Playing 52 Pick Up, And Then Some

New Hampshire Election Information (http://nhelection.info/) has the results posted of its 52-pick up page an effort to identify and track the replacement of fifty-two "of the most statist and the most vulnerable legislators in the New Hampshire House of Representatives."

The final accounting is impressive.

Only four of the fifty two reps listed survived the 2010 election season; Evalyn Merrick (Coos 2), Peter Ramsey (Hills 8), Daniel Sullivan (Hills 8), and Nick 'The Nuke' Lavasseur (Hills 11) survived.  The other 48 got washed out in the roughly 296 seat sweep of the House.

There are several other democrats formerly known as "NH House Reps" who have been on my radar for a while that also lost their seats.  Kevin 'wicked cool' Hodges was handed his walking papers.  Hodges is on the 52-pick up list, his infamy resulting not just for his progressive politics, but also from a publicized conversation in which he used coarse language and insulted older Republican House members to a local constituent who then wrote a letter about it to the local paper.

Brian Poznanski, another rep on my radar was not on the 52 pick-up list but was swept out as well.

Poznanski (D-Budweiser/Nashua) may be best known for a November 2009 house party in Bedford at which the then underage House member was picked up with about two-dozen other underage drinkers for internal possession of alcohol.  (see here, here and here.) Democrat leadership refused to reprimand him or encourage his resignation, despite his having violated state law in front of a house full of under-age drinker in violation of his sworn oath of office. 

It later became public knowledge that Rep Poznanski had an LSR queued up for the 2010 session that would have excused him from the very offense he had been picked up for.  First time offenders of underage drinking laws would have been able to seek "medical treatment" rather than have a public arrest record, an obvious sop to his peer group.  The LSR disappeared right after the incident, Mr. Poznanski hung on until November 2nd 2010.

Conveniently, this mornings Sunday Telegraph ust happens to have a lengthy article about Mr. Poznanski and his take on the 2010 drubbing.  It does not mention the 2009 incident, nor the LSR.  Brian does however opine sideways over the progressive canard that the size of our State House makes it difficult for voters to make educated decisions about whom should serve.  This follows on the heels of his pointing out that some good democrat candidates lost.  For the less sensitive of our readers, this implies, perhaps even unintentionally, that many democrats very likley lost because voters are either too lazy or too stupid to make informed choices.   It is obvious that Brian has in fact learned a few things from his experience in the democrat caucus. You can be above the law if you are a democrat, and losing is most likley the result of uniformed voters swarming the polls.

It is instructive to point out that this charge (loss by uninformed voter) is not one you will likley find anywhere in the 2006 or 2008 musings over the democrats surge that put folks like Brian in Concord.  He does admit that Obama's coat tails and 'young voters' played a part in his first and only term election in 2008, but I think we can see that for what it was.  History shows us that the youth vote has never been much of factor, not even so much for Obama, but if it was, it contradicts Poznanski's inference about informed voters making a difference.  If college students surged to elect Obama, they did so at their own peril--a life of higher taxes, economic stagnation and chronic 25% unemployment, with public service as one of few chances at a job after college.  If that's evidence of an "informed" electorate I'll take the stupid voters who want personal freedom and low taxes.

But the irony award from the telegraph article by Telegraph Staff Writer Danielle Curtis goes to this quote. "(But) I wish I had been able to sponsor a piece of legislation."

But you did Brian; LSR (2010-H-2523-R).  But then your made an uniformed choice that made it go away.

Cross Posted

Seth Marshall Discovers Property Taxes

Hat tip out of the gate to fellow NHI front pager Richard Olsen Jr. for this fine bit or wordsmithing on Democrat Rep Seth Marshall's brief letter to the Nashua Telegraph about a pamphlet on the burden of property taxes.  Mr. Marshall (it appears) feels blessed as if the contents of said pamphlet revealed the answer to a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma (which he discovered in the shadow of some penumbra no doubt.)  What's the revelation?  That New Hampshire relies more heavily on property taxes.

That's quite a discovery for a General Court lurker from the Fish and Game committee whose been a rep for four years.  Just figured that out Seth?  Oh, but not by himself--he's got a pamphlet.  Hard to believe it hasn't come to his attention sooner.  Seems to me it would be all the rage on the left wing.  So I guess Nashua Rep Brian Poznanski doesn't invite him to the House parties--where it probably comes up all the time.  You know, the deal, drinking with minors, writing laws to get minors off if they get caught drinking, talking about property taxes.  Did you know New Hampshire apparently relies heavily on them?  (Property taxes, not drunk underage State Reps--well, actually have you seen the budget?) Did you also know that New Hampshire still has one of the lowest tax burdens in the country because it relies more heavily on property taxes?  It's true.  That wasn't in the pamphlet was it?

Want to know why? 

When people can see the taxes in a lump, they get pissed off and ask selectman, councilors, and even legislators like Mr. Marshall what the hell they think they are spending all of the peoples money on.  But when it gets hidden in dozens (or millions) of small almost unnoticeable places it piles up without anyone really knowing how much it is.  The government spends it, then looks for more.  The next thing you know we're New Jersey or New York or California.   It's actually that simple.  And it's not that surprising.  Several people new about this already and they didn't even need a pamphlet.  But they were just as inclined to hide the truth for political traction as Mr. Marshall.

John Lynch made note of this inequality/property tax thing  just last summer.  It was in the Telegraph. (I wrote about it here).  John Lynch is the governor of New Hampshire Seth, and he's a democrat, though not according to Tim Robertson from Keene.  (Keene is a city in New Hampshire, Seth.)  And then that property tax thing came up again in the Telegraph just last September (which I wrote about here.)  You know, I bet we could probably make a safe bet that the Telegraph brings up the property tax thing more often than Lou D'Allesandro brings up state run gambling.  Lou is a NH State Senator, Seth.  He thinks gambling would be a great way to reduce the tax burden, except that you and Lou already spent it all and then some so it really wouldn't help at all.  Lou, (I suspect you) and most of New Hampshire know that as well.  But maybe he can whip up a pamphlet for you, or a flyer perhaps.  One that suggests some kind of class warfare rhetoric as an excuse to promote an income tax then we can use to close the massive deficits that years of incompetent, uninformed democrats created intentionally as a way to get New Hampshire into a nice broad based tax.

Funny how the rest of your letter sounds like uninformed class warfare rhetoric.  Some things must just come naturally to liberals.

I just Hope Seth doesn't have to dig a well anytime soon.  He might discover where the state nickname comes from.  That could prove an expensive mistake, kind of like letting democrats run the state of New Hampshire.

Introducing Rep Kevin Hodges (D- Awesome Cool)

Ah, the arrogance of youth.  Not long ago it was Brian "I have an LSR to get minors off for getting busted for possession of alcohol" Poznanski who was the whelp--having then gotten himself busted as a minor in possession of alcohol in front of a house full of minors and his LSR subsequently pulled.  That was fun, and illegal, but so five months ago.  Now we have Kevin Hodges (Hillsborough7) who hasn't done anything illegal that we know of, but based on a chance encounter documented below I think we can draw a pretty picture of Mr. Hodges.

I'm just guessing but I bet Kev-Bo is wicked sick when it comes to the general court, and he'll probably tell you as much.  But when you look up his voting record, he's really just another BORG wired into Norelli's hive.  He's a big spender (No spending caps HB 1522), wants to make sure he can tax you as much as he needs to after he spends your money (Killed CACR 26) he's not interested in the constitutionality of the general courts activities (voted to ITL HB 1343), and he seems more than willing to let the facilities committee pass judgement on things of a decidedly constitutional nature like banning guns from places (voted to kill HB1693) even though when given the chance to ban them legislatively he voted against it. (HB 1654).  Afraid to vote for it, but you'll let them paper push it into existance, I see how you are.  And I didn't look, but I bet he's against parental rights.  Most young healthy men his age are.

What attracted my interest in Kevin--if you are wondering--was a recent encounter between Mr. Hodges and a new voter, (She'll be 18 before November) documented in a letter to the editor of the Goffstown News.

A SHOCKING CONVERSATION

To the editor,

This past week I had an eye-opening conversation with State Rep. Kevin Hodges when he stopped by the store where I work. Like any good politician, he introduced himself. I told him that I would be old enough to vote for the first time this November and simply asked him why I should vote for him.

Using some expletive language to express his shock at my age, he answered, "You should vote for me because I'm awesome and cool. The House is filled with stingy old people who are stupid. I'm younger and smarter, and that's a fact."

I go my answer that day, it was an easy decision. But I was left wondering, fellow voters, is this the best we can do for our district?

Sarah Koski

Weare

Swearing in context while insulting older American's must be what they teach at the left wings version of campaign school.  I'm practically swooning from here.  Where's the GD voting booth you A-h***s I can't wait to vote for Awesome Cool Hodges!   

But doesn't that sound an awful lot like hate speech toward a protected class of persons?  Age-ism of all things coming from someone of diminished years.  I don't happen to have my copy of the Pentagon Funding/ Matthew Shepherd Hate crimes law handy--or any New Hampshire equivalent--but I have to wonder if we shouldn't start whining like liberals and demand that the entire democrat party denounce this crap immediately... (because) if you don't denounce it you are countenancing it. 

Wow that sounds familiar.  Sullivanesqe might be the word I'm looking for.

And he has also apparently insulted their intelligence.  So now they are stupid old people. (Are we allowed to use the S-Word?)  That's so ironic coming from the younger-smarter Kevin Awesome-Cool Hodges.   I wonder what his floor speeches are like?  A bit thinner than Churchill or Disraeli I imagine--stingy old cheapskate's the whole lot of them.  And screw the founders.   Dumb old bastards. Not one to stand on the shoulders of his predecessors that Hodges guy.  Wisdom is for suckers. He's an F-N progressive.

Who am I kidding.  They don't let him talk.  Look what happens?

Can you picture it?  "I don't care how awesome cool you are, just push the button we tell you to kid, and whatever you do, keep your mouth shut.  Look at Speaker Norelli.  No up there.  Stop texting--over there! See her.  One finger for yea, two for nay, got it?"  Hard for your representative to represent anything on those terms.  Lucky Goffstown.  You must be so proud.  You elected awesome Cool Hodges and the foot storage device known as his mouth.  

So where does that leave us? Oh yeah.  Sarah gets to grasp the gritty end of the urban dictionary (handed to her by her State Legislator) and a clue about the inner workings of the left wing mind.   And I bet she can't wait until November to see if the voters in town help her put their feet to his ass and kick him out of the State House.  Would that be awesome cool or what?  I'll tell you this, it'd be smart and that's a fact.

Poznanski, Leishman, Eaton, Et al

Terri Norelli isn't all that interested in ethics.  In the past few months several potentially high profile cases have gone softly into that good night with as little pomp as possible. 

First, an underage house member Brian Poznanski (D- Kegger)  is arrested at a house party in Bedford where he is violating the law with (an in front of) some 21 other people, while allowing other laws to be broken.  Mr. Poznanski just happens to be the sponsor of a bill that would allow underage drinkers to avoid a formal arrest record if they promise to seek treatment.  The bill quietly disappears after Mr. Poznanski apologizes without further repercussions from his democrat leaders in the NH House.

Next, Peter Leishman, (D- I think I can, I think I can) who after months of investigation into the possibility that he had been using his legislative muscle to manipulate rail deals from which he would benefit significantly, is let off the hook with a letter of warning, from which he might at worst sustain an angry paper cut, but whose effect is otherwise likely to have no affect at all.  Again, impropriety is not an issue, so sayeth the democrat leadership of their own.

And now we have Dan Eaton (D- Spend first tax question later) who is implicated in a liquor commission investigation.  The head of the liquor commission is on leave while the State looks into the matter, but Rep Eaton, whose primary contribution to the state is to find new and creative ways to spend your money is not in any imminent danger whatsoever.  He may even find himself elevated for being accused of involking the "Hey don't you know who I am" clause from the left wing book of words and phrases.

The investigation will, I predict, vindicate Mr. Eaton, not becausehe is innocent of any wrongdoing but because he is Dan Eaton.  The NHDP has already rolled out the "well you did it too, nah nah defense" sans the details of how they did it too as well.  Besides if a freshman backbencher like Poznanski can actually break laws and violate his oath in front of a crowd of minors without repercussion why would Dan Eaton worry?  And he won't. 

Norelli's not going to do anything because that is the policy of democrat leadership in NH.  Don't take responsibility, hide as much as possible, protect your own, and whenever possible misdirect by implicating opponents or shroud the issue in process until it goes away.

But don't worry.  As soon as the Republicans take over the House again Terri and all the other liberals will abandon their game of ethics-three card monty and again be transformed into ethics hawks.  We'll have more investigations than we can shake a Budweiser at from a commuter train.

Thursday Morning Musings 12-17-09

Rev. Barry Lynn and the American’s United for the Separation of Church and State  are hypocrites.  This is a group dedicated to separating religion from government in every corner of the temporal world in which such bugbears (in their view) reside.   Pitts-Stupak is just such a beast. They believe that a prohibition on federal funding for abortion is motivated by oppressive religious doctrine, and they are hell bent on fighting it.  But they have no problem working with religious groups whose faiths approve both of abortion, and of the need to force everyone in America to pay for them.  So if there are any religious groups  that approve of any kind of abortion,(The so-called religious left that uses their abortion stance to gain congregants--and therefore votes, grassroots power, and money) and use their faith based resources to force a federal mandate—isn't that an oppressive religious doctrine forcing it’s world view on people who object to it?

 

 

 

 

From the Virgian Declaration of rigths, upon which our Bill of Rights is party drawn...

 

XII That the freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

 

Now consider that General Electric (GE), the owner of both NBC and MSNBC, is (currently) reported to be the single biggest lobbyist in DC.  That GE stands to make billions from government policies that force out their competitors.  That GE is waiting for billions in federal tax dollars to develop green technologies that meet the EPA as yet unseen "recommended guidelines" for carbon mitigation.

 

So is green week at NBC, and the slew of pro Obama talking heads on both networks (committed to ignoring facts and spinning fiction) an extension of GE policy?  What better way to make sure your lobbying investment pays off.

 

 

 

 

NAMBLA is considering a name change.  NAMBOLA.  That's the North American Man Boy Obama Love Association.  This is in thanks for Kevin Jennings, Obama's Safe (underage sex) Schools Czar.  Jennings promotes NAMBLA like relationships.  And now that he's roosted in the executive branch as a staffer, he's almost untouchable by congress.  So where does the NHDP stand in regard to Jennings? 

 

 

The Town of Merrimack reports an increase in underage drinking in and around Town.  They've had a new bust just about every weekend since Rep Poznanski set the standard on Halloween weekend.  I'm not kidding.