Liberal blog swears revenge against state’s media
July 3, 2010 by ShawnMillerick
Filed under Business
After a series of embarrassing revelations about Democratic office holders has cause the once ascendant Democratic Party in the Granite State to look confused, corrupt and cantankerous, a leftwing blog is swearing revenge against the state’s mainstream media. Liberal blogger Dean Barker posted the following on his small blog “Blue Hampshire”: I am sick and [...]
Soucy conspicuously shielded from FRM inquiry
June 10, 2010 by ShawnMillerick
Filed under State House
One central figure at the state’s Banking Department throughout much of the period during which Financial Resource Mortgages was running its Ponzi scheme has avoided any scrutiny from the joint legislative committee investigating the scheme. State Banking Commissioner Peter Hildreth has been put on paid leave for his failure to address numerous fraud complaints against [...]
Source: State Dems scrambling to deploy tea party ‘crashers’ UPDATE: Sullivan denies
April 14, 2010 by Shawn Millerick
Filed under News & Politics
New Hampshire Democrats are engaged in a statewide search for liberal activists willing to attend so-called tea parties on Thursday and carry signs expressing racist or fringe sentiments, a Democratic source with knowledge of the effort tells NowHampshire.com. According to the source, who sought anonymity for fear of reprisals, the Dems’ last minute scramble reflects [...]
Web remark shows Levasseur glorifying gun violence against Republicans; Lynch, Dems silent
March 28, 2010 by Patrick
Filed under State House
Controversy continues to swirl around embattled Dem. State Rep. Nick Levasseur as a second comment on a social networking site appears to show him glorifying gun violence against Republicans. Levasseur has been in the center of a storm after claiming on Facebook that “two nukes just wasn’t enough” for the Japanese. After the anti-Japanese comment [...]
Citizens Alliance refuses to retract press release alleging ‘Tea Party White Pride activities’
NH Citizens Alliance appears unwilling to retract a press release the organization issued on Sunday that inaccurately attributed a “white pride” rally in Concord to “NH Tea Party members.” The press release appeared to have been picked up only by a leftwing blog with close ties to the New Hampshire Democrat Party. An investigation by [...]
Ray Buckley falsely accuses Tea Party Coalition of colluding with ‘white pride’ group
March 22, 2010 by Staff Reporter
Filed under News & Politics
New Hampshire Democrat officials appeared to charge “members of the New Hampshire Tea Party” with racism on Sunday on a liberal blog with deep ties to the Democratic Party apparatus. Democrat Chairman Ray Buckley and his predecessor Kathy Sullivan demanded Republican congressional candidates Charlie Bass and Frank Guinta denounce a White Pride Day protest at [...]
Boutin defeats Goley in bellwether state senate special election
February 16, 2010 by Patrick
Filed under State House
In what political observers are viewing as a major blow to Democratic Gov. John Lynch’s agenda and a foretaste of a potential Democratic bloodletting in November, Republican David Boutin defeated Democrat Jeff Goley in the District 16 state Senate special election, despite being vastly outspent. Goley and the Democrat Party, led by Ray Buckley, poured [...]
Buckley privately invokes 1994 as Dems struggle
February 8, 2010 by Patrick
Filed under News & Politics
He may be full of bluster and contemptuous insults for Republicans while in New Hampshire but privately New Hampshire Democrat Party Chairman Ray Buckley is nervous that those Republicans will pound his team in the 2010 mid-term election. During the DNC’s winter meeting in Washington this weekend Buckley and Democratic Party Vice Chair Martha Fuller [...]
Did the Democratic Party attempt to silence critics of Pelosi’s health care reform plan?
The below excerpt is from the Concord Monitor’s story on yesterday’s Organizing for America rally, which attracted a group of counter-protesters who oppose Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s health reform measure (which passed the U.S. House on Saturday night at 11:00 PM). We have contacted Democratic Chair Ray Buckley to see if the account is accurate and [...]
Buckley and Sununu in battle of ‘burps’
October 7, 2009 by Patrick
Filed under News & Politics
Democratic Chairman Ray Buckley just lobbed a hot one at Republican Chairman John Sununu over Sununu’s comment over the weekend suggesting that every time a Democrat burps Republicans will explain why that burp is bad for America. “John H. Sununu and the Republican Party’s strategy to divide, distract, and deceive is not what the people [...]