The Paleo Party

The thing the Democrat Party wants the most is to convince us that it is in our best interest, regardless of the interest, to let the government manage as much of our community and our lives as possible.  Cost is, of course, no object (because it is not their money).  But this is the oldest idea of government known to man and the dominate feature of centuries of thugocracies where most of the people living in them lived in fear and poverty while a small select few lived safe and well.

This is not progress.  This is not forward. But it explains the modern Democrat disdain for the US Constitution, for that document was built for the sole purpose of creating a government that was not like any other in human history.  It suggested that while we do have some common interests, that we are far better at caring for and defending ourselves and each other, locally, than any centralized monarch, oligarchy, or puppet parliament.  And they were correct.

As the Federal government continues its decades long pursuit of exactly that which the founders tried to prevent, the general populace finds itself less and less in control of its own future with our children’s future looking more bleak.  The government, through debt, spending, and regulation, is forming a center of power not much different from the monarchies of old.  The state must feed itself.  The taxman will come and take what it needs or wants (Hello Cyprus?).   Riots and domestic terrorism by the vast base of dependent public employees will use mob rule to continue to get what they feel entitled to through threats of violence (Hello Greece?).  And at the end of the day, the state will have to move in, fully armed (Hello Urban assault vehicles, massive government gun and ammo purchases), and calm things down.

Oh, look?  See how the government cares.  They’ve suppressed another violent rebellion.

One of their own creation.

That is how tyrants stay in power.  That is how socialism works.  What the modern Democrat party wants is not new.  It is not progress.  It is the near constant state of struggle and misery (in forms similar or tangential) that has plagued our world since man first walked it.  The Constitutional Republic is what is new, what is different, what is innovative and unique.  And it has created more prosperity in just a few hundred years than the rest of history combined.  It has heralded more innovation, better standards of living, and a happier, healthier people than at any point on the arc of human history.

The US Constitution is the new political technology.  It protects Freedom.  And Freedom is sexy.

So why are modern Democrats in their Paleo party so afraid of it?  Because they can’t control it.  It doesn’t answer to them.  And it most certainly does not listen to them.  And this disturbs our modern-day monarchs.  So they tell you stories.  Make up lies.  Bend the truth.  They offer you tribute in exchange for loyalty and intimidate or punish the disloyal.

That is not freedom.  That is tyranny.  And that is the goal (intentionally or not) of the modern Democrat party.  The state of misery that has dominated human history.  There is nothing new or sexy about that.

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Is the NH Economy So Good That We Can Afford To Grow State Government by 16%?

I know what you were thinking while you were paying almost four dollars a gallon for gas, or looking at your utility or cable bill, or thinking about how much more it costs to do the grocery shopping these days.  You were thinking, “Hey, times are so good, lets grow the size of the state government by 16%!”

You must have said that because someone in Concord seems to think they heard you say it.

What?  You weren’t thinking that?  Well you’d best get in touch with your legislator and tell them because the Democrat majority House is preparing to vote on a budget that will make your state government cost you 16% more.

The Hassan/House Democrat budget also includes $600 million dollars in new spendingthat was not even in the original budget–which itself spent revenues from streams that do not even exist.

I suppose that might explain why the Democrats have already gotten back to the business of cramming and downshifting costs on towns, as Susan observed just a few hours ago here.  That 16% growth in the cost of government has to get paid for somehow.

Of course, we could suggest to the legislators in Concord that the economy has not grown 16%–if at all. That if the people of New Hampshire were even making more now than they were last year or the year before, they’d need that money for themselves just to manage the skyrocketing costs of running their own households at level funding.    Costs which more than a half-decade of Democrat rule in DC have failed to address, and may (arguably) have made worse.

We can ask, but they don’t give a damn.  They really don’t.  How could they?  Only someone who is completely disconnected from reality would vote to take 16% more from the citizens of their state in almost any economy; New Hampshire Democrats are looking to take 16% more in this one.

And yes, I’m going to say I told you so.  I told you that New Hampshire Democrat party leadership was and is committed to government-first growth.  The expansion of the state,  paid for by the working families and the business owners who employ us, is their first priority.

And here it is.  In a stumbling economy with rising unemployment, rising prices, and stagnating wages, the Majority Democrat House needs that 16% so they can make government bigger.  They added 600 million more in spending and buried it inside the budget.  And after years of denying all the downshifting of costs they voted for while trying to hide their last tilt at the levers of fiscal power, and all the blaming of Republicans for doing it, their first budget takes up right where they left off–cramming costs down on cities or towns so they can grow state government. 

H/T AFPNH

Note: Democrats say yes!  The House Passed the budget on a partsian line vote. 

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Let's "Have a Conversation" About Democrat Bill O'Neil, Taxes, And Jackie Cilley

Turn out is all the Republicans need to win in Manchester Ward 2 (Hills-9).  It is a special election.  GOP voters just need to show up in adequate numbers.  I’d like to try and motivate you if I can.

IBEW 2320 local union President Bill O’Neil, the Democrat in this New Hampshire House race, claims he should not be unfairly saddled with unpopular national issues of which he claims not to be  player.  Okay.  We’ll ignore the fact that the party he is running under does that all the time to their opponents and stick with what sticks to Bill.

Bill O’Neil and local IBEW 2320 have a strong (and recent) connection to local politics; they endorsed Democrat Jackie Cilley for Governor.  And if these types of associations matter, and you know that to Democrats they do, then Bill O’Neil can be rightly referred to as a Jackie Cilley Democrat.

This means that he and his local support a conversation about taxes– broad based taxes, for New Hampshire. We know this because there was a candidate that claimed to be against a sales or income tax in New Hampshire.   That is not the candidate Bill O’Neil chose to support. He picked the one that was running for office on bigger and broader taxes for New Hampshire under the cover of the “having a conversation.”

We know this to be true because Cilley has long supported a sales or income tax.   That “the conversation” needed to be about how to convince Granite Staters that state government had to grow bigger, had to do it regardless of the economics of our day, and that we had to include sales and income taxes in the conversation. Otherwise,  she’d have pledged not to pass any or to exclude them.  Instead she attacked the promise not to pass any; a noble feature of a losing campaign given that Democrat leadership in our state has long paid lip-service to the pledge to get into office.    But even if we were to agree to the conversation there are unspoken truths and outright lies left hidden beneath the “idea about the conversation about taxes” itself that Democrats, ironically, refuse to discuss.

There is no tax relief in that conversation at any level.  There can’t be.  You can’t “need” to make government do more, to make it more responsible, to make it bigger, and then collect fewer taxes.   You also cannot promise more government intervention at the state level and lower property taxes at the local level, without accepting that you also have to  support either expanding local government as well–which equals more and higher taxes, or are in fact, in favor of redistributing “local control” away from taxpayers in towns and cities, along with the money, so the so-called “experts’ in Concord can make those decisions instead.

This is the fatal flaw in the lefts state party rhetoric on taxes and the need for a larger state government, one they all share, one that Jackie Cilley danced around during her campaign for governor, while trying to avoid the words “sales and income tax.”

So should we trust Jackie Cilley Democrat Bill O’Neil when he says things like this?

O’Neil would support a temporary gas tax under certain provisions. “I’d vote for a short-term usage tax to repair roads and bridges that have been closed or in need of immediate repair,” he said. “It would be a short-term fix and then we’d work on a long-term fix.”

Union Leader

I don’t recall when Democrat leadership ever rolled a tax back, in fact their tendency is to raise taxes again and again–because government must always get bigger and do more. Bill does point to the idea of a long term fix.  Could that fix be an expanding sales or income tax?  You would be right to be suspicious of that.

O’Neil’s endorsement of Cilley suggests other real world baggage.   Does O’Neil support scrabbling after one-time federal money to make state government bigger, complete with all the strings, even if it leaves us holding spending promises for which there is no local revenue?  Cilley did. Would Bill do the same?

Does O’Neil support the late-night, last minute, budget circus that creates taxes without public input and counts money from land sales when no one knows what land and to whom it will be sold?  Cilley was a ring leader of repeated budget circuses, but no bread.  They just tried to take more of it from the mouths of New Hampshire families to grow the state during a recession.

And Does Mr. O’Neil believe that state union employees should work as a privileged class–paying less of their own benefits than their private-sector counterparts?  Do state employees deserve raises even when the average private sector worker has seen their annual incomes decline and their wages and hours eroded by a corrosive economy? Do state union employees get a waiver? Is Mr. O’Neil content to blame someone else instead, to excuse making the state bigger on the backs of taxpayers instead of doing what is right for the people who are tasked with paying for those raises and benefits while their own lifestyles and retirement accounts decline year afer year?

Bill O’Neil is a “Jackie Cilley” Democrat.  To be perfectly honest, we simply cannot afford him.  And if Manchester Republicans just get up and go vote, we can keep one more rubber stamp Democrat out of the progressive hand of tax and spend liberals in Concord.

Cross posted from here

Demokrat Diktionary – Tax Cuts

by Steve MacDonald

Tax Cuts:  Money you earned legally that the Democrats did not take from you (yet).

Example.  You earn $1000.00 dollars.  The government takes $200.00, but it could have taken $500.00.  In this example, the Democrats gave you a $300.00 dollar tax cut.  (They actually gave you a 500.00 tax cut because none of that money is really yours to begin with.  It belongs to the government.)

Note: This same thinking also applies to budgets and spending.  If Democrats spent $100 million dollars last year on something and instead of raising the amount of spending to $200 million dollars this year they only raise it to $150 million, the Democrats have cut spending by 50 million dollars.   This is then advertised as a demonstration of their love and affection for the struggling middle class unless Republicans did it, then it is a catastrophic budget cut that will cripple (insert name here).

Spending still went up, and you still get screwed out of another 50 million, but if you don’t thank the Democrats for pointing out either their generosity or the Republicans skulduggery you are an unpatriotic, extremist, bigot, who is probably a racist that wants wealthy bankers to run down poor single pregnant women of color with their limos before they can make it across the crumbling pavement of our decrepit infrastructure from the unemployment office to their back-alley abortion.

Does the Gas Tax Bill The NH House Just Passed Violate the State Constitution?

The short answer is yes.  Yes, it does.  (The long answer will be nothing but excuses from its proponents.)

Part II, Article 6-a, states that any money raised through gas taxes (gas road tolls), must be used exclusively for public highways and “no part of such revenues shall, by transfer or funds or otherwise, be diverted to any other purpose whatsoever.”

[Art.] 6-a. [Use of Certain Revenues Restricted to Highways.] All revenue in excess of the necessary cost of collection and administration accruing to the state from registration fees, operators’ licenses, gasoline road tolls or any other special charges or taxes with respect to the operation of motor vehicles or the sale or consumption of motor vehicle fuels shall be appropriated and used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of public highways within this state, including the supervision of traffic thereon and payment of the interest and principal of obligations incurred for said purposes; and no part of such revenues shall, by transfer of funds or otherwise, be diverted to any other purpose whatsoever.

So HB 617 is unconstitutional.

Note to the NH State Senate   HB 617 cannot raise funds through a gas tax for any other purpose.  If you were looking for a way to kill it you have your out.  (Or should I now expect a litany of loopholes and end-arounds from revenue junkies?)

…

Fifteen Republicans voted for it, as did 192 Democrats.  Ten Democrats crossed the aisle to vote against the unconstitutional tax on the middle class and small business owners.  We appreciate their support on this issue.

Democrats who voted no

Carroll, Douglas	Democrat
Cote, David	Democrat
Garcia, Michael	Democrat
Leishman, Peter	Democrat
O’Flaherty, Tim	Democrat
Parkhurst, Henry	Democrat
Rosenwald, Cindy	Democrat
Shaw, Barbara	Democrat
Thomas, Yvonne	Democrat
White, Syndi	Democrat

Here is the full list of Yea votes for HB 617

Rep	Party	County	District	Vote
Aguiar, James	Democrat	Grafton	7	Yea
Alicea, Caroletta	Democrat	Merrimack	8	Yea
Almy, Susan	Democrat	Grafton	13	Yea
Ames, Richard	Democrat	Cheshire	9	Yea
Andrews, Christopher	Democrat	Merrimack	23	Yea
Andrews-Ahearn, E. Elaine	Democrat	Rockingham	37	Yea
Arsenault, Beth	Democrat	Belknap	9	Yea
Baber, William	Democrat	Strafford	14	Yea
Backus, Robert	Democrat	Hillsborough	19	Yea
Bartlett, Christy	Democrat	Merrimack	19	Yea
Beaulieu, Jane	Democrat	Hillsborough	45	Yea
Benn, Bernard	Democrat	Grafton	12	Yea
Berch, Paul	Democrat	Cheshire	1	Yea
Berube, Roger	Democrat	Strafford	18	Yea
Bixby, Peter	Democrat	Strafford	17	Yea
Boisvert, Ronald	Democrat	Hillsborough	45	Yea
Borden, David	Democrat	Rockingham	24	Yea
Bouchard, Candace	Democrat	Merrimack	18	Yea
Briden, Steven	Democrat	Rockingham	18	Yea
Brown, Pam	Democrat	Hillsborough	31	Yea
Brown, Rebecca	Democrat	Grafton	2	Yea
Buco, Thomas	Democrat	Carroll	2	Yea
Burdwood, Greg	Democrat	Strafford	17	Yea
Burke, Rachel	Democrat	Strafford	2	Yea
Burns, Scott	Democrat	Merrimack	2	Yea
Burridge, Delmar	Democrat	Cheshire	16	Yea
Burtis, Elizabeth	Democrat	Rockingham	6	Yea
Butler, Edward	Democrat	Carroll	7	Yea
Butynski, William	Democrat	Cheshire	1	Yea
Cahill, Michael	Democrat	Rockingham	17	Yea
Cali-Pitts, Jacqueline	Democrat	Rockingham	30	Yea
Campbell, David	Democrat	Hillsborough	33	Yea
Carey, Lorrie	Democrat	Merrimack	26	Yea
Carson, Clyde	Democrat	Merrimack	7	Yea
Chandley, Shannon	Democrat	Hillsborough	22	Yea
Chase, Cynthia	Democrat	Cheshire	8	Yea
Cloutier, John	Democrat	Sullivan	10	Yea
Connor, Evelyn	Democrat	Hillsborough	2	Yea
Cooney, Mary	Democrat	Grafton	8	Yea
Coulombe, Gary	Democrat	Coos	3	Yea
Cushing, Robert	Democrat	Rockingham	21	Yea
Danielson, David	Republican	Hillsborough	7	Yea
Davis, Frank	Democrat	Merrimack	20	Yea
DiMartino, Lisa	Democrat	Belknap	2	Yea
DiSilvestro, Linda	Democrat	Hillsborough	9	Yea
Eaton, Daniel	Democrat	Cheshire	3	Yea
Ebel, Karen	Democrat	Merrimack	5	Yea
Emerson-Brown, Rebecca	Democrat	Rockingham	27	Yea
Enman, Larry	Democrat	Coos	1	Yea
Flockhart, Eileen	Democrat	Rockingham	18	Yea
Ford, Susan	Democrat	Grafton	3	Yea
Frambach, Mary	Democrat	Merrimack	21	Yea
Frazer, June	Democrat	Merrimack	13	Yea
French, Barbara	Democrat	Merrimack	6	Yea
Friedrich, Carol	Democrat	Grafton	16	Yea
Friel, William	Republican	Rockingham	14	Yea
Gage, Ruth	Democrat	Hillsborough	6	Yea
Gagnon, Raymond	Democrat	Sullivan	5	Yea
Gale, Sylvia	Democrat	Hillsborough	28	Yea
Gardner, Janice	Democrat	Strafford	15	Yea
Gidge, Kenneth	Democrat	Hillsborough	33	Yea
Gile, Mary	Democrat	Merrimack	27	Yea
Goley, Jeffrey	Democrat	Hillsborough	8	Yea
Gorman, Mary	Democrat	Hillsborough	31	Yea
Gottling, Suzanne	Democrat	Sullivan	2	Yea
Grady, Brenda	Democrat	Hillsborough	21	Yea
Graham, John	Republican	Hillsborough	7	Yea
Grassie, Anne	Democrat	Strafford	11	Yea
Grenier, James	Republican	Sullivan	7	Yea
Grossman, Kenneth	Democrat	Strafford	4	Yea
Gulick, Ruth	Democrat	Belknap	1	Yea
Hammon, Marcia	Democrat	Coos	5	Yea
Hammond, Jill	Democrat	Hillsborough	24	Yea
Hansberry, Daniel	Democrat	Hillsborough	35	Yea
Harding, Laurie	Democrat	Grafton	13	Yea
Harriott-Gathright, Linda	Democrat	Hillsborough	36	Yea
Hatch, William	Democrat	Coos	6	Yea
Heden, Ruth	Democrat	Hillsborough	23	Yea
Heffron, Frank	Democrat	Rockingham	18	Yea
Helmstetter, Barbara	Democrat	Rockingham	9	Yea
Henle, Paul	Democrat	Merrimack	12	Yea
Hess, David	Republican	Merrimack	24	Yea
Higgins, Patricia	Democrat	Grafton	12	Yea
Hirsch, Geoffrey	Democrat	Merrimack	6	Yea
Hooper, Dorothea	Democrat	Strafford	16	Yea
Horrigan, Timothy	Democrat	Strafford	6	Yea
Hubbard, Pamela	Democrat	Strafford	12	Yea
Hunt, Jane	Democrat	Merrimack	15	Yea
Huot, David	Democrat	Belknap	3	Yea
Irwin, Virginia	Democrat	Sullivan	6	Yea
Jack, Martin	Democrat	Hillsborough	36	Yea
Jasper, Shawn	Republican	Hillsborough	37	Yea
Johnsen, Gladys	Democrat	Cheshire	7	Yea
Kaen, Naida	Democrat	Strafford	5	Yea
Karrick, David	Democrat	Merrimack	25	Yea
Katsiantonis, George	Democrat	Hillsborough	17	Yea
Katsiantonis, Thomas	Democrat	Hillsborough	15	Yea
Kelley, John	Democrat	Hillsborough	32	Yea
Kelly, Sally	Democrat	Merrimack	20	Yea
Ketel, Stephen	Democrat	Strafford	17	Yea
Khan, Aboul	Republican	Rockingham	20	Yea
Kidder, David	Republican	Merrimack	5	Yea
Knowles, Mary Ann	Democrat	Hillsborough	37	Yea
Lauer, Linda	Democrat	Grafton	15	Yea
Lavender, Tom	Democrat	Carroll	5	Yea
Lefebvre, Benjamin	Democrat	Sullivan	1	Yea
Lerandeau, Alfred	Democrat	Cheshire	12	Yea
Levesque, Melanie	Democrat	Hillsborough	26	Yea
Lockwood, Priscilla	Republican	Merrimack	9	Yea
Long, Patrick	Democrat	Hillsborough	42	Yea
Lovejoy, Patricia	Democrat	Rockingham	36	Yea
Lovett, Sid	Democrat	Grafton	8	Yea
MacKay, James	Democrat	Merrimack	14	Yea
MacKay, Mariellen	Democrat	Hillsborough	30	Yea
Malloy, Dennis	Democrat	Strafford	4	Yea
Manley, Jonathan	Democrat	Hillsborough	3	Yea
Mann, John	Democrat	Cheshire	2	Yea
Mann, Maureen	Democrat	Rockingham	32	Yea
Massimilla, Linda	Democrat	Grafton	1	Yea
McCloskey, David	Democrat	Hillsborough	16	Yea
McConkey, Mark	Republican	Carroll	3	Yea
McNamara, Richard	Democrat	Hillsborough	38	Yea
Menear, H. Robert	Democrat	Strafford	25	Yea
Miller, David	Democrat	Strafford	23	Yea
Milz, David	Republican	Rockingham	6	Yea
Moffett, Howard	Democrat	Merrimack	9	Yea
Moody, Marcia	Democrat	Rockingham	17	Yea
Moynihan, Wayne	Democrat	Coos	2	Yea
Mulholland, Catherine	Democrat	Grafton	17	Yea
Muns, Chris	Democrat	Rockingham	21	Yea
Myler, Mel	Democrat	Merrimack	10	Yea
Nelson, Mary	Democrat	Hillsborough	35	Yea
Nordgren, Sharon	Democrat	Grafton	12	Yea
O’Brien, Michael	Democrat	Hillsborough	36	Yea
O’Hearne, Andrew	Democrat	Sullivan	3	Yea
Pantelakos, Laura	Democrat	Rockingham	25	Yea
Pastor, Beatriz	Democrat	Grafton	12	Yea
Patten, Dick	Democrat	Merrimack	17	Yea
Pelletier, Marsha	Democrat	Strafford	20	Yea
Perry, Robert	Democrat	Strafford	3	Yea
Phillips, Larry	Democrat	Cheshire	5	Yea
Piper, Wendy	Democrat	Grafton	10	Yea
Porter, Marjorie	Democrat	Hillsborough	1	Yea
Ramsey, Peter	Democrat	Hillsborough	8	Yea
Ratzki, Mario	Democrat	Merrimack	1	Yea
Raymond, Ian	Democrat	Belknap	4	Yea
Rhodes, Brian	Democrat	Hillsborough	30	Yea
Rice, Chip	Democrat	Merrimack	27	Yea
Richardson, Gary	Democrat	Merrimack	10	Yea
Roberts, Kris	Democrat	Cheshire	4	Yea
Robertson, Timothy	Democrat	Cheshire	6	Yea
Rogers, Katherine	Democrat	Merrimack	28	Yea
Rogers, Rose Marie	Democrat	Strafford	22	Yea
Rokas, Ted	Democrat	Hillsborough	12	Yea
Rollo, Deanna	Democrat	Strafford	18	Yea
Sad, Tara	Democrat	Cheshire	1	Yea
Scarlotto, Joe	Democrat	Rockingham	31	Yea
Schamberg, Thomas	Democrat	Merrimack	4	Yea
Schlachman, Donna	Democrat	Rockingham	18	Yea
Schmidt, Andrew	Democrat	Sullivan	1	Yea
Schmidt, Janice	Democrat	Hillsborough	28	Yea
Schmidt, Peter	Democrat	Strafford	19	Yea
Schuett, Dianne	Democrat	Merrimack	20	Yea
Shattuck, Gilman	Democrat	Hillsborough	1	Yea
Shepardson, Marjorie	Democrat	Cheshire	10	Yea
Sherman, Thomas	Democrat	Rockingham	24	Yea
Shurtleff, Stephen	Democrat	Merrimack	11	Yea
Smith, Marjorie	Democrat	Strafford	6	Yea
Smith, Suzanne	Democrat	Grafton	8	Yea
Smith, Timothy	Democrat	Hillsborough	17	Yea
Soucy, Timothy	Democrat	Hillsborough	34	Yea
Spang, Judith	Democrat	Strafford	6	Yea
Spratt, Stephen	Democrat	Hillsborough	4	Yea
Stevens, Audrey	Democrat	Strafford	7	Yea
Sullivan, Daniel	Democrat	Hillsborough	42	Yea
Sullivan, Peter	Democrat	Hillsborough	10	Yea
Sweeney, Cynthia	Democrat	Sullivan	8	Yea
Sykes, George	Democrat	Grafton	13	Yea
Sytek, John	Republican	Rockingham	8	Yea
Takesian, Charlene	Republican	Hillsborough	37	Yea
Tanner, Linda	Democrat	Sullivan	9	Yea
Theberge, Robert	Democrat	Coos	3	Yea
Ticehurst, Susan	Democrat	Carroll	3	Yea
Till, Mary	Democrat	Rockingham	6	Yea
Tilton, Franklin	Republican	Belknap	3	Yea
Tilton, Joy	Democrat	Merrimack	3	Yea
Townsend, Charles	Democrat	Grafton	11	Yea
Turcotte, Alan	Democrat	Merrimack	22	Yea
Vail, Suzanne	Democrat	Hillsborough	29	Yea
Verschueren, James	Democrat	Strafford	13	Yea
Wall, Janet	Democrat	Strafford	6	Yea
Wallner, Mary Jane	Democrat	Merrimack	10	Yea
Walsh, Robert	Democrat	Hillsborough	11	Yea
Walz, Mary Beth	Democrat	Merrimack	23	Yea
Ward, Kenneth	Democrat	Strafford	21	Yea
Waterhouse, Kevin	Republican	Rockingham	7	Yea
Watrous, Rick	Democrat	Merrimack	16	Yea
Wazlaw, Brian	Democrat	Rockingham	29	Yea
Webb, Leigh	Democrat	Merrimack	3	Yea
Weber, Lucy	Democrat	Cheshire	1	Yea
Weed, Charles	Democrat	Cheshire	16	Yea
White, Andrew	Democrat	Grafton	13	Yea
Whittemore, Lisa	Democrat	Rockingham	5	Yea
Williams, Kermit	Democrat	Hillsborough	4	Yea
Winters, Joel	Democrat	Hillsborough	18	Yea
Woodbury, David	Democrat	Hillsborough	5	Yea
Young, Harry	Democrat	Cheshire	14	Yea

Note:  Yes, 6-a does allow these funds to be used to pay for policing the roadways it applies to, but not any of the other things HB 617 would fund, not most if not all of th ethings the Highway fund has been raided for in the past

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