Marjorie Porter (D) Hillsborough Asks What’s the Difference.

In a recent Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Letter to the Editor Ms. Marjorie Porter (D) Hillsborough rhetorically asked Speaker of the House Bill O’Brien What is the difference between Tea Partiers disrupting Town Hall Meetings being called patriots and Union members, many who were bussed in from Massachusetts, disrupting the legislature while in session being called thugs? I can answer that for the Speaker. At Town Hall meetings, Politicians make promises that they have no idea how to fund. The legislature is where the state conducts its business.

It’s obvious she really doesn’t know the difference. After 4 years of Democrat majority in NH we are left with a Billion (that’s a thousand million) dollar unfunded hole in the state’s budget. They expanded state government every year. Now the Republican controlled house is getting this under control. Every state agency budget faces scrutiny. This includes DHHS, the largest agency in the state, cutting their budget. The legislature doesn’t tell them where to cut, that is the job of our meek Governor Lynch, and the management staff of the state agencies. They can make this political, only cutting services or they can do the hard work of restructuring DHHS and the other agencies to be more efficient.

Lynch could have stopped the out of control spending. Two years ago, Lynch downshifted most of the unfunded costs to the cities and towns. Last year being an election year, Lynch chose to borrow the unfunded costs through bonding adding hundreds of millions to the states debt service. Ironically, the Democrats proclaim a hatred for large financial institutions while their policies enrich the very organizations they supposedly hate.

Another writer bemoaned the elimination of the 10% lottery tax. That tax has cost the state millions in lost revenue. If you are from Maine , Massachusetts or Vermont why would you pay an absolute 10% tax in NH, when you can make similar wagers in your own states and pay the income tax after deductibles of no more that 7%. Isn’t the lottery already a 50% tax on folks bad in mathematics? Every dollar you chase away with the lottery tax costs the state $0.50 in revenue, so they can collect 10% of the prize money over $600. This is rather small as the prize pool is about $0.50 of every $1 with only a small percentage of the prize pool going to winners over $600

The Ledger Transcript’s bias is showing. Writing fear mongering story after story straight from the Democrat talking points is not reporting. Your conservation writer Ian Aldrich used his column to spout “We are not Broke” another Democrat talking point meaning there is plenty left to tax. Does Aldrich know that if he isn’t broke he can send in any extra money to the Government at any time? He could also donate it to places like the Harris Center supporting conservation or to the local town welfare departments for social issues, or any of the numerous non-profits like MATS, The Grapevine or Shelter From The Storm.

Work Hard Have Fun!

Bob DeMaura

NHInsider Owner/Operator

Update on Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 07:32AM by NH INSIDER

Chris you are correct I did remove the Quotation marks. As I chopped it down to fit in a standard LTE for a newspaper I had to keep removing words. When I transfered it here I failed to remove the quotes.

Here is the actual word for word quote, in fact the whole letter:

"I ask the N.H. House Speaker O'Brien to help me understand."

"Why are corporate-backed Tea Partiers who shouted, disrupted, threatened and shut down discussion at town hall meetings around the country a year, or so ago called "patriots", while union members who disrupted the House by chanting in the Gallery called "thugs"?"

Bob DeMaura

Comments

[Ed Naile]

Bob:

Marge Porter is a union hack from SAU 34 via New York.

Not worth print.

[Rep Steve Vaillancourt]

Anyone who cannot tell the difference between a politcal rally or town hall meeting and an official session of a legislative body tasked with passing a $10 billion budget is truly hopeless.

[Timothy Horrigan]

Rep. Porter is originally from Worcester, not New York City, Ed.

I can see why you might have trouble keeping the two cities straight: both towns are out of state, both are south-southwest of NH and in fact Worcester is on the way to New York City if you are driving from NH. You are an expert on politics, not geography, Ed--- so we really can't expect you to to remember which city was on the way to which other city.

You did get the SAU 34 part right: that is indeed the SAU which includes Hillsboro, where she has lived for many years.

[Ed Naile]

Readers:

Correction:

Marge lived in some liberal rat's nest south of here and has lived in Hillsboro NH for many years, and has contributed greatly to the sucess of SAU 34 - now the fifth from the bottom in all high schools in NH and not surprisingly has never climbed above the bottom dozen in the last decade or two.

(Imagine being scolded by a guy who lives in his mother's basement. Oh how I suffer.)

[Chris]

Why have the quotes been removed from what Rep. Porter "rhetorically asked?" Did she not actually say what was attributed to her?

[Timothy Horrigan]

I was not aware that I lived in my mother's basement., Thank you for setting me straight, Ed.

[Chris]

Thanks for the clarification.