Win Hutchinson - Winning is our only option

Very Important Fundraising & Organizing Event

Join us in Manchester this Thursday, February 21st

Win Hutchinson, the Republican nominee for State House in the Manchester special election, is raising money for his campaign in a one-time-only fundraising event. The Friends of Win Hutchinson are just over halfway to the goal of raising $3,000 - and that means we have more work to do!

THIS Thursday evening, February 21st
5:30pm-7:00pm
The Offices of Aspen Insurance - 40 Stark Street, Manchester
Wine, Beer, Soda, Snacks Provided

$25 suggested minimum donation
Event Host: $100+
Event Sponsor: $250+

Pay at the door or mail your check to:
Friends of Win Hutchinson
386 Orange St, Manchester, NH 03104

Donate Here---New Online Giving Option!

RSVP:

Facebook
603-647-2395

win@winformanchester.com

 

Joined by special guests:

• NHGOP Chairman Jennifer Horn
• Manchester Republican Chairman Will Infantine
• Former NHGOP Vice-Chairman and Former MRC Chair Cliff Hurst

Special thanks to our very generous event sponsors:

• Bill Binnie
• Andy Demers & Liberty Political Solutions

Special thanks to these generous hosts:
(new names added daily to Facebook event page)

• Mayor Ted Gatsas
• Senator John Reagan
• Senator Nancy Stiles
• Senator David Boutin
• Sean Owen
• Hon. Tammy Simmons & Dan Garthwaite
• Andrew Hemingway
• Hon. Mark Derby
• Jean Esslinger and Stephen Mathieu of Legacy Financial Solutions
• Jeff Frost
• Chris & Sarah Stewart
• Tyler Deaton & James McClure
• Hon. Cam Dejong
• Adeel Tahir
• Craig Haynie

www.winformanchester.com

NHDP - Circles

Friend --  

I am excited to announce the New Hampshire Democratic Party has created three new opportunities to support our party and leaders as we look towards 2014.  By joining our President's Circle, Governor's Circle, or Congressional Circle your monthly support of the New Hampshire Democratic Party will support our leaders from Concord to Washington over the next two years. 

This week as we celebrate President's Day and reflect on the work President Obama is doing, I think of the thousands of people across New Hampshire who played a role in electing and re-electing our President. It is important we continue supporting the President and his plans to move our country forward.    

Stand with President Obama and join the President's Circle today.

Governor Hassan delivered her budget address last Thursday and fulfilled her campaign promise of delivering a fiscally responsible, balanced budget that will create jobs and strengthen our middle class.  She could not have done this without the hard work of committed Granite Staters last fall. 

Stand with Governor Hassan and join the Governor's Circle today.

And in Washington, Senator Shaheen, Congresswoman Shea-Porter, and Congresswoman Kuster are fighting for us each and every day to improve the lives of so many here in New Hampshire - working to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, bringing equal rights for our gay and lesbian service members, and helping bring commonsense solutions to our fiscal issues.  With all our help, these strong leaders will represent New Hampshire in Washington for many years to come. 

Stand with Senator Shaheen and Congresswomen Shea-Porter and Kuster and join the Congressional Circle today.

I hope you will join me in standing with President Obama, Governor Hassan, Senator Shaheen, Congresswoman Shea-Porter, and Congresswoman Kuster. 

Thank you for your support,

Senator Deb Reynolds

NHDP Finance Chair

P.S. - You can also still make a one-time contribution of $50, $25, or $10 today by clicking here!

AFPNH - Help us fight the war on energy consumers!

Granite State Gatherings February 13 – Smart Girl Politics NH - February Meet-up at 5PM at The Draft. Click here for more information. February 13 - Manchester Republican Committee Monthly Meeting at 6PM at NHIOP. Click here for more information. February 13 - Belknap County Republican Committee Monthly Meeting at 6:30PM at Top of the Town Restaurant. Click here for more information. February 13 - Carroll County Republican Committee Monthly Meeting at 7PM at Sunny Villa. Click here for more information. February 15 – Epsom Democratic Town Caucus at 8PM. Click here for more information. February 16 - Mont Vernon Republican Town Committee Meeting at 9AM at Chapanga's Restaurant. Click here for more information. February 16 - Strafford County Republican Committee monthly meeting at 9AM at The Pink Cadillac Diner. Click here for more information. February 17 - Mont Vernon Dems Caucus & Mtg at 4PM at Mont Vernon Village School MPR Room 1. Click here for more information.

There is a war in our state on energy consumers. While many working families and individuals in New Hampshire are struggling to make ends meet, state leaders are currently considering several pieces of legislation that will raise the cost for you to turn on the lights, to heat your home or to drive to work.   It’s time for the War on Energy Consumers to stop and for our elected officials to find ways to reduce the cost of these basic and critical services. Click here to find your members of the State House and your State Senator and contact them today! Recently the failed cap-and-trade program known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) announced plans to cut credits, with the goal of raising your electric rates. In addition, the New Hampshire House voted narrowly to raise the tax on fuel oil by 25% for a program that regularly runs a surplus and the House is considering a 67% increase in the state’s gas tax. I encourage you to contact your House members and your state Senator and tell them to OPPOSE HB 185 which will increase taxes on fuel oil by 25% and OPPOSE HB 617 which would raise the state gasoline tax by 67% over the next three years.  Please also ask your elected officials to OPPOSE lowering the RGGI program caps which will increase electric rates in NH. Click here to find your members of the State House and your State Senator and contact them today! In addition to increasing the burden on NH families, higher energy costs only make our state less competitive. Our elected officials should focus on growing our economy so that employers who are already here can expand and hire more workers and new businesses will want to move here. They should not be raising energy prices on the families and businesses that are already in the state. Please contact your legislators today and feel free to email us at infoNH@afphq.org if you receive a response.  Yesterday there were two Committee votes that you should be aware of. The first was from the Joint Health Care Oversight Committee which voted 4-2 to allow Governor Hassan to send a letter of intent to the federal Department of Health and Human Services concerning the establishment of a state-federal partnership exchange. Like so many of you, we oppose the establishment of a health care exchange in our state as required by President Obama’s health care overhaul. Though this vote is disappointing, we will continue to support efforts to prevent or limit the burden placed upon our taxpayers in fulfillment of this federal mandate. Also disappointing was a House Ways and Means Committee vote. The Committee voted along party lines in support of HB 370 which would repeal the education tax credit program established by the legislature last session. This vote means this bill is one step closer to becoming law and to removing all the hope offered to NH families through this scholarship program, which has not even been able to get off the ground. We oppose HB 370 and will call on the House to oppose this bill when it comes to the floor for a vote. NH parents should be able to make the best possible choice regarding their children’s education. HB 370 would make that more difficult.  Thank you for all you do to advance liberty and freedom in our state. We will keep you informed on these pieces of legislation as they move through the process. Sincerely, Corey R. Lewandowski State Director Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire P.S. For more updates, Like us on Facebook today!

Illinois Policy Institute - Individual sovereignty or government dependency

Listening to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, I was reminded of something Friedrich Hayek once wrote: "The more the state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual."

Our ability to plan and pursue happiness becomes limited as the size and scope of government increases, ultimately resulting in increased dependency.

The minimum wage hike Obama proposed is an excellent example of limiting an individual’s ability to pursue happiness. Putting good intentions aside, the outcome of a minimum wage hike is a reduction in employment and an increase in poverty. What's more, a high minimum wage prices low-skilled workers out of the market, preventing them from gaining skills and moving up the economic ladder. This results in increased dependence on government programs such as job training and financial aid.

ObamaCare, which made headlines in Illinois with the approval of a federal-state partnership exchange, is another example of limiting an individual’s ability to plan. Whether federally run or state-funded, exchanges put the federal government in control of the health insurance companies that may participate in the exchange, the plans that may be offered and even what doctors and providers can participate in exchange-offered plans. All of this restricts an individual's freedom to choose the health insurance that best suits their needs. ObamaCare has also forced many employers to decide whether to drop health insurance, reduce hours or cut employment, forcing individuals into the government-run system.

Obama's State of the Union painted a stark contrast between two competing visions for America. The first is a vision of dependence on government in which a group of elites use government to intervene and make decisions they believe are best for individuals. The second vision is of individual sovereignty and the ability to plan and pursue happiness without intervention from government.

We believe free enterprise and the liberty construct the Founders envisioned and put into law is the greatest force for good ever created in the human sphere. The Founders' vision works because it protects individual liberty while creating prosperity; not just material prosperity, but prosperity of the human spirit. It unleashes human potential and allows individuals to pursue their dreams with optimism. Our belief in this vision is what drives us to advance free market ideas and ultimately see them turned into law.

I invite you to attend “Obama 2.0” hosted by AM560 on March 14 to learn more about how the decisions made in Washington, D.C., will affect our lives. As part of that discussion, I will share why Illinois is on the way back from the precipice despite all you may read and hear.

In liberty,

John Tillman
CEO
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AUL - Protect Your Constitutional Rights

Dear Friend of Life, The Obama Administration keeps trampling on our religious liberties. Attacking the Freedom of Conscience of Americans could now be called its modus operandi. Don’t be fooled. The Administration’s new purposed “faith exception” to the HHS Mandate does nothing to protect our First Amendment Rights... as the legal team at Americans United for Life (our sister organization) quickly pointed out, it amounts to nothing less than a phony compromise - an all out assault on our conscience rights and religious liberties! AUL Action is working hard to expose this assault and defend our First Amendment Freedoms. Pro-life employers and employees, Christian colleges, and the family-run businesses of religious persons are just a few of the many groups who remain in the Obama Administration’s pro-abortion crosshairs. We can't let them get away with this! Follow this link to help us fight back with a contribution of $50, $100, $250, or more for life! If this assault on our Constitutional rights doesn’t stop, you and thousands of like-minded pro-life citizens may soon be forced to pay for other’s abortion drugs and devices. This is why we are involved in EIGHT court cases this Spring to defend the Freedom of Conscience. In the next few months, AUL is filing amicus curiae briefs in EIGHT federal circuit court cases across the nation and AULA will be raising public awareness of this appalling assault. These EIGHT cases include:  Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Sebelius (10th Circuit) Catholic Diocese of Nashville v. Sebelius (6th Circuit) Grote Industries LLC v. Sebelius (7th Circuit) Korte & Luitjohan Contractors Inc v. HHS (7th Circuit) Autocom Corp v. Sebelius (6th Circuit) Newland v. Sebelius (10th Circuit) Annex Medical, Inc. v. Sebelius (8th Circuit) Weingartz Supply Co. v. Sebelius (6th Circuit) But we can't fully fund this pro-life work without an infusion of funds, and that's why I'm writing to you today. So please follow this link to help us fight back with a contribution of $50, $100, $250, or more. Contribute to life! Let's send a clear message to President Obama, Planned Parenthood and the Big Abortion lobby: forcing people to pay for insurance covering life-ending drugs is not healthcare for women! Until all are welcomed in life and protected in law, Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. President & CEO Americans United for Life Action P.S. Our religious liberties are guaranteed by the Constitution, but this phony compromise to the HHS mandate proves the Obama Administration doesn't care. If allowed to continue, pro-lifers and people of faith may be forced to pay for insurance that covers life-ending drugs, like ella, against their will. So please follow this link to help us fight back with a contribution of $50, $100, $250, or more. Thanks - Charmaine

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