Announcements: June 2008 Archives

We will be putting up local / significant events as we are appraised of them (and time permitting!).  This one is for Jeb Bradley, candidate US Congress in NH Congressional District 1.

You’re invited

 to attend

a fundraiser reception in support of

 

Jeb Bradley for Congress

 

Tuesday, June 24^th, 2008

5:30 pm  -  7:00 pm

At the Wentworth by the Sea Marina

116 Morgan’s Way

It's early in the campaign season - time to learn or time for a tuneup (gee, didn't I already say that?)!



If you want to sign up on line, click here!

It's early in the campaign season - time to learn or time for a tuneup!


If you want to sign up on line, click here!

Date:        6/11/08

Time:        5:30pm   Buffet Dinner ($12)
                6:30pm   Meeting

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

 (see map below)

Speakers:








Map of Shang-hai:
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Greg Knytych (Laconia City Ward 1 Councilor) announced yesterday that he is running for NH District 4's Senate seat that is currently held by incumbent Democrat Kathy Sgambati on his blog site, The Blogging Councilor. 

He later spread that decision more widely on yesterday's Meet The New Press radio show.  The interview can be heard here in the last half hour of the second hour podcast (or just listen to the clip dedicated to his interview just below it).

His press release is as follows:

Greg Knytych, the freshman Laconia City Councilor from Ward 1 has just announced his intention to run for the New Hampshire Senate in District 4. There are too many expenses being passed down to the property taxpayers through the counties and that has to stop. Knytych feels that Spending must be controlled in Concord while protecting the traditional New Hampshire values and way of life. Knytych thinks the idea is simple, we can't have over 17% budget increases and looming deficits and Legislators thinking that we just need to raise taxes or create new taxes to pay for this.

We have a Spending-Tax-Cap in Laconia and this serves to put a light on a dark problem. This problem cannot and will not be fixed until we have people who will fight to protect the taxpayers and citizens of this fine state from the excessive spending and lack of fiscal restraint we have seen. There are two ways to deal with budget shortfalls, first is to cut expenses and second is to increase revenue. With a the budget crisis we currently find ourselves in Knytych says he hasn't seen any real cuts in the excessive spending but there are plans to increase taxes. Not to mention the plan to borrow our way out of trouble by using bonds to pay for the General Fund obligations. If we can't pay the bills now how can we afford the financing costs associated? What will the extra financing costs do to future budgets?

We need strong conservative leadership to get our fiscal house in order. Then we can focus on the real problems we have in this state, creating an environment that promotes free-trade, economic growth and affordable health care.

Greg Knytych will be planning some campaign events to help get the word out. As these events are scheduled they will be posted on his website "The Blogging Councilor" (www.laconia-nh.us). Knytych says that thus far the reaction to this news has been very positive. Knytych can be reached via e-mail at greg@knytych.net.

The Laconia Daily Sun recently (6/9, page 5) did a brief interview with Greg concerning his announcement:

Greg Knytych files papers to run for state Senate

CONCORD — On Wednesday of last week, Laconia City Councilor Greg Knytych (Ward 1) filed candidacy papers for the Republican nomination for NH’s District 4 state Senate seat at the Secretary of State’s office.

Following the official signing, Knytych declared, “There are many issues to address at the state but the first and foremost items on my list are taxes and spending.”

Referring to the recent agreed-to Democrat-led plan to fund mandated state directives through borrowing, Knytych, expressed his clear disagreement and asked, “how much sense does it make that the Legislature is planning on ‘borrowing’ this state out of the budget defi cit?”

“The more I thought about it and how I can affect a positive change to stop the practice of the state passing costs down through the counties to the property tax payers I realized that I would not only be protecting the residents of Laconia but some of our surrounding neighbors that don’’t have the Spending-Tax-Cap to protect them,” added Knytych. As proof of his intentions, he has already signed both of N.H.’s anti-tax pledges.

The freshman councilor notes that his newly forming team is in the process of getting all, “the legal matters taken care of that naturally come with a serious campaign” such as creating a fundraising PAC.

A seasoned Internet blogger known in the online community as “The Blogging Councilor” (www.laconianh. us/), Knytych already has a new website up and running in support of the campaign located at www. Knytych4NHValues.com, where he promises “together, we’ll move N.H. right back to traditional N.H. Values!”

The traditionally Republican seat is currently held by Democrat Kathy Sgambati of Tilton. The district includes Alton, Barnstead, Belmont, Gilford, Gilmanton, Laconia, New Durham, Strafford and Tilton.

The campaign promises a vigorous e-campaign in the days and months ahead as well.

From the Citizen:

LACONIA — State Rep. Frank Tilton will seek a seat on the Belknap County Commission in this fall's election.

The Laconia Republican announced his candidacy for County Commissioner to The Citizen on Tuesday and will file when the period opens in two weeks.

Tilton said he will seek the seat currently occupied by Philip "Bud" Daigneault, who is not running for re-election.

"The budgets are tight, all the counties are being scrutinized," Tilton said. "We need to be well-managed so I have a lot of government experience."

From the Laconia Daily Sun (p 1, 8-9)

LACONIA — After two-terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, Frank Tilton is retiring to run for the seat on the Belknap County Commission opened  by the pending retirement of chairman Philip “Bud” Daigneault.

Tilton said that 42 of the 46 years he has spent in government service — 32 in the United States Army, 10 as Director of Public Works in Laconia and 4 as a state representative — have been in the executive branch. “County commissioner is a necessary function,” he said. Noting that as member of both the House of Representatives and the Belknap County Convention “I’ve been wearing two hats, but when I’ve had to choose between the state and the county, I’ve clearly been on the side of the county.”

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“Frank is a great candidate, who will do a good job,” Daigneault said. Tilton serves on the executive committee of the County Convention as well as on a working group with Representatives Alida Millham (R-Gilford) and Jane Wood (D-Laconia) to review the statutes and procedures governing the operation of county government. Laughing at the prospect of giving up his seat in the House, which pays $100 a year, for the prospect of earning near $9,000 as a county commissioner, Tilton agreed “that’s a pretty good pay raise, but I won’t be able to go through the toll booths for nothing.”

Tilton is one five representatives and three incumbent Republicans elected to the House in Laconia. He also chairs the Belknap County Republican Committee. He said that his decision not to seek re-election would not weaken the GOP ticket in the general election this fall. “We’ll probably have six candidates for the five seats in the city (running in the September primary election),” he said. The filing period for the primary election in September opens on Wednesday, June 4 and closes on Friday, June 13.