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It was a rainy night in Goffstown.  Tents were up to protect our food supply. 
 He was eating a hot dog; I was foregoing my usual vegetarianism and relishing a hamburg.  I had just made the trip from Concord for the Hillsborough County budget meeting.  I didn’t ask where he’d come from, but we were both [...]

Apparently convinced that they can’t get the whole truth and are sick and tired of getting only left wing spin from their own web site, even the blues are turning into redhampshire.com these days.  Don’t believe me?  I have the emails to prove it.  One Democrat Rep (name withheld to protect the innocent) emailed me saying [...]

“This is like a train wreck in public.”  That was the comment from one lobbyist who had just heard Senator Lou D’Allesandro and five of his pro gambling colleagues (and lone House member Roger Wells) sound off in a 25 minute press conference in the legislative office building.  D’Allesandro took advantage of a break in committee [...]

Let’s use this as a place to update what’s going on this Thursday, the day, the House/Senate conference committee is supposed to finalize the state budget.
11:36 a.m.  “They haven’t even started yet.  They’re waiting for the Senate,” a secretary just said answering a phone.  Starting time was 10 a.m., so they’re not quite two hours [...]

Now that, thanks to the public outcry (congratulations everyone!), the Governor’s bad idea of taxing house refinancing has been shot down, we move on to the next bad idea–the $30 increase on car registrations.
It’s time we learn the difference between a tax and a fee and stop trying to avoid new taxes by disguising them [...]

By Rep. Steve Vaillancourt
Manchester, Ward 8

Thanks for your email.  I have received and continnue to receive many like it, so I’ve taken some extra time to spell out my position to you (and others). Like you, I support expanded gambling.  However, I cannot support the current proposal which singles out a few already existing entities (mostly the [...]

If you saw Libertarian/Republican Ron Paul doing the interview with author Ivan Eland on CSpan’s BookNotes, you probably would have guessed that Eland’s new book “Recarving Rushmore” was not about to rank Presidents with the usual suspects (Lincoln, Washington, FDR, JFK, and other purveyors of big government) at the top.
Eland does not disappoint.  The book is [...]

Give New Hampshire realtors credit.   I suspect this proposal to tax house refinancing as part of the real estate transfer tax is little more than a trial balloon floated by the Corner Office Coward and his Democratic tax and spend minions.
However, realtors aren’t taking its demise for granted.  I’ve received three emails in opposition just [...]

Mark my words.  In a few years, people of New Hampshire will be saying that. ”Gay marriage?  What about gay marriage?  What was all the big deal about?”
Gay marriage doesn’t hurt a single straight person nor will it ever.
How can I be so sure?
Those of you who followed my words on the House floor regarding gambling may recall that [...]

This web site is so easy to navigate and so informative, I am committed to checking it out every day and to spending a great deal of time posting infomation of interest to those dedciated to less government interference in our lives.  I am sending out an email to all 176 Republican Reps asking them [...]