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Follow-Up On Bad Zoning Bills In the Legislature

On March 20, a slew of Senate Commerce bills regarding Housing were fought valiantly by Bedford Senator Denise Ricciardi. She managed to kill SB55 but of the ones that passed, all did not get universal approval. Example: SB84 – passed 13-10 (opposed by Republican Senators Ricciardi, Rochefort, Birdsell, Lang, Gray, Ward, Abbas, Gannon, Avard, and … Read more

Sun King Sununu

To Sun-King Sununu, “Local Control” Means He Controls The Locals

The latest manifestation of Sun-King Sununu’s insatiable narcissism … His Wokeness fostering the impression that he may run for President. The dipping of the royal toe toe in the Presidential waters, however, is all about “look at me!; everybody look at me!” At the most, Sun-King would play the role of hatchet-man for NeverTrump, with … Read more

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Chris Sununu’s Local Control Hypocrisy

As you know if you have been following the Critical Race Theory issue, New Hampshire’s Sun-King, Chris I-Am-The-State Sununu, just hates the idea of CRT being taught in New Hampshire’s classrooms … BUT his hands are tied because he has to be true to the principle of local control:

 

This critical race theory stuff and how it’s being taught. I don’t like the idea of critical race being taught in our schools and to our kids. And if that’s happening, then parents have the ability to step up and talk to their schools about that. I mean, there’s a direct bias in just discussing that, right? Some of those ideas can get very controversial, very divisive within the schools themselves. And so I understand a lot of the pushback.

Now is it the place of government to come in and tell schools what they can and can’t say? Well, that’s kind of big government stuff that I’m not a big fan of. And that’s why I’ve said that House Bill 544, I’d veto it. I’m not supportive of that bill. But I think part of that is because we have local control. We have a very active community with parents and teachers and kind of understanding, you know, what’s appropriate and what’s not. And if there’s something that’s happening in the classroom, as a parent I can tell you, if there’s something happening in my kids classroom, I’m going to go say something about it. And we’re going to talk about it and find a better path.

Hold on, Sun-King. For the past year … under the pretext of protecting us from COVID … you have ignored local control and micromanaged virtually every aspect of our public lives.

And please don’t tell us, Your Majesty, that COVID is such a deadly disease that you had to make an exception just in its case to local control. COVID is not and never was anywhere near the deadly disease that we were told it was … especially not for the schoolchildren that you intend to allow to be indoctrinated by CRT theory. Here is the latest from the CDC:

Sun-King wants to have it both ways on CRT. He wants the Right to believe that he is on their side … and he also wants the Left to believe that he is on their side. “Local control” is simply the means that Sun-King is utilizing in order to have it both ways. As the past year … with its mask-mandates, lockdowns, capacity-limits, closure of “non-essential” businesses, etc. etc. etc. … shows, Sun-King does NOT really believe in local control.

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What is Local Control?

Time and time again when legislation comes up we hear the “local control” argument. More often than not, it’s when the state or federal government propose legislation that infringes on freedom and limits opportunity. Sometimes, it happens when the state or federal government proposes legislation that increases liberty and freedom, and expands opportunity. In case … Read more

Gov. Chris Sununu

New Hampshire’s Bi-Partisan Usurpation of Local Control

Michael Kitch’s November 22, 2019 article in the NH Business Review; “Taking on NH’s housing ‘crisis’ – Task force’s recommendations ‘a long time coming’” praises the Governor’s new plan to manage housing in NH. The plan is not an enhancement of local control, but a gross usurpation of it. And it could have dire consequences for … Read more

What’s the Point of Dillon’s Rule?

As Steve wrote yesterday, SAU 55 passed a School Board policy that bans visitors from being in possession of a firearm on the SAU 55 School(s) property. The problem is they don’t have the legal authority to pass that policy, and it can not legally be enforced. The Chief of Police in the Hampstead, according … Read more

Frank Edelblut

NH JLCAR objects to Learn Everywhere.

CONCORD- Following the vote of the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules to issue a preliminary objection to rules implementing the Learn Everywhere program, Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut gave the following statement: “Today’s action was disappointing, but not unexpected. Unfortunately, any attempt to change the status quo in our schools is met with resistance. Giving … Read more

Learn Everywhere is latest step in redesigning NH education

by Fred Bramante (former chairman of the State Board of Education)  | The State Board of Education recently approved rules implementing the Learn Everywhere program proposed by Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut and created by the Legislature last year. These rules are scheduled for a vote on final approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative … Read more

Frank Edelblut

GrokInterview: Frank Edelblut, NH Commissioner of Education – Part 4

The next “micro-topic” that Frenk Edelblut and I discussed is one of my most favorite parts of the NH Constitution: Article 28-A in combination with the incorrect idea that education in NH is all about local control by one’s School Board.  Thus, we talk about unfunded mandates, the “Statification” of local control and the “Federalization” … Read more

The Secret to Sustainable One-World Government is …Local Control?

The UN’s Sustainable (everything) Initiatives are several of many globalist one-world-government efforts. Like Climate change, they exist to redistribute wealth (and power) created by evil capitalism while poisoning it’s well. Think Regional Planning Commissions (RPC’s) who are local but think global. They pretend the priorities are yours, but they are actually regional governors imposing global ruling class … Read more

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