I’m going to call a spade a spade. There will be no sugarcoating and no special treatment for any reps that I once liked and respected, so let’s get started. Consider me the National Transportation Safety Board examining the wreckage.
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Gunstock- The Home of No Financial Controls?
by Norm Silber
Friday’s mail brought an anonymous missive following regarding the apparent misuse of public funds by outgoing Gunstock General Manager Tom Day, who, it appears, used the Gunstock postage meter for postage to mail some type of personal payment from him to the City of Portland, Maine.
HB1002, Right to Know, and The Pile of (His Own) S***! Rep. Travis O’Hara Just Stepped In …
HB1002, as passed by the New Hampshire House, would allow unprincipled municipalities to turn requests for public documents into a revenue stream. It passed the NH House yesterday, after which (at least) two things happened.
Action Alert – Hearings On Bills That Give Power to Local Commissions (and Other Business)
There is legislation brewing to take power away from your county delegation and hand it to the county commissioners. It’s probably a response to the Gunstock situation, though it could be anything.
RSA 91A Right To Know: Information on SoulFest
by Norm Silber
From: Norman J Silber Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022, 5:44 PM To: tday@gunstock.com Subject: RSA 91-A demand/request To Tom Day- President & General Manager of the Gunstock Recreation Area: Pursuant to the provisions of New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated Chapter 91-A, I hereby demand that you furnish me with the following documents within the time … Read more
Part 2 – Gunstock: Right To Know for Gunstock Area Commissioner Dr. David Strang’s emails
by Skip
So as discussed in Part 1, I submitted an RSA 91A Right To Know demand for Gunstock Area Commissioner Dr. David Strang’s emails, both inbound and outbound, associated with his official GAC email account. Commissioner Doug Lambert is refusing, in his Machiavellian way, to cough them up and is using delaying using what he believes … Read more
Gunstock – Another Day, Another Right to Know. I’m Beginning to See Why Commissioner Doug Lambert Shut Down the Investigations
by Skip
I’ve been writing a few (ahem!) Right To Know demands lately and starting to get some of the results (i.e., “The Responsive Records”). What I’m finding is that for each one put in, the Responsive Records returned to me just keep handing me more questions. Sidenote: That is, except for the Drone/UAV usage one – … Read more
Words of Wisdom – And Now He Can Apply it to Himself
by Skip
This Letter to the Editor appeared a while ago and yes, I am late on reporting on it – a snippet from it with emphasis by me: …a once seemingly rational and even-handed politician has become visibly shaken and filled with apparent rage. It begs the question of those of us witnessing this sudden sea-change: … Read more
Pay (Even More) to Play in New Hampshire Politics?
by Skip
An homage to this post: “We are a for-profit entity that has a donation line item in our budget and we donate to different things to promote Gunstock and promote the area and promote skiing in general,” he said. “We generate our own revenue and this donation does not affect Belknap County residents because we don’t take … Read more
Oh Doug? Did you really mean to say “fascist” millions?
by Skip
The concept of a fascist arrangement at Gunstock has been long in the making: Kinda harsh thing to say about those who are now your best buddies, eh? What EVAH will they think of you know? This email, from now Gunstock Area Commissioner Doug Lambert (of DGF Industrial as well) was in a bunch of … Read more
UPDATE II: Gunstock Mountain Resort – An RSA 91:A Demand – Payment of Taxes Information
by Skip
Maybe one of these epochs, I’ll finally get caught up on stuff. One of those was about my RSA 91:A Right To Know, issued on August 5th, concerning taxes paid by Gunstock Mountain Resort (Business Profits Tax, Business Enterprise Tax, Meals & Rooms Tax) as well as the top shareholders in GMR and any monies … Read more
Gunstock – My Right To Know Demand Concerning GMR’s use of UAV/drones is Now out of Compliance with RSA91-A
by Skip
Well, back on August 8th, I submitted an RSA 91-A Right To Know demand for any and all documents concerning the use of drones/UAVs at Gunstock Mountain Resort. Such documents may include (but not limited to): Request for Proposals to vendors Purchase Orders to vendors Statement of Work/Contracts between GMR and vendors Acceptance of Services … Read more
The “Missing” July 31, 2022 Special Gunstock Area Commission Meeting
by Skip
Actually, not so much missing but so much going on with the GAC and the Delegation it’s been hard to keep up. But to be expected – Wood and Lambert have adopted an Obama tactic that we all first saw at the start of Obama’s first term – too much happening over so many areas … Read more
Extremist
by Op-Ed
Beware, citizens, radicals, and extremists are roaming the countryside. That’s what all those signs littering the streets would have you believe. Oddly enough they seem to consider Freedom to be a radical concept. This, in the ‘land of the free,’ doesn’t make sense. In order to understand what’s really going on, you need to consider … Read more
Gunstock – And This Is What Happened to Former Commissioner Peter Ness and Continuing with Dr. Strang
by Skip
To paraphrase/plagiarize (see image below): Gary Kiedaisch/Brian Beihl, Power Mongers: “It is not enough to simply beat Ness and Strang. They must be destroyed thoroughly. Their kind must not rise again.” What was it that the former Gunstock Area Commissioners’ team feared so much about them both? …They were/are the existential threat. When your business involves … Read more
Lies and Smears Flow Freely from Pravda on the Paugus
by Skip
Our Daily Sun (Pravda on the Paugus) has jumped both feet into the Gunstock issue. It has sided is siding with, no surprise, the big money fat cats who were running it like it was their plaything and ignoring the laws governing its oversight.
UPDATED and BUMPED: Now Also Part of a Political Stunt. “So This Is What Tom Day, Rebecca Lapense, and Robin Rowe Think of a Large Gunstock Christian Customer: Soulfest”
by Skip
UPDATED and BUMPED: bumped from 7/23/22. The email thread involving Rebecca LaPense, Robin Rowe, and Tom Day showing their Anti-Christian outlook is at the bottom of this post.
This proves that Doug Lambert, Jade Wood, Gary Kiedaisch, and others have been lying about Soulfest not happening over the mass resignations of Sr. Management – Tom Day, GM, been trying to get rid of Soulfest for almost a year! It’s clear this has been a nothing but a political bargaining chip and putup. All that malarky from Tom Day and Cathy White that they didn’t want Soulfest AT ALL anymore. It was a loser financially from what scuttlebutt has them saying before. But a contract is a contract – until these seemingly Anti-Christianists don’t like having believers, people of faith, around. Until it can be useful for their political means of getting rid of the people asking hard questions about subjects they wanted to be left in the dark.
OH WAIT! They wanted it BOTH ways! Listen to all the screaming in the media AND in the GAC meetings – they wanted them gone but had no problem in using them as both a political cudgeal and as political bait in their PR campaign. OH, YOU CAN’T HAVE SOULFEST WITHOUT US AT THE HELM. SAVE us, Obi Wan Tom Day – make those new GAC Storm Troopers asking us hard questions that would reveal answers that will embarrass us go away!
So while doing this, what as Tom Day doing back in October and November of last year? Trying to get rid of SoulFest – well before their man-made disaster. From the unredacted billing records run up with Devine-Millimet law firm by Tom Day and Gary Kiedaisch:
Imagine that – you’d think that Tom Day, Gary Kiedaisch, and all of the rest of them have no honor or honesty in a single one of their bones. They KNEW they were burning the Soulfest candle from both ends – burning Soulfest itself and still using Soulfest to burn the Delegation/GAC members.
OK, Doug Lambert, soon to be promoted from Secretary to Chair of the GAC (and of DGFIndustrial), whatcha gonna do about this political conundrum? Are you going to correctly call it out for what it is and admit malfeasance? Or are you going to cover it up, just like the good ole boy network in Gilford we went after (and Moultonborough and other towns) in shining Big Flashlights on their misdealing?
Sadly, I’m having to say that he has changed – he has become what he once hated. But having a sense of grace and forgiveness that you haven’t shown towards either Peter Ness or Dr. Dave Strang, or those on the Delegation, I would be happy to give you a blessing – if you turn from the Dark Side and return to the Light. Like you said you had to do those 15 years ago.
Besides, we have better cookies.
UPDATED and BUMPED: Originally posted on March 18, 2022. Please review the email thread below by Becky LaPense, Robin Rowe, and Tom Day (all now former Sr. Mgt) to show you how much they “lived” the respect “lines” they’ve been mouthing at the GAC meetings.
Gunstock Mountain Resort – An RSA 91:A Demand – Payment of Taxes Information
by Skip
I sent a new RSA 91:A (“Right To Know”) demand to Commissioners Doug Lambert (also of DGFIndustrial) and Jade Wood (also NH GOP Area 5 Vice Chair) concerning any taxes that a public Company must pay to the State of NH on a regular basis: —— Original Message —— From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com> To: “Doug Lambert” … Read more
Podcast: Barbara Comtois and John Plumer on WKXL’s Cail & Company Radio Show
by Skip
Ken interviews NH State Representative Barbara Comtois, member of the audit committee for Gunstock and clerk of the Belknap County Delegation and John Plumer, also a member of the audit committee and candidate running for NH State Senate in District 2. WKXL – NH Talk Radio · Cail & Company LIVE with Barbara Comtois … Read more