You might already be familiar with my recent article, the open letter to Councilor Wheeler. Please refer to it for a list of some of his key transgressions against the will of his constituents and against NH. Today, one more thing can be added to his rap sheet.
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DJ Bettencourt
An Open letter to Executive Councilor Dave Wheeler (on the “Appointment” of DJ Bettencourt).
Councilor Wheeler:
Even though you have never answered any of my previous emails, which include pleas to reject the federal money that nine people were arrested over on 10/13/21 and the bad judge appointments of Gordon MacDonald and Anne Edwards, I am emailing you once again to go on record that I oppose the appointment of DJ Bettencourt, someone who doesn’t even come from the insurance business.
FB Doodlings: So the Governor’s staff ain’t enthused about what I wrote, eh?
So let me spell it out, again: Compact: an agreement or covenant between two or more parties. And from my post (“Governor Sununu: “No state shall, without the consent of Congress, … enter into any agreement or compact with another state”..“): That would be from the US Constitution, Article I, Sec 10 (paragraph 3) that … Read more
WLDNH – Delivery of the first 1,000 signatories to veto HB109, HB514, and HB564
After the press conference, the WDLNH leadership team and members walked over from the Legislative Office Building to the State House itself. There, after a brief ceremony, Gov. Sununu staffer DJ Bettencourt accepted the WDLNH petition signatories and thanked the WDLNH for their activism:
DJ Bettencourt – a sad story
I thought it a bit strange, when I first heard it, that DJ was resigning from the House and from being the Majority Leader – after all, the session was just about over. Really, it was “dude, why bother, ya gotta run for re-election anyways”. Family? I knew that he was going to marrying Shannon Schutts soon, but it didn’t register is was REAL soon – like this week, so I kinda went “huh?” over the hackneyed phrase ” to spend more time with his family,” (a saying that is generally used in business when one has lost a position due to a corporate merger or political upheaval – or poor results come out) but decided, ok – a bit of a stretch, but it passes muster. And even though Grokster Tim writes here, I didn’t know that DJ was to be the Exec Dir. of the NHLRF (the new job bit). Then the real shoe dropped about the faked reports for the law internship at Brandon Guida’s office in order to graduate from UNH Law).
Sidenote: I do have to side with Guida in this and NOT just because that ‘silence is complicity’ would have put him at risk – cover ups are wrong for any reason and anyone (and not just someone of ‘high’ stature or any ideology)
A sad story indeed. No, it is not my point nor my deal to add gas to a fire he lit himself. All of us, at one time or another, have done stupid things and some of those have risen to the level of REAL stupid. I certainly have and I can commiserate with some of the torment that he is now putting himself through (“did I really think I could skate by?”) – and that of those around them (having been there around those whose actions got me involved as collateral damage). He may have blown up in actually getting that law degree and a shot at the bar, his political career here in NH may be in tatters
Sidenote: why does it seem that Dems who do similar things always seem to come back but Repubs aren’t allowed to (at the least, not for a LONG time)?
and he may have lost other things of much more value of a personal nature as well.
Moral Authority
The New Hampshire Democrat party and their fellow travelers have nothing to run on so the travails of one man in the New Hampshire House, DJ Bettencourt, are all they’ve got. Of course, he will no longer be in the NH House, a feature of his circumstances which we would never see from a New Hampshire Democrat, and therein lies the rub.
The New Hampshire Hypocrats have as much moral authority to point fingers at Bettencourt as NAMBLA would have it were ever to complain about Catholic Priests sexually abusing boys. Actually, the NH Democrats may have less.
National School Choice Week – Support HB 1607, SB 372 & Our NH Legislators
National School Choice Week – Support HB 1607, SB 372 & Our NH Legislators
Concord, NH – January 22-28, 2012 is National School Choice Week during which families and organizations across the country focus on improving access for all students to schools that best meet their educational needs, not just those located within their own municipal boundary.
At Smart Girl Politics, we believe we can:
“absolutely provide every child in this nation a world-class education, which will achieve far better results than our current system. But we need fresh, creative and innovation solutions designed and implemented at the state and local level. We do not need the Federal Government mandating a one-size-fits-all curriculum. We do not need more money, we have more than enough to do a far better job than we are doing. The answer is to empower teachers, families and communities to develop and implement creative and innovative education choices and solutions for the new century.”
And in New Hampshire, we are fortunate to have state legislators who believe and support these ideas. House Bill 1607, and its Senate companion, SB 372, will be introduced on January 23rd into the House Ways and Means, and January 24th into the Senate Education committees, respectively. Both would provide a tax credit for businesses that donate to educational scholarship funds and
“Allow maximum freedom to parents and independent schools to respond to and, without governmental control, provide for the educational needs of children.”
GrokTALK! – 9am -11am, Saturday November 27th, 2010
A mixture of politics, culture and current events, GrokTALK! is an Internet Radio Show broadcasting from the Liberty Studios, at GraniteGrok.com, in the Free State of New Hampshire.