbearing state to organize our lives. We should have as few laws as possible but enforce the ones that we have.
We want to thank Colton Skorupan for this Press Release. Please direct yours to Editor@GraniteGrok.com.
We live in a moment where the rubber meets the road: This is no time to squish. Leftist ideology has been running rampant and the world is in a mess because Republicans have worked with and not against Democrats for far too long. Most of the problems that animate you every day, inflation, shortages, Covid restrictions (never forget!), and potential wars, do not get fixed at the state level. They are national and international problems. But New Hampshire can take the sting out and the edge off.
New Hampshire is a sanctuary state for freedom. We can do even better. The best defense is a good offense. The Governor vetoed a check on his power? Amend the state constitution. Can’t decide if voting machines are rigged or not? Go ahead and use them, but by law, hand-count every vote before certification. Your schools are teaching CRT and forcing make-believe pronouns? Let the money follow the child to wherever parents want to send them. We need to push, we need to win, and we need to be uncompromising once we do.
I want to add transparency to state government, and I am willing to answer all questions. If elected, I will blog about why I voted the way I did and will regularly meet with anybody who wants to come tell me why I’m wrong.
Please visit my website and submit any questions to colton@skorp.us and I will post the answers. Thank you, and please vote for Colton on September 13th.
Freedom First!
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Does anyone get tired of hearing this? The Democrats might. Despite being a Constitutional Carry state, with a series of recent laws favoring the right to self-defense and where you can legally carry, New Hampshire is again being recognized as the safest state in the US.
Who named us this time?
“TOP Data has identified the safest states in America by comparing all 50 states across 37 relevant metrics distributed in 6 key dimensions (Personal Safety, Public Safety, Financial Safety, Mental Health, Transportation and Infrastructure and Public Security).”
Homesnacks, Nerdwallet, some whose names escape me, and Top Data have all named the GraniteState the safest over the years. A distinction we enjoy despite being the gunslinging wild west destined for blood in the streets every time Republicans pass a gun bill and Governor Sununu signs it. But the only thing “in the streets” is the rising number of homeless in Democrat-run cities like Manchester, which accounts for a large slice of the violent crime pie in our state.
For the interactive map, go here.
The criteria are always interesting, and this one is no different. Actual violent crime is always a consideration, but how about the risk of a mass shooting, credit card fraud, road conditions, or the number of mental health facilities?
The location has a huge impact on people’s safety due to the unique conditions surrounding it, such as the condition of the roads, the likelihood of a mass shooting occurring, or the financial security offered.
New Hampshire continues to reign supreme whatever the formula, but what about Vermont? I like to compare them because Vermont is very blue, sliding down the slippery slope into a full-blown East coast California (without the warm weather or the beaches). A state with a long history of supporting a right to self-defense that has come under assault in recent years.
Bits of Vermont have embraced the defund movement, illegal alien voting (in local elections), more spending (and waste), with a rise in homelessness and street violence. All things that follow in the wake of prolonged one-party Democrat rule.
TOP Data ranked them fifth, and they seem proud of that, but it is another year and another decline.
In 2020 Homesnacks ranked them number four down from number two in 2019, and the problem is Burlington. Its declining public safety situation is pulling the entire state down.
Not long ago (2017), Vermont and Maine were neck and neck with New Hampshire, but the only real difference since then is the people left in charge of public safety. Elected politicians. Vermont and Main have been electing Democrats, while New Hampshire’s state officials are majority Republican. With more than a few of them being actual Republicans.
Vermont is swirling the Blue Bowl in part because their Republican governor is more like a Democrat than a Republican. And Maine appears headed that way, though it is not nearly as far down the same road.
They are a lesson for New Hampshire. We see states not so dissimilar a few years ago making mistakes and what happens to the things we take for granted, like public safety. If you put too much of it into the hands of people who insist they are better at managing it, it is one of the first things to go downhill.
If you need more examples, look at any Democrat-run city in the US *Chicago, Baltimore, DC, or even progressive rule in the UK. London banned guns, and now its knives. At some point, you run out of things to blame, and bigger people just beat the crap out of little people who can do nothing but take it until the police show up to take notes and speculate about the means of their demise.
I don’t know about you, but my idea of public safety is my family alive while I answer questions at my kitchen table about the criminal lying motionless with a sheet pulled over their head.
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I really didn’t want to write about Gail Huff Brown. I didn’t meet her until last year, but she lives half a mile from us, and I didn’t want any friction in town. Plus, when I first heard her speak in Portsmouth, she said she would never attack her primary opponents because Republicans are “a family,” and I respected that.
Of course, she allowed Scott Brown, her husband and the former Senator from Massachusetts, to speak right after she did and attack her GOP “relatives,” but I figured that was fair. Amusing even.
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It wasn’t long, of course, before Gail herself started attacking her opponents, particularly apparent frontrunner Matt Mowers. For months she’d been answering questions about the 2020 election results with a cowardly “COVID won.” When Democrats unearthed that Mowers voted in two states in 2016, Gail’s top issue suddenly became “election integrity.”
Both states, New Hampshire and New Jersey, said he had done nothing illegal, but she continued to say he had. Of course, legalities aside, the double voting reminded many that Mowers had been considered a “carpetbagger” in 2020. Gail didn’t mention that, though, because that moniker haunted husband Scott Brown throughout his 2014 senate run, and, indeed, many question Gail’s own ties to New Hampshire.
I started having real doubts when Gail announced in May she had been sounding the alarm about the baby formula shortage “since February.” She said her daughter was having trouble finding formula for her baby, Gail’s grandchild. I found this highly dubious and rather tasteless. Apart from the fact that there was no formula shortage in New England in February, she brought the baby to an event in April and said not a word about the scarce formula.
Who would not have responded if she had asked us to keep an eye out for her? Not a word. Instead, she mostly talked about her “thirty years in Rye.” Trying to dispel that carpetbagger issue, perhaps? She really didn’t talk about any issues until the Q&A portion, when it became apparent she didn’t know about the J-6 political prisoners, wouldn’t take a position on 2A, and had another go at Mowers for double voting. She had to be reminded by a supporter to talk about the border, which had been her “top issue” a month earlier.
Alarm bells went off in my head, but I stayed quiet. Then, this week, Gail says that Matt Mowers “appears stuck in the mud” and “hard right voters” are moving to Karoline Leavitt. Wow. So much for “family.”
The thing that got me is that Gail hasn’t been running as a moderate. One of the first things she said when we met was, “I’m much more conservative than Scott.” To this day, her ads call her a “conservative” and a “Trump Republican.” Now she says she’s the choice for “moderate Republicans.” Her big issue is abortion. Either her ads lie, or she thinks the base is—what? Semi-fascists, like Biden, said last week? Or will she just say whatever is necessary to get elected and back to DC?
So who is Gail Huff Brown? I truly have no idea. I’ve heard her speak several times, but I don’t know what she really believes or what she would do if she won. Would she stand up for those who elected her or be another Mitt Romney? Liz Cheney? No idea. What I do know is, win or lose, after the election, we won’t see her again.
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