The highly regarded American Conservative Union held an awards ceremony last week for those legislators who stood by  conservative principles and voted for what was right.  

In fact, only a handful of members of the New Hampshire State House managed to earn this prestigious recognition.  Thanks to our libertarian or conservative public servants and thanks to everyone at the American Conservative Union for recognizing our hard work.

Fifteen years ago today, our nation was attacked, leaving 3,000 Americans killed. The fallout and illness from that has led to the deaths of thousands more.
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Our hearts and prayers go out to the many families, close friends, and coworkers who lost loved ones as the result of that tragic event.

Both Granite State employers and citizens are reporting ever rising premia and out of pocket expenses under Obamacare.  During the most recent legislative session, we worked in a bipartisan manner--both Republicans and Libertarians--to save taxpayers and ratepayers money on medical costs.

Unfortunately, we had a few setbacks and Democrats and RINO's colluded to pass crony bills like SB481, which protects a few hospitals from competition for certain medical procedures.  Democrats and RINO's also defeated Rep. McLarren's HB128, which would have allowed towns, schools, and businesses to save money opening medical insurance to free market competition, saving about 5% on insurance costs.

Main points: 

• Repeal crony SB481
• Repeal Obamacare/Medicaid Expansion
• Enact HB128, allowing Granite State employers to buy insurance across state lines
• Remove some of the 44 insurance mandates on health insurance
• Promote the use of money saving online tools like MyMedicalShopper.com

511 petitions were turned into the city clerk's office, making a total of more than 6,000 nominating petitions turned in.  This is far more than the unreasonable 3,000 required.

However, the establishment GOP is back to its old dirty tricks, trying as hard as they can to discount or disqualify every petition they can to keep a real fiscal conservative off the ballot.  Remember that, while I'm proposing reducing the state budget by 10%, Jasper and the RINO's actually gave the Democrats even more money in the end than they'd even asked for!  Speaker Shawn "State Income Tax" Jasper gave the Democrats expanded Obamacare, $12 million in pay raises, several tax and fee increases, and a more than 7% increase in state spending.

Rep. Max Abramson, Libertarian candidate for Governor, spoke for a few minutes about charter schools, drug policy, and the efforts going on up in Concord to save taxpayers money on property taxes, electricity rates, fuel costs, etc.

I spoke today at the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers annual picnic about the need to reduce the administration and bureaucracy in government.  Attendees also heard about both Governor Johnson and Weld's efforts to reduce spending and taxes in New Mexico and Massachusetts, respectively.  

Johnson cut taxes 14 times and left New Mexico with a $1 billion surplus.  Bill Weld cut taxes 21 times and fought tenaciously to limit the growth in state spending.  Perhaps we could accomplish the same here in the Granite State.