UPDATE! Please see below:
A couple of weeks ago, I put up a post ““If It’s Happening in My Town, It’s Happening in Yours (Even If a Bit Sideways)” – Barrington’s Treatment of 2A Tactical“. It was all about the town of Barrington, after giving full permission (permits, paperwork, the works) to Rob Russell (a disabled veteran who wanted to open up a home-based gunsmithing business) to be that entrepreneur that he decided was the way to provide for his family after being medically discharged from the job he loved). From that post:
- Bob Russell served our country in the US Army – infantry (MOS 11B40)
- He became 100% disabled
- Came home, settled in Barrington, did all the right paperwork and steps, and started his one-man-band shop in his home (all properly approved).
- Having armorer skills, his work became known and he brought in some help to keep up with the inrush of work.
- Then did it a couple more times – all veterans getting honorable work, solid hours, at good pay.
And then someone powerful decided to make life miserable and because….? And that is the issue about not just his home based operation but also the new location with a custom building being put up to service his customers better. Most of us would think this is lemonade result when Life handed him lemons after his Army stint.
Like the title of that post stated, if it’s happening “here” it’s happening in your town as well. I’ve seen it here in Gilford, I’m seeing that again in Belknap County…
Sidenote: So, NH State Senator Bob Guida said that he was going to work to vote out ALL of the NH State Reps that are Conservative Republicans because, it seems, he’s becoming the toady (and Tim Lang’s political ambitions) of Gary Kiedaisch’s money and connections with NH Gov Chris Sununu? What, he wants to be the next incarnation of Shawn Jasper with a hidey hole in the bowels (aptly put, Skip!) of NH Government? So it happens everywhere – especially with rotten politicians. And he doesn’t even live in Belknap County!
…and its starting to ramp up in Barrington again. I got this from a tipster totally unrelated to 2A Tactical – methinks that Rob Russell is looking to make life miserable and put a Big Flashlight on the two no-gooders that had him spending upwards of $2million in trying to satisfy the Town on his homebased business, wreak havoc on plans (and then later, construction) of creating his own business building on land he bought, and then spending 10s of thousands (even more) on a lawsuit that the Town dropped on him.
UPDATE: I was a bit off here – Rob sent a correction:
Just want to make one important correction, and you can do whatever you want of course with this info. We didn’t spend 2 mil fighting or satisfying the town. I estimate that my business may have lost up to 2 million dollars due to the town’s lawsuit due to: in inability to build our future building (can’t get a construction loan with a lawsuit from a municipality threatening to destroy your business), lost revenue from not being at the new location and the huge increase in building material costs. We did spend upwards of $30k on lawyers fees etc. fighting the town. So we did suffer a great and significant loss, I just think the way you worded it makes it sound like we spent 2 mil.
Apologies – and corrected!
Only to then withdraw it. Shakedown. Retribution. The willingness to just make life hard because somebody didn’t want to “toe the good ole’ boy network”? Russell was left holding the bag. He even went to the Town and asked “How many times has the Town sued business in town?”
The answer was “only 3 or 4 over the last 10 years”. But they sued him over….what? They had given him ALL the proper credentialing TWICE in starting up his business and then growing it.
So, he took the incoming fire – and now is returning fire – dead on the right targets:
I was also told, again after making his life miserable for YEARS, that:
You know, this is going to cost the town some money
Ayup. Play stupid games (with people’s lives and livelihoods), win stupid results.
In doing a little digging, it seems that the worst offender in all this may well be that second guy, Peter Royce. Has to have had some spot in all this to rile Mr. Russell up – people talk, whisper things, and when you aggregate it all, Occam’s Razor is often right.
Bad actors can often hide for years in plain view AND in the dark corners of Government (even in a small NH town, there’s plenty of them). Some can fool all of the people for quite some time – but very, very few. The rest will get caught.
And this petition could be looked at as the modern version of “the stocks” – rotten tomatoes brought by the onlookers. I have more info that I need to put up.
Given that we have reconstituted GrokTALK! podcast (recorded, audio only – we are taking the baby steps and will add video in a little while and then go LIVE), we are looking for guests. Not in two weeks, though; Rob will be on with us.
To Be Continued.
