Beneath the Surface of New Hampshire

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Monday October 20, 2014 · 12:02 PM PDT

2014/10/20 · 12:02

A decade ago Governor Craig Benson of NH invited the Free State Project to come to our state and take over our government and make us into a libertarian paradise, and even perhaps our own country! Some of us have been concerned about this, although the establishment has been not so worried.

Today a group of activists have published an amazing website with a dazzling array of information about this group. They told me:

this website has been created in order to provide an in-depth source of information on the extremist political movement known as the Free State Project - its ideology as well as its plans and actions to implement that ideology in New Hampshire. It is important for NH voters to have this information for the November elections - and beyond.

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Friday August 17, 2012 · 6:13 AM PDT

2012/08/17 · 06:13

About a month ago I was invited to join some other Jackie Cilley for Governor of New Hampshire supporters at a farm north of my home for a mysterious project. Here is the result of that project, running today on WMUR-TV, Channel 9, in NH.

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Friday May 04, 2012 · 1:19 PM PDT

2012/05/04 · 13:19

Frank Guinta appeared on The Emily Rooney Show on WBUR last Monday. As Carol Shea Porter noted in a press release yesterday, he hasn't been on the public radio here in NH in a long, long time:

"Congressman Frank Guinta refuses to go on NH public radio's The Exchange, but he went on The Emily Rooney Show on Boston Public Radio station, WGBH, on Monday to admit that his vote for defense cuts put the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in danger. Congressman Guinta said, 'But the additional reduction...could very likely put the shipyard in Portsmouth in jeopardy...' Mr. Guinta should go on NH radio and admit to NH listeners that his defense cuts put the Shipyard in jeopardy."

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Saturday February 25, 2012 · 6:26 AM PST

2012/02/25 · 06:26

I want to share with you how a strong woman responds to a bully. Jackie Cilley is running for NH Governor, and she is an amazing candidate. The Speaker of the NH House is spearheading a drive to rescind the 12 year old NH law that mandates insurers in NH to cover contraception. Jackie spoke up strongly against this and the Speaker thought he could bully her into submission. Wrong woman, Bully O'Brien.

Jackie's response to him is below the fold.

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Monday December 12, 2011 · 7:13 AM PST

2011/12/12 · 07:13

Former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin noted the other day:

When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we're talking about. It’s part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center. I first heard them from Carol Shea Porter, former Congresswoman from New Hampshire. Fighting for the 99 percent was her campaign theme. I thought she was on to something, but I suspect even she had no idea that fighting for the 99 percent would become the mantra for a new grass roots movement.

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Saturday December 10, 2011 · 12:37 PM PST

2011/12/10 · 12:37

Buddy Roemer is certainly far from a top-tier candidate in the weird race for the GOP presidential nomination, but he has been in NH recently and he went after my dreadful congressman, Frank Guinta, for his vote to repeal public funding of presidential campaigns.

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Tuesday September 20, 2011 · 5:19 AM PDT

2011/09/20 · 05:19

NH has two congressmen. Both of them turned up on CREW's list of the most corrupt members of Congress. Right now we have exactly one of our entire slate of representation in DC that we can count on to work for us, rather than for those who bought them their seats.

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Saturday August 13, 2011 · 3:23 AM PDT

2011/08/13 · 03:23

For four years I had a congresswoman who was the perfect representative for me. Carol Shea Porter won a true grassroots election in 2006, spending about $230,000 total and surprising all the pundits. Carol served two terms in Congress representing NH-01, and during that time worked so hard for us, serving on the following committees:

Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Readiness
Subcommittee on Military Personnel
Committee on Education and Labor
Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities
Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
Committee on Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife
Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands

She always did her homework, communicated with her constituents, maintained two district offices, and provided excellent constituent service. She was a strong advocate for military families and veterans, and always kept in mind the goal of representing those she called "the rest of us."

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Wednesday May 18, 2011 · 1:24 PM PDT

2011/05/18 · 13:24

After a day that started out with a town clerk trying to enforce a "law" that had not passed the legislature yet, and may not ever do so, the Democratic candidate for state rep from the district also represented by the Speaker of the NH House won a resounding victory, taking 59% of the vote, and carrying all 5 towns.

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Monday April 04, 2011 · 11:45 AM PDT

2011/04/04 · 11:45

I wrote this diary for Blue Hampshire, so I will need to fill in some blanks for people who live in other states that aren't the target of the Free State Project. As many of you know, NH had a Republican coup last November, going from a majority Democratic legislature (something that hadn't happened in over a century) to a veto-proof Republican majority in both houses, but retaining our Democratic governor.

Recently we have had a Free Stater commenting on Blue Hampshire. He's very typical; our last Republican Governor, the grossly corrupt Craig "Hummer" Benson, invited him and others to come take over NH. He ran as a Republican, and although he says that the voters knew exactly who he was, that appears to be a stretch, since he did not run as a Free Stater, a person who came here only to change our form of government and make NH a combination of the worst of Mississippi, California and Arizona.

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Wednesday March 16, 2011 · 12:09 PM PDT

2011/03/16 · 12:09

Marty Harty may have resigned but his ideas are still being implemented, and joked about by House leadership:

Yesterday, [NH House Speaker] O'Brien continued to show reckless disregard for the offensive nature of the comments. O'Brien joked that Rep. Harty should write a "Eugenics for Dummies" book, during prepared remarks at a fundraiser for Dartmouth's Children's Hospital attended by Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum. (e-mailed press release from NHDP)

And Saturday the Koch (pronounced “coke”) Brothers’ Americans for Prosperity is hosting their forum on how to nullify federal laws you don’t like in your state here in NH. (It was suggested at a recent meeting that we always tell people how the Koch Brothers' name is pronounced so that they make the connection between what they hear and what they see in print.)

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Friday March 11, 2011 · 6:36 AM PST

2011/03/11 · 06:36

Andy Smith, UNH's right-leaning pollster, had an interesting comment quoted locally this week:

There’s a popular myth about the N.H. Legislature, says Andrew Smith, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire. The myth is that, with 400 state representatives and 24 state senators, every citizen personally knows his or her local legislator. But that’s not necessarily the case.
“The reality is that nobody really knows who their state rep is or who they’re voting for,” said Smith, director of the UNH Survey Center. “They vote for the Republican or the Democrat, depending on their political leanings.”

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