MicroGroks
On January 11, 2024, the AG’s office issued a Cease and Desist Order to Mayor Donchess for electioneering during the 2021 campaign. Electioneering is a criminal misdemeanor under RSA 659. That year, against the vote of the Board of Alderman, the Mayor led a ballot initiative to change how the police commissioners would be appointed.
And he looked so nice, too, bless his heart! Yes, Thad Riley, the failed candidate for NH Governor and current NH GOP E-Board member (Assistant Secretary), has accomplished a feat unlike all the other members – he got a Democrat, elected over the Republican.
Given that the election has already occurred, I can only say that someone with an extremely loose grip on the Law and Reality didn’t make it past the Primary. Yes, David Hershey melted in the heat of the race and came in fourth in a three-person race in Alton/Barnstead.
Here in New Hampshire, we have the old style town meetings where everyone in a town gets together to hammer the final budgets for the town and schools spending. There’s generally a bunch “warrants” (or articles or questions) about all kinds of sundry things like appropriating money for new equipment like police or fire vehicles, …
Electioneering is defined in New Hampshire state law as “act(ing) in any way specifically designed to influence the vote of a voter on any question or office.”
October 2, 2020 Nicholas A. Chong Yen Assistant Attorney General Election Law Unit Dear Attorney Chong Yen, Thank you for your investigation of the Nashua Teachers Union’s actions in response to my complaint submitted on October 30, 2019. I’m writing to you in response to your letter dated September 28, 2020, where you concluded that …
NH Attorney General Gives the Nod to Electioneering with Public Funds Read More »
Posted as received with a bit of REALLY light editing. ********* From: Kevin Leandro Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:25 PM Subject: RSA 659:44-a Electioneering by Public Employees To: Richard Grenier <ragsbar26@gmail.com>, <Gus.Benavides@nemoves.com>, Dale Chan Eddy (dale.eddy@aflglobal.com) <dale.eddy@aflglobal.com>, Dale Chan Eddy (shockwave@tarnover.us) <shockwave@tarnover.us>, Board of Selectmen <BoardofSelectmen@gilfordnh.org>, Scott Dunn <sdunn@gilfordnh.org>, <mcgonagle@metrocast.net> Gentleman, In June …
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I wonder if teachers and administrators at Windham High School in New Hampshire, and other schools throughout the state, realize that having campaign signs and other campaign materials in the classroom is likely a misdemeanor in the state of NH?
Promoted from the Nashua Microgrok: Does this email, sent by a teachers union representative to district staff using school district electronic mailboxes, sound like electioneering to you?
The Nashua Teachers Union violated the law the other day. Public employees were handing out election flyers on school property. Today we have a new report that they broke the same law again, this time electronically, and violated their contract at the same time.
