With the Senate Judiciary hearing for the dastardly RTK Tax (HB 1002)scheduled for Tuesday and the remainder of Laurie Ortolano’s RTK suit against the City of Nashua set to resume on Wednesday, Attorney Bolton has been a squatter in my mind. I point readers unfamiliar with him to this video.
Keeping in mind that most of the readership is in the echo chamber, I will offer some talking points designed for sharing with the simpletons that sadly dominate the Nashua votership. In a post-modern world of failing “Gov-Ed,” NTU, and Common Core, I will use loose numbers, and one can call it a mental “accommodation.” Let’s get started.
Attorney Bolton is paid(meaning the PAYROLL part of his total compensation from the Nashua taxpayers) $110,000 a year. There are 364.25 days in a calendar year. Again, for people less skilled in math, if there were 1,000 days in a year, Attorney Bolton’s wages would amount to $1100/day, BUT stay with me here.
Again, with emphasis on making numbers easy, most people work five days a week. Considering the average worker’s vacation time, sick time, holidays(which government employees get lots of), etc., let’s say that there are only 200 “work days.” That’s 1/5 of 1,000.
If you’re feeling more conservative with numbers, another perspective to offer is that there are 52 weeks in a year, and that makes 260 “work days” before removing all kinds of paid time off, commonly known as PTO. Even lousy full-time jobs in most industries have more than 10 of them, but 250 is an easy number to work with also. That would be 1/4 of 1,000.
As Mr Rabideau, my photography teacher, would say, “Think halves and doubles” with regard to F-Stop and shutter speed. Think of 1/5 and x5 the same way as reciprocals. If Attorney Bolton is paid(wages) $110,000/year and only works 200 days, again keeping math easy, he is actually paid $220/day plus other forms of compensation. Stay with me.
Attorney Bolton, whose title is “Corporation Counsel,” is too lazy(or insufficiently competent) to do his job, which includes the duty of representing the City in court. As Laurie Ortolano noted in one of her recent articles, he retained(at the taxpayers’ expense) the big guns, including Attorney Hilliard and former Attorney General Foster. With regard to just one particular case(Ortolano v. City of Nashua) on the arts center RTK, there have already been three days of court time in December. Due to the willful running out of time, thanks to Hilliard et al., three more days are needed, making a total of six days in court, and that’s if nothing else “comes up.”
At $400/day(estimated total value of his compensation) and for six days on just ONE particular case, the City (um, the taxpayers) is paying Attorney Bolton roughly $2400 to just sit there at the “Dream Team Table” and just watch the activity like me, a spectator. I use the words “Dream Team Table” because Laurie Ortolano, pro se, though an engineer and not a lawyer, is the Marcia Clark. Employed at the City’s (um, the taxpayers’) expense for hundreds of thousands of dollars is Hilliard et al., who are the Shapiro, F Lee Bailey, Johnnie Cochran, Neufeld, and Scheck. City Hall is the OJ Simpson, and the taxpayers(who are paying attention) are the national television viewers.
When the Laurie Ortolano haters accuse her of costing the city money, they’re dishing it out. Make them “take it,” using the talking points I just said.
I am not a lawyer, just a local property tax tyranny victim and daughter of an accountant trying to present a “reality check” to fellow ordinary people. The sales experts regularly preach “know your customer” in the same way that the Art of War says “know your enemy.” Whether you’re considering the members of Senate Judiciary, the whole senate, or fellow Nashua voters, subsets of each mentioned group might be either your CUSTOMER(such as senators presently undecided on HB 1002), your ENEMY(such as sympathizers of the mayor and his ilk, including Attorney Bolton) or a combination of both.
You, the reader, are at their podium, and they are your audience. “What’s the point of what I’m saying?” one might ask. The answer is that small things often appeal to small minds. Likewise, a message delivered in a simplified package will likely appeal to a simple-minded recipient. Now, get out there and share the message. And don’t forget to register your OPPOSITION to HB 1002 in the NH dot gov portal by Tuesday.
