Conflict of Interest Archives

BEST: The Non-Lawyers Were Right about Gordon MacDonald

September 22, 2026 Claire Best

Gordon MacDonald should never have been the AG. He lied on his application to the Supreme Court as well. He said he didn’t have any conflicts of interest but failed to mention that he was still listed as an agent at Nixon Peabody for a firm managed by Gordon Humphrey, whom he listed as a … Read more

BEST: Judicial Selection Committee Conflicts of Interest

September 19, 2026 Claire Best

Dear Governor Ayotte, As you meet with the Judicial Selection Committee, please note that Mary Tenn of Tenn & Tenn serves on this committee. As I understand it, her law firm represents former Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald in his divorce case. Former US Attorney Jane Young represented Gordon MacDonald despite being on the ADO screening committee he … Read more

BEST: Goodlander’s 11th-Hour Call for a Federal Investigation Into YDC LOL

August 4, 2026 Claire Best

Does Maggie Goodlander not realize that US Attorney Erin Creegan and some of the federal prosecutors in her office have a conflict of interest regarding the Youth Detention Center? Erin Creegan was Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald’s legal counsel, arguing that he shouldn’t have to provide testimony under oath in the pending criminal trial of his … Read more

Democrat Cinde Warmington’s Huge Conflict of Interest “Problem”

June 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

With His Excellency retiring from the governor’s office, New Hampshire Democrats are hoping this is their opportunity to take the office back. Before Sununu, they’d had a lock on it for many years, except for the Craig Benson hiccup (one two-year term).

If You Want a Dirty Justice, The Wise Latina Failed to Recuse Herself and Then Ruled in Her Publisher’s Favor

May 5, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, an Obama appointee, has made most of her accumulating wealth from book deals with Random House or its subsidiaries. A sum of 3.6 million dollars over eleven years if the reporting is accurate. So, why didn’t she recuse herself in Aaron Greenspan v. Random House?

School Board Chair Tammy Fareed Busted For Major Financial Conflict of Interest

November 1, 2021 Skip

SAU41 is a cooperative SAU with Hollis and Brookline but it is the Hollis School District Chair that is having a big problem. The Hollis School Board made the decision that it was going to mandate masks be worn in the District.

Paul Shea’s Conflict of Interest in Nashua Upcoming Election

October 11, 2021 Op-Ed

Nashua citizens will be voting to choose two Public Works Commissioners on November 2. Three out of the four candidates have no conflict of interest holding the office. Candidate Paul Shea has a clear conflict of interest holding that office.

Democrats Don’t Care About Conflicts of Interest

May 28, 2020

Democrats in New Hampshire do not care about conflict of interest. They don’t care about it in DC. They don’t care unless they can use it to smear the opposition. Want an example?

Transparency In News, Reporting and Commentary

April 4, 2019

Who done it? CNN has 90 million subscribers. It is available in 90 Million homes. That means 227.7 million people daily could be viewing CNN’s coverage. The terror-supporting regime of Qatar has placed at least 4 national security “experts” on the network. Those people with ties to the regime report, comment and editorialize regularly for … Read more

Did You Know That Doug Ley is the Union President of AFT-NH?

March 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Did you know that Doug Ley is the president of a union? The American Federation of Teachers in New Hampshire (AFT-NH). He controls 1.5 million dollars in union assets and earned over 70,900.00 dollars last year as their Union President. A hefty sum to do the bidding of a powerful union.

New Conflict of Interest Policy for New Hampshire School Board Members

November 20, 2018 Op-Ed

Press Release For Immediate Release Concord, NH November 20, 2018, New Conflict of Interest Policy for School Board Members The School District Governance Association of New Hampshire is pleased to announce that it has created a Conflict of Interest model policy for school boards. The policy directly prohibits hiring or contracting with relatives of the … Read more

Does Democrat Matt Houde Have Other Conflicts of Interest…?

September 26, 2018August 21, 2012 Steve MacDonald

Given the news that Democrat State Senator Matt Houde (D-State Senate District 5) became a paid lobbyist for the states largest health care provider in October on 2011, I am beginning to wonder how many health care or insurance related vote he made in the 2012 session of the New Hampshire State Senate that could … Read more

NH Democrat State Senator Matthew Houde’s Conflict of Interest

September 26, 2018August 20, 2012 Steve MacDonald

NH State Senator Matthew Houde - Health care conflict of Interest — DHMC Lobbyist - Matt Houde

Nowhere on New Hampshire State Senator, Democrat Matt Houde’s Bio Page does it mention that he is employed as a Lobbyist for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) . I guess they forgot to update it?

So when the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire (Disclosure- I am on the RLCNH board), asked Senator Houde to step down from the Joint Health Care Reform Oversight Committee (not knowing that he was a paid lobbyist), you might be surprised to learn why?

The problem is simple. Decisions Houde will make on the committee will have a direct effect on his employer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock. Decisions that could result in a massive expansion of Medicare, which given DHMC’s near monopoly in the Granite State, would ensure it access to millions of taxpayer dollars, a fraction of which could then be used to continue to pay Houde between $76,482.00 dollars to as much as $104,957.00 dollars for being a senior community communications specialist with DHMC.