I hope everyone who went to Howard Pearl’s Oktoberfest last weekend at his family farm had a good time. Everyone, including Howard. While my new senator is busy cleaning up from that shindig, he should know that I am watching him just like Mr Focker’s future father-in-law would. Everyone should be watching their senator on October 23 because the whole body meets that day and they will be voting on the Education committee recommendation on Ruth Ward’s Claremont bailout amendment to HB 292.
If you’re late for dinner, here’s the article on Ruth’s idea that supposedly “comes at no cost to NH taxpayers,” as In Depth NH dot org says. It’s important to remember that In Depth is a trashy liberal rag and that Ruth represents Claremont in the senate. However, Ruth also represents more responsible and thoughtful communities, like Weare and Croydon. I wonder what those District 8 constituents have to say about Ruth right now.
Ruth is also the chair of Education, a committee of 5 members, 2 of them being Dems. You better believe the enemy camp will be voting in the amendment’s favor. It’s guaranteed as much as death and taxes, even if we’re being told the amendment comes at no cost. What that means is that the best case scenario is Victoria Sullivan and Daryl Abbas voting NO and it going the whole senate with a 3-2 vote and it dying in the senate chamber October 23. The worst case is a unanimous OTP committee vote followed by a Consent Calendar stealth move where it never sees the light of day in the senate chamber. Then once on “the other side of the wall,” it falls into the welcoming open arms of HopeLESS Damon, another enabler, um I mean “Claremont bailout sponsor.” Does anyone else see trashy Uniparty bipartisanism lying in wait?
No roll call vote means no individual senatorial accountability, so that’s why I named my article “Howard Pearl, I am watching YOU!” If your senator happens to be Victoria Sullivan or Daryl Abbas, please tell them you want them to vote NO in committee on October 14. If not, please just give instructions to your senator to vote NO on October 23. If the Ruth Ward amendment winds up “buried in Consent,” no R is going to remove it unless s/he has the support of another senator. We’ve heard this before in the past where Senator Murphy was said to be interested in removing an item from Consent, but nobody willing to have his back. I am calling on Howard Pearl, who happens to sit next to Senator Murphy, to be that volunteer or that supporter of a volunteer.
Howard has committed several noteworthy transgressions from his current side of the wall. Some of them are voting to adopt the 5/2/24 Consent Calendar (which included the RTK tax, aka HB 1002), voting OTP in Finance for Kevin’s telecommunications tax (SB 255), voting the wrong way (yes) on SB 84 (Senator Murphy’s minimum lot size), not joining Senator Murphy and Victoria Sullivan in voting NO on Dan Innis’s move to re-refer HB 649 (ending the sticker tax), and refusing to be transparent about his stance on Kelly Ayotte’s Group 2 crap. I surmise that he was on the select invite list to lunch at Bridges House that excluded Queen Sharon, but he refused to answer my question when I asked if he was invited. No matter the outcome of October 14’s meeting of Senate Education, Howard Pearl has an opportunity at redemption by doing the right thing on October 23.
