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Add Grant Bosse's name to the Clegg-Horn-Steiner CD2 Derby

by: Dean Barker

Sun Feb 10, 2008 at 11:27:40 AM EST
As our own Dartmouth Dem has suggested many times, former Sununu staffer Grant Bosse has 'fessed up about his run against Paul Hodes for NH-02:
"We're going full-speed," Bosse said.

"Quite frankly Paul Hodes seems like a smart guy and, in the future, I wish he spends more time with his family." He added, "He ran in change in 2006 and the only thing that's changed is whose [sic] playing the game."

Bosse is a former staffer for U.S. Sen. John Sununu and said his three main issues would be national defense, immigration and government accountability.

I wonder: is he the staffer who said he would get back to me and never did when I asked just what human rights groups support abandoning the Geneva Conventions for enemy combatants, as John E.'s pro-Gonzo constituent letter claimed?

I really love how all the NH GOoPers are running as the "change" candidate, as if we don't know what party they belong to. 'Aint. Gonna. Work.

Adding: how many seconds will pass before we receive another hyperventilating release from Horn about how Bosse is "just another "career staffer" divorced from the real people world of talk-show hosts?
Dean Barker :: Add Grant Bosse's name to the Clegg-Horn-Steiner CD2 Derby
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Add Grant Bosse's name to the Clegg-Horn-Steiner CD2 Derby | 17 comments
Awesome. (0.00 / 0)
I'm looking forward to seeing someone run a Congressional campaign on immigration in New Hampshire.  Good plan.

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner
hey (0.00 / 0)
we ARE a boarder state...
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Well, ever since we re-annexed the Republic of Indian Stream, anyway. (0.00 / 0)


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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner
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the immigrant song (0.00 / 0)
I'm reading a book about the Irish in America. It quotes  the anti-immigrant Know Nothing platform, which included "checking the stride of the foreigner and alien" and "Americans must rule America."  So, here we are over 150 years later, and there are are people basing their political careers on the same old stuff. Of course, one of the major differences is that there are descendents of the people whom the Know Nothings wanted to keep out in the 1850's who are exploiting virulently anti-immigrant feelings today to further their political careers.      

Energy and persistence conquer all things.


Benjamin Franklin


 
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Wouldn't it be great (0.00 / 0)
to hear a politician say,
OF COURSE they go to the head of the line! These are the people who took risks and gambled all to live here! They will drive the next generation of American greatness. The timid with their paperwork can wait behind them.

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As comedian John Roy asks (paraphrased) (4.00 / 1)
"The racists really need to get their argument straight.  Are Mexicans lazy, or are they taking our jobs?  Because it can't be both."

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner
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I maintain that we still have a proud "Know Nothing" Party (0.00 / 0)
In both the literal sense and the historical sense.

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner
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Don't forget Mitt's gardeners. . . . (4.00 / 1)
Am guessing that they make it up to his vacation house, too.
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eh ? n/t (0.00 / 0)


note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other
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My point (0.00 / 0)
Illegal immigration is not among the core of issues one campaigns on in New Hampshire.  It's somewhat akin to running in New Mexico and promising to deregulate the maple syrup industry.

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner
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live free and sticky (0.00 / 0)
Is he going to run on a boarder fence? Have it be built by illegal Canadians.

As for Maple Syrup.... I'm for tariffs on Vermont Maple Syrup, NH maple syrup is better.

"New Hampshire syrup is what we serve in this White House."

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I'm with you on New Hampshire syrup. (0.00 / 0)
...and on the West Wing reference.

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner
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chap 11 of NAFTA (0.00 / 0)
Canadians know their hemispheric Trade Agreement Rights...you may get sued for blocking their right to future profits by constraining trade

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other
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Well since Bill Clinton pushed NAFTA through... (0.00 / 0)
The Clintons are anti-New England maple syrup!  Somebody call HuffPo!

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner
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Anti-Environment (4.00 / 2)
I met Grant Bosse in November when I was at Power Shift lobbying the NH delegation for tougher environmental legislation. He was the only aide we met with who had an aide himself. I don't think he could have handled 20 liberal students himself.

At one point he interrupted one of the freshmen who was talking about the goal of 80% reduction by 2050, and Bosse said "Well that's if you believe in Global Warming, and so far science hasn't proved it."

I think even a Republican has to be pro-environment running in NH now...

That is an extremely important anecdote to bring up. (0.00 / 0)
I suspect highly that John E. and his ex-staffers will be changing their tune publicly on climate change come silly season, and it will be key to bring that up again and again.

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker
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Wait, this past November? 2007? (0.00 / 0)
In 2007, he said he doesn't believe in Global Warming?

Let's celebrate with some New Hampshire maple syrup.

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Hope > Anarch-tea
Twitter: @DougLindner

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