You don’t move from having the chutzpah of demanding that the entire Gunstock Area Commissioners resign en masse or demanding that the Belknap Delegation (made up of the NH State House Reps in Belknap County) remove them all to just two. Thanks to Stephen Hepburn, a Progressive transplant from Scotland, for bringing it to my attention from the Gilford Community page on Facebook (and no, I’m not on Facebook myself).
The two, I will add, that have been the most vocal and intense about making sure that both the Gunstock Area Commission Follow The Law as well as their own ByLaws for good governance purposes (as in “NO, any means does NOT justify the end, prior Commissioners and former Sr. Gunstock Mgt!”).
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Now it’s reduced, IMHO, from a DEMAND to a plea. From the remaining four just to Ness and Dr. Strang – who have been pushing the HARDEST for answers to questions that should have been asked long ago but weren’t.
Those questions should have been answered, in full, by the Gunstock Mountain Resort senior management -and weren’t. Whose attitude, since I started attending, has been nothing but stand-offish, belligerent, and condescending towards the newer Commissioners. How DARE these “interlopers” delve into our business! We are our own entity and don’t report to you! And we’re going to pull political stunts and PR actions that will make you tremble before us and slither into obeisance to our retorts.
In other words, be our toadies and “go along to get along,” or we’ll do what we’re doing now. Throwing hissy fits that almost rise to the level of my six-year-old grandson.
And do they think that the Belknap County Delegation, who put those Commissioners in place after seeing the lawsuit, for no real cause except a political one, filed against them, are going to remove Ness and Strang after what you folks pulled on them, PR-wise, after removing Rusty McLear for the legitimate cause of over staying his interim/fill-in term on the Commission?
Sidenote: Seriously, now a prior Commissioner, Gary Kiedaisch, having quit this past Wednesday when you folks whipped up that tempest in a shot glass of keeping McLear on the Commission by calling him a “De Facto” Commissioner, was going to work? That people would take that seriously? I DO know you did – after all, in speeches during meetings and in giving testimony in the NH House on HB1397, you made yourself sound almost like a demi-god. Such a self-assured, horn-blowing, puffed-up chest incompetent that got fired from Nike, Coleman, and Igloo.
Really, de facto? Where is that in the Law that such a thing ever existed? You can’t – that designation doesn’t appear in HB399 that governs Gunstock. You were bluffing and lost thinking that just because you said it, people HAD to believe you. It also adds to the list of things of “our ends justify the means we are using to get there – legal or not.”
There are legal problems coming at them like a freight train barreling toward them at full steam in the dead of night, like a constant roll of thunderclaps – but no light on. Thus, they know it’s coming, but who knows what it is going to hit them?
Thus, this desperate attempt? I don’t know, nor do I have any information to support my guess, but look what the current situation is:
- They have been denigrating the new Commissioners for a purpose – trying to Otherize them (which the Left is always doing but denies they do).
- They’ve been refusing/fighting to give information to duly appointed Commissioners.
- They sued the Delegation, forcing them to spend 10s of thousands of dollars to defend themselves.
- Kiediasch spent about $110,000 of Gunstock money for political lawfare purposes to stop or delay current or appointive Commissioners.
- They accused the Delegation of malfeasance over and over again
And they think the Delegation is going to listen to them even as they are threatening to unseat them all? “Hubris” barely starts to scratch the surface here.
And now their demands are being ratcheted downward. They have spent months being UNreasonable – and now, perhaps, are they really thinking this demand is going to be honored?
They’ve been thinking that they’ve been posturing from a position of strength – how could 4 Commissioners take the place of all those Sr. Mgt folks, ESPECIALLY with 10K SoulFest visitors coming in 2 weeks?? Of COURSE, they’ll cave and take us back – THEY NEED US.
Well, I found out that when they returned to work on Thursday (Wed night, it was “I quit with 2 weeks’ notice”), thinking they had 2 weeks to monkey around more, they found that locksmiths had already changed the locks and they were terminated. They’ll be paid for the two weeks but with no access. They quit, and now they have found out there’s no “there” there to return to. They tried to out-bluff the Commissioners – bad guess.
So stories have circulated that they now know they’ve lost a lot of the power position they believed they had – so Thursday morning, they tried to get the middle managers to quit as well “in solidarity” with them. I don’t think that has worked all that well. I’m hearing other rumors as well – let’s see if they pan out.
So the above ad that is now being circulated? Is that the career hill that they are willing to die on or the last gasp of “oh crap, what WOULD they accept?”
Methinks they didn’t know their opposition as well as they thought they did – and now it’s too late. Perhaps.
Still developing…
