I recently visited the Home Depot nursery to pick up a catnip plant because I want to be “the source” to neighborhood cats that regularly visit. Please talk to your cats about catnip before someone else does, but let’s now talk about POT as it relates to senate dynamics.
A little birdie told me that Commander Sharon is very displeased at Daryl Abbas for voting OTP on a pot bill (HB1633) in the judiciary committee, perhaps as much as I am at her for moving HB 1002 OTP.
He is a cat person, as is Sharon. Still, he’s been disobedient (like a kid or family pet) because he joined the enemy camp committee members on a pot bill, thus swinging the committee recommendation their way. Since Sharon is a veteran, one might consider calling such disobedience by its military name insubordination.
An attorney practicing just south of the border, he’s certainly not stupid, and it might be worth exploring who his donors are and which ones might benefit from the pot bill. He also holds no leadership positions(committee chair or vice chair), which I surmise is by choice as being a lawyer is his day job as breadwinner to a young family, which must occupy most of his time. Fair enough. If you’re not in a chain of command, there’s no demoting to be done.
As Senator Gray personally informed me that Donna Soucy chooses the committee assignments of the enemy camp troops, Sharon chooses them for “our side.” Next year, in HER senate, will she expel Abbas from Judiciary for his insubordination?
Hold that thought while we visit “the other side of the wall” for a moment.
Speaker Sherman recently removed Rep Leah Cushman for administering oaths, something she was well within the confines of what’s ok to do. Also, think back to 2022 when Rep Weyler was accused of saying that a certain heavily promoted item was “full of little creatures and 5G transmitters” instead of “safe and effective.” He was removed from his chairmanship of the Joint Fiscal Committee at the behest of the Damn Emperor and replaced with establishment RINO Karen Umberger, who was not reelected in 2022.
As a fellow Londonderry-bred member of Concord’s elite, one might expect Sharon to be like the Speaker as she is his presumptive senate counterpart next year. Senate Judiciary currently has three members from red districts, which means that they don’t have to toil to fight for every vote in order to stay in office. That also means that they can commit abominations against all of NH, in committee or in the chamber, such as supporting the RTK Tax, with impunity, but pot is seemingly a sacred cow in senate leadership. Yeah, Senator Murphy has voted for it before, but he’s not on Sharon’s committee. If Abbas is expelled from that committee, which “Sharon loyalist” will be his replacement?
No matter what happens to pot or to Daryl Abbas’s senatorial future, his cats are certainly welcome to cross the Merrimack River for some catnip here in another state-line district. Meow.