Shaheen launches 'Truth Team' to refute Sununu's claims

Here's some truth she can work on as a State Senator she voted to raise taxex or fees 23 times. As Gov. her budget was out of control she proposed a 2.5% sales tax to cover the cost of education. Then to top it all off just before leaving office she allowed the AG to give Bishop John McCormack a sweet plea deal to avoid being prosicuted for his role in the Sexual Abuse of many NH children.

It's amazing that Republican "leaders" in recent years can only talk about taxes and what not to do to help our fellow human beings. I guess they think the formula to winning is to talk only about pocketbooks and wallets.

I think most Americans are concerned with having a strong nation, and that means making sure we help one another. Having "rich" and "poor" or "educated" and "uneducated" and "healthy" and "sick" doesn't make a strong country for long.

I can understand that those who have lots of cash want to keep it, and they can't be blamed for that. But Corporate America has expanded the gap in our culture between wealth and not. Many people live just off their investments, and in many corporations the management-level get hundreds of times the pay, along with generous bonuses, of the worker-line employees. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck. No wonder corporations are so anti-union.

But there are many things that need to be done in our society to help one another out. Quality education and health care are two things that should be avilable to all, but from the Republican leadership all we hear is how to restrict both just to those who can afford it.

The concept of "investment" in our society FOR our society seems alien to too many top Republican honchos.

I do think that most voters, including Republicans, see the value of helping our fellow neighbors -- our fellow Americans -- and won't vote just their own self interests. I think the Republican leaders who think it's all about money are missing that point. America's future is about values and helping people.

What about those of us who are poor but want to be rich some day? It's not Corporate America (those big bad businesses!) that are creating a gap, it's the Democrats who want to tax and spend, regulate and socialize us into submission, for the greater good.

The average American has more access to information and technology than ever before, so it shouldn't be any surprise that union membership is at an all-time-low. It's not businesses that don't like unions, it's the average American worker. Why would anyone want to pay dues to a group that fosters a culture of apathy and then gives their money away to radical socialists at all levels of government?

Republicans and independents understand that we created the strongest, most free nation on earth without a government monopoly on education. As soon as we gave government this authority and said monopoly, we started to graduate kids who hadn't learned anything and weren't critical thinkers. Hence our current social state. It's not more government control of regulation that we need, it's LESS.

The same goes for healthcare: government involvement is wrecking it and driving up the price. On a basic fundamental level, providing healthcare is not a legitimate function of government at any level. On a practical level, government regulation or even worse, monopoly, would only drive up the cost, would likely drive healthcare providers to go out of business, and most importantly, reduce the quality of care we receive.

Maybe Rep. Jim Splaine should spend less time typing away, day after day, regurgitating the latest weak Dem talking points on PolitickerNH and spend more time brushing up on the issues.

I think the voters of his district deserve better.

Steve Walter is part of "Republicans" for Lynch and Republicans for Clinton; even introduced her during the primary season. Not sure how many democrats you have to introduce or support (particularly ones running for president) before you have to resign from the party, but I think he qulaifies already.

Rick Russman is a hard-core Green, with RINO creds as well; part of the Granite State Conservation voters allaince. He's also an avid Lynch supporter and admitted anti Bush anti Gregg/Anti Sununu guy. Where exactly he is a republican I am unclear.

Kathy Sullivan is Kathy Sullivan--occassional supporter of out of state illegal voters, and who is rumored to moonlight as a collecter of Republican campaign signs. Burling at elast is a genuine liberal(D)NH Rep.

I think the first thing that Shaheen's Might-Morphin Truth Team for Justice might want to address with the press is who they really are before we regard anything they might have to offer as the Truth.