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Today's Concord Monitor has a story about a woman named Karen Morgan who has just lost her unemployment benefits, because of the expiration of the federally funded extension program. She's 55 years old and has had several operations for breast cancer.
Tara Reardon, commissioner of the state's Department of Employment Security, said 4,700 people in New Hampshire have already exhausted all eligibility for unemployment compensation. Now that the program has expired, by the end of the year an additional 3,000 will be left without unemployment benefits and 9,000 more will lose benefits by April if the program is not reinstated by then, Reardon said.
The fastest growing segment of the homeless population is women over 50. A long term (over 6 months) unemployed person over the age of 50 may never find another job.
Here's what a NH Republican has to say:
Grant Bosse, a lead investigator with the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a New Hampshire free-market think tank, said the government should find places to cut spending if it's going to extend unemployment benefits.
I'd sure like to hear him explain that to Karen Morgan. These are real lives being hurt by the Party of No. Every newspaper in the country should be telling these stories, every single day.
I heard today from Shira Schoenberg, a reporter from The Concord Monitor -- she writes excellent political and other news items in that newspaper, by the way -- that the Republican Party finally has come out opposed to that dude I mentioned in a www.BlueHampshire.com Blogpost this past Sunday morning. That post, titled "REPUBLICANS: What The Hell Is This All About," detailed a letter to the editor that Ryan J. Murdough of Ashland had written to that newspaper entitled "We Must Preserve Our Racial Identity." He's filed as a candidate for New Hampshire State Representative in the Republican Party primary.
The Republicans should be congratulated for finally saying something, although it took a while. I hope the Republicans hit home their opposition to the positions of The American Third Position, which Mr. Murdough represents (WEBSITE, http://american3p.org/ Neither Democrats or Republicans need any votes from the far-confused who believe in the positions of that group.
Interestingly, until the Republican Party finally said something about it this morning, I just noted two responses. I'm surprised it took 48+ hours for more to say something.
To his credit, on Monday former Republican U.S. Congressional candidate Grant Bosse wrote a post in RedHampshire.com commenting on this dude:
"Racist Whack-Job Running As A Republican" Jim Splaine posts over at BH about a candidate I've never heard of running for State Rep. from Ashland, quoting a column in the Concord Monitor.
For far too long white Americans have been told that diversity is something beneficial to their existence. Statistics prove that the opposite is true. New Hampshire residents must seek to preserve their racial identity if we want future generations to have to possibility to live in such a great state.
While this idiot is registered as a Republican, he's from some group that claims to speak for white America. These crackpots don't speak for me. I'm not going to grace them by typing their names or providing links, but you can follow the trail through BH if you're really interested.
Rep. Splaine is right to call this guy out. And while I'm sure there will be overheated demands to denounce this racist moron that most Republicans have never heard of, we can most effectively counter this racist jerk by making sure he doesn't win the Republican nomination. There are five candidates for three seats in Grafton 8. Let's make sure this chucklehead isn't one of them."
Sadly, no Republican has commented on Grant's courageous post in that Blogsite even as of this Tuesday afternoon, so can we surmise from their silence that other Republicans accept this guy?
Then I open my E-Mail this morning and got a Facebook comment from Joe Kelly Levasseur, titled
Information wants to be free. Asking readers to pay for what they can get elsewhere is a bad idea. Subscriptions and newsstand sales never covered more than the distribution costs for newspapers, which relied on advertising. But the death of newspaper classified and the inability for pull page grocery and auto ads to transfer to the internet have sapped newspaper traditional revenues. It is unlikely that online subscriptions will either generate any significant revenue or drive people to pick up the paper. It is likely to decrease the distribution, and thus the influence, of their product.
Ask and ye shall receive. Grant's got today's shows YouTubed. Here's the first half of Civil Rights Leader Kevin Smith vs. NHDP's Mike Brunelle. Below the fold is the second half, and then a second segment with Peter Sullivan v. Grant Bosse:
Jim's take on this is here. Me, I think Mike did an outstanding job on the show of communicating a message intelligently, clearly, and within the time parameters.
(And on a related note, watching the first clip reaffirmed to me that those who do not want to live in of the shadow of Mel Thompson do not have a leading voice to represent them in either major party in New Hampshire.)
The Big D scoops everyone else for the latest on the candidate roundup:
Jennifer Horn, a Republican and former radio talk-show host who challenged Hodes in 2008, has said she is strongly considering a bid for the Senate in 2010. Grant Bosse, whom Horn defeated to secure the Republican nomination last year, is also reported to be considering a bid.
Bass, Horn and Bosse are also reportedly considering campaigns for Hodes's House seat.
"You're in a spot right now where a lot of people are thinking of running, but no one is sure what they're running for yet," Ryan Williams, the communication director for the New Hampshire Republican Party, said.
That's one way of putting it in that last graf. Another is: "My boss is the chair of the NHGOP, and the father of the guy who, he claims, will wait until 'sometime around the summer' to make a decision. But no conflict of interest there or anything."
Also of interest in the Dartmouth piece: Jay Buckey has ruled out a senate run, and twenty-something state rep Scott Merrick is mentioned as a possible contender for the CD2 seat.
Of course, half the reason Bosse keeps getting praise is to draw a contrast to Fergus Cullen's preferred candidate, Jennifer Horn. While I am fond of my "AM Talk Radio Fantasy Campaign" slogan for her, this from the Monitor endorsement is pretty darn good:
Horn, a radio talk show host, has few thought-out positions. Her campaign consists of a Muzak of conservative clichés that fill what would otherwise be dead air time.
I've had a few kind things to say about Bosse, mostly because I think Hodes deserves a candidate he will defeat soundly on the issues, instead of fluff.
But make no mistake - if Bosse wins, we will show in no uncertain terms how his stridently conservative views are totally out of touch with the 2nd district's electorate.
Adding: LOL- I'm guessing this is what sealed the deal against endorsing Horn. A qualified Republican or Democratic candidate could have hit this question out of the park in a number of ways, but it's clear she's clueless:
Concord Monitor: What did you think a few years ago when Sen. Sununu filibustered renewal of the Patriot Act?
Jennifer Horn: I wasn't in Congress at that time. I'll tell you that. Obviously. So I, in a general sense, my approach to all of this, to government, to the process, is that we have to work together. [blah, blah, blah, et cetera simillima...]
Monitor: I don't know that that answered that, though. So was that a good thing for him to stand up for his values?
Jennifer Horn: Well, only Sen. Sununu can defend himself or explain his actions. All I can do is tell you what my philosophy is and what my approach is.
Monitor: But did you agree with him?
Jennifer Horn: You know what? I'm not a big fan of the filibuster in general. I'm not a big fan of the filibuster. But I appreciate that some people over time have felt like they needed to use it to do what they thought was right. But again, I think it is the responsibility of folks in Congress to come together and work in the best interest of the people.
Granite Grok has endorsed Grant Bosse for the Republican primary in NH-02:
Coupled with a brevity of speech that makes us envious in getting out a maximum message (without sounding like a sound bite machine) and the ability and willingness to always be working at Internet speed has impressed us. He lives his campaign motto of "I may be outspent but I will never be outworked" as he seems to be in all places at once. His conservative foundation has rung a friendly bell here at the 'Grok.
Believe it or not, I think this is good and healthy news for a few reasons.
First, Grant Bosse, from my perspective on the other side of the fence, has been working harder and more creatively than the others in the CD2 GOPer derby. Secondly, he has been much more policy specific than Horn and Clegg. And finally, Bosse seems to get New Media better than the others, which makes the Granite Grok endorsement even more appropriate, since they are the only conservative blog worth reading in New Hampshire, imho.
Obviously we're all working hard for Paul Hodes here. But he at least deserves an opponent with whom we can all disagree on issues, which would be something of a novelty these days. Frankly, it's a little tiresome going up against a party that's long on corruption and empty rhetoric. Going up proudly against the other side, and winning, because we believe our ideas are better than their ideas is much more satisfying than looking out in disgust at the wreckage the GOP has wrought these last eight years.
I still think Clegg's bottomless pile of self-funding will decide this thing, but at the same time, and at the risk of being used as fodder for Horn or Clegg, I can recognize that the Grokkers made the right call here.
Self-proclaimed front-runner Jennifer Horn's AM Talk Radio Fantasy Campaign is very quickly crashing down to earth in a blaze of FEC violations. The only question remaining: was the tipping point Jackie Mason or Luke and David?
One of the benefits of having an ex-Sununu staffer like Grant Bosse running for Congress is that when a question comes up about Social Security, we get a two-fer.
First, we see that Grant Bosse wants, and proudly so, to privatize Social Security, perhaps the signature moment of President Bush's overreach upon winning re-election. In fact, I would wager that Bush's failed attempt to grab tightly onto that third rail was the beginning of a precipitous decline in the polls from which he never recovered.
Secondly, having an ex-staffer talk about privatizing Social Security via the Ryan-Sununu act is a perfect way to remind voters that John E. Sununu was not only a supporter but a champion of dismantling FDR's social pact.
P.S. I do have some sympathy for Bosse, though, after having watched that Plymouth State forum (click on this one to hear the words "Islamofascism" - no, really!). He's clearly running rings around Jennifer Horn, who never met an unspecific phrase she didn't like, with the exception of cutting taxes to solve all our economic woes. If you can bear to watch those YouTubes, you will emerge very confident about Paul Hodes' chances come November.
* Don't forget about our Blue Hampshire Bash in Concord on May 3rd. Should be loads of fun. More reminders as we get closer to it, and thanks, Jon.
* Grant Bosse hits "Hypocritical Horn" over her lobbyist money:
"We shouldn't be surprised that our self-proclaimed front-runner wants other candidates to return lobbyists' contributions while she cashes their checks," Bosse concluded. "Whether the issue has been taxes, earmarks, or campaign finance, so far Jennifer Horn has been nothing but talk."
* Speaking of the NH-02 follies, Laura recently wrote about how Huckabee has set up a PAC to help candidates like Bob Clegg. Unfortunately for Clegg, this is what the Huckster has in mind:
He met with NRCC chair Tom Cole and NRSC chairman John Ensign yesterday and discussed ways he could be helpful to GOP congressional candidates.
[Huckabee] said that he was going to focus on long-shot candidates, folks like him who weren't give much of a shot to win.
* The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg calls the Weather Underground question in the debate "pure McCarthyism." He's right.
* Hillary Clinton lies about MoveOn, a group originally established to help out Bill during the Lewinsky scandal. (Note: "Lie" is a strong word. But when you see a politician of any stripe trying to conflate Iraq and Afghanistan so that you can misidentify citizens outraged by a needless war of choice with magical "dirty hippies" who oppose all wars absolutely, you're going to get strong words from me.)
* At the gas station nearest me, regular unleaded clocked in $3.39 a gallon today. My driving is pretty much restricted at this point to work and gorcery shopping, where food prices have escalated to such an extent that I literally wince as the items go through the scanner. George Bush, John Sununu, Judd Gregg, and yes, you too, Jeb Bradley, are too be commended for being such fantastic stewards of our economy:
* Who knew? Flatlanders are two dimensional (this answers many a question I've had, being one myself).
* On Monday, Steve Marchand will be in Las Vegas, giving a keynote address entitled Developing, Executing and Transforming Results in Local Government at the National City & County Performance Summit (email).
* Next Wednesday the Shaheen campaign will be doing a statewide day of visibility. Click the link to see where and at what times. If you can make it, it'd be great to see some user diaries with pix of the events show up on BH.
Hillary Clinton, right after the audience she was addressing shouted "No!" to this line of argument:
"He was explaining to a small group of his donors what people who live in small towns right here in Pennsylvania are like and why some of you aren't voting for him," she said. "But instead of looking at himself, he blamed them. He said that they cling to religion and guns and dislike people who are different from them. Well, I don't believe that. I believe that people don't cling to religion; they value their faith. You don't cling to guns, you enjoy hunting or collecting or sport shooting. I don't think he really gets it that people are looking for a president who stands up for you and not looks down on you."
Grant Bosse:
"Barack Obama doesn't understand rural America; Barack Obama doesn't respect rural America, and he's Paul Hodes' pick for President," said Bosse. "We deserve to know if Paul Hodes shares his candidate's contempt for small town families, or if he's willing to finally stand up against these elitist and condescending remarks."
..."Does Paul Hodes agree that gun owners and church-goers are bitter, frustrated and anti-immigrant, or will he tell Barack Obama that he's wrong?" Bosse continued. "Paul Hodes has a choice between rural America and liberal cronyism."
I'm surprised he beat Jennifer Horn to it. This kind of nonsense seems more up her alley. But of course, when you've raised less than 15K in a quarter for a federal race, you've got no choice but to turn up the shrill.
I like Paul Hodes. I think he's a good guy and a good congressman. I will probably vote for him again. That said, I think I have a democratic duty to do my homework and check out where his opponents stand and to hear them out. I prefer to do this before the race really gets underway and colors the candidates' views from that sort of back and forth that always occurs.
Never mind for a moment that Bob Clegg doesn't include issues positions on his website. Bob Clegg recently put out a press release criticizing Paul Hodes's opposition to the Iraq war. In it, Clegg's views begin to become clearer.
America has a job to do, we have made substantial gains but the progress could easily be reversed if we take the wrong course of action now. We all know an immediate withdrawal would leave in its wake genocide, and a military which wonders why it is now a pawn of political campaigns and not the defenders of freedoms as they had been recruited to be.
Cutting through the fluff, he essentially says,
1. America has to stay in Iraq.
2. Immediate withdrawal will make things worse.
3. Uh oh, the military has been drawn into political debate.
Clegg says that, "Paul Hodes offers retreat."
I couldn't find the press release Clegg is criticizing in whole, but it's quoted in an Associated Press article.
What does Clegg offer?
If Paul Hodes offers "retreat" for saying that "an indefinite military occupation will not lead to the political solution we seek," I guess Bob Clegg's views are in accord with John "100 years in Iraq" McCain.
I'll stop short of saying McCain's views make sense, but it is much more understandable for McCain to support the White House position, when he's aiming to be George W. Bush's successor. It doesn't make sense for a Republican challenger.
After the 2006 elections, the New Hampshire Republicans were calling Democratic victories at both federal and state levels a fluke attributable to public displeasure with the Iraq war. If they think all other issues notwithstanding, they lost the election over Iraq, why on earth would Bob Clegg take the same view on the one issue the Republicans think cost them the last election?
Grant Bosse's position is more ridiculous. He gets some credit for stating it outright, along with his positions on other issues. Basically he agrees with Bob Clegg, John McCain, and George Bush that we need to stay in Iraq. But he goes on to say, "Our Congressmen have the easy job here." Yeah, fork over unlimited amounts of taxpayer money for something they, by and large, don't support. I don't think there are too many Congressmen, Republican or Democrat, that would call their role in the matters of war and peace "easy."
Jennifer Horn and Jim Steiner don't mention Iraq at all on their websites. Even if they disagree with Bosse or Clegg, by not mentioning it, they get no credit. If they agree, and they're just ignoring it so people like me don't criticize them along with their rivals, they're just being sleazy. Obviously I'll put more effort into finding out their views in the future.
Do these Republican candidates think it's better not to be distinguished on this issue in the primary? Do they really think continuing to support our occupation of Iraq is going to fly with independents? I mean, what are they thinking?
We wish Grant Bosse the best of luck in his race to win the Republican nomination for Oregon's fifth district. But it would only be fair to note that his old boss Senator Sununu often complains about out-of-state groups tinkering with elections:
Grant Bosse, one of four GOP candidates for Congress in Hodes' district, might want to give the folks at Freedom Watch a call. The conservative watchdog group praised him for signing its "Anti-Earmark Pledge," but they identified him as a candidate in Oregon's 5th Congressional District. His name was spelled right. That counts.
I have to admit, Grant Bosse's new vid is pretty clever, though completely bogus - even a shrill left-wing blogger like me knows that Horn was saying these things before Bosse entered the race.
What I find funny is the whole premise, which basically goes - Washington is broken, so vote for a Republican!
They're kidding, right? Six years of a Congress which was nothing other than Bush's personal fan club, and a year of record-breaking GOP filibusters (with Sununu and Gregg merrily marching lockstep) to prevent anything of substance from getting done.
And to top it off, the meme coming from a former Sununu staffer. Now that's comic gold.
"First and foremost, today we remember the fallen heroes of our armed services and their families. We pray for the men and women serving our country and we honor the veterans who have sacrificed so much for all of us.
"Today, we are five years into a war we were told would last a matter of weeks, five years into a war that has taken almost 4,000 American lives and is costing us $12 billion a month, five years into a war that has diverted our military focus from pursuing terrorist threats around the world. This morning, President Bush asserted once again that the war in Iraq has made America safer, while our intelligence agencies tell us that exactly the opposite is true - we are more vulnerable to terrorist threats now than we have been at any time since 2001.
"To defeat al Qaeda and make America safer, to return our focus to winning the fight against the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan who attacked us, and to address our economic challenges at home, we must begin the responsible redeployment of our troops immediately.
"American men and women are in the middle of a civil war in Iraq. There is no military solution - the Iraqis must come to a political solution and that's not something we can do for them. Our troops have performed exceptionally and they have done everything that has been asked of them. It is time to bring them home."
John Sununu (R, Senate):
Carol Shea-Porter (D, NH-01):
Washington, DC - As the war in Iraq enters its sixth year, Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter is in Iraq today visiting with American troops and commanders. This is Congresswoman Shea-Porter's second trip to Iraq as a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
Shea-Porter previously traveled to Iraq in March of 2007. During her visit to Iraq last year, Congresswoman Shea-Porter met with senior military leaders on the ground, including General David Petraeus, to discuss the situation in Iraq as well as the President's newly-announced 'surge' strategy.
Details of Shea-Porter's current trip to Iraq have not yet been made public due to security considerations.
Jeb Bradley (R, NH-01 Candidate):
John Stephen (R, NH-01 Candidate):
Paul Hodes (D, NH-02):
"Today marks the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. For five years, our service members have served on the front lines, and their families have stood by them with patience and strength. Our young men and women in uniform have given their all with dedication and distinction. We honor our fallen men and women, their comrades who have returned home, and those who continue to serve in Iraq, Afghanistan and in other parts of the world.
They have performed their duties bravely, and many have sacrificed beyond measure.
The cost of the war is more than the billions of dollars spent but has a true human cost as well, with more than 4,000 American lives lost and tens of thousands injured many of them permanently.
We must also recognize that the war in Iraq has become a growing threat to our fragile economy, with its colossal cost to taxpayers taking us ever more deeply into debt while millions of Americans are left without adequate health care, good job opportunities or a chance at an affordable education.
I had the opportunity to visit Iraq last month, and what I saw first-hand strengthened my resolve to ensure that we take care of our returning veterans and find a sequence that gets the Iraqis to step up to their responsibilities and allows us to redeploy from there - because we can't keep having our soldiers shoulder this burden indefinitely. This is the only way that we can get the Iraqis to embrace a political solution. And a political solution, not a military one, is the only solution in Iraq, as even General Petraeus said to me personally.
On the fifth year anniversary, we honor those who served and are still serving, and we must resolve to create a new direction that will get the Iraqis to step up, and allow us to bring our men and women home as quickly as possible."
* Does anyone else find it odd that ex-Sununu staffer Grant Bosse has been in the race for the NH-02 seat for a week, and his old boss John E. hasn't endorsed him yet?
Well, since then we were treated to a second announcement that Bosse was running (the official one?), yet no word from the boss. Until now:
"I'm not going to comment on his race. Grant is putting together a strong campaign. That's his race," Sununu said.
Ouch. So much for the single biggest card Bosse could have played in this race. And I suspect this refusal to endorse his own ex-employee has everything to do with Sununu worrying about his own sorry re-election chances, and little to do with GOP candidate number #586312 in the NH-02 race.
* Thanks to our blue majority, usurious pay-day loan companies like Advance America will soon only be allowed to charge ridiculously high interest rates instead of Satanically evil ones.
* Despite widespread support (including AG Kelly Ayotte) for the aforementioned legislation, Bob Clegg was quick to defend the practice of predatory lending, with what must be one of the most bizarre self-admissions I've ever heard coming from a gubernatorial congressional candidate:
Sen. Bob Clegg recounted times of struggle in the 1970s and 1980s when he had to turn to the "black market" to tide him over. "You can fail, or you can take another chance," said Clegg, a Hudson Republican. "My position, I took another chance."
He would be too embarrassed to go to a welfare office, he said, and would rather "stand tall, make my deal with them and then make my payments because that keeps me a man."
The bill's supporters include Attorney General Kelly Ayotte, Banking Commissioner Peter Hildreth, the AARP and several welfare administrators around the state.
You know, I've been through plenty of very difficult financial straits in my time, but I don't recall ever making a trip to the black market to preserve my manhood. Is that some kind of Republican thing?
* Adam Leech has a cute writeup of Republican Sandi Henniquin and Democrat Steve Marchand, and how they keep from killing each other:
During the New Hampshire primary season, campaign signs for Bill Richardson and John McCain were cozied together on the front lawn of their Cass Street home. Nightly news watching jumps between FOX, and MSNBC depending on who has the clicker and who falls asleep first (typically Sandi, on both counts). Their dog, a Corgi, is named "Reagan," and the next dog will be named "Truman." (Both hold veto power over their pets' names, ensuring neither would be named Bush or Clinton.)
* Does anyone else find it odd that ex-Sununu staffer Grant Bosse has been in the race for the NH-02 seat for a week, and his old boss John E. hasn't endorsed him yet?
* Quite possibly the most ridiculous thing ever written about me and my kind. Right-wing bloggers try to explain away why conservative blogs are teh suck:
Erick Erickson, editor of the popular conservative megablog RedState, conceded that progressives currently enjoy an advantage over conservatives online-though he attributed it to an asymmetry in free time, since conservatives "have families because we don't abort our kids, and we have jobs because we believe in capitalism."
* Phone-jammer James Tobin really really really really doesn't want to go to jail, because, you know, IOKIYAR.
* Does anyone remember what it was like to trust what President's say? When I heard Bush announce that we were going to shoot down our errant spy satellite because of, essentially, environmental safety concerns, I didn't buy it for a minute. And neither do the folks who actually know about that stuff.
* (Non-political) Remember these guys? Turns out that too clever by half 80's eccentrics don't fade away - they just have kids and know how to entertain them with nifty free podcasts:
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?
