NH State Senator Bob Guida's Agenda (For Gunstock Area Commissioners) - Granite Grok

NH State Senator Bob Guida’s Agenda (For Gunstock Area Commissioners)

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The Daily Sun continues its support of the Citizens for Gunstock by featuring an opinion piece by senator Giuda.  While calling out others for dishonesty, he uses incorrect references for support.

He claims the delegation violated the enabling statute and claims appointees need ‘experience in ski area business or strategic planning.’  The actual law as amended 2020 Chapter 18:1 reads;

399:4  Appointive Agency.  The county convention for the county of Belknap, hereinafter sometimes referred to as the “appointive agency”, shall, acting as a body, appoint the members of the commission.  Members of the commission shall be residents of Belknap county.  At least one member shall be an experienced skier and at least one member shall be experienced in the field of finance, banking, or accounting.  The term of office of each member shall be five years, except that initially, one member shall be appointed for a term of five years, one member for a term of four years, one member for a term of three years, one member for a term of two years, and one member for a term of one year.  Thereafter, appointments shall be made for five years.  No commission member shall serve more than 2 consecutive terms. Each member shall continue in office until his or her successor has been appointed and qualified, and each member shall be subject to removal for cause by the appointive agency after public hearing.

The key provision being “At least one member shall be an experienced skier and at least one member shall be experienced in the field of finance, banking, or accounting.”  The current members are all experienced skiers Each of the current commissioners have varying levels of the additional skills requiredThe county delegation has delivered commissioners well suited for the position and beyond that which is required by statute.


We want to thank NH State Rep Mike Sylvia (Chair of the Belknap County Delegation) for this Op-Ed. If you have an Op-Ed or LTE
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The senator goes further to suggest that the Attorney General and Secretary of State took a position on the question of Rusty McLear’s hold-over term.  As chairman of the appointive agency, I am not aware of any official statement having been made by either office. 

He also asserts that the delegation’s attorney ‘found no evidence of criminality’ which is correct.  It is rather misleading as the delegation’s attorney was defending the body from the suit brought by the Gunstock Area Commission (GAC), there was no investigation of criminality conducted.  I have no evidence that the senator has a hidden agenda.  We do know that the senator does have a connection to the suit brought by GAC.  Prior to sending a letter to the Belknap county delegation in January, putting his thumb on the scale, the law firm for GAC charge $240 for reviewing said letter.  Some might say that suggests there is more than meets the eye in this matter.

The Daily Sun’s policies for letters appear not to apply to opinion pieces.  The senator resorts, in his failed arguments, to ad hominem attacks on commissioners appointed in the recent past.  He repeats the defamatory allegations manufactured by GAC attorneys intended to remove commissioner Ness.  Perhaps the senator is not familiar with the billing records and evaluation of said records recently published on GraniteGrok.  The Laconia Daily Sun claims to seek the truth and print it, they seem to have trouble finding that which is in plain sight.

In a final moment of absurdity the senator claims that in order to take politics out of the GAC you must have them elected.  Just in case you miss the point; elections are political.

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