This Letter to the Editor appeared a while ago and yes, I am late on reporting on it – a snippet from it with emphasis by me:
…a once seemingly rational and even-handed politician has become visibly shaken and filled with apparent rage. It begs the question of those of us witnessing this sudden sea-change: Is there something in it for him? Nobody gets so worked up like this unless they’re hiding something or been promised some sort of reward. Same could be said of his allies. Could it have something to do with constructing a massive hotel and restaurants on public lands that have been rightly preserved since the ’30s? Who knows? Sadly, now that there are people serving on the Commission that want only what’s best for Gunstock and its owners — the residents and taxpayers of Belknap County — there are forces seeking to prevent it. Beware the corporate fat cats.
And now, the more recent allies of those fat cats. It’s been amazing to see that those that were put onto the Gunstock Area Commission to ferret out what was decried in the above went so quickly rogue – almost at the snap of somebody’s fingertips. And that question remains – why this sudden sea-change? What IS it that’s in it for him? And with recent activities, what is that something that is still being hidden from we citizens of Belknap? WHY is he now part of the forces seeking to prevent it?
This LtE was written about now-former NH State Senator Bob Guida – and many people outside of the Gunstock bruhaha had been noticing a change in him over the last year and a half to two years (and not for the good). The Letter writer was correct – WHY such a change so quickly? I can ask the same question about Bob as I’ve known him for a number of years. Still can but I still don’t know the answer. I now hope only that he enjoys his retirement.
But now, we who know who the LtE writer is, are asking the exact same questions. Written back in May, it is eerily prescient as to another: Doug Lambert (and he’s telling us his company’s name outright so I don’t have to mention it).
But the exact same words that Lambert wrote about Guida before Lambert did his “in the twinkling of an eye” metamorphosis to join those “corporate fat cats”, apply to him now. I wonder, upon reading it now (and he will, or someone else will let him know about it), will he ask himself “was it worth it?” to have sold his soul (which after his first falling off the political high wire, he told me he had to go find who he really was).
And does he need to reflect, once again, if he’s lost his soul a second time?
You know, I read those words he wrote and I can only wonder what has happened that has transformed him into being just yet another self-serving politician where Power outweighs decency.
Why should I be surprised? I shouldn’t – he was always quoting Niccolo Machiavelli (the person from whom “Machiavellian” is derived (to wit: “The term Machiavellian often connotes political deceit, deviousness, and realpolitik.”) who wrote The Prince.
The LtE can be found here in its entirety. I am just amazed at how well he described his current state of being – back in May.
