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No Changing A Tiger’s Stripes
Setting Sun May Have Led To Seaplane Crash
Among the many election recounts taking place this week (and possibly into next week) in New Hampshire is the vote in Grafton District 18 (Alexandria, Bridgewater, Bristol, Canaan, Dorchester, Enfield, Grafton, Groton, Hebron, and Orange) in which John Sellers (see commentary below) held a 35-vote lead over Democrat Carolyn Flusher-Lobban, 4,223-4,188.
In the first recounts to take place on November 14, a Republican win turned into a Democrat win by a single vote in Manchester’s Ward 6. Most recounts confirm the earlier-announced winner, although it is not unusual for the vote tally to be slightly different from the numbers announced on election night. That is because the counting of ballots is prone to error by both ballot machine and hand counts by tired ballot clerks, and it is why candidates have an opportunity to request a recount when the separation in the vote tally is less than 20 percent of the total votes cast in that race.
The ballot recount law ensures the integrity of the vote. The discrepancies that occur between the original count and the recount are not an indication of election fraud, only that errors that can occur, especially during large turnouts. Candidates had until the end of the day Monday to file for a recount.
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No Changing A Tiger’s Stripes
Back in May, I reported on “a surprising letter to the editor from Ryan Murdough who, if he can be believed, has set aside his white supremacist beliefs after coming to the realization that friendships are more important than political ideology.” I explained that, after interviewing him a few years ago, “I had written him off as someone who was unredeemable. His beliefs were so deep and so despicable that I thought there was nothing but hatred in his soul.” Yet, in a series of May letters to the editor of the Laconia Daily Sun, he made the case for acceptance, writing, in part, “Regarding relationships, I used to think it was best to find a partner who was the same race as you. The only thing that truly matters though is finding someone who loves you and is willing to walk side by side with you while you both face the challenges of life. If you find someone like that never let them go, no matter what race they are.”
That was May. Today is today, and InDepthNH.org reports that Attorney-General John Formella is investigating a racist email that Murdough sent to Representative Charlotte DiLorenzo (D-Newmarket) in which he identifies himself as the founder and president of the New England White Network. DiLorenzo, who is black, had written two unsuccessful bills countering the “divisive concepts” bill that became law though the state budget bill.
In his email, Murdough called her out for objecting to the law, saying his group believes “that blacks should be governing blacks and Whites should be governing Whites. Blacks and Whites weren’t meant to coexist in the same nation and it’s getting more and more ridiculous to ignore this any longer.”
His email continued, “We are sick and tired of rampant black violence. We are sick of our women getting raped and slaughtered by black men. We are sick of our schools being ruined and our children being inundated with uncivilized black behavior. We are sick of being told that this diversity is good for us. We are sick of savage black behavior being minimized by the people who run our governments and schools and we are sick of those same institutions rushing to hold investigations if the word ‘n—-’ is used or is found scribbled on a wall. … I think you get the point. Anti-White legislation is not welcome in New Hampshire and neither are anti-White legislators.”
Setting Sun May Have Led To Seaplane Crash
Laconia Municipal Airport Manager Marv Everson told the Laconia Daily Sun that the seaplane that clipped the roof of a local business in the shopping plaza next to Patrick’s Pub & Eatery during an attempted landing on November 10 shared similarities with a 2020 crash in which another single-engine plane flew over the shopping center during its descent and clipped a maple tree, causing the aircraft to flip over and crash upside down with its tail toward the main runway.
“With the time change, the angle of the sun at approximately 4 p.m., if you’re flying in on Runway 26, you’re looking directly into the sun,” Everson said. “That’s where two years ago almost to the day we had another aircraft that had a similar problem and he landed in the trees on airport property.” Bob Welch’s seaplane was in an almost identical position: tail toward the runway and upside down.
In both cases, the pilots and the passenger in 2020 survived, but Everson said pilots should “Be aware that, if you’re coming in and got the sun in your eyes, power up and pull out. Don’t try to land. If you go around and try again, be aware of it, and be aware of your gauges so you can land properly.” In 15 or 20 minutes, the sun will be low enough that it should no longer be a problem, he said.
Café Chatter
On ‘Voters Like Incumbents’: “Voters” Is a strong word.
Possibly not even the correct word.
My two bits?
The incumbents control everything — ergo they choose to win the “election” as well.
While some complain and try to vote for the other guy, the actual majority have seen this happen enough to quit wasting their half hour and just stopped voting Decades ago.
— John Pomeroy
On ‘Thirty-Five Cents’: Exceedingly well written and thoughtful. Even moving. Thanks.
— Bob McDaniel
Now that I have been elected as Grafton District 18 State Representative (BTW, thank you), I need to represent all the people, yet I still have my own views. When I read this article, I thought half way through it was going to continue talking about inflation and then wham Trump comes. When are we going to move on? Trump was two years ago.
So, let’s talk Trump since no one wants to drop it. I am no expert and neither are any of us for that matter when it comes to politics and the inner workings that happen behind the scenes. Like in many businesses the employees don’t know what the CEO is doing, but the employees hope the CEO has the good of the employees in mind and not just the money. I am not going to defend Trump but he should not be dismissed like a poisonous rat dog. Washington has a lot of moving parts that we the people have no idea are happening.
At the end of the article, it states the country is reunited, really? I won by 35 votes out of 8,400 cast, how is that united? The republicans hold the state house by two or three seats (as of this writing), how united is that? The US Senate, even Congress is still split almost evenly, how united is that? Who are we fooling, we are divided as ever.
If we cannot drop our difference our state will fail and our country will too. Just look around, other countries have been trying to destroy the USA for years. Why, who really knows? Maybe because we are so successful, maybe because we are so evil, maybe because we are so Godly. A house divided or a nation divided cannot stand, it’s will be just a matter of time before we are destroyed from within or from without.
If I am in office after the recount on Tuesday the 15th (should be if our election worked correctly) then I want to work to find ways we can agree on more than we disagree on. Let’s work on things that unite us, like finding real energy solutions while not breaking the bank, making sure our elections are 100% secure, fair and accurate for all US citizens.
Some think I am against green energy or recycling, not true, just talk to me and find out. We need to know the real cost not the oh it’s the right thing to do. Is there a real fossil fuel savings after everything is said and done to produce wind and solar products? Is there no additional harm to the environment we are causing by putting these products into use?
There are plenty of reports and studies out there that say for example if we produce enough wind turbines it will cause the temperature to increase by .24 of one degree by 2100. Harvard study https://www.cfact.org/2020/02/06/harvard-study-finds-wind-turbines-warm-the-u-s/ Another article on recycling by Green Peace https://granitegrok.com/blog/2022/11/greenpeace-admits-that-recycling-doesnt-work-and-is-probably-worse-for-the-environment?utm_source=newsletter-182&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Grok As a starter, view “Planet of the Humans” on You Tube, see some of the myths. We all want the same thing and that’s not to destroy the earth and to use it wisely and efficiently.
Anyways, back on track, let’s start working as a team and find solutions and try to agree on things instead of dividing and destroying what we have.
— John Sellers
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