Mikey Graham has a post up on NH-NeverTrump Journal about Dirty Mike Delaney … more specifically, about Dirty Mike’s nomination to serve on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. “Dirty” you ask. Well .. it was under Attorney General Dirty Mike Delaney that the NHDOJ refused to defend a law intended to reduce voter fraud by college students … Guare v. State. Dirty Mike is the head honcho of the Litigation Department at the McLane firm … which sued the State in 2020 to make New Hampshire elections even dirtier. And as Mikey Graham explains in his post:
Chessy’s parents Alex and Susan Prout filed a civil lawsuit after Labrie’s conviction on statutory rape and other charges, arguing the [St. Paul’s] school failed to “meet its most basic obligation to protect the children entrusted to its care.” They also claimed school administrators knew about the “Senior Salute” tradition. Delaney represented the school in the civil suit which St. Paul’s settled for an undisclosed amount in 2018.
The family claimed Delaney used a request that the court out the victim by name as a threat to intimidate her from participating in the lawsuit. During his hearing, Delaney denied ever asking the court to take that step. However, when confronted by Sen. Ted Cruz acknowledged he did ask the court to strip Chessy of her anonymity, but only if the case went all the way to trial.
So, yeah, I think DIRTY is a fair adjective to describe Mike Delaney.
What’s interesting about Mikey Graham’s post is the ONLY local politico he quotes is Chuck McGee … yeah that would be the Chuck McGee of phonegate fame … which strongly suggests that Mikey could NOT find anyone in the NHGOP willing to go on the record against Dirty Mike. Why is the NHGOP giving Delaney the kid glove treatment?
If the roles were reversed and Delaney was a Republican, nominated by a Republican President, you know every Democrat from U.S. Senator to Town Selectmen would be PUBLICLY demanding the Senate reject the nomination. The Democrat Party apparatus would be organizing petitions, calls to the State’s U.S. Senators and setting social media on fire. Why, in contrast, is the NHGOP giving Delaney the kid glove treatment?
Is it incompetence, apathy or, worse, is it Uni-party complicity? I don’t have the answer. I would love to know.
