Well done! While I was at the Selectmen’s meeting last night, the Belknap County Republican Committee held its January meeting and all went according to Gary Kiedaisch / Democrat Brian Biehl’s plans, In a standing-room-only crowd at the Gilford Library of about 16 people, as expected, Gregg Hough was elected chair, Doug Lambert (awaiting two hearings, one civil and one criminal, on his alleged assault of a female) was elected Vice-chair, some guy, not Tim Lang but “Lange” was elected Treasurer, and Priscilla Bean was re-elected as Secretary).
Once Elliot Gault, of the NH GOP, concluded the election (only one slate of names was offered before the meeting from what I was told), the very few people in the room got up and left. “Nothing left to see here”.
Congratulations – the CfB turned a consistently thriving and packed room of attendees month after month to being a pile of rubble last night. As is typical of this kind of of thing, it was deliberately hollowed out from the inside out. Hough now presides over a Potemkin Committee. And from what I’ve been told, he’ll end up doing a BANG up job like he did with the Laconia Committee.
I was asked to attend by a couple of people – I refused. Let them have their titles and backslapping each other. The people that used to pack the place have already made it clear that they aren’t returning.
A Pyrrhic victory. Well done. You destroyed the village in order to save it. Except the point was to never save it in the first place.
Just like the Democrats wanted.
