How Did Your NH House Republican Rank In 2011?
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 04:46PM 
The New Hampshire House Republican Alliance has released its July 2011 score card for the entire first session of the Republican House majority. NHHRA Score Card PDF file.
I've culled my reps from the list (Hills 19) linked here. I've also generated a list of the Republican bottom feeders for 2011 (Same link). These are what we would call RINOs, moderate democrats who could never survive the bullying from the left, or might never get elected if they admitted that they have little or no interest in supporting the Republican party platform.
They are folks who are incapable of finding the 80/20 rule, or to be more precise the 70/30 rule, and in one instance (Ken Gould) we have a (r)epublican who only voted against the party 70% of the time.
The NHCP (formerly the NHDP) will call this a purity list, which is amusing when you consider how they treat their moderates, but let me assure you that it is no such thing. It is more like an intervention. Many of these troubled souls are in denial. Trapped in Republican leaning districts they are pretending to be something they are not. I'm just helping them (and their constituents) to accept that these House members may be democrats, actual independent/moderates, or just missing the boat often enough to get lumped in with people who have little or no interest in the goals of the Republican party.
There's nothing wrong with that. But it's time to come out of the closet and stop pretending. To embrace your "independent" or democrat roots, and run as what you are instead of pretending to be something you are not.
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Reader Comments (8)
Do with have a link for the Liberty Alliance scoresheet? I'm waiting for that one.
Also some of the off the record behaviors of some of the state reps should also be taken into account. One Merrimack state rep for instance while at the same time we're calling for all levels of government to show more fiscal sensibility came to the Merrimack school board with a petition to add another school bus just for their own child's route. This while the school board is dealing with the loss of millions in funding and finding themselves having to give pink slips to teachers.
This rep may have a high ranking with the party but their behind the scene behavior isn't winning any popularity contests with me.
http://granitegrok.com/Scorecard110705-2.pdf
As to the local problem well, that is a local problem and has no bearing on these results. It does merit discussion and it is reflective of character--more than suitable for evaluating them as a candidate in the district who represents us, but again not the point of the NHHRA ratings as reported. (Did you blog about that? Feel free to send me the link or the details.)
As for the NHLA 2011 Liberty ratings, I know they out, (usually by the Liberty Dinner which already happened) but I have not seen it online.
http://www.merrimack.k12.nh.us/files/filesystem/06-06-11%20Minutes.pdf
Sometimes I have my "too many irons" is a few of the wrong fires. I tend to miss stuff like this.
I'll be honest. My kids have had an hour ride back for the L and upper L for a decade even though we are about 8 minutes away. The bus rout is one of the most retarded things I have ever seen. It does affect their attention to homework when they finally get back. But it would not occur to me to ask about changing it. As far as I'm concerned it is what it is and if we need to we pick the kids up. We deal. But that's me.
I really do think that those of us who voted against the budget trailer bill (2) because it wasn't conservative enough, didn't go far enough, should be given extra credit rather than marked down like we are here and with the Prosperity ranking as well. But then, I wouldn't want to be much higher.