Thugocracy

Not long ago the Merrimack School board made an unprecedented move.  In the shrinking shadow of declining enrollment, they decided to cut staff.  That’s right teachers.  But in the intervening weeks since the plan was submitted there has been a change of heart.  Call it “Budget Cutter’s Remorse.”  Or more likely, the union and the towns’ grow government first lobby applied enough local pressure to convince the weak links on the school board to put the teachers back in the budget. 

The Goley campaign has nothing to run on so it has set about lying in broad daylight in the slim hope that someone will buy in.  Note the choice of words there?  Buy in.  Go along Goley has been using the citizens of New Hampshire as an ATM machine to finance his grow government first style of "follow-ship" so buying-in is not just a metaphor for belief.  He's been bought and sold to the liberal spendaholic agenda.   Jeff gladly spent 23% more of your money on government, imagining revenue, with no idea how to really pay for it, then voted liberally to extract those costs from your pocket when the money just never showed up.

In one of those eponymous political moments we all cherish, the NH House Education subcommittee, charged with reviewing legislation to retool the states Bullying Laws, says it was bullied itself.

Rep Judith Reever (D-Laconia) Vice Chair on the Education Committee does not disagree with the idea that the subcommittee bowed to prejudice, this quoted from the Sunday Union leader. 

Rep Rachel Burke (D-Strafford Dist # 3) also on the committee, is reported by the UL to have been crying during a phone interview as she claimed to have been intimidated by the idea that opponents would defeat the bill if controversial language was not removed.

Ever go on a blind date?  Or maybe you’ve heard stories from your friends?   Sometimes you do it as a favor, or maybe it actually sounds like you’ll have a good time.  And maybe you do.  Maybe you even feel pretty good afterwards.  But later on you discover something that makes you want to puke in your boots. 

Well say hello to the ONE campaign, a media darling, politician attracting, anti-poverty organization that held a recent confab at Saint Anselm college,  and whose fundamental purpose should make anyone on the political right want to puke in their boots. 

Jeff Goley is afraid to debate David Boutin.  He has been offered three different opportunities to face off against his Republican opponent and refused them all.  WMUR offered to host a debate, as did WGIR, and a third could have been held at Saint A's.  But Goley has refused all three.

You would think that the man Ray Buckley and the NHDP described as a guy who "has a proven record of fighting taxes and building a job friendly New Hampshire,"would want to stand up and defend his positions.  A man who could prove that in this economic and political climate could bury an unworthy opponent in a debate.  And then all the  money the NHDP spent on those mailers for Goley would be justified.