“Another Seat Draws a Crowd” – I Could Be Amused with One of Them

So, Kevin Landrigan’s Sunday “State House Dome” column in the UL is out and had this snippet:

Another seat draws crowd
The decision by state Sen. Harold French, R-Canterbury, to call it a State House career is attracting plenty of interest in the District 7 seat.

State Rep. Lang is a likely contender. The chairman of the House Fish and Game Committee has built an impressive resume, which includes serving on Sununu’s business reopening task force during COVID.

Former Sen. Dan Innis confirmed he’s in as well, having moved from New Castle, where he had represented the Senate for two years, to Bradford in the heart of the “new” District 7.

Many colleagues also are urging ex-Sen. and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Ned Gordon, R-Bristol, to get in as well.

Given how badly Ned Gordon screwed over Conservatives this session on bills that were near and dear to them, I’m betting that he’s not going to get much support from this wing of the Party.

And given how the “rumor” painted Tim Lang (and Bob Guida) as being craven in thrall to Gunstock Area Commissioner Gary Kiedaisch in trying to totally rewrite the 1959 authorizing legislation that set out how Gunstock Ski Area (now Gunstock Mountain Resort, and this is yet to play out but I trust my sources as they generally get it fairly close), as news of the political hijinks gets out simply because Lang and Kiedaisch are upset because they can’t get their own way, either within the Belknap County Delegation or the Gunstock Area Commission and they politically blame the Conservatives that the people in Belknap County put in as their NH State Reps.  So, just like the Left, they wanted to introduce Direct Democracy for those Commissioners.

You know, like the Democrat Progressives of America and the Democrat Progressive Caucuses (both in NH and in the US Congress) want to implement so as to get rid of both our representative Republic (and take over the company you may work for). And these folks do it just so innocently – just like Lang and Kiedaisch wanted it to appear to be.

But politics is never all that innocent, is it?

I could be happy with Dan Innis, though.  No, not an endorsement at this time but given the present alternatives…

But as long as we’re talking about Gunstock Area Commission, the Belknap County Delegation, and Gary Kiedaisch going whole hog in playing politics (“They Lost Their Political Hold on the Gunstock Area Commission and They Are Pissed!“) with both the Gunstock Area Commission and the Belknap County Delegation AFTER stating that he’s not playing politics,  this Amendment  to the Lang/Guida HB1397 gives it the proper defenestration it deserves:

Election Law and Municipal Affairs
April 26, 2022
2022-1798s
12/10

Amendment to HB 1397

Amend the title of the bill by replacing it with the following:

AN ACT relative to the length of terms for Rockingham county officers and relative to the Gunstock area commission.

Amend the bill by replacing all after section 2 with the following:

3 Gunstock Area Commission; Commission Member Elections. 1959, 399:3 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

399:3 Membership of the Commission. The commission shall consist of five members hereinafter referred to as “members,” and two ex officio non-voting members. The members shall be resident property owners in the county of Belknap, and shall be invested with all the duties hereinafter granted to and imposed upon said commission. The ex officio members shall be the commissioner of the New Hampshire department of business and economic affairs, or designee, and the Belknap county administrator.

It’s the typical “be seen doing something” when politically doing nothing at all. Which is, pretty much, what both Lang, Guida, Kiedaisch (and Rusty McLear in also seeming seeking retribution and punishment).

So the Amended HB1397 here is dead, long live the do nothing amendment (after all, if you add two non-voting members to the Gunstock Area Commission who can only yak, what can they get accomplished?).  So, Gary Kiediasch got what he wanted when he stated back on November 17, 2021:

Commissioner Kiedaisch said he would not support the legislation because it will amend the 1959 enabling statute that was established to keep politics out of the operation of the resort.

His own words.  His actions, however, belie those words as he was, most likely, part of the cabal that ripped that prior statute to shreds.