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An Open Letter To Will Infantine

by: Peter Sullivan

Sun May 31, 2009 at 19:48:54 PM EDT


Hon. Will Infantine
Chair
Manchester Republican City Committee
89 Windward Lane
Manchester, NH 03104

Dear Rep. Infantine,

This afternoon, I was told about a posting on the NH Insider web site. This post included a picture of me taken from a password-protected section of the NH Bar Association web site and a picture from a family gathering that was found on my sister's Facebook page.

In addition to dragging my non-political family members into the fray, this poster made several allegations that are clearly false. I represented Larry Murray in a minor traffic dispute several years ago; I have never considered him a personal friend, nor have I ever socialized with him in any manner.

I think we both know that this post came from Joe Kelly Levasseur and Keith Hirschmann. Now, I understand that you are friends with Joe and Keith, despite their long history of unacceptable behavior. I don't expect you to end that friendship. However, as the chair of the Manchester Republican City Committee, I am calling on you to, in no uncertain terms, denounce and repudiate the politics of personal destruction practiced by Levasseur and Hirschmann.

Over the last year and a half, I have endured verbal and written attacks on my wife, midnight crank calls from Levasseur's employees, and even a death threat. I suspect that if a local politician were to turn his fire on Christine or on your daughters, you would be far less accepting of their actions.

I await your prompt reply.

Peter M. Sullivan

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This is despicable behavior, Peter, and you're right to ask Rep. Infantine to use his position w/in the Manchester GOP to call for an end to these acts.

It has no place here in Manchester, no matter what one's political affiliation or ideology. There will be plenty of policy debates in the fall campaigns, but no city committee should implicitly sanction privacy-invading political tactics.

BTW, you also may want to inquire with the NH Bar about discovering who accessed your information and for remedies or sanctions under its ethics rules for its members publicizing private information that is property of the Bar.  



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