October 2009 Archives

Date:        10/14/09 (Wednesday)

Time:       5:30pm   Buffet Dinner ($14)
                6:30pm   Meeting

Place:      Shanghai Restaurant
                331 South Main Street
                Laconia, NH
                (603) 524-4100
                (see map below)

Agenda:

Ovide M. Lamontagne is a native and resident of Manchester, where he practices law as a shareholder with the law firm of Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A. Ovide is a 1975 graduate of Trinity High School. Following his graduation from The Catholic University of America in 1979, Ovide taught high school social studies for three years before obtaining his law degree at the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1985. During his legal career, Ovide served as a law clerk to the Honorable James E. Barrett of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit and legal counsel for the New Hampshire State Senate during the 1991 Legislative Session. Ovide is a member of the New Hampshire Bar Association, the National Diocesan Attorneys’ Association, and the New Hampshire Judicial Council.

Since his return to Manchester in 1986, Ovide has been recognized as a leader in the charitable and non-profit communities, with a long list of activities.

Ovide served as Chairman of the New Hampshire State Board of Education from 1993-1996, and in 1996 he was the Republican nominee for Governor of New Hampshire.

Ovide and his wife Bettie reside in Manchester, and have two daughters, Madeleine and Brittany. 

Map to the Shang-hai restaurant:
    (map)

Hi All,
 
The Barnstead-Alton Republican Committee (BARC) is pleased to announce that its next monthly meeting will be held on TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13 at JJ Goodwin’s Restaurant in Barnstead. (NOTE: Remember, beginning this month, BARC meetings will revert to being held on the second Tuesday of each month).

Here are the particulars about the date, time, location, etc of our next BARC meeting: 

Date:       Thursday, October 13, 2009

Time:       Dinner (at your option) 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm; Meeting begins at 6:30 pm

Location:  J.J. Goodwin's Restaurant (upstairs dining room),

769 Suncook Valley Rd
(Route 28), Center Barnstead, NH 03225 - (603) 269-8300
CELEBRATE THE 1ST ANNIVERSARY OF BARC!!  JOIN US TUESDAY, OCT. 13 

Now that two of the GOP candidates for Congress from the 1st District (Bob Bestani and Frank Guinta) have addressed members of BARC, the focus turns to the US Senate race this month.   Following US Senator Judd Gregg’s announcement that he will not seek re-election in November 2010, four Republicans have stepped up so far to announce that they are exploring running for Senator Gregg’s seat.

GUEST SPEAKER:

BARC is pleased to announce that Republican National Committeeman Sean Mahoney, who is exploring a run for the US Senate, will be the guest speaker at our October meeting.  A native of Portsmouth, NH, Sean is the President of Millyard Communications, Inc. and the Publisher of Business NH Magazine.  In addition to serving as National Committeeman, Sean has also served on the GOP State Finance Committee, including a stint as the Finance Committee Chairman.  Sean has published a series of op-eds in recent months regarding healthcare, the economy, and the future of the Republican Party.  He’s “looking forward to coming and seeing friends in the area and talking about a few things the GOP needs to do to resurge”.

 
OTHER AGENDA ITEMS

In addition to Sean as our guest speaker, our agenda also includes:

• BARC’s 1st Anniversary Celebration!!
• A legislative update from our State Representatives in attendance
• An update about the Concord State Representative primary win by Lynne Blankenbeker and the upcoming “special election” on Nov. 3
• Identifying and supporting local candidates for the Nov 2010 elections

All area Republican’s are invited to attend the celebration of BARC’s 1st anniversary since its founding last October.   Meetings are somewhat informal, offering a great opportunity for the townspeople of Alton, Barnstead, and surrounding towns to learn about BARC, to meet other like-minded citizens, and to share in this celebration of a true grass-roots organization.


BARC meetings tend to be somewhat informal, offering the townspeople of Alton, Barnstead, and surrounding towns an opportunity to talk politics, to hear from the candidates, to see "old" friends, and to make new friends.  J.J. Goodwin's restaurant is reasonably priced and offers a casual environment to hear about the Republican Party, to discuss issues and concerns such as the economy, pending legislation, etc., and to hear from your elected officials.

Don't forget to MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW AND JOIN US ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009 !!

For more information, please send an email to Barnstead.Alton.RepubComm@gmail.com or visit our website, www.BARC-NewHampshire.com.  And, why not pass this announcement along to your friends and encourage them to attend. Thanks!

Regards,

Alan Glassman, Co-Chairman, Barnstead-Alton Republican Committee

From Jan Glassman:

The State Committee will be sending out the email below to GOP volunteers.  I would like to reach out to your groups who have been a great help in the past to help out either at the phone banks in Concord or at local phone banks in your town.  I will be having the lists emailed to me and can distribute them to volunteers who will accept the responsibility of calling and getting back to me.   If we don't take back NJ, I am very concerned about what will happen next year in NH from State Reps. all the way to our candidates for Governor, Senator and Congress.   We need to make this happen.
 
Jan
 
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On November 3rd, the voters of New Jersey will have the opportunity to say 'no more' to high taxes and government overspending and to return New Jersey to Republican leadership by electing Chris Christie as Governor and Kim Guadagno as the first Lieutenant Governor in New Jersey's history.  The Christie/Guadagno team will curb spending and restore New Jersey to a state that encourages small business and where families can afford to live.
 
This NJ election is critical to the 2010 election cycle nationally and especially to us in New Hampshire.  Returning New Jersey to a Republican Governor will send a clear message nationally - that we can take back all of our states and win back Congress and the Senate in 2010.   If you want to help us take back New Hampshire, please volunteer over the next 2 weeks to help the Christie/Guadagno team win by a wide margin!
 
We will be having phone banks at NH State Party Headquarters in Concord on the 14th, 21st and 28th from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.   I will be working directly with the leadership team in NJ to help organize our efforts to focus them where they are needed most. 

 
We have had a great team effort with significant wins in New Hampshire's recent special elections.  Let's show Northeast that New Hampshire Republicans are a top notch team that helps when we are needed, wherever we are needed!
 
Please get back to me and let me know what time you can give to help us turn the tide and send the message loudly that the GOP IS BACK and rolling for a 2010 sweep!
 
Jan Face Glassman
Cell - 860 836-0890

Home – 603 364-9780

From the Union Leader:

In a recent column Terie Norelli, speaker of the New Hampshire House, did an excellent job of co-opting a philosophy that House Republicans have been espousing for three years -- one of low taxes and decreased spending. The speaker of the House claims she is concerned with "striking a delicate balance between protecting services and taxpayers," and yet she has stood by the last three years as general fund appropriations, i.e. spending, have increased by almost 25 percent under her leadership as the deficit continues to grow.

When she wrote, "we were able to increase aid to communities," was she forgetting about the $50 million in general revenue sharing or the $15 million in rooms and meals revenue sharing that were reduced by Democrats? Did she intentionally overlook the $131 million that Democrats downshifted to the cities and towns -- a move that severely impacted the local property taxpayer?

When Speaker Norelli talks of "working hard to craft a responsible budget," is she intentionally overlooking the more than 40 taxes and fees that Democrats either created or raised to pay for their so-called "responsible budget"? They increased the rooms and meals tax, including a 9 percent tax on campers; they created a new tax on gambling winnings, a new tax on small business and increased vehicle registration fees, among others. Their mantra of "let's increase spending and then create more taxes to pay for it" has to stop.

In the midst of a major recession when families are feeling the pinch in their personal budgets and when most other states reduced their budgets by an average of 2.5 percent, New Hampshire Democrats chose to increase state spending by more than 6 percent. In tossing the word "responsible" around, was Speaker Norelli forgetting the more than $400 million in one-time money they relied upon to balance their budget -- money that quite simply won't be there when we sit down to craft the next budget?

When she mentions the Republicans' "simplistic" offer of across-the-board cuts, what she fails to point out is the fact that House Republicans offered specific reductions in departments that submitted requested budget data and across-the-board cuts in those that refused to cooperate.

In November 2006, the people of this state handed the Democrats control of the State House for the first time in several generations, and in just three years, we find ourselves faced with a half-billion dollar deficit as a result of what they term "a responsible budget." We have witnessed drastic fiscal and policy changes that have placed our state into such a large fiscal hole that we find ourselves on the brink of having to enact an income tax. It should come as no surprise that both Speaker Norelli and Rep. Susan Almy, the chairman of House Ways and Means, recently reintroduced the idea of an income tax into the public forum.

It is clear that whoever is in charge of the budget the next time around will start with over a half billion dollar deficit because of the use of one-time money and the excessive spending by the Democrats. As we move forward, the people of New Hampshire can be assured of only one thing: The Democrats' solutions to the problems facing our state will be "more of the same" and will only serve to create an even larger deficit, destroying what has made our state so special. Hopefully the people of New Hampshire are done being fooled.

Rep. Sherman Packard of Londonderry is the House Republican leader.