BREAKING NEWS - NH House Speaker Norellie suspending Constitution - Granite Grok

BREAKING NEWS – NH House Speaker Norellie suspending Constitution

Bill HB 1670

The House members got a 5 page amendment to this bill yesterday – and the House rules are being broken by the House Majority – call it Tyranny of the Majority.  A Mobocracy by Democrats (shades of Obama current activities, and the mobocracy that gave us Obamacare).

The rules state that any bill that has a taxing component must have a hearing in a tax related Committee.  It hasn’t. The rules state that there must be a public hearing where members of the general public (that would be you and I) could testify for and against.  There hasn’t been.  It is a Democrat tax feeding frenzy – and they are ignoring the rules to make it happen.  Not only are they suspending or ignoring the House Rules but also Part 2 Article 24 of the NH Constitution (by Speaker Terrie Norelli).

The Republican minority protested this move by the majority.  Norelli knows that she only needs a majority + 1 and then maintains she can do what she wants.  Several Republicans, per the rules, rushed up with written protests – and that’s when the Mob Rule started.  The motion to protest was denied (more like ignored??).  Norelli said it was too late.

She said, on her own word, that she could skirt around NH Constitution and ignore the written protests.  The Republicans challenged the Speaker, but lost the vote challenging the Chair’s denial of the protest 178-126.  In other words, she denied the minority the Right expressed below (in bold):

[Art.] 24 [Journals and Laws to be Published; Yeas and Nayes; and Protests.] The journals of the proceedings, and all public acts of both houses, of the legislature, shall be printed and published immediately after every adjournment or prorogation; and upon motion made by any one member, duly seconded, the yeas and nays, upon any question, shall be entered, on the journal. And any member of the senate, or house of representatives, shall have a right, on motion made at the time for that purpose to have his protest, or dissent, with the reasons, against any vote, resolve, or bill passed, entered on the journal.

The bill itself (which I have yet to review) was a bill to in how get rid of paint.  It has, however, parts that:

  • Raise taxes
  • It is bad for small businesses
  • There are ambigious problems with the fees associated with the bill
  • THere was no fiscal note (which is mandatory in the rules) with the bill
  • There are problems with the DES oversight as laid out in the bill

Each of these tell me that this is a RUSH job – and RUSH means poorly crafted.  Why should we settle for poor when we can have better?

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Caveat – the people telling me this had to rush giving me the information and then had to rush back to the Floor for a vote thus some info may not be completely right  – updates and corrections will be made as more info comes in.

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