My guess is that if our primary is decided on personality, then Ayotte will win due to higher name recognition and having won a statewide election.
And my guess is that if the primary is decided on policy that Morse will win. He has a long history of enacting the policies that have made NH the best state in the nation.

So far, I would say that we have started off badly, and if we continue on the current track, we could lose in November.

BUT I think there is a good way to get back on track and win in November.

It seems that NH Democrats are worried about Kelly Ayotte, and not interested in policies that are important to NH citizens. This is what NHJournal reported today:

“When New Hampshire’s Democratic candidates for governor gathered for a forum at Exeter Town Hall Sunday afternoon, the top topics were affordable housing, abortion rights, climate change, Education Freedom Accounts, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Kelly Ayotte. Left unmentioned?”

“Inflation, illegal immigration, anti-Israel protests roiling Granite State college campuses, and the other GOP candidate for governor, former state Senate President Chuck Morse.”

Three points:

Democrats will be campaigning on personal destruction more than policy

1. They think Ayotte will win the primary
2. They have already started the general election campaign
3. We can and should start the general election campaign right away, and we should focus on policy, not personality.

We know the policies of the Democrats. It doesn’t matter who the person is; they all have the same (bad) policies.

Morse (and preferably also Ayotte) should focus on the Democrats’ policies, not on each other. Compare and contrast Republican policies vs. Democrat policies. Morse can say that he knows how to keep NH great. He has been enacting good NH policy for a dozen years.

Make the primary an audition for the general election – Republican vs. Democrat rather than the traditional circular firing squad. Let’s see how each of our candidates would perform against the Democrat. Let voters choose the one who is seen to do the best job beating the Democrat.

Morse can have a strong campaign about his leadership helping to make NH the best state in the nation, which would weaken the eventual Democratic nominee. The traditional approach of attacking the other Republican does nothing to strengthen his own position and nothing to weaken the Democrat. It leaves the Republican very little time to make our case.

Can we convince Morse that this new approach gives him the best chance to win the primary and then the general?

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First, the so-called elites promoted Eugenics, which led to forced sterilization laws. Then it was abortion, first decriminalized in California and New York, and then decriminalized by the now overturned Roe v Wade decision.

Note how angry the elite, especially in the Democrat Party, got when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v Jackson decision was leaked back in May of 2022. The Left went ballistic, unleashing a barrage of violence against churches and Pro-Life Crisis Pregnancy Centers around the country. New Hampshire wasn’t spared. Pathways Pregnancy Care Center, a Christian ministry in Littleton, was vandalized.

No arrests were made for this vicious hate crime, and no public condemnation of this act was made by Governor Sununu or any of our Congressional delegation. A call to Pathways confirmed that Sununu and the Democrat Congressional delegation didn’t reach out to the center condemning the vandalism, bigotry, and hate. Indeed, they all poured gasoline on the fire by denouncing the Supreme Court decision, knowing full well that it had absolutely no impact on abortion in New Hampshire. The once “Live Free or Die State” has, over the years, become the “Come Here and Die State.”

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The Death Cultists are also pushing so-called gender reassignment surgery via chemical and surgical castration of children. And woe to any who dare speak out against this. If you don’t wholeheartedly support this Death Cult madness, you may not be able to adopt children. Another item on their evil agenda is “assisted suicide” legislation, which was recently passed by the New Hampshire House.

Forced Sterilization and its Racist Roots

Forced sterilization was popular among our racist elite from the 1880s up to the early 1970s. It fell out of favor by the elites not because they thought it was wrong but because their Nazi colleagues in Germany efficiently adopted it from them. Thirty states passed laws that allowed it. New Hampshire was no exception. One of the leaders of the Eugenics movement was Harry Hamilton Laughlin, who would be a big hit at today’s anti-Israel protests because he believed most Jews were feeble-minded. One of our nation’s top Eugenics and forced sterilization advocates was Madison Grant.

Grant’s 1916 book The Passing of a Great Race was translated into German and read by Hitler in the early 1920s. Hitler made references to Grant’s book in Mein Kamph, quoted Grant in his speeches, and even sent Grant a fan letter praising his book. It comes as no surprise that Grant was an evolutionist. He was secretary of the New York Zoological Society and helped put a man from the Congo, Ota Benga, on display with monkeys in the Bronx Zoo.

I am sure very few readers know about this sordid history due to the fact that modern-day Death Cultists control our government schools and most of the media and publishing houses. Very few readers have heard of Planned Parenthood’s Negro Project and that Martin Luther King was in on the hustle promoting its racist agenda. He was one of the first recipients of its Margaret Sanger Award.

The New England states that had forced sterilization laws besides New Hampshire were Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut. California led the way with over 20,000 forced sterilizations, and New Hampshire had about 700-with 90% of them being women. Here is a portion of the 1929 New Hampshire law on forced sterilization: “Whenever the superintendent of any state or county institution shall be of the opinion that it is for the best interest of the inmate and society that any inmate of the institution under his care should be sexually sterilized, such superintendent is hereby authorized to cause to be performed by some capable surgeon the operation of sterilization…”

Most of these forced sterilizations took place at the State School for Feeble-Minded Children in Laconia. States slowly repealed these laws; some were still on the books until the early 1970s.

Laconia State School for feebleminded children “Assisted Suicide” Jack Kevorkian

Suicide is self-murder. If two or more people are involved, it can no longer be suicide. Jack Kevorkian, one of the Death Cult’s high demons, went to jail for 2nd-degree murder for participating in an “assisted suicide.” Currently, nine states- and Washington D.C, all of them are, with the exception of Montana, Democrat Party strongholds, have passed “Death With Dignity” laws.

These Death Cultists love to use euphemisms to mask their acts: “Reproductive Health Care and Gender Reassignment Surgery are two others employed by them. The Death Cultists are active in New Hampshire and are close to passing more Death Cult legislation. The New Hampshire House narrowly passed the bill HB1283, which should have been ceremoniously named HB1984.

Here are the members of the Death Cult who sponsored the bill:

•Representative Sherry Dutzy (D) from Hillsborough District 6.
•Representative David Paige (D) from Carroll District 1.
•Representative Linda Haskins (D) from Rockingham District 11.
•Representative Stephen Woodcock (D) from Carroll District 1.
•Representative Emily Phillips ® from Rockingham District 7.
•Representative Bob Lynn ® from Rockingham District 17.
•Representative Dan Wolf ® from Merrimack District 7.
•Representative Bill Bolton (D) from Grafton District 8

While members of this cult have a cozy home in the Democrat Party, the Republicans also have them in their ranks. The bill will be voted on in the Senate on May 16. If passed, it will go to the governor, who said that he is “open to considering the bill,” which means, in Orwellian Double Speak, that he will sign it. Readers are urged to call their senators as soon as possible and tell them to say no to the Death Cult agenda and its HB1283.

“Are we a culture of life, or are we a culture of death,” said Rep. Terry Roy (R-Deerfield). We will soon find out.

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A long time ago, right here in New Hampshire, a gay marriage bill failed in a Democrat majority legislature. They strongarmed a reconsideration vote and passed it, despite a prevailing narrative that civil unions were enough. Gov John Lynch signed it, meddling in marriage.

I was often wrongly accused of being against gay marriage. As is their custom, they assumed without ever having read a word I’d written on the matter, and that made for excellent follow-up material, but they don’t read that either. The truth is that I was (and still am) against the state defining anything having to do with marriage. My position was (and still is) that if your congregation agrees to a same-sex union, the state’s only obligation was to protect the contract related to property rights and only if required (when brought before the courts) to settle disputes. Treat it like any other union for those purposes; otherwise, stay out of it.

Democrats don’t work that way, and now, apparently, neither do some Republicans.

New Hampshire’s GOP majority legislature has advanced a bill ending “child marriage.” I’m not saying I disagree with the idea that children should not marry. Modern culture is not arranged in a way that prepares enough of them for the responsibility. It would be unfair to expect them to get it, but until recently, with parental consent (also not something the left cares much about), New Hampshire residents as young as 13 or 14 could be married. None were recently, so I’m not clear what the problem was, but someone had a burr in their saddle. In 2018, NH raised the age to 16, and this year, the experts in Concord have decided to prohibit marriage until the age of 18 with or without mutilated genitals, as this is something Democrats (with a few rare exceptions) favor for children regardless of age.

During the marriage meddling bill debate, Rep. Jess Edwards made national news when speaking from the well of the NH House about the proposed change.

Aside from the choice of words to describe childbearing age (I’d have said “of childbearing age”), Rep. Edwards’ point is legit. The law was the way it was because young ladies could get pregnant. Both ripe and fertile. Ask any Democrat who has advocated for “sex education” for minors that involves handing out condoms and discussing abortion options with “children.” Why is that again?

Campaign donations from Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List. They are sacrificing the unborn babies of tweens to the goddess Ka-Ching! And this is the party working to normalize minor-attracted adults – who might, to paraphrase Lightbringer Barry Obama, punish someone’s daughter with a baby.

The Left has been profiting from this arrangement for years, going so far as claiming a right to privacy for the impregnated minor so their parent(s) didn’t need to find out. A practice that makes young girls of childbearing age ripe and fertile ground for pedophiles and sex offenders.

So, the Left has long insisted that we acknowledge the need for “women’s health care” (abortion) for girls as soon as they are fertile and ripe (or, if you prefer, ripe and fertile). That taxpayers subsidize it.

But let’s be offended by what Rep. Edwards said.

And while we’re in the neighborhood, early onset progressive sexualization has since produced mission creep down to grammar school grades where they no longer have time to teach grammar, reading, or math, it seems. Where children with no concept of sex or sexuality are sexualized by union dues-paying Democrat candidate-supporting (pro-abortion) adults long before these kids can understand arousal, sexual attraction, or an act that could result in … marriage as a deterrent. One that has, for longer than not, heralded the need for two parents (even at the ripe young age of thirteen) to be bonded together to ensure they take responsibility for what they’d created—a future taxpayer. Hey, someone will have to pay the interest on all that debt, but if the kid keeps the kid, there will be no marriage for you until you turn 18 ‘cuz a bunch of legislators in Concord know better.

Maybe we should rebrand it the mandatory single motherhood bill.

Or, more likely, the “It’s easier to get an abortion” bill, which was Rep. Edwards’ point.

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Let me first thank Spike for mentioning my recent article in his article, which he finishes with noting that it’s “planting a small seed.”  It inspired me to review one of my earliest articles, perhaps my 3rd, to also plant a small seed, and it received some comments that I either overlooked or were posted after I stopped looking.

One of those comments mentions Nebraska, whose state house Karen Thoman and her husband visited during a summer road trip last year.  When they returned to NH and she was telling me all about their vacation, it was then that I learned about their legislature being the first and only unicameral one since the 1930s.

I was unfamiliar with the Reynolds vs. Sims case at the time, but remember that Nebraska is a red state, and the change was made during the Great Depression, possibly as an act of thrift.  Also, keep in mind that they have a paid legislature, and it’s a big state, which can make us private citizens take for granted the ability to be in Concord, for whatever reason, in a matter of minutes up to a maximum of about 2 hours without bad weather.

Senatorial duties call for roughly three trips to Concord per week during peak season, and let’s pick on Carrie Gendreau for a moment as she votes first and lives the furthest from Concord. That’s 500 plus miles on the odometer for her, which has to be more hours at the wheel than in committee or in the senate chamber.  I won’t get into the weeds and split hairs, but you get the picture.

While I find a lot of procedural and structural things, for lack of better words, more pleasant in watching the live streams of the Senate than the House, I despise the “steamrolling” that occurs, which was noted in the comments. And then there’s the burying of bad bills in a bundle called “consent.”  I certainly do NOT “consent” to an RTK Tax!

And just to cite another example to keep my complaint from being exclusively HB 1002-related, the Brookline GOP secretary called attention to SB 538,
an unhinged pure Dem bill (relative to zoning procedures concerning residential housing) that he dubbed an “ill-advised HOMEnibus bill,” that died in the House last Thursday.  It should have never even made it out of Senator Gray’s committee.  What in the name of all that’s holy is wrong with them?  They’re as bad as Judiciary!

At least one chamber did something last Thursday that actually serves Granite Staters, even though I have no representation in that body. I would also add that the death of SB 538 should be as ceremonious as Gregory Peck stepping out of the courtroom to go shoot a neighborhood rabid dog rather than the unpleasant fallout from Kristi Noem having to shoot a dog in her new book.

One must ask, “How many other bad senate bills are UNANIMOUSLY passed in this subversive manner?”

And even if it wasn’t so subversive, what about the hive mind or Uniparty peer pressure?  Suppose for a moment that there’s a popular feel-good bill that you and/or your Senator do not support.  S/he gets “chilled” of free speech and has to suck it up in a roll call to avoid being labeled the cold-hearted snake.  It’s not a hill to commit political suicide on, but it’s not worth risking losing the next election by being the only one to vote NO on (insert bill here).  It can be anything from something that’s as non-lawmaking as accepting a picture or Rogers Johnson to Massing up NH, like enshrining MassHealth.  In the House, a dissenter is often not alone and can blend in like a Camry in heavy traffic, but NOT in a body of 24 whose names are individually roll called by the clerk.

In addition to all the benefits noted in my earlier case for not having a senate, we can delve deeper into reviewing additional benefits.  Mull it over yourself, but I’ll first direct you to the famous Henry Kissinger comment about whoever that controls(this commodity) controls(those people or populations, etc.).
https://www.azquotes.com/author/8103-Henry_A_Kissinger

If we abolish the Senate, we will solve the problem of the donors owning Sharon Carson controlling which bills make it to the Corner Office.

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American colleges, known for fostering social movements, have witnessed a curious alliance in recent decades—the Leftist-Islamist coalition, an uneasy and yet significant force. This essay delves into this collaboration, raising questions about its ideological compatibility and financial transparency.

 

The political leanings of American faculty have been a topic of discussion since the 1930s. Studies like those by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) consistently show a higher concentration of liberals, particularly in humanities and social sciences. The McCarthy era of the 1950s further intensified scrutiny of political views in academia, sparking debates about academic freedom and potential bias.

The 1990s saw the emergence of Islamist activism on U.S. campuses, with the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the forefront. Founded in 1992 by Hatem Bazian, SJP actively advocates for Palestinian rights and criticizes Israeli policies. The group aligns itself with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and promotes an “anti-normalization” stance towards Zionist and most Jewish organizations. SJP’s activities and pronouncements have been met with controversy, including accusations of anti-Semitism and support for extremism.

 

Despite their apparent ideological differences, Leftists (Marxists) and Islamists find common ground in shared perspectives that fuel collaboration on various issues, particularly those related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Student organizations like SJP often partner with leftist groups to organize protests, campaigns, and initiatives. Collaboration extends to academics from both backgrounds, too, who engage in joint research projects, conferences, and publications that critically examine power structures, global politics, and their impact on marginalized communities.

The main problem here is that the role of academia (particularly leftist professors) in promoting a benign image of Islam while downplaying or ignoring its political aspects is that it portrays Islam as compatible with democratic societies—this is a deliberate attempt to mislead the public about the nature of Islam.

 

The financial resources that sustain coalitions between the Left and Islamists on U.S. college campuses come from various sources with varying degrees of transparency. Understanding these funding streams is crucial for a comprehensive picture of this phenomenon. Islamists leverage democratic processes to gain influence and potentially undermine democratic institutions from within. There is a warning here of the potential for Islamists to establish shadow governments within democratic societies, using Sharia law as a tool for control and intimidation.

Overt funding sources are publicly known and disclosed. They include:

 

 

University Grants and Allocations: Universities often allocate funds to student organizations and initiatives aligned with diversity, inclusion, and social justice values. These allocations are typically made through student activity fees or departmental budgets.

Foundation Grants: Foundations supporting social justice, human rights, and academic research may provide grants to student organizations and initiatives. These grants are awarded based on the alignment of the organization’s mission with the foundation’s objectives.

 

Crowdfunding and Donations: Public fundraising campaigns are another source of overt funding. These campaigns are often initiated by the organizations themselves or their supporters.

Covert funding sources are less transparent and may not be publicly disclosed, and they include:

 

 

Foreign Government Funding: Reports suggest that foreign governments, particularly in the Middle East, provide funding to American organizations and initiatives aligned with the former’s political interests. This funding can be channeled through intermediaries or directly to the organizations.

Private Donations from Individuals and Entities: Private donations from individuals and entities with specific political or ideological interests can also serve as covert funding sources.

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs): NGOs operating internationally provide funding to U.S. organizations and initiatives, especially those that align with their mission of promoting human rights, social justice, or other causes. Think, George Soros.

The distinction between overt and covert funding sources is important for understanding the financial dynamics of coalitions between the Left and Islamists on U.S. college campuses. The lack of transparency in some funding sources raises concerns about accountability, the potential for misuse of funds, and the influence of external actors on domestic politics and campus life.

Universities, student organizations, and the public must maintain high standards of transparency and accountability in handling funds. This includes clear disclosure of funding sources, the purposes for which funds are used, and the outcomes achieved through these investments.

This perspective underscores a broader debate about Islam’s nature, the role of left-leaning academia and the media in shaping public perception, and the challenges it poses to democratic societies. There is an urgent need to reflect deeply on naive or misguided attempts to reconcile Islamism with democratic values and practices.

Finally, we need to understand that the current state of America is at a critical juncture, with various challenges facing the nation. The threat of advancing Islamist jihadists and retreating democracy is cause for alarm. Additionally, the Islamic Republic’s rapid progress towards acquiring nuclear weapons capability adds to the overall unease.

The future of America hangs in the balance, and the choices made in the upcoming elections will shape the nation’s trajectory. Citizens must be informed and engaged, working towards America’s prosperous and secure future.

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