BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE WINDSOR: Tax irregularities led concerned citizens in a very small NH town to make inquiries into public documents–and uncover a scheme to help the friends and family of officials avoid taxes.
A group of residents in Windsor, New Hampshire became suspicious of the way the tiny town of roughly 200 residents was handling its finances. Property taxes were the primary source of income, so the best way to uncover any irregularities was to request the most recent tax records.
The town refused to hand them over.
The concerned residents took the next step. They reached out to Ed Naile at the Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers. CNHT has and continues to help taxpayers deal with local municipal issues. They have experts on Right-to-Know, municipal law, and experienced activists capable of bringing pro se court cases. So they began working with the Windsor group to obtain what were most certainly public records under New Hampshire’s 91-a, the Right-to Know law.
Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, an award-winning blogger, and a member of the Board of Directors of The 603 Alliance and the National Heritage Center for Constitutional Studies. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor, Executive Editor, assistant editor, Editor, content curator, and more (yes, there's more) at GraniteGrok.com. Steve is also a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, the Republican Volunteer Coalition, and has worked for or with many state and local campaigns and grassroots groups, and is a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
