THE OBAMA PLAGUE!!!

            

The United States is getting a valuable lesson on world sanitation and health standards.  We are watching with horror, viruses ravaging our population especially our kids.  Some of these have symptoms of TB and now a strain of Polio.

 

Being in my 60’s I grew up with the generation that worked hard to eradicate many of these diseases with childhood immunizations and proactive medical programs; as a kid I remember people getting polio.  I can also remember going to get the polio vaccine while in school standing in long lines for shots then (at a later date) the Salk vaccine that we drank in little paper cups. 

 

In short, overall, the US has attained a high degree of sanitation with fresh drinking water, sanitation programs and preventive health programs.  Not all countries of the world have done this, many in our own hemisphere. 

 

As a country we want to save the world, feed the hungry kids, help with the Ebola Virus; but, what about countries that have very poor sanitation standards?  Let’s look at South and Latin America; we just allowed tens of thousands of children from these countries that didn’t have shot records to show immigration, the Obama administration and liberal democrats are too busy to have them checked out for some of these viruses that thrive in the poorer countries that do not come close to the health standards we have.  We were in such a hurry to “save the children” we may have sentenced our own children to severe medical problems or a crippling future with polio.  I think we are just finding one of the problems of illegal immigration.

 

I received this information from a friend of mine who is sick with many of the symptoms of what the kids are coming down with and this is what his doctor told him.  Maybe the doctor is wrong; I’ll let you connect the dots.

 

Did Maggie take in any of these kids into NH?  The viruses seem to have shown up.

INTERESTING PRIMARY!!!

The one thing you should never trust is the Senate Republican leadership.  When it comes time to recruit for the Republican ticket for the State Senate they will tell their intended targets anything and promise them anything to get them to sign up.  Then when they sign up it is “good luck kid see you after the primary”; by the way we can’t get involved in primaries.  Then spend many thousands of dollars to shore up weak incumbents with primary challanges.

 

We seem to have quite a lineup for State Senate Candidates this time one supposedly had his pistol permit pulled for a domestic violence allegation, another is alleged to have taken a homeless young lady into his family home and she alleged a strange sexual relationship while she was in the home.  Another reported case was an incumbent who, it was alleged, asked a young mail intern to perform sex acts on him.  Supposedly, this was reported to the senate leadership who apparently covered it up.  Another was a you tube video of a State Senator, in a bar, and drunk as a skunk; this is all ok because we can dispense with morals and what is right and wrong because we need to maintain a Republican majority.

 

On the state rep races some are predicting a 265 republican to democrat majority with, you got it, the famous “Bill the Bully O’Brien” as speaker once again.  If you remember the last time he was speaker in two short years he turned the legislature into a cult and by doing that brought down the whole republican agenda and we lost the house.  Many of the same people who the voters rejected during the last election, let’s call them Billy bots because they couldn’t think for themselves, are running again.  That includes a number of Free Staters who are still hell bent on taking control of NH and frustrated they can’t.  We have Free Staters and Free State backers running in Exeter who are trying to keep a low profile knowing, like Exeter, many communities will not vote for them.

 

As far as the governor’s race goes, the last time Maggie was in charge of anything was when she had a leadership position in the State Senate; she ran up a budget deficit of about 100 million dollars.  I know I was on finance and tasked with closing the gap, we worked day and night to do this and it was extremely difficult to cut state agencies and programs to the bone but we did it.  Now, that all has to happen again.  I have been told we do have another 100 million dollar deficit which will require about a 10% budget reduction.  Maggie does not want that number made official until after the election.  I have also been told a big chunk of this deficit is caused by expanded Medicaid which appears to have been sanctioned by our Republican Senate Leadership, (shoosh, don’t say anything and maybe the voters won’t notice).

 

I would prefer elected officials who only vote with their leadership half of the time; that way I know they are voting for their constituents the other half the time which is a marked improvement over what we have now.

 

Senator Shaheen, Congressmen Kuster and Porter I don’t think they have had an original thought since Obama has been in office. Unfortunately, their Republican opposition isn’t much better.  I was in the State Legislature with Both Guinta and Garcia.  Although I supported Innis in CD 1 in the primary I will hold my nose with both hands and vote for Guinta, at least he won’t be a rubber stamp for Obama, and he’ll be a Republican rubber stamp.  Fortunately I don’t have to vote for Garcia.  While in the house Garcia was a very strong Billy bot, who although smart and somewhat sophisticated her only claim to fame was she played the harp; causing me to frequently call her harpo Garcia. In my opinion she is not a leader, has no leadership abilities; but, she is a female with a Spanish last name and that is what our Republican leadership wants.

 

I think politically we are in trouble.

 

To leave a thought, as we know that Obama is the worst thing to happen to our country in recent history, he didn’t vote himself into office!

BACK FROM VACATION!!!

NEW DEMOCRATIC TACTIC!!!

I don’t know how many remember a recent election, I think in Mississippi, where the democrats took Republican ballots to influence an election and it worked.  Well they did it in NH and we confirmed it in one race and strongly suspect it in another.  It is illegal, no, is it unethical, probably not, would they go nuts if we took Democrat ballots to alter the results of their primaries, they would scream bloody murder and deny they ever did it to the Republicans.

The Republican establishment is so busy getting involved in primary races, they lost sight of the ball and that is keeping an eye on the democrats.

EXETER NEWS LETTER GOT IT WRONG!!!

It wasn’t long ago the Exeter News Letter wrote an editorial calling for the removal of the old white garage at 1 Franklin St (the end of Franklin and Clifford where they meet water street.  The ENL referred to it as an eye sore. I never looked at it that way, to me it had a certain character, I use to deliver the newspaper to the owner when I was 8 years old and lived down the street from it since 1951.

The building was torn down and now, I guess it no longer looks like an eyesore; it looks like Grandma Hokum’s weed patch. 

I tried to envision it as a Norman Rockwell setting; but, I just couldn’t pull it altogether to picture it in my mind.

I’m still waiting for the new restaurant to come in like the owner said was going to happen.

IF THE NEW EXETER PAY PLAN IS TO WORK???

If the new Exeter pay plan is to work the appeals process has to work; if the appeals process doesn’t work then the pay plan doesn’t work; if the new plan was to fix the old plan then we’ll need another plan to fix the new plan.

I understand there are people who will be appealing what the pay plan does to their position and it will be interesting to see how it will turn out.

DAN INNIS FOR CONGRESS: A NEW FACE, NEW IDEAS AND A NEW DIRECTION!!!

DAN INNIS FOR CONGRESS: A NEW FACE, NEW IDEAS AND A NEW DIRECTION!!!

It doesn’t seem many people are paying attention to the upcoming elections; first of all they all sound the same and spending millions of dollars on TV ads with the same old messages, same old accusations and the same old candidates running.

From what I have seen about Dan Innis he is open and honest about his life, has a fantastic education, and seems to be in tune with what the state of NH wants.  I don’t see him beholden to anyone except the voters and I think he deserves a chance to see if he can do what he says he wants to do.

Dan supports lower taxes, lower business regulations and a better business environment over all.  Although politically a new face he seems well grounded in what he wants to do and has the knowledge to do it.

Right now I’m willing to give him a vote, there is always another election.

I LOVE THE EXETER SELECTMAN’S MEETINGS!!!

If you want free humorous entertainment watch the Exeter Selectman’s Meetings on channel 22 Comcast. The lunatic fringe shadow government was in rare form with one of them, apparently, intoxicated and needing to lean on the lectern to steady himself, another one running for state rep was jumping up and down like he has  a physical issue and seemingly commenting on every issue that was discussed; evidently to get free face time to help him in the upcoming elections.  The third was trying to act sane in his presentation and is very sensitive about being grouped in with the loonies is not worth mentioning.

 

Dan Chartrand, the frequent target of their political rants, who is the next selectman up for reelection, was presenting a new pay plan for some of the town employees.  The plan was studied and recommended by an outside consulting group and the Town Manager.  Ann Surman, the cheerleader for the fringe voted against it as did the fringes mascot, Don Clement.  Their argument was that it needed more work; it had problems, etc, etc.

 

In the legislature the losing side of a legislative issue, when they had no basis to argue against a bill, would always say it is flawed, it has problems and it needs more study.

 

The plan was voted in 3-2 and will be in place soon.  If any of the town employees think they are being treated unfairly they do have an appeal mechanism; many times you don’t have to appeal a simple discussion with the Town Manager and a good argument as to why you disagree, may well resolve the issue.

 

So on a good night at the selectman’s meeting you might find the town drunk, the town nut and the town liar all in attendance providing entertainment by presenting their vision on how the town and the world should run.

DON'T FALL INTO THE FREE STATE TRAP!!!

This is a recent article published in the Concord Monitor.


By MATT MURRAY For the Monitor

Saturday, July 19, 2014
(Published in print: Saturday, July 19, 2014)

We are well into the 2014 election season, and there’s a lot at stake.

Not just control of the U.S. Senate, as newly minted New Hampshire resident Scott Brown ignores his GOP primary opponents in his rush to target incumbent Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.
 

Not just the perversity quotient of the U.S. House, as primary voters sort through which candidates – representing which wing of the Republican Party? – will challenge Democratic incumbents Annie Kuster and Carol Shea-Porter.

 

Not just the balance of power in the New Hampshire General Court, as we’re still trying to forget – or at least recover from – the two-year reign of House Speaker “Bully” O’Brien.
 

I hate to mention this, but there’s also the 2016 presidential campaign right around the corner. And if we’re going to fulfill the responsibility of the “First in the Nation” primary, then New Hampshire needs to have solid – and sane – political parties.

 

You see, New Hampshire is the focus of a unique political experiment, started in 2001 by then-Yale doctoral student Jason Sorens. His idea was to get 20,000 activists to move to a single state with a small population and an easily accessible government.
 

“Once we’ve taken over the state government, we can slash state and local budgets, which make up a sizeable proportion of the tax and regulatory burden we face every day. Furthermore, we can eliminate substantial federal interference by refusing to take highway funds and the strings attached to them. Once we’ve accomplished these things, we can bargain with the national government over reducing the role of the national government in our state. We can use the threat of secession as leverage to do this.”

 

Snowplowing? Bridge safety? An adequately funded judicial system? Public colleges? These things are nowhere on the Free Staters’ priority list.
 

No, the Free Staters – at least those in Keene – seem to be more interested in marijuana and videotaping the city’s parking enforcement officers.

 

Here’s where it gets serious: Free Staters don’t care about political parties. That’s how two Free Staters, who lived in the same house, ran for state representative on opposite sides of the ticket. (The Democratic candidate won.) Free State candidates don’t advertise their allegiance to the project, they just join up with a political party and run for office.

 

In their 2012 election results roundup, the project outlined the progress they had made: Over the past eight years, FSP participants who have become state representatives went from zero to 1, to four, to 12 to 14 in 2010, to eleven this cycle. Only 1,100 movers are on the ground. With only 5 percent of the goal movers in New Hampshire, political FSP participants held onto the status quo while Republicans got trounced. Baby steps, people. It ain’t called a “project” for nothing!

Twenty-thousand movers could translate into 200 state reps, half the house. Imagine what fun would ensue.

 

One-fourth of the legislators identified as belonging to FSP ran as Democrats.

And now it’s 2014, election season again.

 

Is it going to get even weirder this year?

 

Sen. Peter Bragdon is retiring, and “Free State” mover Dan Hynes is running for his seat. Apparently Hynes has offered free room and board to FSPers willing to work for his campaign.

And here’s what his campaign website says about why he’s running (under “Smaller Gov”): “Dan Hynes opposes government regulations that force people to do things against their will, or that prevents them from doing things that bring them happiness as long as it does not harm other people.”

But don’t we need rules about which side of the road to drive on? Laws to protect property? What happens when the things that make one person happy conflict with what makes other people happy? What happens when most people want to have our highways plowed, but some people don’t want to pay for it?

 

People actually think that this kind of chaos is a good idea? And they’re moving to New Hampshire to create it?

 

Hasn’t New Hampshire already had enough nuttiness from our politicians? Can’t we all agree that we need a functioning government? And rational political parties? And that Granite Staters don’t really want to secede from the United States?

 

This election year, we need to pay close attention to who we’re voting for, where their allegiance lies and what sort of a government they believe in (if any).

There’s a lot at stake.

(Matt Murray is the creator and editor of the NH Labor News, an online blog that focuses on politics and their effect on working families. He lives in Merrimack.)

BOB SMITH FOR U.S. SENATE!!!

Bob has got a temper and sometimes a little pig headed; but, he is the only true conservative running for U.S. Senate.

Bob is truly the only old guard Republican we have left in NH that has the experience, knowledge, Republican we can find in NH.

When Scott Brown ran for the U.S Senate in MA, many of the Tea Party conservatives  from NH gave him money and went to MA to go door to door, work the polls and put a lot of time into his campaign.  A month after he was sworn in the Tea Party admitted they made a mistake because he was liberal in his votes. 

Who is going to convince us, if elected, he won’t do the same in NH?

Brown is the establishment’s choice and has been anointed for the Republican nomination.  That sticks in many of our craws.

Bob Smith has done more for the Republican Party in NH than any of the other candidates and when he couldn’t be manipulated by the Republican establishment he fought back and has been on the outside ever since.

What has happened in our country in the last six years has not only been an embarrassment; but, I’m concerned about surviving the Obama leadership and arrogance for the next two years.  That is why we need people like Bob who will stick with his principles and ours too in the midterm elections to counter this.