Free Staters attain majority on NH governor's panel

[Dada Orwell]

Got this from the Concord Monitor...

Just six months after picking New Hampshire as the "Free State," and years before any of them are even required to move....members of the Free State Project have attained an overwhelming majority on one of the governor's inefficiency committees.

http://freestateproject.org/news/media_archive/0198.jsp

The FSP is a nationwide movement aimed at persuading 20,000 liberty lovers to move to New Hampshire, reinforce the feisty freedom movement there and reduce the size of government by two thirds.

[nopardons]

Unfortunately, that it does.

[nopardons]

Grow up kid.

[bc2]

yes ma'am

[Capitalism2003]

Awesome news...I really hope this starts a trend. I would love to move to New Hampshire someday. No income tax...very little government intrusion on business and individuals...in short, the closest thing to what the founders intended America to be. Live free or die! :)

[archy]

The FSP won't be able to succeed unless they can persuade a huge number of native New Hampshire residents.

But I'm guessing the "right" even one authoritarian numbskull to decide what happens in everyone else's house trumps the right of the majority to repeal laws they don't like.

NH State voter registration

September ’02 2001 (after list purge) Net gain

REPUBLICANS.. 245,791 (37.3%) 233,363 (36.9%).. 12,428

UNDECLARED... 242,028 (36.8%) 232,805 (36.8%)... 9,223

DEMOCRATS.... 170,405 (25.9%) 167,062 (26.4%)... 3,343

[nopardons]

You don't know a thing about N.H. and the taxes they nickel & dime people to death with;obviously.

But don't let me stop you...........move there and do so ASAP! LOL

[archy]

Awesome news...I really hope this starts a trend. I would love to move to New Hampshire someday. No income tax...very little government intrusion on business and individuals...in short, the closest thing to what the founders intended America to be. Live free or die! :)

I'd be very glad to add you to the FSP ping list. Several of your potential future neighbors are also on it.

[Dec31,1999]

Good going. Build it and they will come. I support this initiative, even though I'm looking to go south...

[nopardons]

hehehehehehehehehehehehe...I just checked your state flag and I'm really, REALLY laughing my socks off.Move, move NOW...from Kentucky to N.H. and see the kind of reception you get and how you adapt to the weather. giggle, giggle giggle................

[Capitalism2003]

you obviously don't know KY weather ;)

Oh..this thread reminded me...I read a few weeks ago about an entire town in Vermont that voted to secede from the state and become part of New Hampshire to avoid the insane VT state taxes. They succeeded, and the residents will be saving many thousands $$$ a year...awesome stuff.

[archy]

The FSP won't be able to succeed unless they can persuade a huge number of native New Hampshire residents.

The entire point is to work with NH residents, in hopes of preventing or rolling back the sort of Massachusetts migration that claimed Vermont, and is now the scene of the *Take Back Vermont* movement effort there.

Persuading the Republican governor of NH seems to have been a pretty healthy start....

[nopardons]

You obviously don't know N.H. weather! I did my undergrad time there and still go back to that state to see old, dear friends.Kentucky weather is a walk in paradise,compared to winter (which often starts in early OCTOBER)in New Hampshire.

And I bet you have a Kentucky accent.Anyone, ANYONE,without one of the regional N.H. accents is suspect,by the natives.Once they accept you, they can be as cold as a January night on top of Mt.Washington.

Then,there's food.Oh yes, and if you're one of FR's regonalists, who keeps trying to re-fight the Civil War,claiming that " THE SOUTH SHALL RISE AGAIN",you'll be about as welcome there,as the black Mayflies are. :-)

[archy]

Somehow I get the impression that this isn't nearly as big a deal as it's being portrayed.

Could well be. Not every acorn grows into an oak.

But every giant oak tree starts from a tiny acorn.

[nopardons]

N.H. was long ago INVADED by Mass.Liberals and the natives do NOT like outsiders, from anywhere.

That the governor put a few local yahoos on one little committee doesn't prove a thing. It's like the crowing here,by some og FR's Libertarians, when a Libertarian gets elected dog catcher in some tiny village somewher. LOL

[archy]

That the governor put a few local yahoos on one little committee doesn't prove a thing. It's like the crowing here,by some og FR's Libertarians, when a Libertarian gets elected dog catcher in some tiny village somewher. LOL

Indeed. Or some other office of minimal import.

[archy]

You obviously don't know N.H. weather! I did my undergrad time there and still go back to that state to see old, dear friends.

[archy]

Awesome news...I really hope this starts a trend. I would love to move to New Hampshire someday. No income tax...very little government intrusion on business and individuals...in short, the closest thing to what the founders intended America to be. Live free or die! :)

One other little detail you missed mentioning:

New Hampshire named most-livable state for 2004

[archy]

Oh..this thread reminded me...I read a few weeks ago about an entire town in Vermont that voted to secede from the state and become part of New Hampshire to avoid the insane VT state taxes. They succeeded, and the residents will be saving many thousands $$$ a year...awesome stuff.

As usual, it's not quite that simple, or cut-and-dried. But details of the outreach to Killington, Vermont by the FSP, can be read here.

[BoomerBabe]

Now, wait a minute. New Hampshire weather isn't all that bad. I have been here about eight years, and the winters are much better than the ones in the Midwest. The temperature and humidity here are very tolerable compared to when I lived in the South.

I'm not sure what you mean about the food. We have a lot of small venues for grocery shopping where you can get excellent produce, a lot of it locally grown in the late summer/fall. There are many pick-your-own berry farms and apple orchards, as well. The place abounds with great restaurants.

It's getting harder and harder to find a New Hampshire native, and I definitely did not experience the cold reception so many people describe. I have more friends here than I have had anywhere I have lived. I found South Carolina, for instance, the worst place I have lived for welcoming outsiders who have a regional accent.

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