You elected them to New Hampshire’s Citizen Legislature to represent you. When they don’t show up, you’re not being represented, are you? And with the razor-thin majority, every vote matters, so, as promised, we are releasing our first NH House Republican Attendance Report.

This week’s update offers a year-to-date percentage of how many votes they did not miss (you can do the math to determine the percentage they did miss). This is an important metric, and while it does not include voice votes, Roll Call votes are typically critical votes on issues important to Republicans.

We’re not telling you what to do with this information or that, in some cases, a “republican” Rep. missing a vote isn’t good for Republican priorities, just that they’ve missed a percentage of roll call votes, you should know this, and can pursue that with them if that’s how you roll (including a thank you to reps who always find a way to be there when it matters).

The House roster is available here if you are unsure who represents you (unlikely in this audience, but possible).

The Numbers

There are currently 201 Republican Reps in this survey, of whom 112 had perfect attendance. An additional 57 had attendance better than 90% – 32 had attendance worse than 90%.

Note 1 – This is their attendance percentage for all roll call votes, including procedural motions and quorum calls. It does not include attendance for non-roll call votes.

Note 2 – No exceptions are made in these numbers for illness, family emergency, any emergency, or any other absence excused or not. They missed the vote, period. You decide what that means to you.

The numbers below represent how often they were present for Roll Call Votes Year to Date (Jan 1 to Feb 29th). Linda Gould, for example, scored 35.2%, so she missed 64.8% of all roll call votes.

Future installments will list NH Republican Reps by the number of actual roll-call votes they missed in the previous week.

Below are the 32 Republicans with attendance worse than 90% since the beginning of the session.

0.0%	Sanborn, Laurie (R, Bedford)
35.2%	Gould, Linda (R, Bedford)
35.2%	Piemonte, Tony (R, Sandown)
44.3%	Cole, Brian (R, Manchester)
46.6%	O’Hara, Travis (R, Belmont)
52.3%	Varney, Peter (R, Alton)
58.0%	Milz, David (R, Derry)
58.0%	Trottier, Douglas (R, Belmont)
64.8%	Khan, Aboul (R, Seabrook)
68.2%	Lundgren, David (R, Londonderry)
70.5%	Kenny, Catherine (R, Hudson)
72.7%	Vandecasteele, Susan (R, Salem)
75.0%	Mason, James (R, Franklin)
79.5%	Bordes, Mike (R, Laconia)
79.5%	Crawford, Karel (R, Moultonborough)
80.7%	Dolan, Tom (R, Londonderry)
80.7%	Foote, Charles (R, Derry)
80.7%	Prudhomme-O’Brien, Katherine (R, Derry)
81.8%	Beaudoin, Richard (R, Gilford)
81.8%	Nutting, Zachary (R, Winchester)
81.8%	Smart, Lisa (R, Meredith)
81.8%	Testerman, Dave (R, Franklin)
84.1%	Thackston, Dick (R, Troy)
85.2%	Tenczar, Jeffrey (R, Pelham)
86.4%	Guthrie, Joseph (R, Hampstead)
87.5%	Doucette, Fred (R, Salem)
87.5%	Infantine, William (R, Manchester)
88.6%	Bickford, David (R, New Durham)
88.6%	Polozov, Yury (R, Hooksett)
88.6%	Renzullo, Andrew (R, Hudson)
88.6%	Verville, Kevin (R, Deerfield)
89.8%	Peternel, Katy (R, Wolfeboro)

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And… it’s Monday!  Ugh.

Take heart – there will be both a Wednesday and Friday Edition.  Last week’s Friday Edition.

Remember, ridicule and mockery are effective weapons:

1. Ridicule cannot easily be fought
2. Ridicule makes the enemy angry, and angry people make mistakes
3. For those in the “squishy middle” a Thought Splinter (and Part II and Part III and Part IV) can often be hidden inside humor.

Now, let the mockery and mayhem begin.

 

*** Warning, a few possibly off-color ones, in case tender eyes are about ***

 

 

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BATF = Burn All Toddlers First

I read the excellent book NO MORE WACOS.  Fascinating background.

 

 

 

Also: Federal Bureau of Incineration

 

 

 

No wonder he’s hated by the Left.

 

 

 

Is this a “Let them eat fruit loops” moment?

 

 

I’m torn.  Yes, I’m on Gab and no, I’m not a PRO member.  I appreciate fully that there is enormous expense associated with images and especially videos in terms of storage.  And while I do NOT appreciate the enormous amount of anti-Jew and anti-Israel posts, I will – per Voltaire – defend their right to hold those beliefs and speak their mind.  For in protecting even speech I hate, I protect my own.

So I am weighing going Pro, simply to continue to be able to share not just links but also images.

 

 

Ten percent to the BIG GUY, Joe getting $$$ confirmed.

The Public Disservice Of The Hunter Biden Testimony – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

What I find fascinating with the Left is that they ALWAYS double-down and deny.  And, of course, the GOP fails to play hardball.

 

 

I remember my VERY pregnant wife taking her oath of citizenship, and beaming.

 

 

Did I post this before?

 

 

This year I definitely need to get the potatoes started earlier.  We got a handful of fingerlings, nothing more.

 

 

The low valuation of Mar-A-Lago by the corrupt courts boggles the mind of anyone who looks at it with any sense of fairness.

 

 

 

Schumer Calls For Path To Citizenship For “All 11 Million, Or However Many” Illegal Immigrants There Are | Video | RealClearPolitics

 

 

 

 

In the movie GLADIATOR there’s a line: Rome is the mob.  And the Democrats understand this.

 

 

Probably not everything, but a damned lot of it.

 

 

Read this take on resistance:

The 2nd Amendment is Obsolete, Says Congressman Who Wants To Nuke Omaha | Monster Hunter Nation

And on that:

 

 

Is that a real sign?  These people better remember that there are people like my Jarhead friend who can hit a few-inch circle from 300-400 feet away.  And some, like a friend of his, was a former sniper and can do that same small circle from even farther.  And when the power goes out from shot-up transformers, and the water pressure dies, and there’s no refrigeration or purchases with electronic payments?  And worse things?

 

 

Can I scream BINGO if these all get checked off?

 

 

 

 

 

I agree.  As a former porn consumer, I realized the damage it was doing to myself and my perception of my wife and marriage and quit.

I run hot-and-cold on Ben Shapiro, but his book PORN GENERATION was definitely eye-opening.  And I’ve read a lot / seen a lot of videos since then which confirmed my instinctive take on what it was doing to me.

 

 

Apparently a judge that mostly rules on… get this… traffic infractions.  How in the Seven Hairy Hells does this person get to even impact Illinois’ ballot?

 

 

Speaking of porn; as I understand it, Japan is a sea of it.  No wonder Japanese people, particularly men, are not getting married.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So… she should have just laid back and tried to enjoy it?????

 

 

 

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PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA – PSA

 

 

 

 

They’re going to go FULL BORE to silence you.  And it will come to the US too, despite the First Amendment.  It doesn’t even have to be official – just scare enough reporters with things like this:

 

 

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Uniparty.  They hate Trump and, by extension, all MAGA people.

 

 

 

 

Had a chat with a guy at Synagogue recently.  Political conservative, gun owner… we agree on our shared utter astonishment at the “That can’t happen here” mindset of so many fellow congregants.  Another politically conservative Jew I know is also a gun-owner, similar comment.

 

 

 

This is a generations-long, FAITH DRIVEN effort.  This is their religion.

 

 

 

That’s weird.  James Woods is, IMHO, incredibly insightful.

Elon does seem to be rather… dual-faced on this, I have to admit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank Hashem it’s not that easy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Link section (some mine, some from my Jarhead friend):

 

Come back Wednesday for this one.

 

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Pick of the post:

 

 

Sowell.  Enough said.

 

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Palate Cleansers:

 

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Come back Wednesday for another edition.  Same Meme Time.  Same Meme channel.

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At least a few of the Several States, all run by political partisans exercising political will, attempted to keep a candidate for the office of President from appearing on an opposing (private) party primary ballot. The candidate, Donald Trump, asked the Supreme Court to review Colorado’s effort, and they have.

The question put before them was simple. “We granted former President Trump’s petition for certiorari, which raised a single question: “Did the Colorado Supreme Court err in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot?”

The US Supreme Court replied with, ‘It did err.’

Without getting into the weeds,

This case raises the question whether the States, in addition to Congress, may also enforce Section 3. We conclude that States may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office. But States have no power under the Constitution to enforce Section 3 with respect to federal offices, especially the Presidency. …

Because federal officers “‘owe their existence and functions to the united voice of the whole, not of a portion, of the people,’” powers over their election and qualifications must be specifically “delegated to, rather than reserved by, the States.”

This 9-0 decision explores the thinking on both sides, so it is worth a read, including the separate opinions, but the gist is that according to the Supreme’s the states can’t do what Colorado tried to do. The Constitution does not grant them that authority.

DONALD J. TRUMP, PETITIONER v. Colorado ballot thing

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Is there no limit to Mikey Graham’s Trump-Derangement-Syndrome? Apparently NOT. Now (writing this on 3/2) Mikey is promoting a piece by a CLINTON bureaucrat (IRS no less) that rewrites history … portraying Ronald Reagan as a warmonger who supported open-borders:

According to Oswald (from the linked post), Reagan would be supporting “aid” to Ukraine (i.e., money for the military-industrial complex) because he would see it as part of the Cold War against the Soviet Union

[Reagan] believed the Soviet Union was an “evil empire,” as he called it in his speech on March 8, 1983. … Reagan would be shocked by Republican resistance to send aid to Ukraine to fight Russia. Likewise, he would be incredulous at the flirtations with Moscow by some GOP members, …

Actually, Reagan would understand … as Oswald either does NOT, or thinks we do NOT … that the Soviet Union dissolved decades ago and that today’s Russia is NOT the Soviet Union. Moreover, Reagan called the Soviet Union “evil” because he believed that COMMUNISM was evil, NOT because he believed that Russia or the Russian people were evil.

What Regan would see as communism today is much of the Left’s (and Oswald’s) agenda: open-borders to transform America into a minority-White population, DEI, CRT, indoctrinating schoolchildren with woke. And, by the way, in case you’ve forgotten Reagan was pro-life and wanted Roe overturned.

Reagan was a man of PEACE. He did NOT want war with the Soviet Union. He repeatedly stated publicly that his goal was arms reduction … something that today would be total anathema to today’s supporters of Ukraine … but that to achieve arms reduction America needed to bargain from a position of strength; hence the military-buildup.

As for illegal immigration, Oswald claims that because Reagan signed an amnesty law that he would be in favor of open borders today. What is far more likely is that, having seen the Democrats renege on their end of the bargain (aided and abetted by the globalist/corporatist takeover of the GOP post-Reagan), Reagan’s position would be virtually identical to Trump’s.

Stated slightly differently, Reagan did NOT sign an amnesty law because he believed in open borders … he signed an amnesty law because in return he was supposed to get a secure border.

It was George H. W. Bush who when the Berlin War finally was torn down seemed disappointed that the Cold War was over. It was his warmonger son W who continued the Clinton-policy of strengthening China’s economy in order to enrich Wall Street at the expense of Main Street AND who invaded Iraq based on LIES told to the American people. It is the Bushes, the McCains, the Romneys, the McConnells, the Sununus, who have no place in today’s GOP. And that is a very good thing and something we can thank Trump for.

 

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Another week of comments, a school vacation week for many in New Hampshire, and yes – traffic dipped a bit with some folks traveling or doing more family stuff, but commenters will comment, and they did.

Thank you for that.

And I’m not ignoring all the fabulous comments by our authors and previous winners; I’m just trying to spread the love around a bit. You guys (authors and past winners) continue to engage in and encourage debate that has brought new readers and comments to GranitGrok, and that’s what this is all about.

And honestly, I’d give you all a prize if I could afford it, or – more accurately – pay authors for their excellent works, but we aren’t even at the pay Steve to do everything stage. It’s a work in progress—a lot of work but a labor of love searching for an income. The increased engagement helps, but it is also its own reward.

Great job everyone.

This Week’s Winner.

I think everyone did a great job with a side note to Lynn and Herb, who are downvoting more than the average number of comments. Make sure you are also commenting. I see at least a few remarks from Lynn but none from Herb unless I missed them. Don’t be a troll. You have a Disqus account, so discuss your concerns and share your perspective on the downvotes. We encourage readers to debate, agree, and disagree – you won’t get nixed for sharing a contrary opinion. We’re not Facebook or pre-Musk Twitter. Free speech matters; just be civil about it.

On that note, this week’s winner shared something I found not only brief – brevity is the soul of wit (Polonius, in Act 2,  scene 2 of Hamlet) but inspiring. It belongs on mugs, T-shirts, and bumper stickers (and maybe we’ll do that at some point).

Bill589

This comedian expressed my view decades ago: “The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” — Tommy Smothers

 

As another reminder, this does not mean that the other comments were lacking or that other commenters did not provide value or insight or expand and extend the debate. We had a lot of great input (as we always do), but there can be only one (each week).

Bill589, please email me at steve@granitegrok.com to arrange to ship you a prize.

Note to Rick Kenyon and AllyforFreedom: I’m still waiting on a ship-to address for both of you.

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If you’ve missed it or are a glutton for punishment (as opposed to a gluten for punishment, which is what my spellchecker just tried to do to my pre-editing fat-fingered spelling of the former), HB1002 has gone around and come around after a valiant but failed effort to kill it on the floor of the NH House.

Those seeking to pass the bill would love to wrangle some number of reps to support a Rube Goldbergina Final Solution whose goal remains the same. Punish everyone for the misdeeds of an alleged few to benefit “The State” while embedding a deliberate decline of government transparency and accountability into the law.

This is a bad bill. How bad is it? In a casual pre-zoom meeting conversation late last week, I framed the problem again in what I hoped was a new way (to review my past efforts to undermine the passage of this crap wagon of a bill, look here). If there are a handful of near-do-wells making right-to-know requests with legitimate Cloward-Piven-esqe malice, what sane Republican would take the same approach to access to public documents as Democrats do to the right to self-defense?

To Democrats, every shooting, even the ones that the FBI does not set up, is not just an excuse to punish law-abiding people but a call to action. Gun owners, in total, must pay a price for the actions of the disorderly few. By making it difficult or impossible to exercise the right, you give the government a power that puts law-abiding citizens at risk – not just from those disorderly few but the very tyranny of government 2A exists to dissuade.

That’s HB1002.

Any added cost, fee, fine, or tax to access public records makes the mere idea of holding your local or state government accountable less likely. It limits the pool of those able to afford it. It encourages the government to make accountability less likely by ensuring it is unaffordable.

HB1002′ disarms’ citizens who might otherwise request public documents, discouraging civic involvement or engagement.

HB1002 is the information elitism bill, and making carve-outs for the media (including GraniteGrok) does not make it better, and if you don’t think it will be abused, you are lying to yourself and everyone else.

Would it not be a better use of our time to address the disorderly few towns that leverage government power and the taxpayer purse to hide the people’s business from the people than to find ways to encourage more towns to follow their bad example?

 

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