If you’re one to not believe in coincidences and want corruption removed from that 3rd branch of government, this article is for you. The coincidence, as an uninterested person would see it, is that Laurie Ortolano has court tomorrow and tomorrow happens to be Daryl Abbas’s birthday. I will get to the corruption removal part in a moment. On October 31, Laurie called me to talk about a variety of nuts and bolts of her litigation(s), and much more. I took a lot of details in as she vented about court operations and I took to the keyboard about 2 hours later with my idea involving Daryl Abbas.
Despite Kevin’s unconditional fealty to Queen Sharon (former chair and current member), the 2nd largest city has zero representation in the Senate Judiciary. That includes the enemy camp, as their token members are Altschiller and Tara Reardon. Rosenwald’s taste in committees is less about justice and more about raising/creating taxes and spending other people’s money. Vice Chair Daryl Abbas is young (perhaps the youngest if you don’t count Tim Lang as being only 15), smart, well spoken, friendly, well put together, and he’s a lawyer. He also writes his own bills. Such attributes make him a good person to request a bill from, so that’s what I did, and here’s what I said:
“Mr Vice Chair (Daryl Abbas):
Your birthday present is an idea (for a bill or an amendment, whichever has the first window of opportunity for you to sponsor). I am emailing you now because Laurie Ortolano said her court date is November 13, and it made me think of you. You, your committee peers, and Attorney Lehmann already know who she is, and Senate Judiciary can “come about” and take a new path towards better service to NH’s 2nd largest city. I am emailing you because she is busy representing herself in her litigation.
As you must already be aware, there’s been plenty of “Claremont-speak” about separation of powers. Attorneys Lehmann, Mosca, Sorg et al have weighed in on the legislature’s responsibility to “give a fresh coat of paint” to the markers designed to make all traffic stay in its lane. We also have a new NASHUA governor that was the attorney general that just reappointed a very mediocre attorney general, rubber stamped by an executive council that didn’t bother to have a hearing with public comment. His Public Integrity Unit has proven itself useless time and again.
That 3rd branch of government is still in complete disarray, even after the retirements of Judge Colburn and Judge Temple. One of them has been replaced with a dirty judge from Keene that previously clerked for Judge Temple. The other new(to Nashua, at least) judge appears to be doing a decent job, so far. If what judge gets what case is supposed to be a round robin or lottery, wouldn’t you consider it highly irregular that out of almost 20 cases of Ortolano v. Nashua, it’s been Judge Temple or his water carrier presiding? Winning in Powerball should be easier than that.
What I am asking from you is more oversight of the process in how cases are assigned to judges and performance improvement of the bodies whose job it is to receive and process complaints against both judges and lawyers. When Laurie gave me an update on the current status of her case (one of many), I thought of Rep. Mike Belcher’s bill to impeach Judge Ruoff on the heels of his horrible decision(s) in the Claremont/school funding litigation. Laurie has zero representation in the legislature, but I suppose she could sell the idea of impeaching the bad local judge to Bill Ohm or Kevin Scully, but I seriously doubt that they would be interested enough to stick their necks out like Mike Belcher. As for “your side of the wall,” I know Kevin and Sharon are dear friends, but he is not on Judiciary and neither of them are lawyers. I am asking YOU to consider doing something about this unholy trinity of government powers in Nashua. Would you at least make yourself available to Laurie for a conversation about this? I won’t make this email any longer by weighing you down with case details and flow charts of legal shenanigans involving Attorney Bolton, Judge Temple and all their affiliates, but I know she would gladly answer any technical and detailed questions to your satisfaction.
No matter how well Tuesday’s election goes in the city, the epicenter of political cancer(the mayor) is safe until 2027. That’s predictably one more citywide surprise property appraisal and 2 more explosive annual budgets from now. Time is not the friend of the commoner criticizing the City. Please take a good-faith look at what’s going on in city hall and the courts and identify opportunities for reform that are appropriate to initiate in the Senate.
Julie”
To this day (November 12), my email remains unanswered, but I have yet to follow up with Laurie on whether or not he replied to just her(she was copied), which was the goal of that email. If anyone reading this is attending tomorrow night’s Tuscan Village birthday fundraiser soiree advertised in the Spectrum Weekly and other GOP email distributions, please approach Daryl Abbas with some polite inquires about Nashua’s desperate need for reform in the courts.
