It’s been a good month for NH AG Formella. The week before Christmas, they reported a 700 million-dollar settlement with Google. Couch cushion money for Alphabet, but a decent haul for Jackpot Justice New Hampshire. Do we need a huge payoff to get the AG to chase everything?
Nope. He is still trying to get the Courts to let him police speech as a civil rights action as if by persisting, he can make the First Amendment go away. The AG’s office also chased down Deb Paul over a handful of political ads. Deb had to spend a bunch to defend herself and was ultimately fined $620.00, which is probably enough to cover a few minutes of the AG’s office time on this other case.
See! Money isn’t everything. I’m sure it was a matter of principle. But if that were true, why hasn’t the AG updated The People on the CD2 political mailer case?
The Democratic mail shop in Massachusetts that barraged Second Congressional District mailboxes with illegal ads, Reynolds Dewalt, has not been shut down. Nor has it been charged with a crime, despite its admission that it sent Democratic-funded mailers with no disclosures of any kind to voters during the 2022 GOP primary.
The anonymous mailers pushed GOP voters in the 2nd District away from moderate Keene Mayor George Hansel and toward MAGA Republican Bob Burns.
One piece featured a photo of Burns with a headline reading “I Stand With Trump” on one side and declaring him “100 Percent Pro-Trump” on the other. The mailer claimed Hansel was not. Another mailer asked, “Who Stands With Trump?” and made it clear the answer is Burns, not Hansel.
Even if you can only get – let’s say, $124.00 per violation, there were thousands of them. Political mail was sent to Republican primary voters by Democrat operatives, hoping to advance whom they thought would be a less desirable general election candidate against Ann Kuster. And it worked.
Whatever happened to equality of outcome? Shouldn’t the Governor’s Commission on Equity and Inclusion be putting pressure on the so-called Department of Justice to get this done?
The last NHDOJ presser I found (and I could have missed one) was Sept 2022. The NHGOP filed a complaint with the FEC a year ago, and what happened with that?
Yet more than a year later, no charges have been filed, and no actions have been announced by New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella or any other law enforcement agency. And while the state Republican Party filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in September 2022, the agency declined to answer any questions about whether or not an investigation is even underway.
For all the talk of election integrity, what about election law accountability? Our taxpayer-funded organs have no interest in the serious pursuit of justice – unless it is some small-town thing unlikely to upset the rotten applecart. Deb Paul’s town newspaper or the odd double voter case – usually an out-of-state student or a senior who forgot they voted by mail – are the best the state’s top cop can do?
It’s almost as if they are feeding a narrative that while there is fraud, it is small potatoes and nothing like what some folks (like us, for example) have been saying for years.
Can we rename Formella’s office to the Department of Selective Justice because it’s not just him? Every AG going back to at least Kelly Ayotte in this century has failed to adequately or consistently enforce election law.
The New Hampshire Department of Selective Justice. The legislature should propose a bipartisan bill to rename it.
We ought to be able to get a bunch of BLM Democrats on board with that.
