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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 [...]

For those who wondered how the state could have come in nearly $300 million short in revenues last year and still gotten by, a real eye opening answer was presented the joint House Finance, Ways and Means, and Public Works Committees this morning by Steve Norton of the NH Public Policy Center and Charler Arlinghaus [...]

Here’s a response I sent to a constituent who took the time to write me complaining about an 87 percent increase in registering his inflatable boat.
Daniel,
Thank you for your letter of January 1 regarding the increased fee for your inflatable boat (from $24.00 to $37.50).  I suggest you send similar correspondence to the ward’s other [...]

To:  House Speaker Terie Norelli
From:  Steve Vaillancourt, Hills. 15
“The only people who will draw conclusions are those who want to play a political game and I’m not up for those political games.”
Thanks to audio tapes, we know that those are the precise words Finance Committee Chair Marjorie Smith spoke to the House in abusing unanimous [...]

Three new Rasmussen polls early in the new year are such bad news for Democrats that left wing bloggers have begun an age-old tactic, attack the messenger.  Rasmussen, who was among the first to catch signs of the Democratic tide in 2006 and who nailed the 2008 presidential result almost exactly, is now being blasted [...]

Oh what a difference a few days make.  I am rewriting the article posted here about state revenues last Wednesday.   The projected $15 million shortfall will not be reported when numbes finally come out.  In fact, a most deceptive $3 million surplus for December will be reported.
As an end of the month accounting procedure, $8.7 million [...]