Communication Specialist? Seriously? - Granite Grok

Communication Specialist? Seriously?

Until today, I had no idea that Speaker of the NH House of Representatives Teri Norelli had a communications specialist.  Truth be told, I suppose I hadn’t really bothered to think about until this afternoon when a young man decided to lean over my shoulder while I was talking to a House committee secretary.

After being advised by House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee Chair Ed Butler, D, Carroll District 7, that the executive session on HB 1589 – Universal Background Checks – was being cancelled because an amendment was being offered, he told the assembled +25 opponents to the bill that if they left their contact details with the committee, each would get a copy of the amendment as soon as it was made available.  He also told the assembled group “sorry to have taken you away from your communities” but all were invited to attend a subcommittee meeting that would be held this coming Thursday at some to be announced time.  [The “good news” was that those of us who oppose the bill will have another opportunity to speak during the Thursday subcommittee hearing.]

I left the committee room and went into the committee secretary’s office to leave my contact details with her but was interrupted by a young man clutching his iPad to his chest telling the secretary “I got this…”

I turned and asked who he was and was told that he was the “Communication Specialist for the Speaker.”  I turned back to the secretary and gave her my details and thanked her in advance for her help.  As I was leaving, Master Communication Specialist (MCS) was telling the secretary that the amendment’s sponsor “would decide whether and in what manner he would release it.”  I inquired of MCS as to whether the chair was just making stuff up about sharing the amendment with us – one assumes committee chairs understand the process – to which MCS replies “I didn’t say that”….maybe not in so  many words but I think his purpose was to back down the committee secretary.

Out in the hallway were the head of security for the State House and a very large State Trooper….of all the hearings going on the in House of Representatives, those two, plus Master Communication Specialist, were watching 25 everyday, law-abiding folks gathered to oppose a piece of legislation that would make each of us criminals.

I f anyone who reads GraniteGrok – except for the usual skulk of trolls who rub their damp little hands together and hyperventilate – believes for one moment that it is not the intent of Progressive elitists such as ”Elaine “Bloody Red Shoes” Andrews-Ahern or David “Mental Illness is a Crime” Watters to disarm anyone with whom they disagree, I know a bridge in Hillsboro I’ll sell you for cheap.

Communication Specialist
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