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PRIOR TO CHRISTMAS, I SHARED THIS INFORMATION WITH REPUBLICAN INSIDERS AND PROMISED TO POST IT HERE EVENTUALLY.  IN INCREASING THESE PROJECTIONS TO A 50 SEAT GAIN, I REALIZE I NEVER POSTED IT HERE TO BEGIN WITH.    The back-up data remains much the same.  The Rasmussen data has actually ticked up to nine points for the generic ballot and back [...]

February 5, 2019
To:  House Members, Media
From:  Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, Hills. 15
RE:   SPEAKER’S CENSURESHIP OF HB1522
Here is the minority blurb the Speaker has chosen to censure from this week’s calendar.  She did this without any explanation whatsoever and refuses to provide one (except the usual pablum, “I uphold the committee decision”; it was actually not a committee decision [...]

FY 2010 Revenue Shortfall Projects Out to $76-92 Million Range
 According the January revenue report issued by the Department of Administrative Services, the state is $40.6 million short for the first seven months of the year
 $1003.0 million was projected
$962.4 million was received
$40.6 million short is 4.05 percent
 Not insignificantly, that 4 percent range has been rather consistent [...]

Senate Bill 489.
That’s the number for Senator Lou D’Allesandro’s latest effort to bring slots to New Hampshire.  Unlike the House where all bills had to be out a month ago, Senate bills follow a more leisurely path, and the new gambling bill has just been unveiled.
In fact, while it’s available on line now, it’s at [...]

MONDAY UPDATE–Since this article was posted Friday, there have been minor changes.  The monthly shortfall is $12.3 million rather than $12.8 million.  Another $1.1 million came in for tobacco bringing the excess to $2.0 million for the month, by far our best performer.  Liquor was off another $0.8 million due to new percentages for costing, bringing [...]

We’re going to hear about Democratic committee chairs censoring reports on certain bills this week.  Just so redhampshire readers know first, I’m including here a memo I received from Mary Beth Walz, Chair of Local and Regulated Revenues and my response to it.  Ironically, this report was posted on this very web site yesterday, so [...]

Every Democrat on the House Local and Regulated Revenues Committee today voted to kill a bill which would simply have allowed cities and certain towns to adopt charter provisions to allow spending caps.  People are too emotional to be allowed to vote, one Democrat argued.  Can you believe it?   I couldn’t, and rest assured, next [...]

In the wake of Democrats losing the “Kennedy Senate seat”, Joe Biden’s son Beau has decided not to seek “his father’s Senate seat” in Delaware.  This comes on the same day that a new Rasmussen poll has another national institution, Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, trailing Congressman Mike Spence by three points.
Could it be that not only [...]

In a 45 minute state of the state speech crammed full of “it goes without saying” pablum and devoid of any specifics on much ballyhooed spending cuts, New Hampshire governor John Lynch saved his severest criticism for fellow Democrat Jeanne Shaheen, former governor and current U.S. Senator.
Without mentioning Shaheen by name, Lynch noted how a [...]

At a time when even most Democrats around Concord (honest ones at least) admit their party is going to lose control of the New Hampshire House come November, Democratic leaders were trying desperately yesterday to keep their colleagues, especially those in swing districts,  from voting in favor of Jesse Osborne’s income tax bill (HB642).

They failed.
Two [...]