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Your actions are so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying.
There is no place in a civil society for such vitriol. We need to have objective discourse about important policy issues and not resort to despicable personal attacks if we are ever to make progress on getting the budget under control
-- Jack Kimball
(One in four Republican voters supported their new Chairman in his primary... - promoted by elwood)
UL:
Jack Kimball has been elected chairman of the New Hampshire GOP in a 222 to 199 vote.
I wonder if it was my endorsement that put him over the top. Congratulations, Chairman!
So now New Hampshire Republicans will be taking their cues from Kimball, who takes his cues from...
He said Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck was "an American hero" and that everyone should watch his show
Adding: since all the Villagers are looking in on NH today because of the upcoming primary, perhaps we can finally put to bed the fiction that the oldey-timey New Hampshire Yankee Republican still exists somewhere. The expiration on that stereotype was around the time Jim Jeffords left the GOP, but you know how zombie Village memes persist.
Addinger: Missed this from last summer:
During the Obama-McCain election, he put up "mild things, like 'Obama's endorsed by Hamas,' Louis Farrakhan, stuff like that," he deadpans.
I knew after checking the background of Barack Obama that we had ourselves a problem if he was elected. It's far worse than we thought.
...
...After he was elected, the bailouts started.
Jack Kimball needs another background check.
It is 100% false to state that "the bailouts started" after President Obama was elected.
The TARP bailout of the Banksters who got us into this mess through GOP friendly deregulation happened under Republican President George W. Bush, and before Barack Obama was elected to replace him.
New Hampshire's Senior US Senator, Republican Judd Gregg, was a chief architect and vigorous public supporter of the TARP bailout.
New Hampshire's Junior Senator, Republican John E. Sununu, voted for the TARP bailout.
Both of New Hampshire's Democratic US members of Congress, Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes, voted against the TARP bailout.
NH GOP goobernatorial candidate Jack Kimball recently did an interview with the Conway Daily Sun. In the interview, he called himself "the one warrior" in the race. Given how much publicity the right wing media in our state has gifted the tea partiers with, I decided to take the opportunity to offer another perspective.
PS: The CDS has a weekly feature called Tele-Talk, where they ask a question, and folks can call in all weekend with their answers. The whole thing is published on Tuesdays. No matter what the subject is (should Conway build a new town garage?) Ralph blames it on Obama. It's become something of a local joke.
via email from Kris Shultz...join us in front of the State House at 9:15 to let these folks know, NH is Freedom
Hello, NH immigration reform supporters... wanted to give you an urgent but
quick update on two things - one is bad news, the other is good!
First the bad news, URGENT, IT'S TOMORROW! *(today Saturday June 12)*Thanks to Olivia Zink at NHCA,
just got word of a "912" group rally (as in Glen Beck's group) that is
supporting Arizona's crazy-town immigration laws. It's tomorrow in Concord
at 9:30am-10:30am. Jack Kimball will be speaking at this event. As it's
advertised, the group will "rally to stand with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer
to support the new Arizona Immigration Law SB-1070. Come see Jack Kimball
speak to issues affecting state's rights and the enforcement of the rule of
law." No doubt you'll find it as shocking as I do that a candidate for
Governor is trying to make this an issue in NH! INSANE! And exactly why we
need federal comprehensive immigration reform.
Did anyone else notice that Craig Benson protege John Stephen's numbers against Lynch in the PPP poll are virtually identical to Jack Kimball's?
This is amazing to me, given how much more name recognition Stephen should have from his previous runs for various offices and his grandstanding at DHHS.
The PPP press release (.PDF) calls him an "unknown."
Adding: Maybe one clear way to distinguish between Stephen and Kimball is for a reporter to ask if either of them support the Republican Governors Association's new allegiance with Guy Fawkes. Or then again, maybe not so clear.
In Concord, gubernatorial candidate Jack Kimball drew cheers with an anti-tax message. He decried the state's taxation of business while criticizing its relatively low level of services.
"I don't mind paying my fair share, folks," he said. "I don't think any of us do. But I do mind when I'm raped. It's awful."
After he left the stage, Kimball said he was referring to the tax burden on small businesses.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - In New Hampshire, the Tea Party is a loose affiliation among more than two dozen groups ranging from the Christian Home Educators of New Hampshire to the Granite State Taxpayers.
...Granite State Patriots founder Jack Kimball says the coalition came together a year ago when leaders of the individual groups helped organize a large tax-day protest in Manchester.
That would be the protest that included these signs:
Here's a better resolution photo of the Tea Party vandalism of Carol Shea-Porter's Dover office:
And here is some more detail from Foster's:
"I say we stay and make some noise and tell them where they can shove this bill," Lamy told a cheering crowd.
...One man held a paper sign cutout of an M-6 machine gun while others carried simple signs urging people to oppose "Obamacare."
..."The states need to take the country back. Liberty and freedom ... that's what's at stake tomorrow," [gubernatorial candidate Jack] Kimball said.
Adding: again, I'd much rather be blogging about something else. But if the tradmed is going to parade the Tea People as a legitimate political movement, voters have a right to know what that means.
The Tea People have found their leader, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Kimball.
And Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Kimball has found his, too:
He said Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck was "an American hero" and that everyone should watch his show, on which Kimball will be advertising his campaign beginning today.
Republicans, he said, are "not going to win elections without the Tea Party movement so with me you get two for the price of one."
Karen Testerman is trying to re-invent her image along fiscal issues, and Shira let her.
About thirty seconds of Teh Google pulled this up:
Testerman drew sharp criticism for her comments on a New Hampshire Public Radio talk program, comparing gay men and lesbians with "shoplifters and drug addicts." She also played a major role in helping the governor build support among legislators for the new law that requires minor girls to notify at least one parent or guardian before getting an abortion. In an interview Tuesday, Testerman defended her criticism of the gay community. "We all have behaviors that may have an inclination to harm society, and we try to keep them under control," she told The [Nashua, N.H.] Telegraph. "When we have restrictions on those behaviors, then there is less activity. Homosexuality is a method by which there is some threat to society because of the disease it promotes. We cut men's life short because they cause AIDS and become more susceptible to pneumonia. I would raise the concern that homosexuality is not good in that it is a threat to the overall health of the society as a whole."
During Grok-Gate, much attention was focused on the "f"-word. But the rest of the statement is what mattered more to me:
"Yeah you Faggot. [Pause.] That's right I said it and I meant it. You are reprobate. How the people, the Democrats, I think of some of the gray haired ladies and older people from the old party would stand behind you is beyond me. You are a disgrace to yourself to humanity to mankind and to your party.
How much space, really, is there between these two views? And can the NHGOP in good faith encourage the former to run for governor, while condemning the latter?
The other Republican gubernatorial candidate besides Ms. Testerman is Jack Kimball, who is stockpiling ammo.
This the the New Hampshire Republican party of 2009.
STATEMENT FROM JACK KIMBALL, EXPLORATORY CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR, ON DOUG LAMBERT'S COMMENTS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 14, 2009
PORTSMOUTH, NH-As someone who has watched Ray Buckley smear and assail political leaders in a personal manner over many years it is regrettable that Doug Lambert lowered himself and Granite Grok to Mr. Buckley's standard on his show this morning. While a political leader's opinions and policies should always be open for thoughtful analysis, great care should be taken when discussing personal matters. Comments such as the ones made by Doug Lambert add nothing to the important discussion of the issues facing New Hampshire. There are certain standards of decency that should be observed and unfortunately Mr. Lambert's comments did not live up to those standards.
Regardless of the source, personal attacks and language of this kind have no place in New Hampshire politics, particularly since we take pride in setting a political example and model for the rest of the nation.
I reject Mr. Lambert's comments as they were inappropriate, hurtful, and offensive.
Today's New Hampshire Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen.
Adding: to be clear, it's a good sign that Bradley, Lamontagne, and (kinda sorta) Guinta distanced themselves. And I am especially pleased that Kevin Smith, perhaps the state's most prominent foe of the right of gays and lesbians to marry, didn't equivocate like Kimball did in his denunciation.
But ultimately, when the chair of the NHGOP felt it okay to call marriage equality "garbage," he lowered the bar and set the stage for this development.
Dover businessman Jack Kimball, better known as the "sign guy" on the Portsmouth Rotary, intends to become the first Republican to announce his candidacy for governor.
Kimball, who enjoys life with the Tea Party set, is preparing for the worst:
He also bought "as much ammo as I could get my hands on."
"I think we have serious things coming," said Kimball, who is adopting a survivalist mentality by adding generators at his home and planning for worst case scenarios.
I originally was going to pass on posting this, since under normal circumstances it concerns a fringe candidate and it's not worth adding to the echo chamber.
But then in my car today while flipping stations I heard National GOP Boss Rush Limbaugh talking about "Obama's march to fascism." And then I thought about how many millions of people listen to Boss Limbaugh's political version of professional wrestling every day.
And then it hit me: even here in New Hampshire, the fringe is now the Republican party. The Walter Petersons of the state that weren't already turned away by George W. Bush are now being disappeared by the world of Sad Clown Glenn Beck and Facebook Governor Sarah Palin.
This would be news to celebrate if it weren't so frightening.
