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Wonder what is going on in the notorious town of Windsor?

Remember that pilonidal municipal cyst created by surveyor mistakes when New Hampshire was created back in the 1700’s – they are still one big mistake after another.

At this year’s Town Meeting the Selectmen had an acolyte read a prepared statement changing the rules for citizen video taping the meeting. Never mind losing one superior court case for trying to stop video taping several years ago, nope they are back for more.

1. NEVER underestimate the stupidity of a peon level elected body in New Hampshire.

2. NEVER underestimate the arrogance of an elected board with a super majority in a small town.

Update:

The humble, but definitely dangerous, band of taxpayer activists in Windsor, who Attorney Chuck Douglass is representing, have jumped one more hurdle in their court case to retrieve non-collected taxes from the “Windsor Friends and Family Program,” the program where Windsor officials tried to ABATE their friends taxes which were never paid. Hence the well deserved nickname: Masterabaters. It is so fitting.

Enter RSA 491:24, a crafty little statute requiring an evidentiary hearing before you can sue a crooked public official – kinda like the Windsor Mob who did not collect property taxes from each other going back ten years we know of. (Well it could have been an accident – over and over again.)

This law, RSA 491:24, asks a plaintiff to do almost the impossible. You need to present evidence normally found during a case - to go forward with the case. Nice protection for elected officials who tax and abuse people they don’t like while not taxing their pals.

A few weeks ago, a superior court judge dutifully found there was not enough evidence to proceed with a suit against the offenders, as individuals, but did move along the case against the town itself – with one very important point of note.

The ruling of the court stated clearly that this is NOT a frivolous case. So much for any threatened counter suit by the Masterabaters! Bring it on – can you spell: d-i-s-c-o-v-e-r-y?

The case against the individual officials can in all probability be brought right back against individuals anyway through other means, such as a new plaintiff, so no big deal, the Windsor Selectmen leave plenty of victims in their wake.

There you have it – the roller coaster ride through litigation Hell.

Some people ride in the car – some are tied to the tracks.

“Dexter Humphrey wiped his hands with his handkerchief. He picked up his copy of the warrant and read the twenty first item again. After he had read his regular question, he put the matter to a vote at once, and for the first time in history, the Town of Peyton Antrim Place voluntarily gave new powers to its selectmen in the form of a voluntary budget committee.”

Not much has changed in small town New Hampshire since Grace Metalious wrote down her observations of town meetings and human nature – not in Antrim anyway.

As the Chairman of The Coalition of New Hampshire Taxpayers I attended the Antrim 2010 Annual meeting to speak to the issue of adopting an official RSA 32 Budget Committee, something CNHT had a hand in getting on the ballot.

It took several voice votes and eventually a division of the room – 74 to 61 to let me speak in favor of adopting a statute and electing a budget committee to watch over Antrim’s finances which are a sloppy, incompetent, self-made disgrace. But that is another story.

If you have never spoken at a town meeting before, try speaking in hostile territory, it brings out the best in people so I bit my tongue and answered questions rather professionally, I think.

CNHT held in Antrim, just before the town meeting, a civic meeting which informed those interested in learning about RSA 32. About fifteen people showed up. Two of those fifteen, Antrim’s version of Dexter Humphrey, were the guys who actually run Antrim even though they are not elected. Both were not happy at the civic hearing, expecting to slay those of us from CNHT with intricate, dagger-like questions. The two budget committee savvy CNHT friends from other towns I had with me answered every conceivable question posed in the two hour meeting. We were never tripped up by the Dexter Humphreys. How sad for them.

So what was in the local paper about the civic meeting?

One attendee was your typical hand puppet selectmen who claimed that after the meeting I told him CNHT charged “a fee” for working with individuals and towns such as we were offering to do in Antrim. Nothing could be farther from the truth but that is how this works. The local press seized on this titillating bit.

When Dexter Humphrey’s selectman found out he might be wrong about fees he me called and offered that he would correct that point in person at the annual meeting. He must have been too busy sitting there quietly at the table with the other two puppets because he never offered the correction in my presence.

Dexter Humphrey #1 opened discussion of the Bud Com before the Antrim Town Meeting with an amendment carefully crafted in advance, his argument: No one had time to understand RSA 32 (established about 70 years ago) so they should vote for his amendment (no one has ever seen or had a copy of) for a voluntary budget committee – or puppet committee. So we don’t have time to understand a state statute so we should vote for some scheme I just made up?

It passed unanimously – fine with me.

Now comes the fun part. The puppet budget committee has to be hand picked by the moderator who has a daunting task before him. Should one single person of the six potential members of the voluntary puppet budget committee have a tiny fraction of a spine and asks questions of the larger more important puppets in the town hall - puppet droppings will hit the fan.

Stay tuned.

Plagiarize (Websters)

transitive verb

 : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source

intransitive verb

 : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

Shucks, some industrious low life’s in Hampton went and stole our very popular Hampton CNHT Voter Guide and in crayon re-scribbled their own picks for spending and candidates. Then the re-mailed our flier with first class stamps and hoped for the best of the worst things they could do to Hampton taxpayers.

I have to admit we were snookered. This edition of the very popular Hampton CNHT Voter Guide, our seventh, only garnered a 90% success rate. Normally we do much better.

Oh well.

I stopped by the AG’s Office and dropped off some evidence regarding what happened in Hampton to our rather expensive, as well as very popular voter guide. Some of our Hampton friends mailed us the plagiarized materials so we can track post marks etc.

Until we hear from the Post Office or AG we will sit back and read up on some current RSA’s.

Here’s one:

638:3 Tampering With Public or Private Records. – A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if, knowing he has no privilege to do so, he falsifies, destroys, removes or conceals any writing or record, public or private, with a purpose to deceive or injure anyone or to conceal any wrongdoing.

Source. 1971, 518:1, eff. Nov. 1, 1973.

NY Democrat Congressman Eric Massa is providing all of America an invaluable depth of understanding regarding how Washington Democrats work behind the scenes to get the people’s work done.

There, I said it. Now I can prove it.

Apparently, NY Democrat Congressman Eric Massa wound up in hot water back in October for escorting a young male staffer to a private dinner. I am having some trouble figuring out why anyone would worry about two grown men having dinner together.

Of all the people in the entire world to help make this private event public we have to thank Massachusetts Democrat Congressman Bawney Fwank.

Here is how the deal went down, according The Hill newspaper:

Someone on Democrat Bawney Fwank’s staff alerted Bawney’s Chief of Staff and he alerted Democrat Congressman Eric Massa’s Chief of Staff, Joe Racalto, that Massa was taking one of Bawney’s young male staffers out for din-din.

Joe Racalto has a facebook page here: www.facebook.com/racalto .

The Hill reports Bawney said this about his staffer: "Joe said that he already knew about the situation and was considering how to address it," Frank said in the statement. "I am proud of my staff for immediately responding in an appropriate manner to the information."

Naturally, Joe Racalto was concerned – who knows what was going on - so he contacted Democrat Speaker Pelosi to let her know. She isn’t that busy anyway.

Where were these highly suspicious guys when Monica was delivering pizzas to Billy Bob Clinton?

Anyway, back to how Washington works on the Democrat side now they are running things.

I tried to find out who Bawney Fwank’s Chief of Staff was and all I can come up with is Diego Sanchez, a transgendered guy. Fwank’s staff spins like a revolving door.

For the life of me I can not understand why these particular people would be so interested in a married man like Democrat Congressman Massa having a private little night out with a young male staffer of Bawney’s. Why go to all the trouble of alerting each other and Pelosi like they discovered another underwear bomber?

Time will tell I guess.

I didn’t meant time as in - TIME.

Hell, that will never happen, this is bloggers work.

Headlines: Lynch Has Wide Lead in Polls

Really, Lynch has a wide lead over his opponents?

It’s a poll – hopefully of registered likely voters.

And if this poll of likely registered voters giving Lynch such a wide lead is the same one I am reading then can someone explain to me why “Mr. Popular” can only muster 54% against his lowest rated, not very well funded, not even a household name opponent?

Governor Lynch has been governor for way too long to be in the low 50’s in a poll against relatively unknown opposition.

This looks to me like another of those rain slicker, ribbon cutting, award giving, self-serving photo ops the Governor has been leapfrogging to since his unfortunate election.