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Top Ten NH Statehouse Quotes (1/1/11-3/31/11)

by: Dean Barker

Tue Apr 05, 2011 at 05:35:28 AM EDT


( - promoted by William Tucker)

10. "Unlike other representatives, a direct line can be made between (Brunelle's) behavior filing legislation to his position in that organization." - House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt

9.  "I wouldn't say I'm a birther or not, I'm just more confused (like a lot of people)"- Rep. Seth Cohn

8.
 "Our corporate courts are not doing a very good job. We'll see whether we can straighten them out." - Rep. Lars Christiansen

7.  "The Black death was a terrible disease, there was never a shot for the black death and yet it declined naturally.  Have you heard of that, the Black Death?" - Rep. Jeanine Notter

6.  "The property tax is a great tax because it is a voluntary tax. I pay property taxes based on how large I want to live." - Legislative Administration Chair Paul Mirski

5.  "By cutting the amount of help we're willing to offer, we'd like them to discover that some of these people can be cured... You shouldn't keep them just so you can keep your revenue coming in." - House Finance Chair Ken Weyler

4.  "When someone in their community has cancer and no insurance, they're gonna rally, they're gonna fundraise, and they're gonna get the treatment that person needs."  - Rep. Jeanine Notter

3.  "I think the world is too populated. So we believe that there is too many defective people...You know the mentally ill, the retarded, people with physical disabilities and drug addictions - the defective people society would be better off with out. I wish we had a Siberia so we could ship them all off to freeze to death and die and clean up the population." - (now former) Rep. Martin Harty

2.  "{Roman Catholic Bishop John McCormack} "is a pedophile pimp" - House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt

1.  "I think thugs will not rule New Hampshire" - House Speaker Bill O'Brien.

Bonus: "Shut up!" - House Finance Chair Ken Weyler

(birched; on Twitter @deanbarker)

Dean Barker :: Top Ten NH Statehouse Quotes (1/1/11-3/31/11)
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Crowdsource request (4.00 / 2)
I suspect I've left some out that merit the list.  If you have a quote that deserves placement, and a link, please add to the comments.

And here's something to make you smile (or rather, cry): meet a vision of the future brought to you by this immoral budget: Joe Atwill, from Nowhere, NH:



birch paper


Rep. Lynne Blankenbeker (0.00 / 0)
says nursing home residents are "are not taxpayers, they are tax users."

It's a round, round world - Stan Freberg



Clear evidence of bi-lateral thinking. Everything is either one thing, or (0.00 / 0)
the other.  The problem with black/white thinking isn't that gray is left out; it's that color is left out or totally irrelevant.
Nursing home residents, for example, don't see a penny of what keeps this example of human husbandry going.

[ Parent ]
We have to stop using 'taxpayers' like that. It's harmful to our civic culture. (4.00 / 4)
Taxes are a duty, and an important one. But government does not serve 'taxpayers'. It serves people.

Your rights don't come from paying taxes. Democratic government in all its forms serves human beings. Democracy is not a transaction; our rights and privileges are not purchased or rented.

--
Hope 2012


[ Parent ]
"Democracy is not a transaction; our rights and privileges are not purchased or rented." (4.00 / 1)
Beautifully said!

Now, if only we could get that Supreme Court ruling dealt with...  WE THE PEOPLE have and are being sold to the corporations (Koch Bros., etc.).  I often wonder how it is a middle class person can be a Republican.  The Republicans in both the US Congress and the NH Congress couldn't care less about the average person.


[ Parent ]
Excellent (0.00 / 0)
My fingers are sloppy.  Think I hit troll by mistake before hitting excellent.

[ Parent ]
Some brains are clearly missing the relationship between cause and (0.00 / 0)
effect.
However, while I used to think that what was missing was the ability to identify the connection appropriately, I'm now considering that it's the ability to distinguish difference which is missing.

Same v. different.

Perhaps the conservative antagonism towards public TV grows out of the fact that they just don't get what's on "Sesame Street."

Which of these things is not like the others?

Groupists think in terms of groups.


I only made number 9... (4.00 / 1)
But the competition was quite fierce.  Maybe next time.

Some of my comments are getting marked as trolls by elwood and others and disappear as a result.  Look for the hidden comments and win a prize.  

Consolation prize. (4.00 / 2)
I think you and Rep. Notter's Black Death comment deserved considerably higher placement on that list.

--
Hope 2012


[ Parent ]
I feel sure (4.00 / 3)
that if you get the competitive juices flowing, you can out-stupid the best of them, Representative Cohn.  

[ Parent ]
birther? (4.00 / 1)
Birther is not a compliment.

I can see how it is politically expedient for you to deny being one, but if you are "confused" about this, you must be completely clueless about the stuff that really counts.


[ Parent ]
He's just Concerned. (0.00 / 0)


--
Hope 2012


[ Parent ]
See the actual discussion at the link above (n/t) (0.00 / 0)


Some of my comments are getting marked as trolls by elwood and others and disappear as a result.  Look for the hidden comments and win a prize.  

[ Parent ]
Rep. Cohn, (0.00 / 0)
needles to say, I am not a supporter of yours or anything that your party is doing in Concord.  However, I appreciate the fact that you post here.

[ Parent ]
Why? (0.00 / 0)
He just ties himself in knots patting himself on the back for being so wonderful.  You enjoy contortionists?

[ Parent ]
That may be the case, (0.00 / 0)
but at least he comes here to make his point.  Please don't confuse this as any defense of what he or his colleagues are doing.  But a dialogue doesn't hurt.

[ Parent ]
UNION THUGS (0.00 / 0)
Who knew?

Go to Google Images and search "G W Bush" and Fireman

There are tons of pictures of our president hanging out with UNION THUGS!


This is good stuff....we need a bank of video and quotes (4.00 / 1)
On the drive home from the rally, this came up as a question, "is anyone organizing this stuff"?

There is so much rich material which needs to be widely distributed and accessible.

whp


Good question (0.00 / 0)
IMHO, Blue Hampshire is a good host for a lot of this - it is NH's progressive (tap) water cooler after all, and one of the best places for us to combine information, insight, etc.

Additionally, the Granite State Progress team films 3-4 days a week at the State House and posts short videos to our YouTube account, with the biggest gaffes getting a full post here. The footage is available for general use. We were slammed at the start of the session but have started to get in a groove and are close to posting in real time.

little camera girl

Zandra Rice Hawkins (Granite State Progress)


[ Parent ]
At the risk of pointing out the obvious (0.00 / 0)
Not counting the eloquent ex-Rep. Harty, 5 out of 8 of these remarks were uttered by Republican "Liberty" Caucus members.  

that is... (0.00 / 0)
...5 out of 8 commenters were RLCers (should have been more clear)

[ Parent ]
And here's another winner: (0.00 / 0)
http://www.wmur.com/news/27437...

HAMPTON, N.H. -- A state representative has resigned after he was charged with speeding and driving with a suspended license.

Hampton police said Rep. Gary Wheaton, R-Seabrook, was charged Tuesday morning after an officer tried to pull him over for speeding on Route 1 near the Route 101 interchange.

Read more: http://www.wmur.com/news/27437...

Wheaton said that he does not want to accuse anyone, but he's concerned that the traffic stops happened because he is a Republican who voted against collective bargaining.



Nuclear power and Rep. Notter (0.00 / 0)
At a public hearing in her committee on a bill related to nuclear power,Rep. Notter, who according to her profile in The Handbook of New Hampshire Elected Officials has a talk show on Merrimack's Community Access television channel, asked a witness, "Do we have any nuclear plants in New Hampshire."


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