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- New Hampshire House Passes Right-to-Work Measure, Governor Promises to Veto
- Poll indicates strong Tea Party support for Romney in NH
- Flake Picks Up Tea Party Group Endorsement In Arizona
- Man Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Lawfully-owned Guns
- Putting Politics Over Security, Obama Moves to Unionize TSA
- Tea Party group to GOP: Don’t ‘reward collaborators’ on healthcare law
| New Hampshire House Passes Right-to-Work Measure, Governor Promises to Veto Posted: 16 Feb 2011 12:45 PM PST
On Tuesday afternoon, the GOP-led House in New Hampshire voted 221-131 to make the Granite State the 23rd state in the nation to outlaw unions' ability to have workers fired for not paying union dues. The bill to make New Hampshire a Right-to-Work state now moves to the New Hampshire Senate where Republicans enjoy a 19-5 majority. However, before the bill become law it must be signed by the Democratic Governor, John Lynch, who has said he would veto it. According to Republican Steve Vaillancourt, overriding Democrat Lynch's expected veto is possible, but it may be difficult: House Bill 474, better known as the Right To Work bill ("relative to freedom of choice on whether to join a labor union"), will pass the New Hampshire House overwhelmingly this week (either late Tuesday or early Wednesday), but the number to watch is 31. To read more, visit: http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/02/15/new-hampshire-house-passes-right-to-work-measure-governor-promises-veto/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter |
| Poll indicates strong Tea Party support for Romney in NH Posted: 16 Feb 2011 12:40 PM PST
WASHINGTON – Former Governor Mitt Romney has struggled to attract support among Tea Party activists in pockets throughout the country, but he appears to have secured broad support among the movement's supporters in New Hampshire. In a new WMUR poll, his favorability among supporters of the Tea Party is strikingly high – 77 percent and far exceeds any other candidate. "People hear Tea Party and think small government, and the small government message is something people in this state are raised with," said Andy Smith, who conducted the poll as director of the UNH Survey Center. "Romney's attractiveness here is because he's philosophically attuned to most of the Republicans in the state." To read more, visit: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/02/poll_indicates_1.html |
| Flake Picks Up Tea Party Group Endorsement In Arizona Posted: 16 Feb 2011 12:34 PM PST
Hours after Rep. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced his campaign for the seat being vacated by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), tea party umbrella group FreedomWorks, best known as the arm of the movement led by former House Republican leader Dick Armey, endorsed Flake in an email blast sent by its PAC. “Endorsing Jeff Flake is a no-brainer,” FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe said in a statement. “He’s principled, he’s consistent, and he’s fearless in the fight for lower taxes, less government, and more individual freedom. If the Tea Party is going to reduce the size of government, it will need more Jeff Flakes in the United States Senate.” The backing of FreedomWorks helps solidify Flake as the national fiscal conservative choice. He’s already got the endorsement of the Club For Growth, which has promised to lend a hand in getting him elected. Early polling shows Flake may not enjoy the support in Arizona he does on the national circuit. A poll taken several days before Flake formally announced his Senate campaign showed him trailing Sheriff Joe Arpaio, another a tea party national star. Arpaio has not said if he’ll run, though there are reports he is considering it. To read more, visit: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/flake-picks-up-tea-party-group-endorsement-in-az-sen.php |
| Man Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Lawfully-owned Guns Posted: 16 Feb 2011 12:25 PM PST
The Philadelphia Daily News reported on a disturbing story that should horrify every gun owner in this nation. Brian Aitken, a 25-year-old successful media consultant who was going through a separation with his wife, was in the process of selling his home in Colorado and moving to a suburban New Jersey apartment to be closer to his two-year-old son when he was arrested in an odd series of events. On January 2, 2009, Brian was visiting his parents in Mount Laurel while taking a break from moving to nearby Hoboken. After Brian's former wife canceled his scheduled visit with his son, he became distraught and said something to the effect of "life's not worth living anymore" to his mother and drove away. His mother, a trained social worker, became worried about a possible suicide risk and called 9-1-1 but hung up after having second thoughts. Law enforcement traced the call and soon arrived at the scene. The police called Brian, who was on his way to his new residence in Hoboken, and asked him to return to his parents' home because they were worried. When he returned, the cops searched his vehicle and found two handguns, both locked and unloaded as New Jersey law requires, inside the trunk, in a box stuffed into a duffel bag with clothes. Brian was arrested and, according to his attorney, the subsequent trial and conviction were the "perfect storm of injustice." The guns were lawfully purchased by Aitken when he was a Colorado resident. He had passed an FBI background check to buy the guns from a Bass Pro shop in Denver, and he had even contacted New Jersey State Police to discuss the proper way to transport them into New Jersey. In Colorado, all Brian needed was a background check to own the guns, but in New Jersey, which has some of the strictest laws in the nation, a purchaser's permit is required to own the guns and another carry permit is required to transport them in his car. Aitken's attorney, Evan Nappen, who specializes in gun laws, told the news that Brian had a legal exemption to have the handguns in his car because he was moving from his parents' home to a residence in Hoboken. To read more, visit: http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/6089-man-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison-for-lawfully-owned-guns |
| Putting Politics Over Security, Obama Moves to Unionize TSA Posted: 16 Feb 2011 12:16 PM PST
Last night, on a purely partisan 47–51 vote, the Senate rejected an amendment that would have stopped government unions from organizing Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees. The vote was made possible by an announcement two Fridays ago by President Barack Obama political appointee and TSA Administrator John Pistole. Pistole rejected TSA's original policy that collective bargaining's inherently adversarial process would impair TSA's ability to protect American air travelers. Pistole's decision, coupled with Democratic control of the Senate, will net the labor movement—a majority of whom already work for the government—45,000 new members and $18 million a year in dues that are ultimately paid for by you, the taxpayer. Pistole's order would initially allow the TSA union to collectively bargain over work rules but not wages and benefits. But that will surely change. Already the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) and the American Federation of Government Employees are fighting over the $18 million in government union dues TSA employees will soon be paying. To win this battle, and keep their new union members happy, these government unions will use this money to campaign for and lobby politicians to grow the TSA and expand the permissible subjects of negotiation. This has already happened. The government unions that already exist spent hundreds of millions of dollars electing President Obama so he could appoint Pistole to run the TSA. Now that investment is paying off. This will only continue. More government unions breeds more campaign cash for liberals, which breeds more government spending and agencies, which breeds more collective bargaining for those government employees, and the cycle continues. To read more, visit: http://blog.heritage.org/2011/02/16/morning-bell-putting-politics-over-security-obama-moves-to-unionize-tsa/ |
| Tea Party group to GOP: Don’t ‘reward collaborators’ on healthcare law Posted: 16 Feb 2011 12:05 PM PST
Republicans should refuse to “reward collaborators” by not helping industry groups that supported the healthcare law unless they support its full repeal, the conservative FreedomWorks organization told House leaders in a confidential memo sent Monday. “Don’t reward collaborators,” the memo states. The memo suggests repeal is within reach, and advises House leaders to start offering their own proposals for healthcare reform. “We’re sending this memo because we believe your ultimate success depends as much on how you handle the ‘replace’ as the ‘repeal’ side of the strategy,” says the memo to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.). “We think it’s time to start emphasizing what you’re for as much as what you're against.” To read more, visit: http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/144515-freedomworks-tells-house-leaders-to-ignore-lobbyists-unless-they-support-full-repeal |
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