Category Archives: Local NH Politics
Look for the Union Label…
Hodes and Shea-Shea Porter sure know how to impress the unions. PACs account for at least half of Hodes campaign cash and a full 1/3 of that is from unions. Shea-Porter is also a sponge for union money soaking in … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Contributions, Carol Shea-Porter NH-01, Paul Hodes NH-02, Unions
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Green Jeanne Therapy
Jeanne Shaheen has quite a list of policy objectives on the Energy policy page of her web site. It’s a virtual who’s-who of left wing thinking, the crux of which–after you filter out all the fluff–seems to be that if we … Continue reading
Clueless Carol and Mean Jeanne Shaheen acting oily
The meeting must have gone well because every Dem in NH that’s running for office is reading off the same set of index cards. Shea-Porter (D-?) is claiming that Oil companies are sitting on excess production to drive high prices … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol Shea-Porter NH-01, Energy, Jeanne Shaheen, oil
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Lynch’s new Dem Opponent wants more taxes. (?)
I like to see citizens getting involved in the process, but only a Democrat would run against another Democrat on a platform of more taxes. From the Union Leader What drove Kathryn Forry, 67, a retired school teacher and education … Continue reading
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Tagged John Lynch, Kathryn Forry, New Hampshire, politics, taxes
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News from the NH / NE Blogosphere
Here are some quick shots of interest from around the New Hampshire and New England. Hot from Granite Grok Jeanne Shaheen Doesn’t answer some questions Here. Judd Gregg goes native and Co-sponsers the government take over of Health Insurance. A must read. … Continue reading
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Tagged Jeanne Shaheen, Judd Gregg, New Hampshire, politics, State Senate
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Rep Shea-Porter plays make-believe…
…about how she is helping out the middle class. A full color mailer graced my mailbox yesterday–pictured here–with the traditional extended family around the dinner table. Without getting too wrapped up in the contradictions between Democrat policies which Rep Shea-Porter … Continue reading
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Tagged Carol Shea-Porter NH-01, Democrat, Economy, New Hampshire, politics, Shea-Porter
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Take the train–you’re already paying for it.
Paul Hodes NH-02 and Carol Shea-Porter NH-01, voted in favor of spoon feeding another 14 billion in tax dollars into the Amtrak system with H.R. 6003. Amtrak has been the recipient of much Federal largess over the course of its existence, and clearly has … Continue reading
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Tagged Hodes, New Hampshire, Pork, Shea-Porter, Votes
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Lynch buys in to Cap and Trade and NH gets to pay
Governor Lynch, in signing a bill that adds New Hampshire to the Regional Greenhouse gas initiative, has just saddled us with a cap and trade emissions scheme not all that different from the one the EU has used for several years. So … Continue reading
Posted in Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News
Tagged Cap and Trade, Economy, Governor Lynch, John Lynch, New Hampshire
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Hodes on the wrong side of “Middle-Class tax cuts.”
Paul Hodes (D- CA NH ) is insisting that Obama is not planning on raising taxes for the middle class, but like most Democrat strategies, what sounds like one thing, smells like something else. Obama’s plan at its simplest, which Hodes … Continue reading
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Tagged Hodes, New Hampshire, Obama, politics, Tax cuts
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Creating Opportunity in NH?
This is a letter I wrote the Nashua Telegraph in response to an article in a Sunday edition back in late May. As is generally the case–for The Telegraph at least–it was never published. I wanted to start a section … Continue reading
Posted in Local NH Politics, New Hampshire News, taxes
Tagged Big government, Business, Live Free or Die, New Hampshire, politics, taxes
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The New Media Militia 