I was a registered Democrat until 2019. I became independent after Congresswoman Ann Kuster made a call to ABC/Good Morning America to block female news reporter Amy Robach’s interview with Owen Labrie from airing.
I knew what that interview contained, and so, I believe, did Amanda Grady Sexton, who was a Dem Caucus rep and on Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election committee.
The program didn’t air, and two weeks later, the same attorneys who had sued St Paul’s School in the wake of the highly sensationalized criminal trial of Owen Labrie and who had been introduced by Concord Police, to the State’s witness, Chessy Prout, settled a class action #MeToo lawsuit against Dartmouth College for $14 million. Times Up Legal Defense Fund and the National Women’s Law Center put up the PR money for the Dartmouth suit. The NHCADSV were beneficiaries of the settlement.
A few months later, professor David Bucci, who had been named 31 times in the Rapuano & Does v Dartmouth suit, committed suicide. He had been accused of knowing of sexual misconduct in his department and not reporting it. He claimed he didn’t know, but Dartmouth wouldn’t allow him to speak for himself. He was a victim of the #MeToo legal strategy. His 10-year-old daughter spoke at his funeral.
Congresswoman Ann Kuster had spoken up in support of the anonymity of the Jane Does, the plaintiffs. Some of those Jane Does were solicited. They got $75K a piece. The attorneys got $4.9 million. The NHCADSV received an estimated $2.865 million. Nothing changed for the better at Dartmouth. The following year Maha Hasan Alshawi went on hunger strike for three weeks while students signed a petition begging for due process and for Dartmouth to look into her alleged sexual assault.
Congresswoman Ann Kuster and the NHCADSV were silent. Another female student committed suicide after sexual assault. I met another female student who told me that an intruder had climbed into her and her roommate’s dorm threatening to rape them. The Title IX office at Dartmouth did nothing. So much for the promise of funds from that settlement going towards better training and resources for Title IX and sexual assault. It was a lie.
Congresswoman Ann Kuster doesn’t care about sexual assault. If she did, she wouldn’t have stood up against women who testified that they had been gang raped under the influence of Rohypnol. She was a lobbyist for the drug maker and was lobbying for the drug not to become a class-A drug.
In June 2016, Congresswoman Ann Kuster stated, “We are all Emily Doe,” after reading the victim impact statement from the People v Brock Turner trial. That statement was apparently created by Michele Dauber, a Dem Caucus rep in Silicon Valley, not Chanel Miller, the real Emily Doe. Campus Rape and MeToo narratives were political, harming both accusers and accused. They used women, gave them narratives to help Dem female reps get elected. Chessy Prout was recruited, and so was Amber Heard. Facts never mattered. Lives were endangered in favor of a sensationalist narrative to help the likes of Maggie Hassan and Ann Kuster get elected.
How lucky was Senator Maggie Hassan that she appointed Attorney General Joseph Foster, who declined to prosecute sexual misconduct cover-ups at her husband’s school, Phillips Exeter Academy? Or that the DCYF admitted that it might have deleted records of sexual assault at the school and to have a media block out – Courtesy of help from her friend Amanda Grady Sexton on Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s re-election committee or her husband Adam Sexton at WMUR? Or from Debra Altschiller at HAVEN and her husband, Howard Altschiller, at the New Hampshire Press Association?
New Hampshire has received millions in federal grants to research/tackle domestic & sexual violence since 2014. How much went towards election campaigns under the guise of social justice? NHCADSV’s site is hosted by No More, a project of Neo Philanthropy – “The organization and similar left-of-center groups that engage in “nonpartisan” voter registration have received criticism for appearing to favor the registration of voters exceptionally likely to vote for Democratic candidates. “ (Influence Watch).
Congresswoman Ann Kuster and Senator Maggie Hassan had help from Emily’s List to get elected. Emily’s List backs Democratic female candidates who are pro-choice. For all the backing that Kuster and Hassan have had, what did they actually do once they got elected to make the ratification of Roe v Wade as a top priority? Precisely nothing.
What is the point of any federal grants to the State of New Hampshire unless there is accountability for corruption within the State’s agencies – the very ones who receive grants and are supposed to look after the interests of children and women?
I’m pro-choice but I’m also pro-democracy. A functioning democracy can only exist when public officials hold themselves and each other accountable for violating laws such as the right to free speech which Kuster has demonstrated she doesn’t believe in via her actions to block ABC, which arguably contributed to the suicide of Professor David Bucci; such as the independence of the New Hampshire judiciary which AG Joseph Foster demonstrated doesn’t exist when it comes to cover-ups of police crimes or sexual misconduct that could implicate Maggie Hassan.
New Hampshire must do better. Voting for a woman just because she’s a woman isn’t a reason. Voting for a Democrat just because she’s a Democrat isn’t a reason. Vote for people who stand up to be counted, who take agency for wrongdoing, and who will respect the constitutional rights of constituents, unlike these two who have used women to get elected but have not really done anything for them.
Claire Best Hawley
Moltonborough
Claire Best is a film and television agent with a background in documentary filmmaking. She has long advocated for women’s, minorities, and disability rights. The sensationalism of the New Hampshire v Owen Labrie trial led her to uncover the politics and abuse of public funds behind it.
