BE BREITBART: Update 6: Right To Know Request – IT/HR – Responses from the State of NH DES.

In our last post, we started to go over the first official response from NH’s Department of Environmental Services concerning the political blogging of Richard de Seve while on the taxpayer dime – a LOT of Lefty blogging from this staunch Democrat (sufficient enough to be a Delegate for Dennis Kucinich during his run in 2008 for President).  In our Right To Know we had several specific items to which DES had to respond, one way or another, and each was addressed (one way or another).

One way or another?  Well, if you remember, I singled out that word “responsive” in that last post; that will be discussed.  Not to stretch this out, but essentially, here are the possible outcomes:

  • The data just does not exist – either it was not captured, plain got lost, or deleted / trashed (based on time criteria) – “No data for you!” (to paraphrase the Seinfeld Soup Nazi)
  •  The data exists, but pertains to personnel matters, and thus are exempt from RSA 91-A requests – again, “No data for you!” (to paraphrase the Seinfeld Soup Nazi)
  • Data exists, but is beyond the scope of our request (i.e., we will not see all of Mr. de Seve’s emails; sure, we asked for emails, but worded such that we were interested only in those outbound of the State’s domain – and not DES work related) – “meh, so what; no biggie – we’re just not that much into you”
  • Data exists, it meets our time criteria (1/1/2005 to 3/12/2012) and fits our request – Ahhhhhh – responsive!

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Vote on medical marijuana in the State Senate today

There’s an article about the Republican-sponsored bill to allow medicinal marijuana use with a doctor’s counseling and prescription in today’s UL HERE.
So where does our 8-year Democrat Gov. John Lynch stand on the bill? He promises to veto the thing! Idiotic. Here’s my comment at the bottom of the Union Leader article:

Democrat Gov. Lynch is an idiot for supporting the failed and extremely harmful “war on some drugs”…

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The Modern Democrat Party Explained in 175 Words.

Imagine what the left would do if the Koch brothers offered $10,000 dollars for the capture of George Zimmerman because he had shot a white teenager.   George is Hispanic.  He is a registered Democrat.  Paint your own picture of the 24/7/365 echo chamber of outrage this would produce from the left and the media. Imagine … Read more

Guest post by Peter Bearse, Ph.d: “On Gay Marriage”

“ON GAY “MARRIAGE”

The issue of gay marriage is not a civil rights issue. The civil rights movement arose because of racial discrimination that blatantly foreclosed or limited black opportunities to obtain the basics of human sustenance, including education, housing, financing, employment, and fair pay for equal work. There is no comparison between the gay minority and the black minority communities in these and other aspects of “civil rights.” As the work of Richard Florida on the “creative economy” has made clear, the gay community is advantaged, not disadvantaged. That is one reason why gays are seen as an asset to cities. They help, for example, to gentrify black and other lower income neighborhoods. They typically have higher incomes and greater wealth than most Americans.

So, if gay marriage is not a “civil rights” issue, what sort of issue is it? It is a matter of public vs. private. The gay marriage movement is a noisy minority insisting that public law should assign public value to private behavior. Unlike the (at first) “noisy minority” pressing for civil rights, it is not a movement to change public law to honor our most cherished public values, constitutional or otherwise. Gay sex has nothing to do with the public purposes of either sex or marriage. Heterosexual sex is the greatest gift of evolution. It arose over millennia for a fundamental reason: so that species could survive and further evolve through the generation of difference and variety. So, gay marriage is contrary to evolution and the progress of human life. The issue is just that fundamental.

So, fellow citizens who are homosexual: We recognize your right to live your private lives in ways that you choose. Most of us don’t give a damn about what you do in your bedrooms. We support your efforts to remove any vestiges of sexual discrimination in employment, insurance, contracts and other aspects of civil law. BUT we will not agree to relabel the public institution of marriage to suit your private preferences – that gay marriage be recognized as having public value equivalent to that of heterosexual marriage. At issue, fundamentally, is the nature of the human family – how children are procreated and raised to be fully human – of how the human species advances in a world of differences. Homosexual couples cannot conceive a child. It takes a man and a woman to make a baby and, even more important, to properly raise a child to assume a fully mature role in human society. Values inconsistent with the creation, maintenance and advance of human life are not maintainable as public values.

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Well, NH has a law for the First-In-The-Nation Primary so why SHOULDN’T South Carolina make it law for the First-In-The-South-Primary?

And the jumping escapades just got a tad more pro-active.  Everyone knows (even if they won’t admit it) that NH Republicans have no choice as to when the NH Primary is held – by LAW, it must be the first in the nation.  Methinks that South Carolinians have done this just to slam down the gauntlet to those usurpers from Florida; from

The Office of the Speaker
SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 27, 2012
Contact: Greg Foster
(803) 734-3125
gregfoster@schouse.gov

Ensuring SC’s First-in-the-South Presidential Primary
House Bill will preserve Palmetto State’s national influence

(Columbia, SC)  –  Today, the S.C. House of Representatives introduced a measure (H. 5081) aimed at securing our state’s First-in-the-South Presidential Primary.  A majorly influential position for both political parties, this early primary brings more than just status recognition – it translates into high-profile national exposure and millions of dollars in economic impact.

House Speaker Bobby Harrell said:

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“New Hampshire” “Republicans” For Equality?

Standing Up For New Hampshire Families was, and is, a faux group funded from outside the state, run by a lobbyist.  Measuring it’s effectiveness is merely a measure of the hypocrisy of Democrats who deride outside influence and the ignorance of Republicans who are too lazy to see where the message is coming from.  The guy running it is Tyler Deaton.  Tyler, like Mo Baxley before him, is propped up by national, out of state money, running their national, out of state agenda.  It is neither local, nor grassroots, nor the pulse of public opinion unless the power of a nationally funded propaganda campaign counts.

The New Hampshire Republicans for Equality PAC (nHrFe),  the latest, “popped up out of nowhere” web presence to splash ads across your facebook pages and web sites of New Hampshire, has something in common with Standing Up.  Tyler Deaton is the front man for both (nHrFe, SUFNHF) and is even listed as the “Treasurer” of the nHrFe PAC.

Same hired gun.  Same agenda.  And probably the same out of state money.  Not really New Hampshire.  Not really Republicans.  Not that surprising.

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EPA decides to be both Legislative and Executive Branch – outlaws coal generated electricity

So, where is all that electricity going to come for Obama’s million electric cars?

Coal Fired Electrical PlantThe proposed rule — years in the making and approved by the White House after months of review — will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to 850 pounds of CO2 per megawatt, meets that standard; coal plants emit an average of 1,768 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt.

Legislation?  What the heck does our Monarch Obama wants to do with that?

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NH GOP Annual Meeting – By Law amendments

As a member of the NH GOP Committee, I get to vote for this inside baseball Republican style stuff.  Two folks have put forward amendments: Sylvia Smith and Diane Bitter.   Both are about the same subject matter – how a sitting NH GOP Chair can be removed from their position.  Right now, it is … Read more

BE BREITBART: Update 3: Right To Know Request – IT and HR records for NH DES employee, Richard de Seve – signed policy copy

I had more back and forth with the “RTK dude” yesterday.  I will have to say, it is FAR easier in dealing with him than my local School Board when it comes to Right To Know requests! When we first filed our Right To Know concerning the political blogging at the Concord Monitor, we first thought that Richard de Seve (DES employee, chapter VP for SEIU, and former Delegate for Dennis Kucinich for President back in 2008, and Conservation Committee member in Gilmanton) had to follow the Dept of IT Computer Usage Policy. So, we asked for it:

Copies of the Mr. de Seve’s signed copies of the IT Department’s Computer Use policy that he signs at his annual review, showing that he has read, understands, and agrees to abide by

Well, the DES RTK Dude set us straight by gently informing us that DES had its own policy (posted here).  Even though Mr. de Seve has already admitted his guilt in stealing time from NH taxpayers and citizens for his own political purposes, the DES RTK Dude, to satisfy the intent of part of the RTK, sent us a copy of Mr. de Seve’s signed copy of the DES Computer Policy Agreement (shortened for space by me, larger size after the jump):

RTK DES Richard de Seve Signed DES Electronic Comm Policy_Shortened

So we have two facts in evidence:

  • This former lawyer willingly signed his acknowledgement that he had read and understood the DES policy on computer use.
  • Like I said above, he outright admitted to violating the policy in his email to Steve.

And no, we have not asked what the ramifications of this are – yet.  That is not part of our Right To Know.

We also received some other answers to our Right To Know items – we’ll be posting them up later!

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Part 2 – Candidate Gary Krupp for Merrimack Town School Board

Here is part two of my interview with Gary Krupp, candidate for the Merrimack School Board.  We continued to talk about his qualifications, experience,  with an emphasis on finding efficiencies, working with unions and bargaining units, and some other facets of his candidacy. Note: Thanks to my video editor this is now in three parts … Read more

Congressional Stalemate is better than Financial Disaster

Is Congress at a stand-still?  If so, is that good or bad?

Americans elect representatives whose views, they believe, are best for our country and our people.  Since Americans disagree about these things, there will be disagreements, conflicts and even stalemates in Congress.

Our nation’s founders wanted to ensure that extreme legislation, violating their principles, customs, and beliefs, is not imposed on the American people.  So, the founders created a system which typically forces compromise to ensure that legislation is acceptable to most Americans.

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GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker-Candidate RNC Committeewoman Candidate. Q6:How verbose will you be in defending Republican ideals as Committeewoman during the election season?

Given that my opinion is that the current NH GOP Chair is not being all that vocal concerning Republican ideals and stances into the public square, this was a natural question for me to ask – heck, all Republicans ought to be asking their NH GOP organizational “higher ups” (like Chairs, Secretaries, Treasurers, and the … Read more

Rebuttal to Alison Therriault – No, there is no extreme jeopardy to women’s right to control their lives in NH

I submitted this in rebuttal to a Letter to the Editor in the Laconia Daily Sun (P. 7, March 23, 2012) (slightly expanded here):

It used to be that becoming an adult meant becoming independent and being self-responsible for their own well-being. Economic dependency on family was left behind along with the toys of childhood. It meant sober realization that what one wants, one earns. “Deserves” becomes relegated to childhood status;”earned”, its mature replacement.

Ms. Therriault shows her wish for maturity in stating “I control my body”. True enough; that’s what adults do – exhibit self-control. You have the ability to decide, within the statistical limits of reliable birth control and human discipline, how many children to have, when to have them, and when to start that family (it seems, too, that marriage is becoming more and more optional in today’s society. No wonder single moms are becoming the biggest proponents of “Government that gives you more with other peoples’ money” but that is grist for another letter).

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The NHRVC Merges with the RLCNH

Last Friday I announced that some changes were coming with the New Hampshire Republican Volunteer Coalition, the NHRVC.  Well, they are upon us.  Effective today, we have joined forces with the RLCNH, in an effort to create one of the largest Grass roots groups in the state dedicated to supporting and electing  principled conservative and pro-liberty Republicans to office in New Hampshire.

Every member of the NHRVC is welcome to participate in any capacity that suits them, just as it always was with the NHRVC.  And while I will be contacting everyone personally, I have provided links here to help you along.

For those interested in the joining the Facebook Group you can request to do that here.

Join the RLCNH Yahoo! Group here. (Much like the NHRVC Yahoo! Group but quite a bit more active.)

Please feel free to follow the RLCNH Twitter Feed here.

You can subscribe to the RLCNH Report and email updates here.  The sign up box is on the right.

You can provide contact info and sign up as a volunteer here, to do the kind of on the ground, hands on work the NHRVC was created for.

You can even become a full Dues paying member by signing up here.

You decide your level of involvement, from Facebook lurker, to comment junkie, to full membership or anything in between, just like before.  But whatever your speed is, I encourage you all to come an join us so that we may continue to find, support, and elect principled Republicans to office in New Hampshire.

[Updated – I added the RLCNH Yahoo! Email group]

The formal press release is on the jump.

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Dog Bite Politics

“Like a hand grenade, (Pit Bulls) are inert until you pull the pin. Once the pin is pulled, there is nothing you can do to stop the explosion.” —Gary Wilkes

3 year-old Natylee Murphy following the attack of her Aunt's Pit Bull in New Caney, Texas on September 11, 2009.

Last Wednesday, the front page of the Union leader featured Janis Milne who, while out walking her 8 year-old lab named Sue, Monday afternoon, was viciously attacked by what the article describes as a, “Pit Bull.” Milne’s Black lab named Sue suffered serious injuries , as did Milne.  This brought to the forefront for me some years ago being attacked by full-sized Collie, chewing me up pretty good. Minding my own business riding along the public street on my bicycle, I was knocked off my bike, and now being mauled by “Lassie.” Anybody who has suffered such an event will tell you it leaves you wincing.

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The NH-D.E.S. Break Schedule, and Other Mysteries of The Known Universe

We have it on good authority that Richard de Seve, State employee over at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, only reads and comments on the articles at the Concord Monitor-online, during his breaks.  He did, after all, admit this too me, so what better authority can there be?  And who am I to doubt the “word “of a long time Public employee, part time UNH professor, and high ranking member of the SEIU/NH-SEA?

That question answers itself, yes?

So I did a little test.  I took another look at his last four years worth of comments at the Concord Monitor, and checked the posting times.

My conclusion?  That DES either offers its employes a very liberal rotating break schedule that occurs with greater frequency than J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbits stop to eat or Dick de Seve is simply giving himself a “break” to read and or respond to content at the Concord Monitor, on any given work day, whenever the mood strikes him, in any one of these potential time periods.

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GrokTV Special Interview: Pam Tucker-Candidate RNC Committeewoman Candidate. Q5: What part of the NH GOP Platform is in danger and why should people rally around it?

More questions, and more answers.  I picked up on something that Pam had said earlier and bluntly asked – what needs to be protected in the NH GOP platform?  And here was her response: Note: Also, we have been getting some observations and questions in the previous posts’ comments, mostly from Commenter “C. dog e. … Read more

Candidate Gary Krupp for Merrimack Town School Board

Gary Krupp is a candidate for the School Board in the town of Merrimack, New Hampshire.  As a Major in the US Air Force, Gary has had extensive experience with contracts, budgets, and negotiations with contractors and unions.  He has also served on the Merrimack School board Budget Committee. I sat down with Gary to … Read more

WORTH READING: A rumination on government and the sociopathic personality.

This from Doug Casey at Casey Research: “The Ascendance of Sociopaths in U.S. Governance,” wherein Mr. Casey makes a number of trenchant observations. You need not agree with all of them to gain insight into a different way of thinking about the problems facing America. Here are some quotes from the article…food for thought:

  •  All the institutions that made America exceptional – including a belief in capitalism, individualism, self-reliance and the restraints of the Constitution – are now only historical artifacts.
  •  Have you ever wondered where the 50,000 people employed by the TSA to inspect and degrade you came from? Most of them are middle-aged. Did they have jobs before they started doing something that any normal person would consider demeaning? Most did, but they were attracted to – not repelled by – a job where they wear a costume and abuse their fellow citizens all day.

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