NH House leadership throws another GOP legislator under the bus

Getting crowded under that bus (4.00 / 3)

They threw Rep. Sorg under the bus, too, and he is not happy

A leading House Republican blasted his party leadership Friday for opposing his move to bar the Supreme Court from judging future state aid to public schools.

Rep. Gregory Sorg, R-Easton, said he thought the leadership of House Speaker William O'Brien, R-Mont Vernon, would line up behind his bill (HB 233), which was taken up by the new Special Committee on Education Funding Reform.

"This bill was on leadership's agenda, and now they are saying the Republicans are supposed to kill it," Sorg said. "It's very strange. I was not even informed of this, wasn't consulted at all, and I've been working eight years on the issue."

http://www.nashuatelegraph.com...

O'Brien made Sorg vice chair of judiciary, he must have known, or should have known, this was Sorg's priority bill when he talked to him about serving as vice chair.  



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 14:35:44 PM UTC

When oh when.. (4.00 / 1)

will the Democrats stop throwing these clowns at poor Boss O'Brien?

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by: Mike Emm @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 14:49:08 PM UTC

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Apparently, Republican are pro-abortion (0.00 / 0)

when it comes to legislation.  How many bills can the Republican majority abort and how much will it cost?

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by: hannah @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 16:18:00 PM UTC

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More news from under the bus... (0.00 / 0)

The Judiciary Committee is divided into two divisions, Policy and Administration.  As originally constituted, the Chair (Robert Rowe) Vice Chair (Gregory Sorg) and Clerk (Nancy Elliott protege Lenette Peterson) were on both divisions, making one of the divisions 10 members with only 2 Ds and the other 11 members with only 2 Ds.

When we protested that this violated House Rules which require representation on committees to be proportional to overall House representation, which is currently 25%, the response was to remove Rep. Rowe from one of the two divisions, and to remove Rep. Sorg from both divisions, thus leaving him as the only member of the Judiciary Committee who does not have a regular seat on either division.

Those of you who are good at math will notice that the Ds are still only 2 out of 9 on each division, which does not work out to 25%, but given that Judiciary has only 4 Ds out of 18 members, it is at least proportional to the whole of the committee.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Marcus Aurelius, courtesy of Paul Berch

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by: Lucy Weber @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 23:18:38 PM UTC

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Ohhhh Lucy... (4.00 / 2)

...every time I hear you write about the Judiciary Committee, I feel so sorry about our Dems there.  I know you're doing good things to counter the opposition, though.  Each of the 4 Democrats is worth 4 of them, so you actually outnumber them -- at least in intelligence, vision, and wisdom.  

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 23:55:08 PM UTC

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And another bus question... (0.00 / 0)

Does anyone have any idea why, according to the House web site, Rep. Tony Soltani is not listed on any committee whatsoever?

His page carries a description of the Judiciary Committee, but he is not on our roster, nor, apparently, on any other committee, either.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Marcus Aurelius, courtesy of Paul Berch

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by: Lucy Weber @ Tue Feb 08, 2011 at 00:55:41 AM UTC

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he isn't even on Petitions & Redress (0.00 / 0)

Soltani isn't even on my committee, the Petitions & Redress Committee, which has no work to do.  

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Tue Feb 08, 2011 at 03:09:57 AM UTC

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Wow, that's even fewer bills (0.00 / 0)

...than Constitutional Review and Statutory Recodification.  Gary Richardson reports they have one bill there, one of the firearms ones, which, among other things, would make it a crime for the US attorney to prosecute federal gun offenses if the gun in question was manufactured in Nh.  Or something like that.

So between those two committees, there are about 36 House members who are not working directly on issues that are of critical importance to our citizens.  Of course, the flip side is that it frees you up to monitor and comment on the many other bills currently being heard in various other committees.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. --Marcus Aurelius, courtesy of Paul Berch

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by: Lucy Weber @ Tue Feb 08, 2011 at 12:44:18 PM UTC

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comment (0.00 / 0)

I'm glad to see my new Rep JR Hoell so hard at work. Having stood next to him for 8 hours holding signs at the polls, maybe you get a sense of why I've been so exorcised...it was clear the degree of wackadoo coming down the pike...as to the relationship betwen him and Rep Iste, they are both engineers, so they have a lot in common I suppose.

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 16:11:20 PM UTC

I resemble that remark. My grandfather was an (0.00 / 0)

engineer and so is one of my sons.

It used to be said that "those who can't, teach."  More accurate, I suspect, is "those who can't, preach."  And those who can't meditate, legislate.

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by: hannah @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 16:20:44 PM UTC

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But Hannah... (4.00 / 3)

...your Grandfather and son likely were real engineers.  Hoell and Iste are, at best, wannabe social engineers.  

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 16:25:25 PM UTC

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Your Rep has quite a fascination with guns, doesn't he? (4.00 / 1)

If you look at the list of bills he is sponsoring, most have something to do with firearms.

One of his bills, HB542, is kind of odd. It says among other things that people who home school their children have the right to tattoo or brand them, prostitute them, or otherwise endanger them. I don't know which is scarier: that he wants to do this  or that he doesn't know that he is doing this.

It might be a good idea to keep a record of your Reps bills for the next election.

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by: Mike Emm @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 16:41:12 PM UTC

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have done so (0.00 / 0)

have sent to my rep in exile who was most appreciative of the serving up on a platter of wing nut-ettry...

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 18:12:19 PM UTC

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Why aren't they posting their press releases (0.00 / 0)

on their own website?  Why use the NH Insider site?  This is creepy.

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 18:00:47 PM UTC

Timing issue (0.00 / 0)

They have now. My guess it was just the private sector (NH Insider) being more nimble than the public sector (NH House Republican Office).

;-)

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by: Mike Emm @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 20:25:52 PM UTC

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for 75K (0.00 / 0)

for 75K you can't post a release faster than a bliggity blogger?

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

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by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 20:33:03 PM UTC

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Dude's not (4.00 / 1)

getting a Hoell lot of love.

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by: susanthe @ Mon Feb 07, 2011 at 21:53:17 PM UTC

that sounds like a song cue! (0.00 / 0)

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by: TimothyHorrigan @ Tue Feb 08, 2011 at 00:17:25 AM UTC

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