Tomorrow is November 19. It was a big day in NH 3 years ago and for 2 reasons. One of them was because it was the day Chuck Morse voted the wrong way on that covid money as a member of the committee serving as the very last firewall opportunity to block it. That was after Daniel Richard, Kelley Potenza and the late Wes Chapmon filed a request for an injunction against accepting it.
The other reason for noting 11/19/21 as an important day was that just a few hours before Chuck’s unfortunate vote was the arraignment for the 10/13/21 Executive Council arrest victims, marking the beginning of their 20 month journey of tormenting lawfare until charges were dropped once the Damn Emperor learned of his summons to be a witness in a jury trial.
Media outlets, social media and the internet were abuzz with Monday morning water cooler chatter about the incident in the days that followed the arrests as information and misinformation spreaded. The question “why is NH Governor Sununu NOT UNDER INVESTIGATION” was the title of a Ken Eyring piece from 3 years ago. It’s a report with a narrated, play by play, 16 minute companion video. I’m not going to rewrite the article, but I want to share some supplemental thoughts for the 3rd anniversary of the arraignment.
We’ve had two elections since 10/13/21 and 3 out of 5 executive councilors are still in office. We have a 5th term of “Sununu by proxy” about to be installed in January. And since it’s the legislature that makes and processes bills, I saved that body for last. Hundreds of legislators are still in office, many about to be sworn in for another term next month, including a small bipartisan migration promoted to “the other side of the wall.” Including the present LSR season, there have been 4 windows of opportunity to file a “study bill,” so to speak.
We’ve had a multitude of “committee to investigate (insert special interest here)” bills over the years. Some examples would be housing, childcare, PFAS, and a variety of other interests over the spectrum from petty all the way to very important. Some of them were failed bills, some of them materialized, and some are works in progress. So I will end by re-asking Ken Eyring’s question. Why hasn’t the Damn Emperor been investigated?
If you think the question is about to become “moot,” just because His Excellency stopped running for reelection, think again. Our next governor is an attorney and therefore ought to be familiar with the criticism of courts ruling things as moot. I don’t know who to credit, but I first heard the words from Dana Albrecht. “It’s capable of repetition and evades review.”
