Proving People Can’t Be “Evolved” as Progressives keep saying and proving again that the Peter Principle Still Exists (and Incompetents Get “Promoted”).
Silly me thinking that perhaps all the political shenanigans and backstabbing were going to take a break yesterday because I took TMEW and the Grandson to Clarke’s Trading Post (it’s an old name, for those of us of senior age and wisdom here in NH, Clarke’s Bears for the younger and uninitiated ones) for a well-deserved family day. Been trying to do a number of day trips for him now that school finished – a last “summer hurrah!” as it were. Who knew that a “bumper boat that squirts water at others” would be such a hit for the youngster?
But nothing waits for anyone and life is but a tradeoff of choices (something that Progressives STILL don’t understand as they believe their Moral Superiority trumps everyone else – and no, I didn’t watch President Asterisk last night preaching that I’m such a danger to society and “Our Democracy” (what a stupid phrase – and he and the Dems mean it selfishly but I shouldn’t let myself get started on that – yet).
Yep, the whole mess of Gunstock Mountain Resort, the Gunstock Area Commission, and the stench of secret dealings of using public assets for private gain got gassed mightily into the Belknap County Delegation – those monied former Commissioners that rumor had Master Plans to deal themselves into were not going to be denied and their minions flipped the Delegation from those that were trying to find the basis of those rumors to those that are wishing to be those former Commissioners’ “firewall”.
Remember, Commissioners Doug Lambert…
Sidenote: see, Doug, I didn’t even have to say that phrase I said I wouldn’t use anymore! Until I decide to follow your example of promising to resign if the Delegation didn’t do something you wanted – and then you caved. So, I’m two for two (posts) in keeping my word. Too bad you didn’t keep yours, though.
…and Jade Wood (NH GOP Area 5 Vice Chair) were appointed by the Delegation to start actually do the Overwatch GAC Commissioners are supposed to do – and then flipped.
Emboldened by the strategy created by Gary Kiedaisch’s monies (assuming here, along with other monied people who got peeved that those “Conservative riff-raff” were spoiling their plans) by hiring Brian Beihl, an Uber-Progressive Obama/Alinsky style organizer…
Sidenote: and I have to admit, it has worked to a “T” – sowed dissension into the new GAC commissioners, then over to the Delegation by causing the “manmade political emergency” that was Soulfest (reminder: Tom Day, GM of GMR had started months earlier in trying to break the contract – simply splendid idea of using the people you hated to see at the Mountain used as a political crisis to strike fear into those not wanting to lose their re-election bids in a few weeks – BRILLIANT!)
…set in motion the plots within plots within plots at several levels in the attempt to:
- Save Gunstock – for themselves, that it. That it was being saved for Belknap County residents was just a cover
- Stop the investigations, from a Legal and Accounting Audit perspective, that was already leading to uncomfortable results coming to light. Stay tuned – both GraniteGrok and the Laconia Daily Sun have stuff in the works
- Put up a firewall for the GAC, as I mentioned earlier, by taking over the Delegation so that competent and curious Commissioners continue to ask embarrassing questions (the reason why the Sr. Mgt staged a politically driven mass resignation that had NOTHING to do with meeting seating arrangements but EVERYTHING to do with being served papers that morning – but always turn a negative into a positive by blaming it on the folks that WERE presenting an existential threat to what was going on.
So while I have much more to say on this, I think that I can summarize what happened after talking to a number of folks:
- NH State Rep (and hopefully NOT my elected Representative for long) Gregg Hough apparently lied to Chairman Mike Sylvia that the simple agenda for yesterday’s meeting was fine and that only the supplemental appropriations were to be discussed and voted upon.
- NH State Rep Tim Lang (leader of the “Lang Gang” of other dissident Reps), one of the puppet masters coming out of the Shadows got up and shoved more items onto it
- NH State Rep Mike Sylvia resigned AS CHAIRMAN of the Delegation (still a NH State Rep), not willing to take it any more, understanding that the “fix” was in and had been lied, apparently, by Hough
- NH State Rep Dawn Johnson had enough of this nonsense of not following proper procedures and walked out.
- NH State Rep Barabara Comtois immediately resigned as Secretary, and NH State Rep Juliet Harvey-Bolia (a new member of the Lang Gang – another one not understanding existing Law took her place.
- NH State Rep Harry Bean (remember, the one that called the illegal Delegation meeting because he couldn’t (or wouldn’t, more likely) do the homework required to use State Statutes correctly having fallen for the Beihl manufactured “emergency”) was elected as the new Chair after being nominated by Tim Lang who, for some unknown reason, thought he was in charge with quite a few Reps unwilling to take part in this coup by voting “Present”.
Sidenote – and with this disregard for Law and proper process, you really want Tim Lang as a State Senator? Ambition, with Political Power as the drug of choice, is never a good combination. Remember, he was Sununu’s boy in deciding winners and losers in who Government would allow which businesses would reopen – and the severe restrictions that were mandated upon them. Free Enterprise? Not under Lang’s administration in this!
As I said, I’ll have more to say later on but I was informed by several sources that Bean was as competent in running the remainder of the meeting (how complicated can manage two sets of votes can it be????) as he was in calling that illegal meeting. Absolutely clueless and had to keep looking at Puppet Master Lang on how to proceed every single step of the way.
Unfortunately, this is not going to end well for the taxpayers of Belknap County with the coup. Expect that our taxes are going to skyrocket given that this new “leadership” and majority of the Delegation (you know, switching sides to “The Strong Horse” has happened again) are now being WAY too cozy with the Belknap County Commissioners. Those that just left were really fiscally conservative in eliminating the “slush funds” that are always found in any budget – if things continue on the same trajectory as now, we’ll be able to thank them for making us even poorer.
You know, like Biden’s policies are now?
And remember, Sununu supports them all!
