Grafton County Democrats

AUGUST 28 ON ZOOM- COUNTY CANDIDATES...Have you met all the Grafton County Candidates? Several of our candidates have primaries and in order to make sure you have been introduced to everyone we will hold a Zoom meeting on August 28th at 6:00 pm. Candidates have been offered the opportunity to introduce themselves, tell you why they are running, and why you should vote for them. Listed in alphabetical order, as educators are prone to do, candidates who have been invited to attend the Zoom meeting for the Grafton County Sheriff's position: Eric James, Jilian Myer, Michael Tamulonis
For the Grafton County Treasurer we have: Mike Cryans, Corinne Morse, Jason Neenos
Grafton Register of Deeds we have 2 candidates on the ballot:
Terri Grimes and Kelly Monahan

Each candidate will have 5 minutes to introduce themselves and your questions can be placed in the Chat box and will be addressed after everyone has spoken.

To register for the Zoom meeting please go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rduygrT0qH9TouiEAJNAkKrx2RHVj7Dui

Mascoma Forward hosted an Executive Council District 2 forum last weekend. Here is the clip on the candidates' closing arguments. For better viewing, turn on the Youtube closed captioning, CC, for the transcription. Thanks to Karen Liot Hill’s team for the recording.

6. Closing arguments District 2 Executive Council Q & A Saturday, August 10, hosted by Mascoma Forward. Watch with CC, close captioning, for transcription.Karen Liot Hill and Mik...

Mascoma Forward hosted an Executive Council District 2 forum last weekend. Here is the clip on, "If you end up, as Cinde Warmington did, as the only Democrat on the EC, how will you approach that position?" For better viewing, turn on the Youtube closed captioning, CC, for the transcription. Thanks to Karen Liot Hill’s team for the recording.
https://youtu.be/RakEkv8qH

4. How will you approach your position as sole democrat on the EC? District 2 Executive Council Q & A Saturday, August 10, hosted by Mascoma Forward. Watch with CC, close captioning, for transcription.Karen Liot Hill and Mik...

Mascoma Forward hosted an Executive Council District 2 forum last weekend. Here is the clip on, "What experiences have given you an understanding of constituent's needs?" For better viewing, turn on the Youtube closed captioning, CC, for the transcription. Thanks to Karen Liot Hill’s team for the recording.

2. What experiences have given you an understanding of the needs in the district’s far-flung towns? District 2 Executive Council Q & A Saturday, August 10, hosted by Mascoma Forward. Watch with CC, close captioning, for transcription.Karen Liot Hill and Mik...

Concord Monitor, Letter: Obstruction
It was so disheartening to read in a recent Concord Monitor that New Hampshire, along with fifteen other states had joined in filing a lawsuit against the Biden Administration. The suit is about a rule allowing children, brought here illegally with their parents, to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) health insurance. These children are referred to as “Dreamers” after the “Dream Act” of over twenty years ago. Dreamers is really a misnomer since many are responding to opportunities, becoming productive members of their communities.

New Hampshire is the only New England state to join this suit. What makes these decision-makers so mean spirited? They hide behind legalese, ignoring any sense of compassion or common sense. Isn’t it better to have health insurance than unpaid bills and untreated conditions? Haven’t we learned anything from the pandemic? The party of ‘no’ will stop at nothing to prevent any attempts to lift all boats. It’s news like the news of this suit that reminds me that it’s not the money, it’s not the ads or the crowds. It’s the vote.

Kathleen Rooney

15 state AGs sue Biden administration over ObamaCare coverage for ‘Dreamers’ A coalition of 15 state attorneys general are suing the Biden administration over its plan to expand Affordable Care Act (ACA) health coverage to immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as childre…

Do you know your primary candidates? - https://mailchi.mp/48d2683f65de/do-you-know-your-primary-candidates

Mascoma Forward hosted an Executive Council District 2 forum last weekend. Here is one of the clips on, "How will you approach your position as sole democrat on the EC? Karen Liot Hill leads off and is followed by Mike Liberty. Turn on closed captioning, CC, for the transcription. Thanks to Karen Liot Hill’s team for the recording.

4. How will you approach your position as sole democrat on the EC? District 2 Executive Council Q & A Saturday, August 10, hosted by Mascoma Forward. Watch with CC, close captioning, for transcription.Karen Liot Hill and Mik...

Kamala Harris is right: When abusers come armed, it can be deadly. Every month, an average of 70 women are shot and killed by an intimate partner, nearly 1 million women have had a gun used against them by intimate partners, and over 4.5 million women have been threatened with a gun by an intimate partner.

But the danger of armed abusers extends well beyond women and families—our communities are less safe when abusers have easy access to guns. In fact, it’s common for shooters who carry out horrific acts of mass gun violence to have histories of domestic violence.

America needs leaders like Kamala Harris and Tim Walz who fully understand this danger, and will take action to keep guns out of the hands of abusers.

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Mascoma Forward hosted an Executive Council District 2 forum last weekend. Here is one of the clips on why you should care about the executive council. Mike Liberty leads off and is followed by Karen Liot Hill at 2.03. Turn on closed captioning, CC, for the transcription. Thanks to Karen Liot Hill’s team for the recording. https://youtu.be/3Io33QsaXDE 

5. Why should we care about the Executive Council? District 2 Executive Council Q & A Saturday, August 10, hosted by Mascoma Forward. Watch with CC, close captioning, for transcription.Karen Liot Hill and Mik...

Did you miss the Monday night Dartmouth congressional program? Here’s the recording! Thanks Dartmouth and Hanover//Lyme Dems for a terrific program.

NH Second Congressional District Democratic Candidate Forum Join us for a conversation and meet-and-greet with New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District Democratic candidates Maggie Goodlander and Colin Van Ostern...

Primary candidate Q&As -https://mailchi.mp/256bfe0fe475/primary-candidate-qas

EXCITING DAY. Now the race is full on with less than 3 months to election day!

Kamala Harris choses Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Bringing a seasoned and successful Congressperson and Middle America Governor on as her campaign and governing partner. They appear to share similar values, priorities, and dispositions. At the same time, their careers and experiences are very different and complementary.
It will be very exciting to see how this rolls out. Onward! We have to win this.

We are looking for VOLUNTEERS to help us canvas and help get out the vote. If you wnt to join in, please email [email protected]

💬 As Kamala Harris wisely reminds us, “You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.” Our generation carries a wealth of resilience and wisdom. We invite you to join us for the “Elders for Kamala” call on August 5th, a time to reflect on our shared history and look ahead to the future.

Third Act Lead Advisor Akaya Windwood and Founder Bill McKibben will be joined by special guests Jane Fonda (), Bette Midler (), Rebecca Solnit, Rev. Lennox Yearwood (), Terry Tempest Williams, Gus Speth, Judith LeBlanc (), Kathryn Grody (), Robin Wall Kimmerer(), and many more

Visit the link in our bio to register for .

Donald Trump has a history of putting his billionaire friends before hardworking American families. NH Victory 2024.

If you live in Senate district 7, come meet your Senate candidate, Stu Green, in Andover from 5:30-7:00 on Sunday, August 11th (rain date the 12th).
Grafton, Orange, Alexandria, Bristol, Bridgewater and Hebron are in Stu Green’s Senate district. 

Email [email protected] to RSVP

Canaan Old Home Days Parade
Meet some of our Grafton County candidates:
L-R: Eric James (primary candidate for County Sheriff), Zoe Liot- Hill (Karen Liot-Hill campaign volunteer), Thomas Oppel (House candidate for Canaan), Sue Prentiss, (Senate candidate District 5), Corinne Morse (primary candidate for County Treasurer), Karen Liot Hill (primary candidate for Executive Council District 2) and Katie Hedberg, (candidate for County Commissioner District 3).
Second photo is the Canaan Dems booth.

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"I am proud to say that to be stopped by law enforcement purely because of the color of one’s skin is no longer an acceptable practice in New Hampshire." - Rep. Linda Harriott-Gathright

The announcement came during a virtual event with supporters.

Kamala Harris has earned enough votes to win the Democratic presidential nomination, party chair announces | CNN Politics Vice President Kamala Harris has won enough votes from Democratic delegates to win the party’s nomination for president, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison announced Friday,

Suddenly Trump looks older and more more deranged, Anne Applebaum

Four days after the end of the Republican National Convention, it suddenly looks like a very different event. I watched it intermittently, on television, along with perhaps 25 million other Americans (a relatively small number, though enough to matter). I focused on the highlights, like most viewers did. I read the analysis and thought I understood what had happened. But in the light of President Joe Biden’s brave and unprecedented decision to drop out of the race, my memory of what Donald Trump and his party were doing and saying has permanently shifted. I suspect this will be true for at least some of the other 25 million of us too.
Whatever happens next, the frame has altered. Now it is the Republicans who are saddled with the elderly candidate, the one who can’t make a clear argument or finish a sentence without veering off into anecdote. Now the Democrats are instead proposing something new. Now it is the many pundits who were already bored by the race and ready to wrap it up who look foolish.
Remember, if you still can: The Republican convention was a carefully curated, meticulously planned presentation. As my colleague Tim Alberta has said, the theme was “strength.” Strength was expressed by exaggerated, absurd, comic-book figures: Hulk Hogan, Kid Rock. The latter chanted “Fight, fight!” and “Trump, Trump!” while pumping his fist. Then he sang “American Bad Ass,” an unlistenable work of profound dissonance. Trump himself walked into the convention hall to the strains of James Brown’s famously misogynistic anthem “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World.”
Strength was implied by the equally choreographed demonstrations of debasement. Nikki Haley, who had repeatedly questioned whether Trump is “mentally fit” to be president—and had declared that “the first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate” will win the election—offered her “strong endorsement.” The vice-presidential nominee, J. D. Vance, who had previously compared Trump to Hi**er and described him as “cultural heroin,” performed a kind of kowtow, appearing at the convention in the form of supplicant, acolyte, prodigal son. Like so many other Republicans, he bowed to the power of Trump, to the vulgarity of Hulk Hogan, to a whole host of things he used to say he didn’t like, and maybe still doesn’t like. He even made a peculiar, strained attempt to link his children and his wife, the daughter of South Asian immigrants, to a cemetery in East Kentucky where he said they will be buried, as if none of this will make sense until all of us are dead….