Posted on 09/14/2010 7:51:06 AM PDT by pissant
MONDAY EVENING UPDATE: CLOSER AND CLOSER. Ovide Lamontagne continues to close in on Kelly Ayotte in the battle for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination.
On the heels of a Sunday night poll showing Ayotte's lead narrowing to 7 percentage points (see item below) comes a primary eve poll released late Monday afternoon by Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies.
It shows Ayotte with 35 percent, Lamontagne with 31 percent, Bill Binnie with 14 percent and Jim Bender with 10 percent. Other candidates drew 3 percent, with 7 percent undecided.
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
The Union Leader is a hack RINO pub here in NH. No credibility.
Lamontagne, the “real conservative” is on record for banning guns in NH. This is the only public records we have of Ovide, since he never held public office. His only statewide run occured in ‘96 when NH was for more conservative. He got demolished!
Go Kelly Ayotte!
Way to go, Pissant!
Bull****. Your a Palin flying monkey.
Learn something:
GOA Contradicts NHFC on Ovide Lamontagne
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2588888/posts
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A guest post by the Hon. Paul Mirski in light of the negative attack (once again) by the NHFC on Ovide Lamontagne
GraniteGrok endorsed Ovide Lamontagne for US Senate, and continues to give its unwavering support to him. Given his unexpected rise in the polling, it was only a matter of time that he would come under attack from those (and their surrogates)
The New Hampshire Firearms Coalition is such a surrogate - unlike the ‘Grok that makes its views well and publicly known, it seems that the NHFC wishes to operate in the dark corners of NH politics via it’s “ratings”. This is not the first time this group, led by Dave Wheeler, has played political favorites for gain or revenge.
Thus, we are delighted to post up Paul Mirski’s guest column concerning this matter:
Guest post by the Honorable Paul Mirksi, NH House of Representatives
September 9, 2010
The preeminent issue that ought to govern every single American’s choice of a candidate for any elected office ought to have to do with that candidate’s seriousness on the matter of securing the right of self-defense for each and every person they hope to represent. Without the guarantee that every person may take up arms in defense of “…themselves, their families, their property, and the state.” as the N.H. Constitution so forcefully provides in Part I, Article 2-a, there is no remedy for contesting tyranny on the part of those who want all-encompassing government.
In “Live Free or Die,” New Hampshire, determining who to support in any election is pretty serious business. In particular, candidates want to convince prospective voters of their reliability on the right to bear arms. Unscrupulous candidates will work to disparage their opponents as being against the Second Amendment and where possible, they’ll encourage surrogates to do their dirty work.
Ovide Lamontagne, a good and honest man, is now the subject of a vicious eleventh hour smear by the New Hampshire Firearms Coalition [NHFC]. The NHFC has charged that back in 1994, when he was the Chair of the State Board of Education, Lamontagne championed a statewide gun ban as part of a “Safe Schools” initiative that was being promoted by the State Board of Education. The purpose of the “Safe Schools” initiative was to find a way to keep kids from bringing firearms to school.
Because I support Mr. Lamontagne, and because of my fierce interest in the defense of the right of self-defense and of the Second amendment, immediately upon hearing of the charge against my candidate I immediately sought out the record on the 1994 safe schools initiative. I never want to be associated with anyone who would promote a “state wide firearms ban. “
The record proves the NHFC charge to be utterly malicious and demonstrably false.
What the record shows is that in 1994 a so called “Safe Schools” bill, HB1558-FN-Local, was sponsored by Representatives Skinner, Buessing, Franks, Carter and Hill and by Senators King, Currier, and Russman. The Skinner “Safe Schools” Bill did indeed contain draconian anti-Second Amendment language.
Mr. Lamontagne’s testified before the legislature on the subject of HB1558 and against the anti-Second Amendment language that the sponsors had provided. Lamontagne recommended instead, the adoption of agreeable legislative language that “…can be supported by gun owners and knife owners and other sportsmen, educators and so forth.” He further said that
“…the last thing I would intend and wish to achieve through this legislation is to infringe upon the rights of those who seek to bear arms. I am one of the members of that community. I don’t want this legislation to interfere with my right to do that. I think we can fix that [offending] language.”
When I read the final amended version of the bill that was ultimately passed by a Republican legislature and signed into law by Republican Governor Steve Merrill I noticed that the Bill had been amended in a manner that was consistent with Mr. Lamontagne’s appeal and recommendation. This is exactly the opposite of what the NHFC has charged.
In no way had Mr. Lamontagne’s urged the adoption of any language that would have made it, “…unlawful for any person to possess or carry any weapon or deadly weapon within a safe school zone at any time of year.”
The NHFC charge against Lamontagne is false. Ovide Lamontagne is the victim of a vicious and calculated smear.
Following Second District Congressman Dick Swett’s vote in favor of the Assault Weapons Ban after he had pledged to oppose it I filed and ran for the NH House. The first bill that I filed in the Fall of 1994 was to compel the Attorney General to join with other states in challenging the newly adopted assault weapons ban. Because our legislature unresponsive, it became the first Bill that I filed in following campaigns.
During the ten years that I served in the NH House I Sponsored and co-sponsored many pro Second Amendment bills. One of those that I co-sponsored in the 2005-2006 session of the legislature was one of two “castle doctrine” bills that provided that if appropriately threatened, a person had the right, to defend themselves with deadly force wherever they had the legal right to be. The castle doctrine bill passed the House and Senate that session was vetoed by Governor Lynch upon the recommendation of Attorney General, Kelly Ayotte. Despite Ms. Ayotte’s active intervention to deny NH residents the right to defend themselves wherever they have a legal right to be, the NHFC has given Ms. Ayotte its highest recommendation among those candidates running for the US Senate.
And further, so far as objective judgment is concerned, the NHFC persists in encouraging the election of Ryan J. Murdough, in Grafton House District 8, giving him an ‘A’ rating despite the Republican Party’s widely publicized condemnation months ago of Mr. Murdough as a “despicable racist.” Mr. Murdough is a white supremacist and was, last I knew, chairman of the American Third Position Party. Outrageous!
Ovide is a lifelong gun owner and has been a member of the NRA since 1992. He has always been a strong advocate for our unalienable right to keep and bear arms. The people backing his campaign for U.S. Senate represent some of the finest Second Amendment leaders our state has to offer [click here -Skip]. They stand strong with Ovide, and so do I.
When it comes to New Hampshire Firearms Coalition rankings of prospective candidates, my advice to gun owners statewide is to consider the source, then discount NHFC’s rankings, and support Ovide Lamontagne for U.S. Senate.
Hon. Paul Mirski, POB 190, Enfield Center, NH 03749 / 603 632 5555
http://granitegrok.com/blog/2010/09/a_guest_post_by_the_hon_paul_mirski_in_l.html
No, you based your vote on lies from the NHFC. Read post 4
When I go out and vote for Ayotte tonight I will be thinking of you.
Read more closely.
I did.
Pissant is an anti Palin monkey. He goes from thread to thead trashing whomever Palin supported.
He has no clue about NH!
For having no clue about NH, you’re the dupe that bought into the F rating from NHFC.
Ovide is a life-long hunter, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, and he always has been. He is being smeared by someone who carries a personal grudge and who represents a group whose membership is tiny as compared with the other groups that represent gun owners like me. The NRA, Gun Owners of America, and Gun Owners of New Hampshire all give Ovide high marks.
I have discussed the matter with him and as I've indicated on other threads, I know him well enough personally to believe he is sincere on this point.
You remind me of Obama.
I couldn’t give less of a rat’s rear end about your justifications for supporting RINOs.
Wasn't Mitt a “life long hunter” “NRA member”?
You'll have to make up your own mind, but just consider that I own a significant number of firearms of various types and I take my 2nd Amendment rights with the utmost seriousness. I may also be the only one on this board who actually knows the candidate on a personal level (as does my wife), and after a while, you learn where a person stands and whether you can indeed trust them. In this case, I do.
I love Sarah, but she is wrong on this. Ovide is the only conservative in the race. Kelly is an establishment candidate who Sarah picked over Binnie when Ovide was not polling well. If she hadn’t already endorsed Ayotte, I suspect Palin would be endorsing Ovide.
Recent polling shows that OL can beat Hodes. I expect the undecideds and a lot of support from other candidates to break for Ovide. I think some Ayotte supporters — those who supported her over Binnie — will also vote for Lamontagne.
I won’t have a problem voting for Kelly in November — I voted for McCain, afterall.
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