Interesting meeting this past Wednesday, as I previously wrote. Right now, it’s all about the EXTREMIST and DECEITFUL “Citizens for Belknap”Political Action Committee (“PAC”). More on CoB PAC in a moment, but there IS a tie-in for this race so give me a few minutes, please.
Since NH State Senator Bob Guida decided to retire (after throwing in with these revengeful flock of folks that are ticked that “their” political play toy has been taken away by the Belknap Delegation by adding new Commissioners that actually Follow The Law), he nominated Tim Lang to be his hand-picked successor (NAILED IT!).
Unfortunately for Lang, with this newly redrawn NH State Senate District, there is a growing backlash that is starting to grow against him. He’s not going to have the slam dunk open door to that seat. Former Belknap County Commissioner Dave DeVoy and former NH State Rep John Plummer decided that he shouldn’t have that seat:
Dave DeVoy:
(Sorry, Dave; was going to adjust the other camera)
John Plummer:
So, ALMOST time to show Tim Lang; if you want to watch that video, skip this background part and watch it.
However, here’s the tie-in – back to the ill-named “Citizens for Belknap” (if you’re a rich guy who wants Gunstock in your hands, it seems) as they are ALL ABOUT calling the GAC Commissioners (except for Gary Kiedaish – and the “absence of the thing” can of speak loudly) and the NH State Reps are EXTREMISTS and therefore, lack integrity. Hold that thought for a sec.
I wish to remind people that the “organizer” (the Left LOVES Organizers – they even put one into the White House) Brian Beihl is a tried and true believer in all things Progressive. He’s been the deputy director of the uber-left Open Democracy NH since at least 2016 – I have emails from Open Democracy for YEARS. He’s now handling the CoB strategy – for a bunch of Republicans??? Seriously, in the most Conservative County in NH, these disaffected Republicans want a Van Jones/AOC type leading them?
And in doing so, they STILL want you to believe they are “non-Partisan”? Add to that, the CoB Chair Alan Posnack, from what I’ve been told, lives in Alton and is a registered Democrat. Still have to check that out but it is well known that their Treasurer, Brian Gallagher, is a former GAC Commissioner and finally had to resign because he was about to get found out that he was no longer eligible to be on the Gunstock Area Commission (after selling his home in Belknap County). The Law (RSA 399) is very clear on this: any member of the GAC MUST be a resident property owner:
399:3 Membership of the Commission. The commission shall consist of five members who 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.
Heck, even as THE CHAIR, he didn’t have the integrity and courage to immediately resign once that property was sold. Yet, he continued well past that date, and former Commissioner, then Acting Chair, then demoted back to mere Commissioner, Gary Kiedaisch ran up a legal bill with Devine-Millimet about Brian. I am supposing it was Kiedaisch trying to find a legal weasel strategy how to keep Gallagher on the Commission after he should have left even at the time, his reasoning was, paraphrased, all the politics, infighting, and acrimony. Well, over and over again refusing to share information about a lot of things with newly appointed Peter Ness that he was demanding, kinda looks like Gallagher and Kiedaisch were the instigators of all that even as they are now claiming (WAIT FOR IT – the same favorite tactic of the Left)…..VICTIMHOOD (and the legal bills to prove it).
Oh, and Kiedaisch attempted yet another set of legal skulking about when it became clear that former Commissioner Rusty McLear had WAY stayed longer than his interim term allowed and the Delegation had to kick him out of that “squatted” seat. So McLear is tied into this (what, a reconstitution of the Three Stooges: Moe, Larry, and Curly?).
Skip – isn’t that stooping too low? No, not at all. When a GAC Commissioner, Gary Kiedaisch, wants the rest of us that Gunstock Mountain Resort and the Gunstock Area Commission are NOT a part of Government (it is – it’s owned by the citizens of Belknap County and that HE is Above the Law (re: the GAC ByLaws trump NH State Statutes). This is a very narcissistic person who even holds himself up so high that he has said that RSA 399 should be changed so that only folks like HIM should be Commissioners – and with dripping condescension of the idea that “mere” citizens should play any kind of leadership role in our own self-governing. Here’s the goods.
So now back to Bob Guida who was seen with both Kiedaisch and McLear – there’s the insertion point. Then when HB1397 showed up, with Bob Guida as the Prime Sponsor, that was meant to totally rewrite the RSA 399 to screw over both the Belknap County Delegation AND the Belknap County Commissioners from having any oversight at all of GMR and the GAC, it was politics full-blown.
It’s the Left’s normal playbook – if you can’t win by playing by the current rules, change them.
And NOW we’re back to Tim Lang. And the “Lang Gang” (Mike Bordes, Travis O’Hara, and Doug Trottier). The linchpin for Lang is that he ALSO signed up to run for this seat (as Harold French decided to run for the NH Executive Council) and, again, the District got all shifted around due to decadal mandatory re-districting. And was promptly endorsed by the Prime Sponsor of HB1397 Bob Guida to replace him.
And Lang was ALSO a sponsor of the Kiedaisch/McLear/Gallagher/Hayden McLaughlin (owner of Belknap Landscape) inspired (or was it the work of Open Democracy NH’s Brien Beihl???).
Anyways, Lang was refused a time slot during the BCRC meeting to make his case. Why should the Executive Committee allow it – it was the first time in two years he had bothered to show up since Alan Glassman was deposed as Chair; so much for thinking it was important UNTIL election time. He only got to speak when Chair Norm Silber recognized him for something not knowing it was going to be a stump speech that had been disallowed (starting about 1:10 into the clip). It’s clear that he was trying REALLY hard to distance himself, for sheer political expediency, from any of what I wrote above.
This is why all that background was included to understand what Lang was doing for that political reason.
But listen, when he stops, when Kevin Leandro has an embarrassing comment and then a question:
And yes, no actual video of him but use the camera that got the best audio.
I will have to say one thing for Lang, he’s got chutzpah – he asked if GraniteGrok was going to be doing GrokGauntlets on NH State Senate Races and if so if he’d get a shot.
“Be careful for what you wish for” immediately came to mind. Then I did say yes.
And remember, he was Sununu’s favorite son on the Task Force that determine who or what was “essential” or “non-essential” during COVID as Sununu thought was an Elected King.
