I have known Ed Comeau for a couple of years now (it was him and his camera that helped me catch this gem of a Progressive H8 gaffe!) and he runs a site called GovernmentOversite.com with which he goes to as many of his local government meetings (e.g., boards, committees, et al) as possible to record all of the meeting – then when politicians say one thing to one set of folks and another thing to another set, he nails them.
Well, he’s also passionate about individual Liberty and Freedom and that local control MEANS local control – and not getting caught up in tangled webs whereby the web of power strands are controlled by other than by local folks (like the discussion of the Feds version called Sustainable Communities Initiative, aka the Granite State Future Plan) . Here is Ed testifying in Concord about this (He is in Part 3 of a 4 part series) other form of the same thing that goes under the acronym ICLEI (International Council of Local Environmental Initiatives):