Concord Monitor: Missing articles about Carl Gibson and Yvonne Dean-Bailey - Granite Grok

Concord Monitor: Missing articles about Carl Gibson and Yvonne Dean-Bailey

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Recently it was reported that the Concord Monitor refused to allow their reporter, Nick Reid, to testify in court in Democrat operative Carl Gibson’s voter fraud case. They claimed it was a First Amendment right that Reid not testify even though Reid was the one who discovered that it was Gibson who sent a hoax email during Yvonne Dean-Bailey’s election back in 2014. Ironically, a majority of the articles have disappeared from the Monitor’s website.

Back in 2014, Dean-Bailey was running for New Hampshire State Representative in Rockingham County District 32. Her opponent, a hateful and ignorant Democrat named Maureen Mann, was waging a horrible war on Dean-Bailey because of her age.

Dean-Bailey was 19 years old at the time and running as a Republican. Manning was so obsessed with Dean-Bailey and her age that she had goon Carl Gibson harassing Dean-Bailey at events around the district. Finally, Gibson sent a hoax email five days before the election claiming to be Dean-Bailey and that she was dropping out of the race.

From the Monitor:

Carl Gibson, 28, is arguing a phony concession statement sent to news outlets purporting to be from Republican Yvonne Dean-Bailey is part of “protected free speech.”

Dean-Bailey, a 19-year-old, was voted into the state House five days later.

Gibson said it was a “prank,” but the attorney general’s office arrested and charged him with two felonies and a misdemeanor, saying he suppressed voter turnout and falsified a document. He was indicted on the charges in October.

Nick Reid from the Concord Monitor, received this email and was able to figure out from the address exactly where this email came from and traced it back to Gibson. The Attorney General brought charges against Gibson in this extreme case of election fraud. Reid was subpoenaed by the attorney general’s office to testify in the case since he was regularly reporting on Dean-Bailey and it was he who outed Gibson as the criminal who sent the fraudulent email.

As stated above, the powers that be at the Concord Monitor decided to fight the subpoena. From the Concord Monitor:

Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Richard McNamara on Friday granted the Monitor’s request to quash the prosecutor’s subpoena compelling a reporter to testify at the trial of Carl Gibson, 29. The Monitor, through attorney Bill Chapman, argued the subpoena violated newsgathering privileges established under the New Hampshire Constitution and the First Amendment. The judge agreed, noting that the attorney general’s office made no effort to independently obtain evidence against Gibson outside of reporter Nick Reid’s testimony.

What’s truly interesting is that the many articles Reid wrote about Dean-Bailey and the election have suddenly disappeared from the Concord Monitor’s website. That’s correct. Articles, including the one that identified Gibson as the person who sent the hoax email, have all suddenly disappeared from the Concord Monitor’s website.

Proof? There were links to the articles from other news organizations and blogs that no longer appear. This from Granite Grok in which two different articles were cited and no longer exist. Both of the links have disappeared, including the original report of the hoax email and the follow up that Gibson was the one who sent the email:

On Thursday the Concord Monitor reported a hoax email that was sent claiming to be on behalf of Yvonne Dean-Bailey, the young Republican woman running for the open representative seat in Rockingham’s 32nd district (Nottingham, Northwood, Candia and Deerfield). The email claims that Dean-Bailey is ‘conceding’ from the race against Democrat Maureen Mann.

Yesterday the Concord Monitor reported that the email was indeed a hoax and it was sent by a left wing loon who was working for Maureen Mann. The excuse given by Mann’s former social media guru is that he was just “playing a prank” and he had too many beers (at 3:30 in the afternoon when he sent it). Of course, this isn’t the only time Democrats have created fraudulent emails.

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A link to a story in The Atlantic has also disappeared from the Concord Monitor site:

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was in town. He worked the crowd, delivered a speech, and signed a Harley-Davidson motorcycle. According to the Concord Monitor, he told Dean-Bailey not to “be ashamed” of her age, and that it’d likely be an asset in the legislature.

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As a matter of fact, it seems a lot of stories have disappeared about Dean-Bailey. If you search the Concord Monitor for ‘Yvonne Dean-Bailey’ there seem to be only two stories whereas there were several that were in the print version of the paper as well as online that no longer exist:

From Granite Grok:

But this time, it’s first-in-the-nation primary season. The state is already crawling with presidential hopefuls, and the race in Rockingham County’s 32nd district has become more than just Yvonne Dean-Bailey, the Republican, versus Maureen Mann, the Democrat. As the May 19 special election nears, two Republican candidates for president and a U.S. senator have campaigned with Dean-Bailey, the young Republican in the race.

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Others were in print but have disappeared off line:

This one about Dean-Bailey as the candidate was available both online and in print but has since disappeared online:

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This was in print announcing her win but can be found nowhere on the Concord Monitor’s website:

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And another:

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Nick Reid seems to have been the sole reporter for the Concord Monitor that followed the Rockingham County District 32 race but suddenly a huge majority of his articles have disappeared, including the article in which he identifies Carl Gibson as the perpetrator of the fraudulent email sent before the election.

Granite Grok contacted the Monitor to inquire why these particular articles have all disappeared. Editor Steve Leone said that they had recently changed content managers and many articles have yet to get caught up in the update. We did offer to provide the exact links that were missing if they were so inclined. There was no response.

The timing seems a bit interesting given the case is on going and without some of this evidence, the attorney general has little to no case. Of course, the attorney general’s office apparently never confiscated Gibson’s computer. Seems as though there is a bit of kabuki theater going on in Concord, possibly in more ways than one.

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