Tag: Dick de Seve

Anonymous Allegations?

September 26, 2018May 24, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

Over at the Concord Monitor web site, someone going by the name of ItsaRepublic, has been doing some very heavy lifting for GraniteGrok. They have gone to bat for us on our investigation of Public Employees who have been using the Monitor’s web site, during office hours, at taxpayer expense. Not exactly a friendly environment to promote anything we do here, but we appreciate the effort.

And as I have pointed out previously, the Monitor had begun letting those sorts of comments stand (where in the past they had been known to ‘moderate’ them out of existance), and letting the debate take it’s bi-partisan course. But when it comes to allowing links back to GranitGrok articles on the investigation itself, a CM Moderator has explained why they wont be doing that any time soon…

By CM Moderator – 05/24/2012 – 8:39 am

We do not post links to websites making anonymous allegations against real people. It does not matter whether the site leans to the right or the left.

That’s curious for a few reasons. First, I’ve seen what the monitor passes off for news. Enough said? Second, Anonymous? Allegations?

Concord Monitor Takes a Stand – When It’s A Republican

September 26, 2018May 20, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

We’ve been reporting the theft of services by an SEIU Union Chapter VP and NH DES employee Richard de Seve for months as we struggle with the Department of Environmental Services and the State’s IT department, and their resistance to part with data, in response to our Right to Know Requests about state employees using … Read more

The Complete Gaia Comment Stream

September 26, 2018May 2, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Public Employee Gaia managed to read, consume, and then comment at the Concord Monitor’s web site some 1200 times in just three years, more often than not during office hours. (Just to clarify this lastpoint, a super majority of time during office hours.) We could guess that they were doing it during one … Read more

New Hampshire Bureaucrats Behaving Badly? Introducing GrokWatch

September 26, 2018April 26, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

No one respects found money, and there is nothing more abundantly “found” in its appearance than the millions and billions bilked from taxpayers every year to “run state and local government.”

In the midst of that relationship, between producers and their wallets, are the hordes of bureaucrats, too many of whom are taking advantage of every opportunity to justify their existence while wasting millions of taxpayer dollars in the process. You know who you are and we know there is at least one other person in New Hampshire who knows as well, and wishes you’d stop it.

So we’re introducing GrokWatch. Our goal? To identify and investigate cases of New Hampshire Bureaucrats Behaving Badly and then announce awards of shame for the worst cases…but we need your help.

Concord Monitor Wont Cover it, But They’ll help Cover It up.

September 26, 2018April 23, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

There is Free Press and then there is Free Speech. And then there is The Concord Monitor. The Concord Monitor would like you to believe that it is a defender of both Free Press and Free Speech. But if that were true, they would not be deleting comments that include links to posts at GraniteGrok. … Read more

The Complete Dick de Seve Comment Stream

September 26, 2018April 7, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

I know you have been waiting for this. It is the complete Dick de Seve comment stream from the Concord Monitor, compiled from November of 2008 until March 6th 2012. It is over 300 pages of PDF, for which I apologize–I could have formatted it better–but I provided the link to the Scribd site below. … Read more

Another NH State Employee Wasting Your Time And Money?

September 26, 2018March 29, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

Have you been following the tragic tale? It’s a dog bites man story. State agency appears to have an IT policy it can’t or wont enforce, the result of which is that people who blog for a hobby are the only ones with any hope of keeping public employees from wasting your time and tax … Read more

The NH-D.E.S. Break Schedule, and Other Mysteries of The Known Universe

September 26, 2018March 25, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

We have it on good authority that Richard de Seve, State employee over at the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services, only reads and comments on the articles at the Concord Monitor-online, during his breaks. He did, after all, admit this too me, so what better authority can there be? And who am I to doubt the “word “of a long time Public employee, part time UNH professor, and high ranking member of the SEIU/NH-SEA?

That question answers itself, yes?

So I did a little test. I took another look at his last four years worth of comments at the Concord Monitor, and checked the posting times.

My conclusion? That DES either offers its employes a very liberal rotating break schedule that occurs with greater frequency than J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hobbits stop to eat or Dick de Seve is simply giving himself a “break” to read and or respond to content at the Concord Monitor, on any given work day, whenever the mood strikes him, in any one of these potential time periods.

BE BREITBART: Update 1: Right To Know Request – IT and HR records for NH DES employee, Richard de Seve

September 26, 2018March 24, 2012

by Skip

To recap, we caught wind that a NH Dept. Of Environmental Services employee, Richard de Seve (former lawyer, chapter VP in the NH SEIU), was politically blogging on the taxpayer dime and time. So, we decided to find out what the State had to say about it and found this IT policy concerning the use of State paid computer / network resources. Once that was posted, Mr. de Seve decided to write an email to Steve (posted here) in which he said he “sorry, won’t do it again) but also demanded that Steve apologize to his SEIU “brothers & sisters” (which Steve did in his usual great “Steve” fashion).

Well, that led to our next post in which we launched a Right To Know request (details here). And we did get a response (after the jump).

Along with it we received a different IT policy that is specific to the Departmental of Environmental Services – Apparently (as NH Rep. Seth Cohn informed me a while ago), when it comes to IT policies, there is a Balkanization that has happened: every man for himself! Who knows, maybe this will lead to some other actions that were unintended from our original thoughts.

The problem, though, is that IT policy is the ONLY thing we have received at this point – not what we expected. Well, we did copy some Legislators on our original request – and we heard back from several of them. While I have had some pleasant conversations with the DES “RTK dude” Pete Demas concerning the request, we’ve not received ANY of the requested data as of yet.

We can be a patient lot here at GraniteGrok – but I’m figuring that perhaps it is time to talk to some of those Legislators again.

An Apology to the NH SEA/SEIU

September 26, 2018March 19, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

No one understands the problems of perception like the Democrat Party. They invest a good deal of time and money into hiding what they are truly up to. Almost as much time as they spend painting pictures of their opponents for the main stream media to hang on your living room walls. So we should not be surprised when a prominent member of the New Hampshire SEA, a chapter president with the local SEIU, sees the kind of perception issues he creates when we uncovered months, even years of online comments, posted during office hours, while he was supposed to be performing state business, on the taxpayer dime, from the Department of Environmental Services, where he is employed by you and I.

Perception is a problem but not nearly as much of a problem as reality.