HB 1633 had its big day in the senate chamber and it was indeed a long one though Denise did not get to participate. More on that in a moment, but let it be known that what I have to say is neither pro-pot nor anti-pot, it’s about the senate’s ruling class’s priorities.
Bills of the ordinary garden variety, no pun intended, usually wind up with a 14-10 roll call, assuming they don’t get buried in the consent calendar.
Pot is no ordinary bill and party lines get crossed each time. Sometimes there are personnel changes in the body with each election cycle though D’Allesandro is a Carbon-14 dated fixture that’s a guaranteed constant until he dies. He turns 86 this summer, in case you were wondering. While he has flip-flopped on women’s sports, he hasn’t on pot. That’s good news if you’re anti-pot, despite his political career being bad news for ALL of NH. He’s also on the Finance committee, but more on that later.
Denise is on her 2nd term and has kept a steady anti-pot record. She passed out in the senate chamber earlier in the day and left to get the care she needed.
Though I sent my best wishes for her well-being, she was absent for the rest of the day, and that created a thought to ponder. Seeing that Jeb and Sharon are so bent on stopping pot and that they are the senate power duo with all kinds of tools at their disposal, why did they carry on with HB 1633 while down a team member? I won’t get into all the things they could have done, but there were a multitude of amendments introduced and processed in the several hours that the bill was being discussed. Not every amendment had the same roll call results, but some of them could have been meaningfully different(to those who are passionate about HB 1633) had Denise been there to vote. Just saying.
Now onto my thoughts about Jeb’s Senate, which I’ve had ZERO respect for since it passed a NEW TAX (HB 1002) 2 weeks ago.
First, I will remind the readers that Daryl Abbas, a well-spoken young lawyer, has placed himself at odds with “the senate brass” by defying Queen Sharon in committee and also Jeb on the floor. It’s a shame that such a sharp minded rising star chose to do battle for pot, but not RTK.
Again, I’ll remind the readers that I’m not pro-pot or anti-pot. I just don’t care about it like I do about right-to-know. RTK is a hill to do battle on, whether or not you’re a stoner and whether or not it’s an election year. I have an anti-pot senator, which is fine with me, but what I am NOT fine with is his unwillingness to man up as pro-RTK and do battle with Queen Sharon the same way Abbas does with pot. Queen Sharon is a political dominatrix.
I will close with pointing out that the Queen of Spades needs to get beheaded in a primary in order to detoxify the senate. If you know of someone in Hudson, Londonderry or Auburn who can slay the dragon, s/he should be told that duty calls in the name of Live Free or Die.
Oh, “and one more thing,” as Columbo would say. HB 1633 did pass, much to the chagrin of Sharon and Jeb, but I predict life threatening injuries at its next stop; Finance. Remember what I said earlier about D’Allesandro. He will join anti-pot committee members Jeb, Regina and Senator Gray, the chair. That’s 4 votes right there, thus making Dan Innis and Howard Pearl irrelevant, whether or not they join Rosenwald in supporting it.
