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Yesterday, The Blaze posted another embarrassing moment in the New Hampshire Legislature thanks to Dover Democrat, Representative Sherry Frost. The woman is now becoming increasingly more insane in her rhetoric. Frost will attempt to claim it is only “hyperbole” but given her outrageous, inappropriate and unprofessional behavior since becoming a representative, that attempt should be met with contempt.
On Tuesday, towns across New Hampshire will be holding local elections, including Windham. While many elections can sometimes be petty, recent school board elections in Windham tend to be contentious. Certain people in the town like to have power and when they are on the cusp of losing it or when they have lost it to good people; they lash out with lies and deceit. Former Windham Selectman Al Letizio Jr. is a perfect example of this as is his sidekick Dennis Senibaldi, a current school board member.
Both Senibaldi and Letizio Jr. are supporting Rob Breton and Keleigh McAllister for school board. Breton currently sits on the board and McAllister, although they claim she’s been extremely involved, hasn’t really had much to do with the school board. Breton was on the board when Senibaldi was willing to shove an almost $600,000 contract with Cenergistic through a couple of years ago without even reading the contract first or researching the company. Breton abstained from the vote rather than voting no.
Yesterday, the Raymond Police Department received a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire (ACLU NH) regarding their recent behavior on social media. The police department is currently requesting that Raymond voters agree to spend $6.8 million on a new police station. The current police station was built in the early 1990s. Some people in the community are questioning the need for a new police department and have expressed their concerns and/or dissent on the Raymond Police Department’s Facebook page.
Apparently the Raymond Police Department (RPD) doesn’t really like views that don’t agree with theirs. It started when two different Raymond residents posted comments on the RPD Facebook page that questioned the need for a new, and rather expensive, police department. Not only were comments deleted but the residents were blocked from posting their views at all on the page. Citizens also commented on the new Constitutional Carry law that went into effect recently and had their comments deleted.
Tomorrow, the New Hampshire House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on House Bill 478 (HB 478), AN ACT prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity, also coined the ‘TransBillNH’ online. Yesterday Political Buzz posted an article about current discrimination laws already providing protections for transgenders to sue based on discrimination at the federal level. There are many side effects and issues with the legislation but it was also discovered yesterday that everyone, including transgenders, are already covered under the same discrimination laws as all Granite Staters.
You may not be aware but New Hampshire has a Human Rights Commission. This commission is responsible for “eliminating discrimination in employment, public accommodations and the sale or rental of housing or commercial property, because of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability or national origin.” The commission was set up under RSA 354-A and has been working to help any Granite Stater who has been discriminated against, including transgenders.
On March 14th, the Town of Raymond will be holding its annual vote on warrant articles and open elected positions. There have been some extremely interesting town meetings and deliberative sessions with the school board, the selectmen and a candidates’ night. During some of these meetings it was brought up that there are over $2 million in unpaid property taxes.
Raymond is a small town with a little over 10,000 people. They collected over $5 million in property taxes alone last year. It seems outrageous that such a small town as such a huge backlog of unpaid property taxes. It adds up to almost the total they are collection each year from those residents who actually pay. During the candidate night, selectman Jack Barnes claimed that the town has to have compassion when it comes to collecting of back taxes. He’s right. Towns do indeed have discretion if people have temporary circumstances that are causing a hardship. Is it really possible that there are $2 million worth of hardships?
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When former selectman and candidate for the board William Hoitt addressed the unpaid tax issue, he stated that there are animal hides buried all over the place in Raymond and that’s one reason they don’t follow through on collecting taxes. Hoitt maintains the he actually knows where some of this contaminated property is and if a property owner doesn’t pay taxes and the town was to take over their home for that reason, the town would then have to pay to clean up the contamination. No one at the meeting seemed even a little taken aback by this horrifying statement.
Mitch Kopacz, President of Gun Owners of New Hampshire, wrote such a brilliant response to the incompetent Tuftonburo Chief of Police Andrew Shagoury that it bears repeating here.
Yesterday, the University of New Hampshire Survey Center released a survey in which they ask Granite Staters about some hot topics that are happening in the state. One of the biggest pieces of legislation that is going to be voted on by the house this week is “Right to Work” legislation. It is a bill (Senate Bill 11) that simply gives workers the freedom when it comes to paying “agency fees” to unions they don’t want any part of. Currently workers have these fees forcibly taken from their paycheck because of the forced union status of New Hampshire.
Today, despite the snowstorm, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 12, aka “Constitutional Carry.” The vote was 200-97 with several Democrats voting for the bill and only two Republicans voting against it. The bill will now go to Governor Sununu’s desk where he has already said he will sign it into law.
The effort to pass this bill has taken over two years. The exact same bill was passed two times previously by the full legislature only to be vetoed by former Governor Maggie Hassan. The new law ends almost 100 years of state-sanctioned discrimination against law-abiding citizens of New Hampshire.
Yesterday, Political Buzz received several emails from readers that came from one of their New Hampshire State Representatives, Democrat Patricia Klee. The freshman representative made some outrageous statements about a story that was presented as testimony during the hearings for Senate Bill 12, a bill that would end the admitted abuse of New Hampshire citizens regarding pistol/revolver licensing in the state.
Yesterday, New York gun control organization Everytown for Gun Safety, another failed organization run by billionaire gun control addict Michael Bloomberg, ran a full page ad in the Union Leader. The deception in the ad is par for the course for this organization but what’s even more disturbing is that they’ve actually hired 11 lobbyists in the state of New Hampshire to fight against grassroots organizations and the citizens of the state.
Yesterday there was a full page ad in New Hampshire’s Union Leader, paid for by New York gun control organization Everytown for Gun Safety. The gun safety part is emphasized because these people aren’t for gun safety at all, they are for gun bans and gun control. This is an organization run by New York City billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who has armed security for his own family yet works to take away the rights of the “regular people” from protecting their families. Bloomberg uses a few women from New Hampshire who claim to be for “human rights” to push an out-of-state man’s will on Granite Staters to take rights away from all people in the state, especially women.
Yesterday, the New Hampshire Executive Council held a hearing on Governor Sununu’s nomination of Frank Edelblut for the Commissioner of Education. The Executive Council chambers were packed with a full house of Edelblut supporters and detractors. The actual hearing didn’t end until around 8 p.m. last night.
The hearing started out with freshman councilor Andru Volinsky’s excessive line of questioning, including his bigotry towards Edelblut for daring to sit on the board of a Christian college. Apparently Volinsky assumed that Edelblut would somehow infuse his religious beliefs into his position as commissioner despite facts to the contrary. Volinsky was actually interrupted by the council to end his “grandstanding” and actually get to his questions. The man seemed like an angry prosecutor cross-examining an innocent man, accusing him of crimes he didn’t commit. It was truly a low moment for the Executive Council.
Yesterday, the Executive Council tabled the confirmation of Frank Edelblut for Commissioner of Education because Democrat Andru Volinsky found a statute that requires the governor to meet with the entire Board of Education before nominating the commissioner of education. According to Sununu, he met with the chairman but not all members. The confirmation vote was held the day following the executive council’s public hearing on Governor Sununu’s nomination.
That hearing is where it was discovered that Andru Volinsky is a religious bigot who has obvious contempt for anyone who happens to practice religion in their personal life. It’s not clear why Volinsky chose this embarrassing path of persecution when questioning (grandstanding) of Frank Edelblut but Volinsky’s bigotry and hatred was quite clear but that’s not all that was exposed.
We received this email from a reader and thought it was too good not to share. If you listen to the hearing, which you can find at NH1 News, you’ll see that Democrat Executive Councilor Andru Volinsky was actually persecuting Frank Edelblut for the religious beliefs of a college where he put an economics and business program into place and a homeschooling organization he is a member of. Volinsky attempted to attribute beliefs he picked up from websites directly to Edelblut. Regardless, what Volinsky did appears to be completely illegal.
Today, several left wing organizations held a “NH Women’s Day of Unity and Action” rally in Concord. One of the biggest sponsors was Planned Parenthood. They claim to be the voices for all women but women who are pro-life weren’t invited. Even women who agree with the left on every issue other than abortion were not welcome. As a matter of fact, women who disagree with extreme left wing ideology weren’t welcome to the event at all. they protested on the sidewalk instead. It wasn’t about women uniting; it was about pushing the same failed left wing ideology that helped Democrats lose to Republicans across the country in the 2016 elections.
Yesterday women across the country and even in some parts of the world put on pink ‘p*ssy’ hats and behaved like little ‘Veruca Salts’ because Hillary Clinton wasn’t elected. The ‘Women’s March’ was an embarrassing display of idiocy, hypocrisy and ignorance by mostly white women who clearly need therapy. These women weren’t actually protesting ANYTHING. Trump hasn’t done anything yet. It was more of a ‘pre-emptive’ protest of what they somehow think Trump and Republicans are GOING to do. OR not.
On Thursday, the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee in the New Hampshire House of Representatives heard testimony on a gun control bill that has been presented by Democrats but written by a gun control organization from California. For some reason, Representative Katherine Rogers (who also pushes New York-style gun control via billionaire Michael Bloomberg) believes a California organization knows more about New Hampshire than Granite Staters. She is seeking to push legislation that requires background checks on private citizens who are simply transferring firearms to another person, including when instructors teach firearm classes.
On Thursday Senate Bill 11, AN ACT prohibiting collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union, is scheduled to be voted on by the entire New Hampshire Senate. It was voted Ought To Pass out of committee by a party line vote of 3-2. As the Right to Work (RTW) debate heats up in New Hampshire, unions are pushing statements about RTW states that are either untrue or don’t give the complete picture. One of those statements is that Forced Union states (like New Hampshire) spend more money on education than RTW states. That’s all they claim without adding anymore information. Political Buzz decided to verify the statement and then analyze the data to see how the states scored in education testing.