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Gunstock Area Commission: Finally, the Elephant in the Room Is Addressed – Part 2

July 7, 2022 Skip

Yeah, late again. Seems to be par for the course, lately, for me. The first part of the July GAC meeting (6/23) is here and I promised that more was coming. Well, better late than never ESPECIALLY since a new legal report has come out and I’ll get that posted before I head down to … Read more

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GAC – An Answer Back from My Right to Know about Costs at Gunstock Mountain Resort – Average Cost per Skier

May 24, 2022May 23, 2022 Skip

OK, reporting back on this Right To Know on MY part is late. Tom Day, President and General Manager of Gunstock Mountain Report, was given my RTK by the Gunstock Area Commission. I did post that up here: Gunstock Area Commission – A Right To Know Demand for a Revealed Government Record He did reply … Read more

So has NH State Senator Bob Guida just killed his own bill in the Committee of Conference?

May 19, 2022 Skip

UPDATE! HB1397 has been killed. Success Leaders: NH State Rep/Belknap County Delegation Chair Mike Sylvia, NH State Rep and House Majority Leader Jason Osborne, GAC Commissioner Dave Strang, and NH State Rep Norm Silber, Diane Pauer and Speaker Sherm Packard. UPDATE 2: It looks like Guida got a bit of comeupence like Kimberly Rice did on … Read more

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Did Gunstock Area Commissioner Gary Kiedaisch Really Believe That Chair Peter Ness Would Do as He Demanded about GraniteGrok?

May 15, 2022May 14, 2022 Skip

I mentioned this email by GAC Commish Kiedaisch complaining about GraniteGrok during the last segment of GrokTALK! (YAY! We’re BACK!) that we recorded last Monday (with special guest Rob Russell of 2A Tactical who is also suffering from similar political action in Barrington).

NH State Senator Guida “Bemoans” Legal Expenses at Gunstock – Uses Same Law Firm to Write Letter?

May 12, 2022 Skip

Seriously – no collusion here? At all? Just a simple case of “coincidence”, I’d be willing to bet. Yep, that’s gotta be it… SHOT: I HAVE TO INTERVENE (entire letter to the Delegation at post bottom)! My personal letter and mine alone! January 24, 2022 Re: Gunstock Mountain Resort Honorable Members of the Belknap County … Read more

An open letter to Gunstock Area Commissioner Gary Kiedaisch: Resign

May 14, 2022May 11, 2022 Op-Ed

For months you have been at the epicenter of conflict between the Belknap County Delegation and the Gunstock Area Commission. You have garnered public support through falsehoods and outright lies. Now that the GAC legal bills have become public, the general public can compare the legal activity that you have initiated to the timeline of … Read more

Gunstock Area Commission – So Let’s See How Transparent Gary Kiedaisch Will Be about His Emails, Shall We?

May 7, 2022 Skip

It’s never the crime that’s the big deal – it’s always the coverup that’s the biggest problem and it looks like Gunstock Area Commissioner Gary Kiedaisch and former Commish Brian Gallagher are going to have a lot of explaining to do.

Gunstock Area Commission – Non-Public Meeting, Released Billings, a Released Report, and a GAC Approved Resolution AGAINST Guida/Lang/Kiedaisch spawned HB1397

February 2, 2024May 6, 2022 Skip

Quick reference – HB1397 takes RSA 399 on how the Gunstock Area Commission is constituted and governs and completely severs its present accountability. It makes it a playground for the monied “controllers”

Gunstock Area Commission – A Right To Know Demand for a Revealed Government Record

May 14, 2022May 2, 2022 Skip

Stubborn, he is – Tom Day, General Manager / President of the Gunstock Mountain Resort (“GMR”). He had decided to refuse to turn over the Governmental Record known as the GMR fiscal budget claiming that it was proprietary and confidential even after I had shown the Gunstock Area Commission (“GAC”) that a previous GMR budget … Read more

Did Another Former Gunstock Area Commissioner Pull a “Rusty McLear” (Sorta Sideways) And Stayed In His Seat Too Long?

May 14, 2022April 27, 2022 Skip

I hear things and I get told things. On Monday, a source called me and gave me a heads up. Details on this in a moment but here’s the salient point of Law concerning the Gunstock Area Commission (“GA”) for its overwatch duties over Gunstock Mountain Resort (aka, Gunstock Ski Area): LAWS OF 1959 CHAPTER … Read more

Gunstock Mountain Resort – I Just Got a New Batch of Homework to Do

April 25, 2022 Skip

It’s amazing what happens when folks that realize that a Government agency whose function is to make snow get elected to the Gunstock Area Commission and start to turn the canoe around to be realized as such instead of being thought of as a private company.

Quick Thought/Question for NH State Senator Bob Guida

April 24, 2022 Skip

Once again, the context is that of Gunstock Mountain Resort and the Gunstock Area Commission on NH State Senator Bob Guida’s quote in the Laconia Daily Sun concerning his sponsored bill, HB 1397, that totally disrupts

Belknap County Delegation to Litigious Gunstock Commissioners: You Owe Us $40K

May 14, 2022April 23, 2022 Skip

“Man, what a crap show this became! And I blame the former GAC commissioners for most of it (McLear, Gallagher) as well as current Commissioner Kiedaisch.

They Lost Their Political Hold on the Gunstock Area Commission and They Are Pissed!

April 17, 2022 Skip

HB1397 should be labeled “Kiedaisch Reclaiming His Power” or the complete repudiation of the “Citizens for Gunstock” ads that said we needed to “get politics out of Gunstock”?

Gunstock Mountain – It’s Not Nice to Make Sport of Your Customers, Especially When the Contract Says to Not Do That!

March 30, 2022 Skip

After I had submitted my RTK for Tom Day and Cathy White emails, I had found this (which I found to be in the “disturbing” category as it was disparaging Soulfest). I actually used that word during the Public Session – and I expected that someone, ANYONE, would have asked “Why that word, Skip?”

Gunstock Mountain Resort – Another RTK, Another Batch of Emails

March 29, 2022 Skip

Remember, I got some tips that some not so nice things were happening at the Gunstock Ski Area so I started looking into them with this Right To Know for emails. surrounding Tom Day and Cathy White (GM, CFO). Again, most were mundane, some interesting, and some disturbing. But two other names kept showing up … Read more

Gunstock Mountain Resort – Gac Meeting (3/23/22) – Public Comment Session – Why I Want the Budget

March 28, 2022 Skip

A bit of joviality during the meeting but I think it was more of an inside joke between Tom Day (GM and Prez of GMR) and I as the discussion during the Public Comment session was around whether or not the GMR Budget at the General Ledger line level was going to be released to me as a result of my RSA 91-A demand for it.

Gunstock Area Commission 3/23/33 – Public Comment: the “Indie Program” and “Punish”?

March 26, 2022 Skip

Near the end of the Public Comment session, a question was raised by two NH State Reps, including NH State Rep Paul Terry who was present in the audience, as to why Gunstock Mountain Resort wasn’t part of “the Indie Program”? I take it that this is an “independent Mountain” marketing push in that smaller … Read more

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Why Am I Spending So Much Time on the Gunstock Area Commission?

March 25, 2022 Skip

Well, one easy reason is that I live on the backside of that Mountain. I was told by the previous owners a couple of times that their teen-aged boys would take the lift up to the top and then do the backside to home.

Are We Heading for Champagne Power at Gunstock Mountain or Are They Still Stuck in the Crud?

March 25, 2022 Skip

Wednesday night was the March GAC meeting. The first issue after the approval of previous meeting minutes was spent dealing with the Rusty McLear issue. Is he or is he not a legitimate GAC Commissioner with respect to what NH RSA 399:4 says about appointments.