Anonymous Allegations?

by Steve MacDonald

Over at the Concord Monitor web site, someone going by the name of ItsaRepublic, has been doing some very heavy lifting for GraniteGrok.  They have gone to bat on the investigation of Public Employees who have been using the Monitor’s web site, during office hours, at taxpayer expense.  Not exactly a friendly environment to promote anything we do here, but we appreciate the effort.

And as I have pointed out previously, the Monitor had begun letting those sorts of comments stand (where in the past they had been known to ‘moderate’ them out of existance), and letting the debate take it’s bi-partisan course.   But when it comes to allowing links back to GranitGrok articles on the investigation itself, a CM Moderator has explained why they wont be doing that any time soon…

By CM Moderator – 05/24/2012 – 8:39 am

We do not post links to websites making anonymous allegations against real people. It does not matter whether the site leans to the right or the left.

That’s curious for a few reasons.  First, I’ve seen what the monitor passes off for news.  Enough said?  Second, Anonymous?  Allegations?

I have a real person (Dick de Seve), who happens to be a real State employee (DES), who admitted to posting real comments during real work hours (In an email to me, personally) (see also here), with corroborating evidence (600 comments posted at the real Concord Monitor, with real times and real dates), along with related posts on the real DES and State DoIT policies, and a series of real Right to Know requests and the results of those so far (far too numerous to link all of them here.)

Can we get real, here?

Admitting by name to the act, with substantial evidence, in clear violation of policy, is an “anonymous allegation?”  Talk about a tough room.

Then there’s GAIA, who is still anonymous, but whom the allegations against are not just substantiated (and twice what de Seve managed in a similar time frame), they too reside (in their greater abundance) on the servers of the Concord Monitors web presence.   This is a 30 year New Hampshire State employee, reading-digesting and posting political comments, during office hours, on state equipment, in violation of the state’s DoIT policy, when they are supposed to be doing the people’s business–that’s all the people’s business, whether they lean left or right.

In case this is too difficult for the left to follow.  You look at the comments, and the times and dates posted, and a calendar, and it all sort of comes together like a puzzle.   You know what else will come together rather easily?  I’m going to go back and look to see if either of these folks posted alleged links to other alleged websites, and if there are any anonymous allegations about real people on them which the Concord Monitor allowed.

Sure hope I don’t find any.  Wow, that could be embarrassing. (Good thing I have given them plenty of time to come up with another excuse.)

Not that it matters to the CM but regardless of their opinion of our investigation, we exposed people stealing taxpayer time and got them to stop.  All things being equal–and we know how much the Monitor like’s “Equality”–dozens or even hundreds of state employees of varying degrees of guilt may well have joined them and stopped wasting taxpayer resources on themselves.   We applaud this sudden, if unexpected bout of conscience but we’re not done.  We’ve got a few more on the burner, waiting to boil over, and we’re still looking.  That just might encourage other taxpayer funded folks to stop wasting taxpayers time and money, on taxpayer equipment and networks, whether the Monitor wants to help or not.

Of course the monitor could help.  We wouldn’t mind at all.   They could do their own investigation and help save the taxpayers some money… or try to pretend there’s no problem so we can later embarrass them with things we know already.  But I don’t think they will.   The overall message being promoted by state employees, at taxpayer expense (on their site or any other), is the message of the Concord Monitor.   It’s a left leaning, Democrat Party, tax and spend narrative.   Besides, if every state employee stopped posting at the Concord Monitor, on state equipment, during work hours, their page hits and unique users would probably take a hit so large you’d hear the smacking  all the way up in Pittsburg, NH.

Good thing a lefty, pro-socialist, rag like the Concord Monitor doesn’t give a damn about capitalist motivations like web traffic, and page hits, except for that whole capitalist pig pay wall thing, you know… um… well…awkward.  I guess they can always stick with Anonymous allegations schtick.  At least until we find links to them all over their pages.

I’m actually looking forward to that.

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Concord Monitor Takes a Stand – When It’s A Republican

by Steve MacDonald

We’ve been reporting the apparent theft of services by an SEIU Union Chapter VP and NH DES employee Richard de Seve for months as we struggle with the Department of Environmental Services and the State’s IT department, and their resistance to part with data, in response to our Right to Know Requests about state employees using taxpayer time and state equipment to politic at (ironically) the Concord Monitor.

We even called the Monitor out on it for ignoring the story and pointed out when their moderators were deleting comments from their site about our investigation, and their not reporting it.

While the Concord Monitor has (at lest temporarily) stopped deleting the comments, they have yet to make a n editorial peep about the problem of Democrats and Union sate employees wasting thousands of hours in payroll, with state equipment, to engage in on-line political activity. Not. One. Word.

But when the accused is Republican Bob Mead…and they can tie him to Bill O’Brien, they are all over it.

Public employees who want to engage in political activity should take time off to do so. That happens routinely in New Hampshire, for example, when a member of the governor’s staff takes a leave of absence to work for his or her reelection campaign.

What were New Hampshire taxpayers getting for their money when they paid Mead’s salary? What does any taxpayer, particularly those who are undeclared voters or members of a minority party, get when state employees do the work of political parties on the job? Not anything they’d willingly pay for. The next session of the Legislature should specifically prohibit on-the-job political activity by all state employees.

Great Idea that, suggesting such a thing.  Wish we’d thought of it. (That’s right we did.

You have to admit that this would have been a great time for some balanced editorializing; to mention of Dick de Seve, or the almost no longer mysterious Gaia, both Democrat state SEA (SEIU) employees with years of recorded abuse of the taxpayers trust for political purposes, on their very web pages.   But no.  (Not very encouraging coming from the “equality” crowd running the Concord bird cage liner.)

For the record, we agree with the Monitor that “state employees” should not engage in political activity while doing state business.  Now if we could get the Monitor to name all the guilty parties without deference to party affiliation.  That would be something to see.

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The Complete Gaia Comment Stream

by Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Public Employee Gaia managed to read, consume, and then comment at the Concord Monitor’s web site some 1200 times in just three years, more often than not during office hours. (Just to clarify this last point, a super majority of time during office hours.)

We could guess that they were doing it during one of their “breaks.”  We know that DES has a very forgiving break policy so perhaps the whole of the bureaucracy is as forgiving?  But then why did Gaia stop commenting all together after we announced our investigation into who they are?

(For those unfamilair, Gaiais the handle of the second State Employee we found spending their work day online, commenting at the Concord Monitor.  The first was SEIU Chapter VP, and DES employee Dick de Seve.  Ed Naile, myself, and Skip Murphy are in the midst of a series of RTK's to discover the depth and width of his abuse and internet abuse in general among public employees.)

As to who Gaia is, we are narrowing down the search, and we’ll let you know when we’ve got that figured out.  (We are very close.)  In the mean time, here are the links to the Scribd posting of both PDF’s which include all 1200 Gaia comments at the Concord Monitor.  Links to browser versions will be available at GraniteGrok, in the next day or so.

Please feel free to crowd source this.  We have also posted the comment stream of Dick de Seve, which is available in its entirty over at the Grok.

Part one of two

Part two of two

If you would like to report a Public Employee Behaving Badly, email us at grokwatch@granitegrok.com

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Meet Another NH State Employee Wasting Taxpayer Time Online

by Steve MacDonald

We thought DickNH was trying to set a record for a state employee posting comments at the Concord Monitor on taxpayer time.  He was posting comments and promoting his Democrat union agenda during office hours.  But since our discovery and the ongoing effort to pursue a 91-A Right to Know Request to determine just how deep and wide this rabbit hole goes, at least three things have become clear.

1) Prior to March 7th 2012 Dick de Seve (DickNH) was misappropriating significant amounts of taxpayer time and services on State equipment to advance his own personal political agenda, if not more than that.

2) The Department of Environmental Services seems to be in bureaucratic duck and cover mode because the abuse went on almost daily on a public platform for more than three years without notice.

3) Mr. de Seve is not the only state employee whiling away their taxpayer funded days commenting at the NH Democrat Party paper of record, the Concord Monitor.  (We’ll get around to the other papers, be patient.)

We’d like you to meet Gaia, the handle of another state employee whose internet abuse may just put Dick de Seve to shame.

Gaia’s own words reveal them to be a New Hampshire state employee, who is in the public employee union, and posts almost exclusively during weekdays and office hours, just like our good friend DickNH.  Follow this link and read.  You won’t need to look far.  There is almost no effort whatsoever to hide the fact and over 100 comments pages worth.  Make sure you look at the dates and times, we did.

Gaia’s reign of remarkable free time (on your time) began at the Monitor in March of 2009 and as of 10:38am yesterday morning (April 6), had found the opportunity to not just read articles and other comments at the online portal of the Concord, New Hampshire Newspaper, but to respond almost 1200 times.

I have to bet that the handle ‘Gaia’ is starting a few fresh migraines over at the NH Department of Environmental Services (Where DickNH does his best work), a division that attracts the very sort of people who might use the word Gaia as a handle.

We’re not prepared to reveal who this is yet nor are we saying they work at DES.  We are still exploring where else they may be spending our valuable tax dollars during office hours.  But given the grotesque abuse represented by the time spent at the Concord Monitor, we felt compelled to give you something fresh to chew on.

We also wanted to remind all “parties concerned” about this New Hampshire State Statute…

637:8 Theft of Services. –
I. A person commits theft if he obtains services which he knows are available only for compensation by deception, threat, force, or any other means designed to avoid the due payment therefore. “Deception” has the same meaning as in RSA 637:4, II, and “threat” the same meaning as in RSA 637:5, II.

II. A person commits theft if, having control over the disposition of services of another, to which he knows he is not entitled, he diverts such services to his own benefit or to the benefit of another who he knows is not entitled thereto.

III. As used in this section, “services” includes, but is not necessarily limited to, labor, professional service, public utility and transportation services, restaurant, hotel, motel, tourist cabin, rooming house and like accommodations, the supplying of equipment, tools, vehicles, or trailers for temporary use, telephone or telegraph service, gas, electricity, water or steam, admission to entertainment, exhibitions, sporting events or other events for which a charge is made.

IV. This section shall not apply to the attachment of private equipment to residential telephone lines unless the telephone company can prove that the attached equipment will cause direct harm to the telephone system. Attached equipment which is registered with the public utilities commission shall not require a protective interconnecting device. If the telephone company cites this section in its directories or other customer informational material, said company shall duplicate the entire section verbatim therein.

Source. 1971, 518:1. 1977, 175:1, eff. Aug. 7, 1977

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