“Yeah, right, in your wildest dreams,” a reasonable skeptic might think when reading this article’s title, but humor me and let’s play this out on our minds for a moment. I will first credit Grokster Beth Scaer for inspiring the idea. Beth needs no introduction to the regular readers and her locals, but library lewdness watchdog is one of the many activist hats she wears and she vigilantly monitors the activities of the enemy camp, many of which take place at the library. Despite being in Rosenwald territory, the library and the Telegraph building are less than a block apart and frequently host events organized or attended by Ms Melanie Levesque. Beth brought a few of them to my attention today (March 1), though some have already passed, just like Black History Month.
While Beth and I went back and forth in a private chat, discussing events, dates, past and future, some of the events in the future have to do with Women’s Month (March). Yup, there are 2 months in a row that Ms Gloria, Melanie, Lemonade Linda HG, Bobbie Bagley, and their ilk get to personally make the most of, whether or not Ketanji is willing to admit to Marsha Blackburn that they are real women. If anyone is unfamiliar with intersectionalism, I’m sure there are some great Prager U resources to consult, but I digress.
Redirecting to the topic of government efficiency, these woke government-funded(by presumably multiple levels of government) events, like women’s health equity, blah, blah, blah, ad nauseam, are the kind of thing that should be on the radar of Elon Musk. Beth made the comment, “After DOGE cuts the funding, events like this will disappear.” We have Musk at the federal level, and Kelly Ayotte supposedly has a Concord version of it, known as COGE, but what about Kelly’s home city?
Sadly, the mayor is not part of this year’s city election, so don’t even bother thinking about an executive creation until January of 2028, assuming a decent new mayor is sworn in. If the Wards 1, 6, and 9 aldermen keep their seats and seven new seats get flipped, that’s 2/3, and how sweet it would be to make the mayor’s veto irrelevant! I know that’s an order taller than former Alderman Comeau, but the believers will say that with God, nothing is impossible. So what I just said was not very realistic, but what about some “enabling legislation,” as an enemy of 91A and former Rep Scott Wallace would say?
The ship has already sailed for bills in the legislature this year, but our new Nashua governor wasn’t shy in her inauguration and budget speeches about her wish list for bills, bail reform being one example. The next time she addresses the legislature before this fall’s LSR time, she could request a bill for a local DOGE/COGE for each community to which property taxes are paid. Supposing such a thing happens, it would have to be constructed like the Nashua Police Commission. The governor appoints police commissioners, and the mayor tried to “pack the commission” with a 2021 ballot question that his future opponent rallied up the city to quash successfully.
Please indulge this fantasy a little more by picturing an Ayotte-appointed city government efficiency team. A few suggested appointments would be Laurie Ortolano, Laura Colquhoun, former Alderman Teeboom, and Paula Johnson. Now about those cuts, Beth already mentioned that woke crap, but there’s a lot more that people might not be thinking about all year long. Alderman Lopez’s Tree Street block party? Paul Shea’s Great American Downtown? Privatize the June gay parade funding? Defund Bobbie Bagley? Make all city officials accept court summonses without demanding the sheriff be involved(for $118/service and ultimately reimbursed to successful plaintiffs). Those are just a few items that come to mind and that’s without even looking at the biggest black hole, the schools.
The schools need their own government efficiency reform and there’s enough to write about in a separate article. However, I will say that a (statewide)school DOGE/COGE “dream team” would be best chaired by Ian Underwood.
