This morning I headed to Belknap Superior Court. Mr. Peterson had filed for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) to halt the illegally called Belknap County Delegation/Convention meeting by State Rep Harry Bean.
Sidenote: who, by the way, I met going into the courthouse. He asked if I had called him “a F****** idiot”. My reply was simple: no, as I don’t swear. I did tell him that what I HAVE called him is a lawbreaker as he still will not acknowledge that RSA 91A cannot be commingled with RSA 24-9 in trying to call that Aug 1 meeting (he was not the Chair before the meeting, required by RSA 91A for a “2-day notice” for an emergency meeting. RSA 24:9-d he did have the required quorum to call the meeting but that requires a SEVEN-day advance notice when the legislature is not in session. He WAS the Chair after the meeting.). He called me a liar. Then said that GraniteGrok should be called GraniteCrock (heh! So original, eh?).
It’s clear that our years-long friendship is over because of his support for the results that the Democrat-based Citizens for Belknap PAC has desired – and disassociating from those that refused to give in to the “re-election fearmongering” that was ginned up. As a result, a number of his former friends lost in the Primary. I think my count is now up to six or seven people that he’s now dropped as friends but that was part of the CfB political plan in the first place – sow dissension to make it easier to cull “undesirables”. Hey, it happens in politics. I do wonder what he’s going to do, however, that if in this next round of CfB’s election endorsements, he ends up like Gregg Hough. Remember that CfB marked him for political elimination in the Primary as his usefulness to them was over. He lost and as one of Harry’s former friends noted, his prophetic words to Hough beforehand was “I Told You So”. And so it was – might it happen again?
But I digress…
The TRO, when it was filed was denied but a hearing was scheduled for this morning (kinda moot as the Delegation has subsequently met to reaffirm its decisions). There’s much more on that meeting on GraniteGrok to the Nth degree on this and I’m not going to repeat it here.
Unfortunately, the hearing itself did not go well for Mr. Peterson; I wish he had called me for some help (even though I’m not a lawyer) in formulating his argument. While the Judge did not rule from the bench, I’m not willing to take bets on the outcome.
A wee-bit “fish-eye effect but I wanted all the participants in one view instead of panning back and forth.
However, Gunstock Area Commission Commissioner Dr. David Strang’s lawsuit against the GAC is coming up and that may well address the same issue(s) that this should have but from a different perspective.
