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100 Club Dinner Highlights

by: Jennifer Daler

Thu Apr 29, 2010 at 23:27:54 PM EDT


A friend invited me to go with her to this year's dinner, held at the Grappone Center in Concord.

I was very impressed with Governor Lynch's speech. His main theme was the lies spread by an out of state hate group that is heady with its successes in California and Maine. The governor is really standing by his decision to sign the marriage equality bill. He said he did it because it was the right thing to do, which got him a standing ovation.

He aggressively countered the lies of the out of state hate group as well as the other lies spread by the opposition. It was an important message and one we have to keep pushing. We can't let the other side define us. And we have to go beyond tagging them as the party of "no" and counter their policies, may of which would create a repeat of the economic collapse keeping us in a perpetual one and take basic rights away from women, gays, and others.

Keynote speaker Brian Schweitzer of Montana told many interesting stories. The one that stands out in my mind is the one he told of an Irish girl who came to America in the early part of the last century using her sister's passport and visa. This girl could not find work in New York, so she took up an offer to go to Montana in a boxcar and homestead 350 acres. She did this on her own. Eventually  she married another Irish immigrant and raised a family. This "illegal alien" was Governor Schweitzer's grandmother, and he wondered whether he should be deported for this. He asked how many of our ancestors had proper papers. Good question.

We also heard from Congressman and US Senate candidate Paul Hodes, CD-02 candidates DeJoie, Kuster and Swett, and Speaker Norelli and Senate President Larsen.

The bottom line is that we have to work harder than we did in '06 to keep New Hampshire blue at the state and federal level. Change always produces backlash. We cannot allow this to happen and lose the gains we have made. Get involved at whatever level and in whatever way you can. It is crucial.

Jennifer Daler :: 100 Club Dinner Highlights
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I really like Schweitzer (4.00 / 4)
He's another guy who seems like a genuine guy. I remember watching him on tv during the DNC in 08. He gave one of the best speeches of the week.  

quotas (4.00 / 1)
I wonder how many in the audience knew before the Governor's speech of the quotas excluding Non-Whites to 0% and Non Protestants (he mentioned Jews and Catholics specifically) to maximum 10% from the Montana Homesteading?

He said, 'you won't find anti-Jewish or anti-Black, or anti Hispanic hate speech comments in modern day Montana, because, well, they don't live here,( no big surprise given his earlier comments) but you will find anti-Indian slurs'. After that sunk in, he went on to describe how he instituted Indian Learning for all, k-12, because while you might not be able to reach a 40 year old redneck's heart, you can reach their 5 year child's heart.

He was both homesy folksy and real smart. One Great Democrat.


Annie 2012!


Great report. (0.00 / 0)
If I weren't in Georgia, I could have gone.  So, thanks.

One little emendation: change does likely produce backlash, but change is a constant, so our participation in civic affairs has to be constant, regardless.

Also, I was undocumented for fifteen years after our house burned to the ground.  Then when I petitioned the registry for a duplicate certificate of citizenship (which, btw, it is illegal to duplicate), the bureaucracy couldn't find it.  So, I had to be sworn in again.  Does that mean that until 1989 I was illegal?

What did it take to get certified?  About the same as getting a marriage certificate.  You fill out a form and swear it's the truth, as does the other person who witnesses it.
The United States is premised on the presumption that people are honest and truthful until proven otherwise by their actions.  The presumption of innocence is more than a starting point for a contest.  Though that's what many authoritarians would prefer it to be.  

"Prove worthy to live or die"


Liars! (4.00 / 2)
More so than in any other election cycle, we can expect a lot of lies and assorted other nastiness coming from the NHGOP. They do not have the truth or the issues on their side, so they will lie, and then lie again, and then lie some more.  

I am convinced that the Republicans have made a huge strategic mistake in lying about John Lynch's record and in attacking him this way.  They really have miscalculated and underestimated him.  He is going to crush whoever the Republican nominee may be.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    


Don't Worry, Just Work. (4.00 / 1)

My favorite line: That's why I think politics is a lot like driving a car. If you want to go back, ya put it in 'R.' If you want to go forward, you put it in 'D.'

Whack-a-mole, anyone?



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