Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Every time I see Jeb Bradley , or Charlie Bass, or Judd Gregg crowing about how the world will end if we pass health care reform, I am reminded of how when they were in charge, they did nothing to address this domestic catastrophe. All the money in the world for Iraq, and for cutting taxes for the richest, but getting more Americans insured? Not exactly in their priority set. Every time I see Jeb Bradley...
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Dante Scala weighs in on Marc Ambinder's post about the NH Republican primary for US Senate. The title of his diary: "She's no Susan Collins". Dean diaried about Ambinder's post yesterday. Scala sees parallels between this GOP Senate primary and the one in 2002. The Sununu vs. Smith race is especially instructive. Sununu, the challenger to the incumbent, did not run as a moderate insurgent....
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Interesting. I thought the fallout from the bigotry bomb would be restricted to those directly in the "guilt by association" line, i.e. Jeb Bradley, Ovide Lamontagne, and Frank Guinta, and perhaps even Kevin Smith, given his line of advocacy. And indeed all of those names have come up. But then Jack Kimball joined in with a clumsy and classless false equivalence exercise. And now Kelly Ayotte,...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
At the end of Monday's press conference featuring State Senator Jeb Bradley and former NH HHS Commissioner John Stephen strongly condemning the effects of the House-passed "Pelosicare" Democrat health care "reform" bill, a spokesman for the NH Democratic Party faced...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
As Doug has posted here, Jeb Bradley and John Stephen had a Presser today in Concord. In effect, it was a NH Republican shot across the Socialist Ship of State known as the Obama Administration. It seemingly hit, and hit...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
State Senator Jeb Bradley, Manchester Mayor Frank Guinta, former HHS Commissioner John Stephen talk health care and the impact Democratic proposals will have on NH. Earlier today, a key group of New Hampshire's Republican leaders, led by State Senator Jeb Bradley and...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Guest Post by State Senator Jeb Bradley On Tuesday, October 27 the Republican Leadership in the New Hampshire House and Senate sponsored a SUMMIT ON SPENDING in Concord.There were three excellent presentations from Steve Norton of the New Hampshire Center for Public...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Guest Post by State Sen. Jeb Bradley Last week’s TAX SUMMIT organized by Representative Susan Almy reaffirmed that New Hampshire’s lack of a general income or sales tax has enhanced our competitive position compared to other states. But the SUMMIT also warned...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Guest Post by State Senator Jeb Bradley The recent release of New Hampshire’s revenue receipts simultaneously offers glimmers of hope while raising even more concerns about the State Budget enacted in June.First the good news: The “Rainy Day Fund” which is the...
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
This excuse for journalism showed up on Politico . Maybe it's supposed to be an op-ed. Anyway, Bill Duncan has diaried it here as an example of GOP strategy for CD-01 in 2010. I see it as showing how out of touch with New Hampshire the national press, or at least Politico is. Or maybe they're just running Republican press releases? The gist of the article is that former grass roots activist Rep. Carol...
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Last month, former NH GOP Chairman Wayne Semprini wrote a letter to the ediror accusing Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter of being a disruptive activist at a Jeb Bradley town hall meeting he moderated. Semprini claimed that Shea-Porter and her supporters wore waffle hats, and were disruptive. Sadly for poor Wayne Semprini - the very same paper had covered the meeting in 2005, and had a picture of Carol...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
In the 2008 campaign, Carol Shea Porter repeatedly blasted Jeb Bradley on all sorts of odd issues. Last week I wrote a short piece on the how she repeatedly made a big point of complaining about Jeb Bradley’s timing on...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
In the 2008 elections, Carol Shea Porter made a major point of repeatedly criticizing Jeb Bradley for taking a $15,000 campaign contribution from a Congressional colleague who was then under investigation. She said over and over again that Jeb Bradley...
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
In the small, small world of New Hampshire politics, Bill Duncan is Wayne Semprini's neighbor. He is not amused by the latest smear : How could my neighbor, Wayne Semprini, former chairman of New Hampshire's Republican Party and active Republican campaigner, remember things that never did happen? ...You go on to say the incident in which Shea-Porter is accused of disrupting a Bush town hall meeting,...
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
Portsmouth Herald Confirms Former Republican Chair Fabricated Story Semprini Caught Making False Accusations Against Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter Concord- In a story published today, http://www.seacoastonline.com/... Portsmouth Herald confirmed that former New Hampshire Republican chair Wayne Semprini did not have the facts on his side when accusing Carol Shea-Porter of disrupting an event with...
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