Mike Polak, candidate for Tucson City Council,
sat down with Kate Reynolds to answer this question: 
What would Tucson look like with a Republican City Council?

Mike believes Tucson can-and will-be far more prosperous 
than it is today, but only if we have the courage to elect 
the right leaders. Under careful management, Tucson can 
attract big business and also serve the small business
community in such a way that will provide jobs,
broaden the tax base, and make Tucson a great place to 
raise a family. Attracting and keeping multi-national
trade will make Tucson economically sound and provide 
the jobs we need. A well-funded police department means 
shorter response time and less crime. Sometimes small 
improvements can mean big changes. For example, other 
cities provide WiFi hot spots (some are free and some 
charge a fee). An improvement like local WiFi hot spots 
will both help our businesses and appeal to tourists.

Mike thinks many voices are simply ignored by the current 
leadership. For example, residents of South Tucson wonder 
why all the money and all the effort are spent to revitalize 
the downtown area, while little is spent on their sidewalks 
and street repairs. Non-downtown residents also need new 
sidewalks, well-maintained streets, and responsive police 
time. A city council should serve all the people.

He points out that Tucson's Ward 5 has seen no services 
revitalized in four years. That ward has more poverty and 
citizens eligible for food stamps than any other ward in
Tucson. There are few jobs, and many of those are part time.
Ward 5 has lots of open space, land that could be used to 
create economic opportunity. Instead, people are moving out.

The voices of local business people are also ignored by the 
current city council. Owing to high fees charged by government 
entities, many small businesses can't afford necessary improvements. 
For example, a sink that should cost about $500 comes in at $2300 
because of fees tacked on. It's a vicious circle: When a lease 
expires, many owners require the business to remodel or restructure 
to renew the lease. But those businesses can't afford the necessary 
repairs. They leave, and when they go, Tucson loses jobs and tax
revenue not easily replaced.

"We're chasing away opportunities," Mike said. "Take a look at the 
loss of Grand Canyon University. We lost $1.6 billion in revenue over 
five to twenty years. In just construction alone, we lost about 2400 
jobs and about $100 million in wages paid." Then, of course, Tucson 
lost the permanent employees that would have been hired and the 
students who would have come here to study. All that would have 
added to the economy and tourism. Instead, that opportunity is gone.

It's time to change the way Tucson does business. It's time to put 
aside party differences and put our city first. Mike Polak is a 
veteran of the U.S. Marines, an aerospace engineer, and a small
business owner. He understands how businesses are run, and he 
knows what it takes to get Tucson thriving.

And, if you want to help, he most needs $10 donations to help 
him qualify for matching funds. He needs this money today.

Make out your check to "Mike Polak for City
Council." Send it to

Mike Polak for City Council
2004 E. Irvington Rd., #175
Tucson, AZ 85714

If you would like to volunteer for Mike's campaign, please
call Jim Kelly at
(520) 904-9120. 

ALL Tucson registered voters can vote for Mike, not just those 
in Ward 5. We have city-wide elections. You can vote for Mike.

Put Tucson first. Vote for Mike Polak for City Council.

Next week
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‘Those that think the Occupy movement is over haven’t been paying very close attention.’

by Shabnam Bashiri

Joeff Davis

December 6, 2011 – Occupy Our Homes demonstrator Ari Te tries to disrupt the foreclosure sale on the steps of the Fulton County Courthouse by shouting “Shame!”

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Theories as to the problems in the Republican Party are as numerous 
as the suspects in an old B&W Perry Mason show.  We hear it’s because 
they won’t support Obamacare or gun control or immigration reform or 
gay marriage or abortion.  But the problem with Republicans is not 
that they refuse to move farther left and become calorie-free Democrats.  
It’s that they’ve forgotten to respect and reach out to the people 
who really make this country work – and here’s a hint:  it’s not the 
guys in the big corner offices.  

My wife and I were at Fenway Park recently, and I was watching 
the peanut and hot dog vendors, carrying heavy loads up and down 
the steps in the heat.  When I see them, I see what makes America 
great: people working hard for a living, so that one day, they can 
be the ones in the seats.  People who work with their hands have a
gift.  I can’t fix a car or an air conditioner, and the people who 
can are valuable.

Republicans need to communicate why big government and high taxes 
hurt the guys who are building the skyscraper, not just the guy 
who owns it.   They need to explain why educational choice gives 
the kids of working single moms the same opportunities as kids 
going to the finest private schools. They need to make it clear 
what the Democrats’ energy policies are costing them at the gas 
pumps and in their electric bills.    

I grew up having a lot more in common with the people working 
in the kitchen than those sitting at the head table.  
If Republicans can explain to the wait staff at the GOP 
fundraisers how conservative policies will help them, then they 
won’t have to worry so much about the people who paid $10,000 a plate.  
Don’t begrudge the underemployed family food stamps, and then justify 
bailouts for AIG, Goldman Sachs and GM. The GOP’s problem isn’t that 
it’s too conservative. It’s convincing the masses and the majority 
that they aren’t invisible.

Condoleezza Rice, at the 2012 Republican National Convention, 
said that education is the new Civil Rights issue. 
She said she can tell from a student's zip code whether that 
student will succeed or fail. Barack Obama has callously and 
coldly thrown away an opportunity to rescue failing students.   
The Washington D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program had a
97% high school graduation rate in 2011-2012.  As the Wall 
Street Journal reported, "Despite this success, Democrats 
killed D.C. Vouchers in 2009 at the behest of teachers unions."  
Fortunately, Republicans rescued the program under Speaker 
John Boehner's leadership.  It is mind boggling that Obama 
would oppose giving parents of poor children a voucher to 
get their children out of failing schools.  And why should 
there just be a pilot program-why not all D.C. schools?  
Why would Obama think a better education was good for his
daughters but deny that option to all less financially 
fortunate parents?

Is Obama so desperate for union money that he would 
sacrifice the well-being of African American students to 
keep them ignorant and dependent on government handouts so
they will believe they need him and the Democrat Party in 
order to get welfare?
Isn't this operating like the plantations of old?

Does poor schooling really matter?  According to Daniel 
Henninger May 8, 2013, WSJ, it does.  "In Campaign 2012, 
Barack Obama promised the youth vote a rose garden.  
What they've got instead, as far as the eye can see, 
is an employment wasteland.  With the right encouragement, 
this voting bloc could turn against the happy faces that 
made so many empty promises to them.  The progressives
are taking note."

A study by The Center for American Progress reports 
unemployment for people in their late teens is 16%.  
Henninger says, "For young blacks-the most politically 
misled people in America-the out-of-work number is 
between 40% and 50%."

It's time for principals and teachers to take back 
their classrooms teach the kids and tell the unions 
no more exorbitant dues for political activism. 
Instead, with that money, increase salaries for 
successful principals and classroom teachers.
K-12 educational success should not depend on the
parents' Zip Code.
Besides jobs and education the president has failed 
to use his bully pulpit to advocate for strong families.  
From the website of The Black Conservative Summit:  
"For far too long too many in the Black community have 
suffered unnecessary failures, hurt and pain due to the 
collapse of the natural family. This has led to any number 
of unintended consequences including high rates of out of 
wedlock births, abortions, high incarceration rates of 
Black males, Black on Black crime and gang violence."

President Obama has squandered the good will he had as 
the first black president to advocate for better education
and a higher standard of living and stronger family structures.  
He has left African-Americans more dependent and poorly prepared 
for a high-tech world.

This year the first wave of ObamaCare regulations and taxes has already begun
to hit.

And insurance policy holders like you and me are being whacked with massive
premium increases.

Worse, Medicare recipients — folks who paid into the system — are beginning to
suffer as their benefits are being diverted to help tens of millions of freeloaders.

Thought that was the worst?

Well, business owners all across the country are warning of massive layoffs and an
economic slowdown.

The Congressional Budget Office, known for its fierce non-partisanship, now admits
that 7 million Americans could lose their private insurance.

These are just some of the facts about ObamaCare that horrify me.

That’s why I believe the No. 1 priority for Congress is to stop ObamaCare!

Yes, stop it dead in its tracks.

And I have a plan to do just that.

Working with the League of American Voters, the powerful grass-roots organization I
lead as national chairman, I know it can be done.

But I need your help today.

You Can Sign My Petition to Defund ObamaCare – Sign It Here Now

http://leagueofamericanvoters.com/DefundObamaCare.aspx?key=730702&s=al&promo_code=1432F-1

First, let me walk you through just how dangerous and radical this ObamaCare law
really is.

Federal bureaucrats have already written more than 20,000 complicated regulations to
go along with the 2,700-page law that Nancy Pelosi pushed through Congress — a law
no one had time to read before they voted for it!

Now, this law will fundamentally change your healthcare for the worse.

Polls consistently show Americans don’t want ObamaCare — its taxes and fees,
Medicare cuts, and other onerous demands.

I think you are among the majority of Americans who want ObamaCare stopped and are
willing to help.

Even senators and congressmen who voted for this law are having second thoughts.

Sen. Max Baucus, a leading Democrat who backed ObamaCare, recently complained during
a Senate hearing, “I just see a huge train wreck coming down.”

And he’s one of the senators who actually wrote the ObamaCare law!

Baucus is speaking honestly now because he is so panicked about the damage ObamaCare
will do that he decided not to run for re-election!

Fortunately for him, Baucus can run from ObamaCare.

But you can’t. I can’t. The country can’t.

You Can Sign My Petition to Defund ObamaCare – Sign It Here Now

http://leagueofamericanvoters.com/DefundObamaCare.aspx?key=730702&s=al&promo_code=1432F-1

You Can Derail ObamaCare

The League of American Voters has developed a simple strategy to prevent the
implementation of ObamaCare.

Congress controls the funding of ObamaCare.

No funding … no ObamaCare.

And that’s where you join the fight.

By signing the League’s petition urging Congress to cut off funding for ObamaCare,
you will join me in the effort to stop this hideous law.

You will stop the massive Medicare cuts ObamaCare requires.

You will stop the empaneling of so-called Independent Payment Advisory Boards — what
Sarah Palin called “Death Panels” — committees of faceless bureaucrats who will
decide what medical services you get or don’t get.

You will stop the IRS from hiring 17,000 new enforcement agents to implement
ObamaCare’s massive tax and mandate features.

You will stop the massive demands on insurance companies that are causing premiums
to skyrocket.

The politicians of both parties are fearful of you.

When they see millions of Americans demanding this, they will act.

One more thing: Once the petition drive is complete, as chairman of the League of
American Voters, I will personally make sure that our Defund ObamaCare petition is
hand-delivered to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Speaker of the House John
Boehner.

I will make this special effort.

But I need your support to do it!

Sign to Defund ObamaCare – Go Here Now

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Welcome to the Third World

Henry Chao, deputy chief information officer at the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid, let the cat out of the bag when he warned healthcare executives to “make
sure (ObamaCare) is not a third-world experience.”

Even the United Union of Roofers, part of the Obama administration collection of
union bosses who have received ObamaCare waivers, called for a repeal or complete
reform of ObamaCare.

They are not alone.

Millions of union members have generous health plans. These will be among the first
to be hit with the so-called 40% Cadillac tax.

My point here is that there is growing and wide support to defund ObamaCare.

I know we can win this battle.

Sign to Defund ObamaCare – Go Here Now

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Turn Off the Spigot for ObamaCare

Congress can shut ObamaCare down, if it feels the pressure from you and others like
you.

When I was young my dad taught me a lesson I never forgot.

He told me to fight battles on principle — even when victory is not clear.

This time we not only have the right cause, we have a real chance of victory.

You Can Sign My Petition to Defund ObamaCare – Sign It Here Now

http://leagueofamericanvoters.com/DefundObamaCare.aspx?key=730702&s=al&promo_code=1432F-1

Yours for America,

Michael Reagan

P.S. Signing the Defund ObamaCare petition costs you absolutely nothing. But after
signing you will have an opportunity to join the League of American Voters. You will
join hundreds of thousands of Americans who support our call for freedom.

As an added incentive, if you donate $50 or more I will send you a FREE copy of the
“ObamaCare Survival Guide.” Remember it is a No.1 New York Times best-seller and
retails for almost $20.

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Lois Lerner, who oversaw tax-exempt organizations at the Internal Revenue Service, slowed the consideration of anti-tax Tea Party groups’ applications, House Republicans said in a letter today.

The Republicans, who want more information from the agency, cited statements made to congressional investigators by IRS employees.

Carter Hull, a recently retired IRS lawyer based in Washington, told investigators that Lerner’s office made an unusual request to delay decisions on applications when he thought he had enough information to decide whether the groups were impermissibly involved in political activities. Instead, Hull said, the IRS chief counsel’s office wanted to gather more information on what the groups did in the 2010 election cycle.

The chief counsel office’s “involvement and demands for information about political activity during the 2010 election cycle appears to have caused systematic delays in the processing of Tea Party applications,” said the lawmakers’ letter, whose signers include Representatives Darrell Issa of California, chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Dave Camp of Michigan, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

Congressional inquiries into the tax agency’s scrutiny of Tea Party organizations and other small-government groups have become increasingly partisan, with Republicans continuing to seek potential connections to the White House and Democrats arguing that the IRS was simply doing its job.
Democrats’ Response

Democrats countered the Issa letter by citing interviews with other agency employees who said that review by the chief counsel’s office — essentially the IRS’s in-house attorneys — was normal procedure.

“Although it may have appeared unusual to some IRS employees with limited information, you failed to disclose that other IRS employees with more information told committee staff during their interviews that it was ‘common,’ ‘typical,’ and ‘customary,’” Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the oversight panel, said in a letter today to Issa.

Some groups encountered delays of more than three years in their requests for tax-exempt status. Republicans have begun focusing more on the delays caused by Washington-based IRS employees in the exempt organizations office than on the decisions made in a Cincinnati field office to look more closely at Tea Party groups.

Hull, who worked at the IRS for 48 years, will testify tomorrow at a hearing before Issa’s committee.
Campaign Activity

Scrutiny of campaign activity is at the center of the IRS’s job in looking at these applications. Groups applying for 501(c)(3) status as a charity can’t engage in electoral politics. Groups applying to become 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups can’t have politics as their primary activity.

The IRS apologized for its actions May 10. Since then, at least four executives, including Lerner, have been pushed out of their jobs. The Justice Department has begun a criminal probe.

Democrats released a memo yesterday citing 15 IRS employees who told investigators they had seen no evidence of political motivation or interference from outside the IRS. They said that self-described progressive groups were subject to some scrutiny, though it’s unclear how much or why.

Democrats have also criticized J. Russell George, the inspector general who oversees the IRS, for not disclosing information about Democratic-leaning groups. George is scheduled to testify tomorrow.
Inspector Criticized

Today, they said that George blocked the release of information about a “group of Democratic-leaning organizations” that were denied tax-exempt status. The IRS concluded that releasing the information wouldn’t violate taxpayer privacy. The inspector general objected, interim IRS chief Danny Werfel said, according to a hearing transcript from today provided by Cummings’ office.

The inspector general’s office said today that its lawyers and IRS attorneys had independently determined that some of the information at issue “referred to a specific taxpayer by name and should be redacted.” The IRS recently changed its interpretation, finding that the reference in question didn’t disclose data on the individual taxpayer, the inspector general’s office said in a statement.

Lerner was placed on paid leave in May. She has refused to testify before Congress, citing her constitutional rights against self-incrimination.

Her lawyer, William Taylor, didn’t respond immediately to an e-mailed request for comment.
Political Appointees

The Republicans’ letter notes that the head of the chief counsel’s office, William Wilkins, is one of two political appointees at the IRS. The term “chief counsel” at the IRS applies to Wilkins himself and is also commonly used to refer generically to anyone who works under him.

The IRS said May 15 that Wilkins himself wasn’t involved in an August 2011 meeting about the review of nonprofit groups and didn’t discuss the issue with the Treasury Department’s general counsel.

House Republican efforts to cut record U.S. government spending on food stamps may instead backfire and make it more probable funding will continue at existing levels.

The House approved last week, over Democratic objections, a five-year bill governing aid to farmers that leaves out funding for food stamps. The programs have been coupled for decades in a bargain among rural and urban lawmakers.

With the White House threatening to veto the House bill, and Senate leaders insisting on keeping the farm and nutritional issues together, it is more likely that the food stamp program will continue if Republicans won’t compromise, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said.

“If you want reform, if you want to be able to cut down on waste, fraud and abuse, that doesn’t happen unless we pass” food-stamp legislation as part of a farm bill, Stabenow, D-Mich., in a conference call with reporters Monday. “It’s going to take not just bipartisan support in the Senate, it’s going to take bipartisan support in the House.”

Separate bills

House Republican leaders vowed to craft separate legislation to fund food stamps, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. A proposal designed to appeal to conservatives who want major cuts won’t gain Senate or White House approval, making it more likely that the program’s funding would continue without reductions, Stabenow said.

Food stamps, which were created through legislation separate from the farm bill, don’t necessarily die without a new agriculture plan, Stabenow said. Congress would likely continue to operate the program through other spending bills.

Annual average food-stamp enrollment has risen 77 percent since 2007, with the number of recipients falling only once since 2000. Spending last year was a record $78.4 billion, more than double its level four years earlier. Monthly food-stamp enrollment peaked in December at 47.8 million and was 45.7 million in April, the most recent month available. Spending reached its highest level at $6.47 billion in November.

Supercenters such as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) and discounters such as Aldi Inc. and SuperValu’s Save-A-Lot chain benefit from the program, which subsidizes nutrition purchases for lower-income families, according to a Bloomberg analysis. The program has become for conservatives who want to cut spending, including those affiliated with the Tea Party, a symbol of dependency on government.

‘Real debate’

The separation of food and farm aid makes possible a real debate about nutrition spending, Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” program on Sunday.

“I have never talked to one person that says ‘We don’t want to take care of the most vulnerable,’” he said. “But I have talked to people that said the system’s broken. And when they look at what’s going on, we’re wasting billions of dollars on a program that doesn’t seem to be lifting people out of poverty.”

Congress will “absolutely” continue to fund the federal food stamp program, Kelly said.

The party risked damaging its brand by being viewed as unconcerned about the needs of the poor, Burdett Loomis, a political science professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, said that may not affect conservative Republicans in whose constituents want steeper government spending cuts, but it could hurt the party nationally.

47 percent

“It’s another one of these 47 percent things,” Loomis said, referring to the presidential candidate Mitt Romney comment about government dependency to a group of donors that was secretly videotaped. “The real damage isn’t to Tim Huelskamp in western Kansas or Mike Pompeo in Wichita. The real damage is to Republican presidential hopefuls.”

The House approved a version of the agriculture law reauthorizing only farm subsidies last week, 216-208. The bill has traditionally passed Congress via a coalition of conservative rural lawmakers and urban Democrats. The House last month defeated a plan with both elements, sending leadership in search of a new strategy. A bipartisan Senate plan encompassing farm and food aid passed that chamber 66-27 on June 10. The current legislation begins to expire Sept. 30.

The separate food-stamp-only approach embraced by the House leaders shows a political calculation by Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, that budget hawks are more important than farm-bill backers, said Parke Wilde, a nutrition policy professor at Tufts University in Boston.

Split support

At the same time, the risk of the Republican move is that the split would lower overall political support for the farm bill, putting any final compromise, which may include cuts to food stamps unsatisfactory to either party, in jeopardy, Wilde said.

“There isn’t any political damage as being seen as being anti-food stamp. Republicans have been saying that broadly in public already,” Wilde said in an interview. Still, “are senators even going to entertain a split from the bill? If they rejoin the bills, will Boehner bring it back up for a floor vote?”

Reauthorization needed

Stabenow said Monday she’s waiting for the House to send its farm-only bill to the Senate and will deal with food stamps when the separate proposal is also approved. A five-year reauthorization of policies is necessary, even with small reductions in funds, to shield the program from sudden changes, she said.

Congress may ultimately agree to farm legislation that includes food stamps, keeping intact the decades-old coalition, Sarah Binder, a legislative political scholar at Brookings Institution in Washington, said in an interview.

If not, it isn’t clear what the political consequences will be, Binder said.

“As the economy begins to recover, I think the sense that we need to keep spending more probably starts to wane,” Binder said in an interview. “The constituency served by this program is less organized, less likely to be vocal, and of course don’t control the House of Representatives.”

Here we go again, or rather, it just keeps on going.

The Internal Revenue Service, the same agency that took lavish trips on the taxpayers’ dime and discriminated against conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, is up to its old tricks of threatening criminal charges against people who for years have sought to work out their back tax issues.

“All too often the IRS  just isn’t interested in working out a tax debt, but rather want to criminalize people for their personal beliefs,” said Edward Snook, editor-in-chief of the US~Observer.

Tom Curry is a reasonable man who doesn’t push his beliefs on others. He simply works hard and wants to be left alone. He doesn’t believe in victimless crimes. He also doesn’t believe it is right for a government to continually fund other countries and waste our money on resort vacations while our citizens are put to the ever increasing task to pay for it.

When Curry was taken in by the works of Irwin Schiff, an anti-tax evangelist, he believed so wholeheartedly in what Schiff was selling that he stopped filing his personal income taxes, believing that it was a completely voluntary system of taxation.

After being contacted by the IRS and informed he did have to file and pay his personal income taxes, he decided not to fight them and he set about hiring several individuals to file his returns and also to run the administration of his Boston-based landscaping and snow-removal business.

The IRS kicked back his returns as fraudulent. They also set the tax debt to Curry’s gross income, ignoring any legitimate deductions for business costs and pricing it beyond any possibility of payment.

It didn’t stop Curry from trying. He hired tax-settlement negotiators.

Acting in good faith, however, didn’t stop the raids on Curry’s home, the confiscation of personal belongings or the threats of charges against his wife, who loosely worked for the business.

And it hasn’t stopped U.S. Prosecutor Victor Wild from seeking to imprison this man who reasonably has tried to work it all out.

It’s time to demand accountability – to act. Call Wild’s office at 617-748-3100 and demand he settle this situation rather than prosecute a man so willing to be reasonable and pay his taxes. And submit your phone call experience in the comments below.

The New Hampshire Republican Leadership Institute, a little-known conservative advocacy group, will join with the national Tea Party Patriots for a discussion of government abuse next week, its top official said Wednesday.

Conservative businessman Andrew Hemingway, who ran unsuccessfully for state Republican Party chairman earlier this year and previously managed Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign in the state, said he was named executive director of the 501(c)(4) advocacy group in February.

Hemingway said the group will join with the national Tea Party Patriots for an event called “New Hampshire Citizens Against Government Abuse” on July 25 at 6 p.m. at the Raddisson Hotel in Manchester. There is no charge, said Hemingway.

The event will take place at the same time and in the same hotel that the House Republican Victory PAC will be hosting conservative author James O’Keefe in another room. Hemingway said the two events are not related.

Hemingway said the Tea Party Patriots “will bring in people from around the country who have been the targets of IRS abuse. We fee it is important that the people of New Hampshire hear the stories of real citizens who have been abused by their government.

“It’s a call to action intended to stir people with the reality of those who have been abused and have been stirred to action,” Hemingway said.

He said he expects national Tea Party Patriots co-founder and national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin to co-host the event.

Hemingway said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was among seven Democratic senators who “signed a letter directing the IRS to take action and specifically target conservative groups.”

Shaheen last year joined several Democrat senators, including Sen. Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, in a letter asking the IRS to crack down on nonprofit organizations that were “engaged in a substantial amount of political campaign activity.”

The letter did not specifically mention conservative groups, but conservatives say the senators’ message was clear.

Hemingway, of Bristol, is a web expert who currently heads a firm called “Grassloot,” which, he said, “is building a social fund-raising platform for the grassroots.”

He said the institute has been in existence for many months, but he could not say exactly how long. He said the group has so far kept a low profile.

It was founded, said Hemingway, by “a group of long-time Republicans from New Hampshire.”

According to its web site, the institute’s mission “is to empower the individual Republican activists in New Hampshire to be effective leaders. We will accomplish this by training grassroots activists and leaders of local committees in the fields that will help them lead a winning electoral effort. We will equip local activists with the tools to build sustainable and permanent political organizations.”

The site says the NHRLI offers “courses at no cost on topics related to political campaigns, local committees, and causes. These classes are taught by industry experts and will be conducted at our Manchester classroom.”