Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill’s (KLH) days could be numbered, which is my hope, and I know that I’m not alone in it, but I would encourage everyone to refrain from talking about it with anyone in the Senate for the moment because enough votes in the House to impeach her could be a possibility.
After the 2020 election, Rep Andrew Prout sponsored an impeachment against the Damn Emperor and had six cosponsors. The “Impeachment 7” took a lot of heat from the establishment elite, even though His Excellency deserved to have his career ended in disgrace, and that was almost a year before the executive council arrests! Those reps faced the same bipartisan shaming as Jan Schmidt did in 2019 when she filed a petty bill in response to Beth Scaer’s Grok piece on her city hall handicap parking incident.
A few years later, Rep Mike Belcher sponsored an impeachment against Judge Ruoff, a Maggie Hassan appointee who ruled the wrong way on a Claremont-style school funding case. At least that bill received a little more serious and positive attention than those of Prout and Schmidt, but alas, it failed to reach “the other side of the wall.”
Let’s talk about the upper chamber for a moment because I had a somewhat strained conversation with my then-senator just a day or so after 10/13/21. Because I knew where arrest victim Emilee Spiller lived, I reached out to Kevin with a “she’s YOUR constituent also and I want you to do something about it”(impeaching the Damn Emperor for weaponizing the state police against his peaceful critics). He said he needed to stay in his lane and reminded me of the federal government, citing Queen Nancy, Trump, the US Senate, and the order of such things.
He went on to tell me that attorneys for a defendant facing impeachment can and will ask senators under oath if they’ve discussed the matter with (constituents, lobbyists, interested people, etc.) and he didn’t want to have to answer “yes” to such questions and therefore declined my overture to discuss it further.
I commend Kevin for his good manners and not ignoring me, though I never followed up with Attorney Lehmann to verify the accuracy of things that I was told. Let me be clear that I am not suggesting that anything he said was wrong, but because that seed was never planted in the House and I didn’t keep a detailed diary of our conversation, following up wasn’t high on my to-do list.
If any lawyers are reading this or if anyone makes contact with Attorney Lehmann and wants to ask for clarity, please share your thoughts and findings in the comments. I would like to know in detail what’s ok to discuss with one’s senator (or any of the other 23) regarding an impeachment of KLH and what’s off-limits.
