MACDONALD: How About a Little Electioneering, Scarecrow?

If the Left is against it, you will probably benefit somehow from keeping it or having it. It’s that simple. Dems defend illegal robbers, murderers, and child rapists, people who broke multiple laws. Arresting, jailing, and then deporting them is better for everyone, but they don’t want them deported – and will even help them escape justice if they can.

Trump and Vance are rooting out fraud in Medicaid and Medicare, but Democrats are calling these program and service cuts. Technically, they are “cutting” people and organizations that are profiting illegally or through loopholes. These cuts will actually increase savings, reduce costs, and disincentivize fraud. Why don’t Democrats want that?

In New Hampshire, the left has been running around the state crying about high property taxes, but when you finally get the chance to exercise local control over an entirely local problem, they oppose it.

The Concord Board of Education may be in hot water after sending political messaging via an app to district parents opposing a ballot question that, if approved, would rein in its spending. …

The board and district may have violated state laws when sending the “No” vote advocacy to parents.

The district used an app that messages parents of students and told them to vote no on the property tax cap.

State law bans using “government property or equipment, including, but not limited to, telephones, facsimile machines, vehicles, and computers, for electioneering.”

Sending a message on a taxpayer-funded app to alert parents to advocacy for a political outcome on a ballot question should be considered a form of electioneering.

The maximum fine for violating the law is $1,000.

As I noted here, they know and don’t care.

Multiple instances of electioneering and illegal campaigning have been identified in their quest to oppose Question #2, and the Left couldn’t care less. They’ll get their message out, pay the fines, and take the win they were willing to do anything to get.

Tony Schinella at Concord Patch also notes that the school may have violated campaign finance disclosure laws.

There were no disclosures in the notification that it was a political message or who paid for it, although parents receiving the notification should know that since they, as well as property taxpayers, know they paid for ParentSquare and the employees involved in the process of notifying them — something that would not be allowed because the district is a form of government.

Violating campaign and election laws is a serious matter, and I won’t believe they didn’t know what they were doing was illegal. Smartest people in any room, right? So I guess we need to increase the penalties and roll this puppy out.

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