Tomorrow voters in Windham, New Hampshire will go to the polls, and one of the more important decisions they have to make is whether to allow their School Board to go forward or backward.

Recent elections have moved the Windham school board away from its unaccountable past. Daniel Popovici-Muller, Tom Murray, and Ken Eyring have created a more open and transparent body that is more interested in what parents and taxpayers have to say. They are interested in accountability as well as proper accounting, spending controls, and responsible leadership. But that is unpopular with past board members, individuals who would rather defer to lobbyists than parents.

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…and not for the candidates that Al Letizio Jr. and Dennis Senibaldi want on as part of the “Good Ole’ Boys” clique.  One of the things that became obvious was the lack of financial controls in the Windham School Board system.  Imagine that – $43M budget and a whoop-de-do-anything-goes with transfers and, I guess, writing checks (hmmm, isn’t that a “deal”?).  Hey, with no one peering over the shoulders, “just trust us” seemed to be the watchwords of Al Letizio Jr and Dennis Senibaldi’s (and crew) School Board histories.

So, Ken, seeing the problem with an engineer and entrepreneur’s eye for detail,  had an Internal Controls audit done.  Well, 130 problems, later here was the result (reformatted to make it a bit more “bloggish”).  So, don’t you want someone that fixed a major problem?

Windham School District
Internal Control Review
December 20, 2016

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As Windham voters go to the polls I thought we should remind them what the school district and school board were like before Ken Eyring and Tom Murray got elected. The decreasing transparency, $600,000.00 no-bid contracts, and limiting public comment or input on issues affecting parents and taxpayers, plus a whole lot more. Ken has worked hard to repair all that damage, along with Tom and Daniel Popovici-Muller, to restore integrity and responsibility to the board. Ken is up for reelection today.

Windham School Board Tyranny Part I
Listen to “School Board Tyranny Part I” on Spreaker.

Part II on the jump

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A multi-colored hairdo on a frumpy looking voter registration activist is the latest “catch” involving voter fraud. Breitbart has the brief rundown on the story of Rebecca Hammonds, 34, who pled guilty to 14 counts of voter registration fraud after originally facing a total of 35 counts.

As is the case with most voter fraud stories in the news, you must dig to get the full story and discover who the standard players are if you want to make any sense of it. Wanna Guess who they might be?

Let’s get started.

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Watch spoiled, cosseted American liberals praise the joys of socialisms in the safe environs of the United States cities.  Continue to watch the people of Venezuela’s view of socialism and what it has wrought on their country from the hellish, brutish barrios.  Oh, and keep in mind that Venezuela adopted the so-called “Democratic Socialism”– the Bernie Sanders flavor of that wretched ideology (as if there’s really any difference).

Compare one exchange with Spoiled American liberal woman:

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Alexandria Resident Found Guilty of Voter Registration Fraud

Vafalay Massaquoi pleaded guilty to two counts of forging a public record and one count of election fraud. By Mary Ann Barton (Patch Staff) – January 12, 2017 11:43 am ET

Here we have another voter registration scam where the activity stems from a well-funded, left-wing community organizing non-profit. In this case, it is called: The Center for Popular Democracy. That is community organizer speak for socialism.

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“The leaner, meaner and more resilient U.S. shale is basically wiping out OPEC’s efforts to achieve higher oil prices with the output deal.“

“wellhead breakeven prices in the Permian Midland have dropped from $71/barrel in 2014 to $36/barrel in 2016–a 49-percent decrease“

OK, I kid about the second group (“leave it in the ground enviro-weenies”) – they brook no dissent; it is either THEIR favorite form of energy to be used or nothing.  Coal, gas, oil – well, if forcing the rest of us to live as if we were back in the 1700 is “collateral damage” in saving GAIA, well, so be it.  Just remember that just like the EPA not letting Alaskans use wood for heat during deep money, you won’t be allowed a wood fire with which to cook.

Obama, on the other hand, saw that his desire for America, to be just “yet another country”; his philosophy of “Leading from behind” shows exactly that.  He KNEW that if American frackers were allowed to succeed, well, the resulting energy from fracking would have world-wide ramifications. He didn’t want that, so he closed down Federal lands and tried, with the enviro-weenies, to kill fracking on private lands.

Hahahahaha – didn’t work! American technology and ‘git’er done”.  Glad to see it (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Has OPEC Underestimated U.S. Shale Once Again?

…With lessons learned from the oil price crash and budgets streamlined and focused on the most prolific shale plays, U.S. drillers are giving OPEC a hard time by raising output and hedging future production. Meanwhile, the cartel members are trying to cut supply and fix the price of oil at such a range that would allow them to reap higher oil revenues, but not allow the shale patch to recover too much too fast.

Two and a half months into the supply-cut deal, it looks like OPEC is losing the campaign to prop up oil prices. The drop in prices that began last week saw them retreating to almost exactly the same level as on November 30 – just below $52/barrel for Brent – when the OPEC deal was announced, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly report on Wednesday.

At the same time, reduced breakeven prices in many shale plays and forward locking-in of production is allowing the companies currently drilling in the U.S. to turn in profits even at a price of oil at $40 a barrel.

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SHOT:

Under a political advocacy campaign launched Wednesday, a coalition of physician groups will tell the public that their health is threatened by catastrophic man-made global warming, also called climate change.

CHASER:

Gaia help any doctor that asks me questions or lectures me, because they will be getting an earful asking them what they’ve done in their own lives, what they drive, what kind of house they have where they go on vacation, if they have a second vacation home, if they use air conditioning, what temp they keep it at, if they have an ice maker, if he/she plays golf, and so forth. Right before walking out and telling him/her to stick their bill in their you know where.

Same deal with the “public health epidemic of guns” – none of your business because most of you, like most

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This will be fun to see her run rate and if it collapses to just a few sources (e.g., the Clinton Initiative buying loads).So, she went from being a failed journalist at $600K/yr (I saw her a couple of times on TV – talk about being stiff and uncharismatic) to now to being an Expedia Board of Directors at $250/year and $250K of stock options?  All on the basis of a childrens’ book where she can already be charged with plagiazing right from the get-go (re: Mitch McConnell on Elizabeth Warren).

BTW, what is Expedia thinking:

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It certainly seems that way – it is clear that Al Letizio Jr. and Dennis Senibaldi don’t want ‘Grok friend Ken Eyring (the current Chair) re-elected to the Windham School Board.  Those two, and their Good Ole’ Boys (regardless of gender) seemed to treat that Board as their own fiefdom.  Once elected to the Board in 2014 because of just bad practices, Ken started to put internal controls onto their processes.  They hate it and now like what we are seeing in DC, the “Deep State” is fighting back by trying to get him thrown off.

I know this situation well – having been on our SB2 Budget Committee in the past, we saw a lot of our hard work just ignored.  In an SB2 budget, we had to review and budget on a line by line basis to finally come up with a bottom line overall number.  However, once that is done, and dutifully voted on by the voters, the School Board could transfer any amount of money from one line to another – and they did so even though they knew that was NOT how the voters told them to spend it and on what.  I call this “the middle finger syndrome” – my School Board transferred over $100K to give raises to employees last year AFTER the BudCom said no and the voters approved seconded that “No”

It seems that the previous Windham School Board was in the same mode: screw you, we’ll spend it the way we want.  Until Ken got on the Board.  For instance, let’s just take

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For a few years, I was a regular, rabid contributor to this blog.  Over the past year or so, for a number of lame reasons, I haven’t been able to make the time to write more than once every few months.  My issue is that I try to make every posting a masterpiece of sociopolitical brilliance, which takes time; kudos to the other contributors, who can arrange their thoughts much more quickly.

So, in order to stay active and appease the blog Gods, I’m going to change my style and just write more stream of consciousness…

I get my inspiration from a few other bloggers, namely the authors of You Me and The After and The Woodpile Report.  I recommend a visit to these sites on a frequent basis.

Let’s see how it goes.  Slow and steady…and fewer commas.

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When I heard that the University of Delaware was the home of the new Biden Institute my first thoughts were plagiarism and hair plugs. Spelling and communications (Malarky!)? Creepy groping? Nope! The Biden Institute will explore, according to Biden, “a whole range of things that have no ideology attached to them.”

How does a guy pretend to be Obama’s Vice President for eight years and still think that Democrats believe anything is non-ideological?

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The big news that’s not news at all is that MSNBC and Rachel Madcow reported that in 2005 Donald Trump paid $38 million in taxes on $150 (152.7) Million in income. That’s 24% of his income lost to Uncle Sam.

Big whoop.

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