“Just so you know, Ed passed on Friday. So sad – what a great man…” That from a friend today.
From a couple of days ago:
Evidently he has been in ICU in Concord Hospital for some time now. At least a month, I think. Covid, then a blood clot which caused a heart attack.
I called the hospital today and he is still in ICU and no visitors.
I considered him one of my mentors as Doug and I started up GraniteGrok. I learned so much from him and realized how skilled he was in his Activism and how free he was to share the skill with anyone that wanted to hear and then apply it. He made the CNHT (Coalition of NH Taxpayers) space available to us as we started GrokTALK! as a weekly podcast, we and he combined forces on a number of different issues.
He was a man that stood on principles that right was right and wrong was wrong. Fearless and took GREAT joy at beating those that thought that they were “all that and more” whether they were municipal officers and tax fraud to voter fraud.
Did I mention that he was smart?
He made CNHT live up to one of the US Marine’s mantras: “No better friend; no worse enemy.”
He enjoyed his activism and loved it when he won (which he did most of the time), especially in court. He once told me that when he entered the court, the other lawyer’s shoulders slumped. They knew that he knew more about the law than they did – and he was doing it for sport.
A Crusader for “Follow The Law.”
There will never be another like him.
