On the morning of May 16, I was at the New Hampshire State House handing out flyers to state reps urging them to vote for SB272, the parental rights bill, on behalf of Cornerstone. There were people crowding the hallway that morning, and the majority were there to lobby against the parental rights bills.
A woman standing near me was holding a sign that said, “Protect trans kids from ignorant adults.” I politely asked her if she believes that parents are ignorant.
The man with her responded to my question by aggressively walking up to me and holding his large “I love my trans friend” sign inches from my face, trying to intimidate and harass me and block me from handing out flyers to the legislators walking by. One of the organizers of the anti-parental rights group asked him to step back. The organizer said, “She really likes to say ‘They touched me! They touched me!” insinuating that I lie about progressive activists assaulting me despite the evidence right in front of her that these people do not respect boundaries.
After a few minutes of holding his sign in front of my face and taunting me, he asked for one of the Cornerstone flyers. I handed it to him, and he proceeded to rip the flyer in a comically dramatic fashion.
I discovered my tormentor is Dominic Osmund, a registered lobbyist for 350NH, an organization that lobbies for “Climate Justice.” Osmund was not wearing the legally required orange lobbyist name badge even though he was lobbying legislators, and he was trying to block me from lobbying those same legislators.
Related: Book-Burning ACLU-NH Trans Justice Organizer Axed
This is not my first run-in with a badly-behaving registered lobbyist. The last one was ACLU-NH’s former Trans Justice Organizer Palana Belkin, whom I also blogged about here. Will Dominic Osmund meet the same fate as Palana?
Watch Dominic Osmund’s harassing me here:
