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My Response to Laconia’s NH State Rep Gregg Hough’s Allegations To Have the BCRC throw GraniteGrok out of their meetings
In my post a couple of days ago (“Laconia State Rep Gregg Hough: With All His Other Political Enemies, He’s Decided to Anger GraniteGrok, too?“), I presented his allegations to the Belknap County Republican Committee as to why its Executive Committee (e.g., Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Secretary (who was absent from the hearing), and At-Large member) … Read more
So Belknap County Attorney Andrew Livernois Lied (By Omission) To Give Cover for Last Week’s Illegal County Delegation Meeting.
My impression of Andrew Livernois’s answer: EVERYTHING in the Law is a “grey area” (so go do what you want). And now the Delegation is getting sued over it. Like I said here, NH State Rep Harry Bean broke the Law after being manipulated into whipping himself into a frenzy to be seen as getting … Read more
Of Oaths and Loyalty – The Dearth of Fidelity to Both in Politics; Belknap County Delegation as Example
So, WHO called the Delegation meeting yesterday? Was it legally done? Nope. And IMHO, County Attorney Andrew Livernois gave cover in a rambling Letter as so many had contacted him to see if the Delegation was operating legally. I have an email thread with him that I will be posting later. Hint: On quoting RSA … Read more
Gunstock – Somebody Gave NH State Rep Harry Bean Really Bad Advice about a Delegation Emergency Meeting
UPDATE (and bumped from 8 am)! And an important one: Summary – Emergencies (like what has been called for Gunstock below) in 91:A ONLY APPLY TO TOWNS AND CITIES; not the “County Convention” (aka, “the Delegation”. While I have a call into the County Attorney, Andrew Livernois, I have not heard back as to which holds priority: RSA 24-9:d or RSA 91-A:2 II. However, Dan Itse has this:
Extremist? Tom Day Demonstrates the Problem with Gunstock and His Political Donation to Sununu with Gov’t Money
With this check to the Sununu campaign, were you hoping that no one was going to remember that up until Jan 20, 2020, you were Chris Sununu’s Waterville Valley General Manager? Quid pro quo? Cui bono, Mr. Day?
Gunstock Mountain Resort – So the Prez and GM Think It’s Fine to Electioneer While on Government Time?
So, how are the GMR Gunstock Area Commissioners going to take this news? More importantly, Commissioners, what are you going to DO about this? And this is not the only email of electioneering while “on company time”. Even though his email is very short (just a fowarding), he’s sending it to all of his Senior … Read more
Manchester School District – Aborting Parents from Their Child’s Life like Democrat’s Abort Children from Their Mom’s Lives
My original title was “Manchester School District Made Their Lying to Parents about Their Kids Even Worse – Policy JBAB,” but I don’t think that adequately conveys my feelings.
New Hampshire Law is Now Officially a Joke
Go to the NH RSAs online to search our state laws: http://gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/indexes/search.html and Search for “Executive Order” and you’ll see the following:
HB 20 Puts Homeschoolers at Risk
The universal EFA bill, House Bill 20, as currently written makes nearly every child in the state eligible for the program, capable of transferring into it, but that is not the same as saying an EFA student is a homeschooler or EFA funds can be used for home education.
Facts are stubborn things…….
So, Dave Wheeler and his acolytes seem to have convinced some NH folks that former Senator Bob Clegg, Wheeler’s opponent in the Executive Council 5 race, gave unilateral, dictatorial powers to whoever was sitting in the corner office when and if disaster struck when he sponsored HB 1461 following the 9-11 attacks on the United States.
Voter Suppression & Intimidation at N.H. Polls
Many of us know New Hampshire is not a home-rule state. What that means is towns and cities can only pass laws that the State says they can. Unfortunately, many government officials either do not know this, or they knowingly violate the law hoping they don’t get called out on it. There is a widespread … Read more
School Districts are Transforming Public Education in Violation of NH State Law
Governor Sununu has no authority to create positive law, allowing public school districts to transform public education in violation of NH state law. Nor can the governor downshift any unfunded expenses upon the districts to create these alternative learning programs in addition to their normal statutory obligations.
A Bleg – I thought this was a great idea at the time
And I still think it is. However, ideas are good only if action is put behind them. So with us now in the middle of this Government Overreach Pandemic, here is the idea: We need to setup a clearinghouse of all these infringements into our Constitutional and Civil Rights. Then, after what should be a … Read more
Is Gilford seeing public employees politicking at the polls?
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 … Read more
Portsmouth Bans Styrofoam?
New Hampshire is a Dillon Rule State, not a Home Rule one. This means, only the legislature can pass laws, unless they’ve passed a law the ‘enables’ municipalities to create their own. These must be specific enabling statutes, such as the one that enables planning boards. RSA 673:1 – “I. Any local legislative body may … Read more
Tales from the BudComm – a technical correction
As I have said before, it turns out that “No doesn’t mean NO!” when it comes to SB2 Budget Committee deliberations because of a “technical flaw” in RSA 32 (and to a smaller degree, RSA 40). While BudComms must deal at General Ledger line levels (we are prohibited from just “lopping off” or “adding to” the net bottom lines of municipal or school district budgets, after our presented budget(s) are accepted, modified, or denied by the Legislative Body (er, the voters in a given town), the Governing Bodies (Selectmen, School Boards) then submitted the finalized budgets to the NH Department of Revenue Administration (“DRA”) using forms known as “MS-Form”). Essentially, they are “roll up” forms – instead of listing all of the individual line items, they simply show aggregated totals of the department budgets (e.g., the entire Police budget in a single line).
Once done, and the “Purpose” (very important word, that) has been set, the Governing Bodies are then able to transfer monies from one lower level GL account line item to another – including into those line items that BudComms may have zeroed out. So, I’m looking to crowdsource for a bit of help.
SDGA Improving Governance Seminar Series – What is your statutory Authority & Where does it comes from?
Improving Governance Seminar Series Legal Basis: Fact or Fiction As a School Board or Budget Committee member, do you often wonder what your statutory authority is and where it comes from? How can you reconcile what your Superintendent tells you versus what the NH RSAs command you to do? Come join us for a discussion of … Read more
Red Rover in Dover
In Norwegian, apparently, Røver means Pirate. I won’t hold fast to that definition. I just learned it on Wikipedia, which is about as reliable as a school board in Dover spending your tax dollars to pay lobbyists to push legislation you may not support. Which is what I mean by pirate. The Dover school board, like many similar cabals throughout the Granite State, spends your tax dollars on professional lobbyists to promote the “interests” of the “district” up in Concord over your own, though they will always insist these ideas have parity when they do not.
So follow the bouncing ball.
Schools, like any government agency, seek bigger budgets. Those budgets are paid for with local and state taxes. The folks who run the school–boards, committees, administrators, the unions and the teachers, want budgets to exapnd to protect their jobs and benefits. To that end they are funding or promoting the funding of other professionals, with your tax dollars, to go before those with taxing power, including the state Legislature, to support laws and policies that will give them more of your money, and further secure their monopoly on education.