At the end of the November Belknap County Republican Committee November meeting, a lady by the name of Melody Fitts stood up to announce a VIG event on the 19th (It was also clear there was another lady sitting in another part of the audience that was associated with this group but I never caught her name). Melody took advantage of the “last call for new business” to use the BCRC’s time to promote an event for the NH VIG without first seeking permission from the Executive Committee . She informed the attendees with details such as to date, time, location, and speakers that was totally unaligned with what the BCRC does.
Full Disclosure – I am running a series of posts here at GraniteGrok concerning the NH VIG founders, Marylyn and Albert Todd, over this same ad / flyer. I refused to publish it and made it clear as to why that was my decision. They refused to accept that answer. With respect to the BCRC Wednesday night, one of the speakers called me out of the blue wanting to know what was going on with the Todds and the NHVIG event based on my posts.
So I stood up and asked for recognition after Ms Fitts finished and relayed that Seth Kesel and I had talked and that my impression was that he was no longer going to attend. It was also my impression that he was going to be calling the other two speakers.
Thursday morning I saw the email from Mr. Kesel that he WAS attending the event contra my impression. Thus, I gave out bad information at the BCRC meeting. I have always maintained that there will be times I will get things wrong – once cannot write over 16,000 posts and be 100% correct. I make it clear that when one of my writers get something wrong, correct it.
I hold myself to the same standard. I got this one wrong. I am sorry that my impression was wrong and I apologize to the BCRC Executive Committee and the other BCRC attendees Wednesday night for using it.
Here is the snippet at the tail end of the meeting:
