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Oh, Skip, you’re such a meany – how can you take food out of the mouths of babes in school yards! You want them to go hungry and starve while in school? They can’t learn that way? You know, there was a recent piece on WMUR’s news that Police need more Constitutional training when at … Read more
Yes, it’s back. And I thank NH State Rep Jess Edwards for stepping into the fray with his attempt with HB129-FN-LOCAL (and for NH State Rep Judy Aron that attempted to fix the wrong last session) that attempts to “cure” the Unconstitutional Act that became law back in 2019 as it violated Article 28-A. I’m … Read more
Really, Joe Sweeney? Executive Director of the NH GOP? (see below)
Yeah, another weaponized phrase called “Period Poverty” was all but sufficient to cancel out the NH Constitution. I know that this is going to echo with someone that will sadly tell me “I told you so.”
Yesterday I thanked the elected NH House Republicans for “listening” to GraniteGrok and deciding to unwind SB142 another unfunded mandate. It mandated supplying menstrual products in school district bathrooms and locker rooms in violation of the NH Constitution, Article 28-a.
A Superior Court Judge has ruled that there can be no enforcement of new stricter water rules in New Hampshire after Dec 31st while the State Supreme Court reviews the case.
by NH State Rep Tim Lang |
I sit on the JLCAR committee at the NH State House. This committee is supposed to listen to State Agencies and the public about proposed Agency rules, and then vote to object or approve the rule.
UPDATED: I just called Gov. Sununu’s office and asked if I could talk to someone in the Press office about this. I was told to email my request to Sununu.Press@nh.gov as no one was available. So, I will.
BUMPED and UPDATED 2: NH State Rep Josh Yokela (R-Brentwood) reminded me (and I had forgotten to put it in – “Any citizen can sue to strike the bill as unconstitutional under Article 8 for breach of Article 28-a…”. That is based on the Constitutional Amendment that was passed by the Citizens of NH in the last election. See HANGOVER, below. It seems like a, pretty much, open and close case!
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I keep hearing, during partisan wars, that “no one is above the Law”. Yet, here they ALL are, including the Chief Executive of the State of NH, refusing to heed to the NH Constitution, when crafting laws for the rest of us. Why should we follow their laws if they refuse to follow our Foundational Law?
[Art.] 28-a. [Mandated Programs.] The state shall not mandate or assign any new, expanded or modified programs or responsibilities to any political subdivision in such a way as to necessitate additional local expenditures by the political subdivision unless such programs or responsibilities are fully funded by the state or unless such programs or responsibilities are approved … Read more
The next “micro-topic” that Frenk Edelblut and I discussed is one of my most favorite parts of the NH Constitution: Article 28-A in combination with the incorrect idea that education in NH is all about local control by one’s School Board. Thus, we talk about unfunded mandates, the “Statification” of local control and the “Federalization” … Read more
[Art.] 28. [Taxes, by Whom Levied.] No subsidy, charge, tax, impost, or duty, shall be established, fixed, laid, or levied, under any pretext whatsoever, without the consent of the people, or their representatives in the legislature, or authority derived from that body.
November 28, 1984
During my second term as a Budget Committee, I started to ask a question of both the Town leaders and of the School Board: “how many programs is the State forcing us to do and for which they send no or not enough money? Hey, why are we doing all these things for free? Has anyone ever said “No” (or even bothered)? Sadly, those that were elected had never even contemplated such a thing and when I pursued the question, no one could even answer the question. Worse, when I started to dig in my heels on this, I got outvoted when I made a motion – nobody cared and the Selectmen and School Board did not want be bothered. It was not worth their effort to say “look at the money we can save” and be willing to use the NH Constitution as a defensive shield (which is what this article is supposed to do to protect the taxpayers against predatory politicians).
Thus, I was somewhat cheered when I read this in the Laconia Daily Sun: