In celebration of American Independence, a Louisiana Judge blocked the Feds from colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans on social media. This was meant to stop the FBI, CIA, CDC, and others from pressuring the platforms to remove content at their discretion. Biden Inc. was not amused.

The Biden administration is appealing a court ruling sharply limiting the ability of federal officials to interact with social media companies about the content contained on their platforms.

In addition, a Justice Department official said Wednesday night that attorneys there plan to act “expeditiously” to seek a stay of the unusual injunction issued on July 4 by U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty in response to a lawsuit filed by Louisiana and Missouri last year. …

The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal Wednesday evening that will send Doughty’s opinion and the accompanying injunction to the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals for review. That court is considered one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the nation, but previously ruled against Doughty on a couple of disputes about demands for depositions of federal officials in the same litigation.

They won’t find much joy at the Fifth Circuit. But as Politico suggests, an order to revisit the breadth of the ban might be possible. The question turns on this. Will the Fifth Circuit view the actions of the government through big Tech proxies as censorship in violation of America’s First Amendment Rights?

The Feds infiltrated and coordinated with private companies to control what people were allowed to publish or share. Censorship rebranded as stopping misinformation or disinformation. Actions that interfered (or meddled) with election communications.

I don’t think the Feds have a leg to stand on, but like Pooh Bear used to say, you never can tell with bees Circuit Court Judges.

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54% of Americans believe that Joe Biden is doing a lousy job as President. 51% do not approve of the performance of Kamala Harris. Only 34% approve of Biden’s economic performance, and those same people support Biden’s Border policies. A mere 39% polled think Biden has a grip on foreign policy. If your child came home from school with this report card, they might find themselves without certain freedoms for a few weeks. If you were generous, you would give Joe a solid D or about the same grade he got in law school. This Presidency is a disaster and the only reason Jimmy Carter is hanging tough. He wants to ensure he loses his worst rating ever to Joseph Biden.

Two facts Biden, Harris, and Karine Jean-Pierre fall back on when discussing the economy are job and pay growth. Both need asterisks and disclaimers. The 13 million new jobs include the 12 million lost during the Pandemic. You cannot claim new job creation when people return to their pre-COVID positions. When inflation falls back to Earth from a nearly double-digit high, the modest rise in hourly rates is not keeping pace with inflation. Much of the rate increase comes from continued jumps in the minimum wage. These minimum wage increases harm small business owners the most, resulting in rising costs or businesses closing. These added costs add to inflation, and the lousy cycle continues. This is life in the real world, and why nobody is buying into Bidenomics.

Biden went to South Carolina this week to promote Bidenomics. South Carolina is one of the booming Southern states pulling people and businesses from the Northeast and West. There is a boom in states like Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Florida, and the Carolinas because they are more attractive for many reasons. The crime rates are lower, some of these states have no state income tax, real estate is more affordable, and many are right to work, meaning less union control. This migration is because of forces due to us being a Republic. States can create their economic environment and attract people from other states. Biden does not understand these forces and claims to be the reason for the economic boom. This is simply not true. The boom in these states is despite, not because of, Federal policies. That was not enough for Biden, who had to go even further in his lie. He claimed his policies were better for Red states than Blue states. He was okay with these results because he is President for all Americans, Red or Blue. Even going into his patented whisper, nobody buys what Biden is serving. Bidenomics will be more of a liability than a benefit for Biden in 2024.

Biden and Harris cannot deliver the message, which is why their approval ratings are falling. Bidenomics may have worked for Biden’s Dad, but it does not work for America. Biden claims he is for the middle and lower classes, but if he keeps penalizing the upper class, there will be no growth, and we will continue to be a service, not a production, economy.

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Okay… So, by now you have probably heard that Ben & Jerry’s, in a “Hold my Bud Light” attempt to see who can alienate the most customers with one Tweet, kicked off July 4th with the statement, “It’s high time we recognize that the US exists on stolen Indigenous land and commit to returning it.”

Please welcome Robert Roper, who will be joining us as an author/contributor when VermontGrok opens its doors.

The PR equivalent of blowing your fingers off with an M-80.

A more detailed press release explained, “Who doesn’t love a good parade, some tasty barbecue, and a stirring fireworks display? The only problem with all that, though, is that it can distract from an essential truth about this nation’s birth: The US was founded on stolen Indigenous land. This year, let’s commit to returning it.” The company, which was purchased by Unilever in 2000 for $326 million, then suggested that we start by giving the Black Hills, including Mount Rushmore, to the Lakota Sioux.

So, here’s my question. If the US government, having stolen this land from the Sioux, gives it back to them, will the Sioux then give it back to the Cheyenne, the Native American tribe the Sioux stole the Black Hills from less than 75 years before the US Government signed the first treaty granting the Sioux rights to the land? Who the Cheyenne stole it from is beyond this author’s knowledge of Native American history, but presumably, it was someone. Where are the Clovis people today?

Donning my Woke Hat for a moment, isn’t it a rather Eurocentric view of history and social justice to assign these theoretical ownership rights to whoever happened to be occupying the land at the time white men “discovered” it? Isn’t that a cultural devaluation of all Native American history before the arrival of Europeans on the scene?

The fact is that Native American tribes were constantly at war with one another, taking and occupying one another’s territory through brutal acts of violent conquest, often capturing the members of rival tribes into slavery – sex slavery if you were a young woman, which was the style at the time.

When the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth in 1620, Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag tribe, allowed them to stay (breaking a long-understood, universal Native policy toward Europeans of “trade then leave”) and gave them aid not so much out of charity, but because the Wampanoags were about to have their land taken away by the Narragansett tribe. Massasoit thought these new immigrants – and their guns – would be handy allies in preventing such an attack. It worked! At least in the short term. Long term, let’s just say there are lessons to be learned from the experience.

When Francisco Pizarro began his improbable conquest of the Inca empire, he was greatly aided by the fact that the Inca chief Atahualpa was in the middle of and distracted by his own war for imperial power, his armies away conquering distant lands and not immediately available to protect against conquistadors arriving by sea.

This is not meant to disparage the Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere; it’s just to show that human history everywhere is the story of one people taking another people’s land one way or another since the beginning of time. We are “One Race, the Human Race,” and we all behave the same way, for good and bad.

On the other side of the Atlantic, the Saxons took the land of the Britons. The Vikings took the same land from the Saxons. The Saxons took it back until the Normans conquered England in 1066. The Romans conquered Europe. Mongol hoards swept through Asia. When Alexander does it, he’s Great. When Ivan does it, he’s Terrible. Historical juries are fickle.

If you’re going to start giving land back to its “original” occupiers, where do you start, and where do you stop? It’s an impossible task, complicated by the fact that the victims of any injustice have been dead for multiple generations, and those being punished today for those past transgressions are innocent of any crimes, which creates its own new set of fresh injustices and grievances sure to poison the present and future without actually healing the past.

If we all go far enough back in our 23 and Me profiles, we can assuredly find ancestors on both sides of the social injustice scale. Heck, someone calculated that 16 million of us are direct decedents of Genghis Kahn. Should these folks pay reparations for the actions of their ancestor? Or receive them given that their relationship was likely the result of great, great, great, great, great grandma being raped?

At some point, you have to accept that the past is the past. It is what it is. Learn from it and use its lessons to move on into a better world for all.  Let’s be glad – and eternally grateful – that we now live in a very unique time and place in human history where property rights are respected, and wars of conquest are generally frowned upon rather than glorified. It’s a good thing that we look at the history of how Native Americans were treated and conclude as a society that this was bad behavior that should not be repeated. You cannot fix history, but you can use it to build a better future.

So, how about we use our Independence Day to pledge to keep this new and fragile record of progress regarding human rights and the continued eradication of poverty and violence worldwide moving in the right direction for future generations to enjoy? Let’s thank the rise of capitalism and the evolution of governing philosophies embodied in our Constitution and Bill of Rights for their huge role in ushering in this unprecedented time of peace and prosperity where anybody from anywhere can be a success — even two ungrateful hippies getting rich selling luxury ice cream.

Rob Roper is a freelance writer with 20 years of experience in Vermont politics, including three years of service as chair of the Vermont Republican Party and nine years as President of the Ethan Allen Institute, Vermont’s free-market think tank.

Cross-posted | RobertRoper on Substack

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When I filed my last Right To Know with DCYF, I had tagged these last few items. Number of data breaches; Timestamp, and Number of records exposed/each incident. And I thought about that afterward, and I came to the conclusion that more needed to be asked of this area.

After all, I grow weary of seeing Government taking much (or TOO much) time in reporting their own breaches but hypocritically turning around and actively going after the private sector for the same thing. Every time I think, “Who are YOU to tell others how to manage their affairs but can’t do it themselves?”

Sidenote: funny, the Trump Administration decided to move in a direction that would leave us citizens alone to make our own decisions. Biden, on the other hand, has decided that we all are morons and must be told what to do – yet keeps on making a mockery of itself.  But I digress…

Anyways, given that it was MY information put at risk, I was curious as to how the NH government, especially DCYF, handles our personal affairs.

Right to Know Request per RSA 91-A: “Family Connections” Data Breaches

Article 2-b of the NH Constitution by which all agents of NH Government (elected and administrative workers) shall obey:

[Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.]An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:

From the DCYF system that aggregates putative contact information of family members of accused suspects of abuse or neglect of a child such that they are sent the contact information of care providers for that child:

• Provide the number of data breaches since the “Go Live” date (when the system/subsystem was vetted for use for certain DCYF personnel in the performance of their duties) accomplished by either by State personnel or external actors (regardless of the “breach size”):
  • Timestamp of each incident
  • Number of records exposed per each incident.
• Provide the “we screwed up” confirmation announcement utilized to communicate the breach to each affected person/entity.
• For each breach, provide:
  • the number of care providers affected.
  • the number of accused affected
• Provide the remedy/remedy’s offered by the State, to those affected by the breach for remediation of the loss of their identity information
• Provide the total cost to the State/the State’s insurance companies spent:
  • remediation costs
  • legal defense actions (either through pre-court agreements, plea deals, court actions, et al)

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is a valid reason that it is not reasonably practicable for you to produce these records in the requested format, I ask that you either do so or explain why it is not practicable for you to comply.

Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails) which may have been deleted from respective In mailboxes/Sent mailboxes or local folders but are still available on the applicable email server or in your / email host’s backup systems or file server(s) or other archival systems.

Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder for all of your responsive records to which they can be uploaded.

Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

-Skip
Skip Murphy
Skip@GraniteGrok.com

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How does a person who is so feeble and lacking enough cognitive activity to complete a sentence cause so much damage to our fundamental rights and freedoms?

Joe Biden and his administration devise new and creative ways daily to curb our freedoms endowed upon us by God, not the government. A Federal judge issued a 150-page injunction slamming the Biden Administration for their activities during the Pandemic and putting a stop to dangerous practices and actions such as:

• Meeting
• Emailing
• Flagging
• Calling
• Collaborating
• Threatening
• Urging
• Following up
• Issuing BOLOS for censored content with social media.

In a preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Terry Doughty, the judge ordered several federal agencies and more than a dozen top officials not to communicate with social media companies about taking down “content containing protected free speech” posted on the platforms. The ruling is significant as the injunction results from many facets of our government interfering with Free Speech, with the worst offender being Joe Biden and his Administration. Types of information censored were the Pandemic, Biden policies, campaigns, and election integrity.

Officials subject to the injunction include White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Justice Department and FBI employees, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. The case was brought forth by Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, now a GOP senator from the Show-Me State. Landry and Schmitt showed a plethora of examples of censored or suppressed social postings and, ultimately, social media accounts deleted at the request of the Biden Administration.

The most hypocritical part of this chapter in the Biden Presidency is his claim that this would be the most transparent administration in history and that he was bringing decency and morality back to the White House. I do not see how censorship of your opposition and an all-out assault on our First Amendment fits into any of Joe’s claims.

Instead of apologizing to the American people and assuring us that this practice is done and will not repeat, Biden has doubled down. The administration has appealed the injunction. This thinking can only mean they are convinced their work to shut down free speech is legal and justified. They have little respect for the Constitution, which is why Biden was confusing it with our Declaration of Independence. It angers me that nobody calls out the President when he makes an obvious mistake.

Joe Biden and his team of misfits are turning our White House into a frat house. Hunter lived there for weeks to avoid being served for the support case in Arkansas. Biden hosts a Pride Month celebration, and we have topless women on the North Lawn. This week we discover a bag of Cochin in the West Wing. If this is how Biden describes a moral White House, it is understandable why he makes mistakes daily. Biden is not in control of his faculties, so naked women, bags of drugs, and an assault on the First Amendment are just another day in the life of Joe Biden.

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The Bennington Banner has an article up applauding another bucket of someone else’s money. Vermont is allegedly getting 229 million for a broadband buildout.  The editors and the Banner left out a critical and necessary point in their headline.

You wrote: “Vermont to receive $229 million from Federal Government for broadband buildout.”

Should Be: “Vermont to receive $229 million from children and grandchildren robbed by Federal Government for broadband buildout.”

The Bennington Banner is most certainly stuffed to the gills with progressives who know better—the sort of people who whine about social justice and voting rights. The Feds are over thirty trillion in debt, with the interest on that debt rising. A mountain of responsibility piled on the backs of generations who have not been born and didn’t get to vote on it.

What happened to no justice, no peace?

“This country once made a historic effort to bring electricity to rural America,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. “Today, we must make every effort to do the same for broadband. In the year 2023, high-speed internet must be treated as the new electricity – a fundamental and essential public utility for every member of the community, no matter their income or geography. I look forward to seeing this historic investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which we passed in the Senate in August 2021, bring quality broadband to hard-to-reach pockets of Vermont that have gone without internet for too long.”

“We have a real opportunity to transform rural America, in large part thanks to the Biden Administration’s commitment to rural broadband,” said Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt. “This essential service – which is key to running a successful small business, connecting with family, and getting medical care in small towns – is also key to revitalizing our rural communities. We cannot be left behind in the digital transformation, and this funding will ensure that isn’t the case.”

The Political Elite is printing another 2.45 Billion for this pet project, and while I have no issues with improving connectivity, you should have the decency to admit who will pay for it.

Legions of gender-cult mutilated children who have yet to cast a vote or work a day in their lives. Every dime you spend, have spent, in at least the past few decades, has created an unfair and exponential commitment over which they had no voice. And it makes no difference what the object. Democrats applaud spending for the sake of spending, sending trillion to Ukraine while complaining about homelessness and crime, which is a byproduct not just of their policies but of their spending.

Locals (in Vermont, New Hampshire, or anywhere else) bragging about getting money from a nation over 30 trillion in debt who also claim concern over misinformation or disinformation might want to start writing more honest headlines to clarify who is paying for it in their copy.

It’s not free. It is not the rich who will pay. It is everyone else, and more than you’d like to admit, taxes due on labors, not yer performed because they have yet to be born to be taxed.

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So to recap:

• NH DCYF sent my personal information to people I don’t know so they could contact the Granddaughter that we are caring for (6/30).
• I demanded, via RSA 91-A Right To Know, how DCYF decides who gets to give it to those people I don’t know – what are their protocols.

And now, I demanded information on the system / subsystem that is in use by DCYF that creates that list of people that would receive the private info (re: location) of where care givers. My granddaughter was amazed at the names that were reeled off over the phone by the DCYF representative. MY response was “what system do they have in order to get that information, determine the correct relationships, and who has access to that information?”.  So, another RTK – this time on some of the technical aspects of such a system (assuming it is computer based – and I have no reason to believe it isn’t).

BTW, DBMS stands for Database Management System:

Right to Know Request per RSA 91-A: “Family Connections” DBMS

Article 2-b of the NH Constitution by which all agents of NH Government (elected and administrative workers) shall obey:

[Art.] 2-b. [Right of Privacy.] An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.

Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the following governmental records:

First:

• Produce the form that which my wife and me, as currently unlicensed Grandparents, signed giving DCYF permission to share our personal contact information to those people that we don’t know (or they, us).

Second – (IF an in-house system, even if hosted by an outsourced hosting service):

For the Division of Children,Youth and Families, provide the name of the database system (along with its supporting subsystems) that, when queried by DCYF staff with single given name, returns non-accused family members (immediate, secondary, tertiary, including those no longer part of a family due to divorce, et al) and their personal information such that DCYF can send them notification where any placed child can be reached.

Example: enter the name of an alleged abuse/neglect suspect and the DBMS returns records (and their personal information such that those people can be notified where a placed child can be found to foster family communications after being removed from the home.

Second – To also be included in the Responsive Records to this part of this RSA 91-A demand, provide the following if being used as an in-house system (if a software-as-service solution is being used, see Third, below):

• The commercial name of the database management system (e.g., Microsoft SQL, Oracle, RDB, MySQL, Neo4J, MongoDB, et al) used to house “family connections” as described above.
• Type of DBMS:
  • SQL/Relational
  • Non-relational
  • Object-oriented
• The name of the hosting company as applicable (if not installed in-house):
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Liquid Web
  • Other(s)

Audit Trail:

• The Request For Proposal (“RFP”) sent to prospective vendors.
• The listing of vendors contacted to demonstrate their wares
• The scoring results of each according to the RFP.
• The methodology used to evaluate the prospective DBMSs in processing the DCYF sample load including the methodology’s point/scoring system
• The “point/scoring award” results for each of the vendors after the testing phase

 

• The name of the winning vendor
• The final contract and pricing, including (but not limited to):
  • purchase price
  • Pricing model: seats, capacity measurements
  • ongoing maintenance pricing per time period
  • automatic maintenance price increasing (if automatic)
  • training classes
  • webinars
    • on-site (e.g., admin, programming, in-house support)
    • off-site (including travel costs)
    • manuals (as applicable)
• The implementation project plan showing major milestones and those costs vs (estimated vs actual)
• Names of the NH State Government (employees, elected officials)
  • sign off of the winner
  • signing the contract.
• The final cost of the implementation project management process.
• The number of times that the support contract has been renewed and each version’s pricing.
• Promised uptime/availability of the system as a whole

Current:

• Actual uptime/availability since “Go Live” to now
• Approximate size (in TB)
• Capacity utilization (all standard measures).
• Number of queries/day average
• Number of search results/day average
  • Non-zero
  • Null
• Personnel training/certification

 

• Rate of growth of content
• Enumerate the external sources / methodologies utilized in content lifetime for DBMS content:
  • acquiring
  • modifying
  • deleting
• Number of data breaches
  • Timestamp
  • Number of records exposed/each incident.

Third – IF a commercial software-as-service solution is used instead of an in-house system (even if then hosted by a commercial entity such as AWS or Azure):

• Repeat the above Responsive Record demands as applicable

Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.

As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is a valid reason that it is not reasonably practicable for you to produce these records in the requested format, I ask that you either do so or explain why it is not practicable for you to comply.

Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records. This also includes such responsive records (e.g., emails) which may have been deleted from respective In mailboxes/Sent mailboxes or local folders but are still available on the applicable email server or in your / email host’s backup systems or file server(s).

Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection. If you have questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder for all of your responsive records to which they can be uploaded.

Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

-Skip
Skip Murphy
Skip@GraniteGrok.com

I do wonder if anyone else that DCYF decides to pick on has the gumption and know-how to fight back without a lawyer? Would love to shake their hand!

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We got ourselves a presidential election, and Americans for Prosperity Action is getting involved. They sent out a mailer with the happy lead that “America’s Best Days Could Be Ahead.”  I agree. Then I flipped it over.

I’m curious how they know that and why, if they are so certain, they aren’t spending money to help fix the problem. It’s the sensible way to go. Trump is blowing away everyone almost everywhere except Minnesota, where he only has a one-point lead on DeSantis.

But otherwise, Republican voters want Trump.

I get it. The whole Trump is undesirable to the independent’s thing—and the alleged threat of a down-ticket washout. I actually have a cure. We treat the Trump candidacy the same way the same folks tell us to take the next political class RINO they put in front of us, regardless of office. Hold your nose and vote for them.

And what makes them think the Democrats won’t do the same thing to whomever Republicans pick or that it matters? If we get the 2022 treatment, the left is going to wash out the down-ticket races the same way they wash out the top of the ticket.

The cure for that is an unstoppable freight train and people willing to vote for anyone but a Democrat, no matter who that is, because we’ve articulated the separation correctly.

AFP Action decided to tell us we need someone besides Trump. They can’t say who that would be. It is outside their approved advocacy. So you are welcome to speculate.

Is Chris Christie better than Trump? Traitors Pence or Haley? Vivek. Gov. Ron? I’d take them over Biden or any Dem, but are they the people we need to de-weaponize the FBI, CIA, IRS, DOE, Big Tech, CDC/FDA, and the rest?

I just don’t see it. I also don’t see it much mattering unless we can convince Mary Ann Williamson and RFK jr to run as third-party/indies off-ticket. If we can’t divert millions of votes, the Democrats would then also need to steal in swing states no Republican is winning.

AFP should be working on mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting campaigns, and every lefty-legal loophole they can find to match the Dems ballot for ballot.

Everything else is just window dressing.

And I think Trump can win if everyone acknowledges that if he gets the nomination, we have to get him over the finish line. No excuses.

This is not, by the way, an endorsement.

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I have had discussions with the Attorney Discipline Office (ADO) about Nashua’s Corporation Counsel and his fitness for duty. I tried to address this matter confidentially first with an Alderman, then the Board of Alderman, and the Mayor. The topic was too hot to touch. I then turned to the ADO.

The Supreme Court has no method available for citizens to report a fitness for duty or mental health matter for people practicing in the legal profession. I witnessed a shift in Corporation Counsel’s performance after he suffered a stroke. He appeared unable to perform his job or control his temper. He became abusive, explosive, and harassing. The personal targeting appeared outside the bounds of his legal professional conduct rules.

The ADO Deputy informed me that I could not file a complaint on mental health or fitness for duty issues. Only the ADO could act on those types of problems, and they would report the matter to the Supreme Court.

One wonders how that works. How does the ADO receive information if they won’t accept the public’s complaints? I asked the ADO and received no response. Apparently, there is an antiquated grapevine system at work. I understand that these matters are sensitive, but I am somewhat insensitive to these “sensitivity concerns” having been the target of this attorney’s uncontrolled attacks. The Supreme Court’s approach to sweeping the matter under the rug, particularly given the type of work an attorney performs, can be extremely consequential. For me, it has been extremely consequential.

I recently attended a court hearing, and after the hearing, Corporation Counsel engaged in a personal, red-faced, angry, agitated attack on me. This attack was witnessed by an individual who was stunned and noted that they had never before seen that level of hatred directed from one person towards another. They were afraid he would physically attack me. The encounter was witnessed by the Nashua Deputy Corporation Counsel, who said nothing.

Those closest to Corporation Counsel appear to have chosen silence rather than addressing this sensitive issue to safeguard the Counselor and the City. This approach has created snowballing legal costs and serious liabilities for the municipality.

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