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Democrats Don’t Care About Conflicts of Interest

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?

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Transparency In News, Reporting and Commentary

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

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New Conflict of Interest Policy for New Hampshire School Board Members

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…?

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

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.

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