Nashua Telegraph Snubs GOP Committee Meeting

The Nashua Telegraph's progressive tendencies are frequently on display but never more so than in this mornings Sunday print edition.  There is not one mention of the Republican State Committee meeting that went on for five hours, nor the election of any officers including the new Chairman Jack Kimball.

News 9 was there.  CNN was interested.  The UK Telegraph and a host of nationals were watching, claiming that this could be a bellwether for the strength of TEA party influence in the whole of the United States.  You'd think that might be newsworthy?

But over at the Nashua Telegraph there is no print story, no news digest blurb, even Kevin Landrigan's weekly round up which consumes many column inches of valuable newsprint real-estate makes no hint that every major Republican office holder was in Derry yesterday or that an impressive 426 party electors showed up to make their preferences known.

So what, 2:50 pm in the afternoon is past the print deadline?

This is blatant, but hardly surprising.  The Nashua Telegraph is New Hampshire's progressive paper of record. And it drools its left leaning preferences over a half-dozen or more local town papers through the Cabinet press.  It regularly publishes policy screeds on democrat agenda items from left wing PAC and Policy leaders as 'editorials,' and it is more than entitled to do so.  They could print Marx and Engels if they wanted to.  But it would go a long way towards demonstrating some effort at impartial reporting if they could be bothered to mention the GOP Committee Meeting even happened.

Of course I am not completely convinced it is not in there somewhere. I confess that I did not check the classifieds.  But then, why should I have to?  And that's the point.

Note: It's not mentioned anywhere on the front page at nashuatelegraph.com either.

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Greg Carson For Republican Secretary

Greg Carson has a very impressive resume, one which makes him more than qualified to serve as the Republican Party Secretary.  He has already served several years as the assistant secretary, the job I endorsed Pam Manney for yesterday. 

He has been a member of the state committee since 1997, already served as State Secretary, been a state rep to the New Hampshire House, A county vice-chair, a county chairman, assistant majority leader in the NH House, tried to amend the constitution to deal with the education funding problem, and has stood for parental rights, against all abortions all the time, and even organized (with help of course) a successful, traditional Republican Unity breakfast despite Fergus Cullen refusing to hold one.

There's more, but that is enough.

Greg has been both instructive, helpful, and accessible to me personally in my quest to understand the inner workings of the party.  And he seems more than qualified to do the job. (Though he does seem to have this thing about Kermit the Frog that I don't quite get yet.)

So on Saturday please vote for Greg Carson for Republican Party Secretary.  The alternative is...well, there can be no alternative.  

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Is Leadership Opposing The Recall Bill? (HB 73)

Sources in the State House have suggested to me that Dan Itse's HB 73, 'An Act establishing a process for recall of US Senators from New Hampshire, may be opposed by the Republican House leadership.

This information comes quickly after an article in the Union Leader yesterday in which the usual suspects on the left assumed that the bill was meant as an attack on Jeanne Shaheen.  That thinking stems from the root of evil that is inside the Lefts party leadership.  If the democrats had proposed it, it would be to unseat a Republican Senator so they naturally assume that this is the intention.

Sorry.  We really do not think that way.

I am not Senator Shaheen's biggest fan, but I agree with Dan Itse whose response to that was no.  It is not to unseat anyone. Six years is simply too long for any elected representative to be in office without any real sense of accountability and US senators, be they Shaheen, Gregg, Ayotte, or whomever, have far too much time to exercise far too much power without any regard for its actual relevance or effect on the state they are meant to represent in that body.  The history of the Senate since the institution of direct election is one of corruption, self enrichment, and political fiefdoms.

HB 73 Would put the fear of "State" back into the thought process of a job holder who was never meant to be elected directly.

Only the US house was meant to be the peoples elected house.  The Senate was the appointed chamber, picked by the state legislators who were themselves elected by the people.  And being appointed, Senators were well aware that should they vote outside the interest of their state they could be recalled for discipline or even be replaced.  That kind of accountability is rare in politics and desperately needed.  And it was a critical mechanism to our Republic that was destroyed by the 17th amendment.

Mr. Itse is merely attempting to return that check and balance to New Hampshire.  A check that on a national scale would have prevented the passage of trillions in spending and entitlement programs, reams of bureaucratic red tape, and even stopped the nightmare known as Obamacare.

So why might leadership oppose the measure, if that is in fact the case?  I suspect it is a matter of priorities.  The goal in the first session is to deal with  the budget, spending, reducing the State deficit, and removing the bureaucratic boot off our necks placed there by four years of democrat rule.  Most other concerns, even legitimate ones, that do not fit that list of priorities, will have to wait until we can see our way through the foggy fiscal mess that the new majority has inherited from the math challenged New Hampshire democrat party.

So while I support the need to hold our US Senators accountable, I'd be just as happy to see this bill in the next session. 

But between then and now, I would recommend a media campaign to explain the merit of HB 73 and why it is good for New Hampshire to put a wedge between our Senators and displaced national party priorities or deep pocketed lobbyists.  With that seed sowed, a vote in the state legislature in 2012 on a recall measure would be less of a cudgel to be used on republicans that support it, and more like a warm handshake introducing the people of the Granite State to their new-found control over an seemingly unaccountable national body.

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How To Know You Have A Winner

You can just tell when you have a winner.  It becomes more important for your opponents to smear your candidate than to promote theirs. It's all about scare tactics.  The noise machine.  The echo chamber.  Creating a narrative.  And the media and the career party folks all seem like they are on the same side frantically offering doomsday scenarios to sow doubt.

I think they are afraid that their grasp on power is about to be diminished, their influence crushed, maybe even destroyed.  So they lash out and attack, without sense or reason, not for the good of anything or anyone but themselves and their elite little cocktail party guest list grasp on political power.

And that's just the Bergeron-Republicans In New Hampshire.

Don't get me started about the democrats. 

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Unite Behind What?

In Keeping with governor Sununu's concern about party unity let me perfectly clear.  We are united...in our pursuit of the  best possible candidates to protect and defend the constitution of the state and the nation, and the principles of the platform before the politics of the party.  Though I must confess, there are a few of us who are more concerned with who they know and how long they have known them.  So I find these remarks from a talented yet consummate insider amusing.

Sununu said he was “a little bit disappointed about some of the divisive comments that have been made by some of Jack’s supporters. That is not the way to bring the party together and it does Jack a disservice because it gives the impression that his support is coming from people who would rather divide than unite. “There are people who like to accuse other people of not being conservative enough,” Sununu said. “Well, hell, we elected the most conservative House and conservative state Senate the state has ever seen.” Sununu said if she is elected he will “do whatever I’m asked to do as long as it doesn’t impose too much of a time call on me again.” He said he would speak to the business community or “pull committees together.”

Not for nothing governor but the NH GOP helped, and we thank you, but this is all about talk talk talk, the process of properly airing and vetting concerns, from which no one is immune.  And last time I checked, no one--yourself included--has stepped up to call the "concerns" expressed about Jack divisive.

I find that to be a bit one-sided.  I suppose I'll be called a misogynist next for not favoring the girl in the race?  I'd love that by the way.  It has been a few weeks since someone made that mistake.

As for "bringing the party together," it is not a notion in a vacuum nor desirable if the product moves us in the wrong direction.  Unity, more often than not, is the product of a force of nature whose clarity about the goal or mission is so clear that people gather round to listen and then feel compelled to act.  Julianna Bergeron may be faithful and competent from the perspective of a party insider, but so is a good accountant.  That does not make them capable of leading and inspiring a movement.

So I reserve the right to be what you call divisive because that is how the politics of politics is sometimes played, and I do not change the rules simply because I am talking about the Republican Party.

If Juliana wins I will support her as much as she deserves, same as Jack.  Until then, I'm looking for something outside the box, because that was how we got where we are today, and I like the view from here.

Quote Source from John DiStaso-Tuesday 1-4-11 Union Leader 

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