It seems like this should be a concise article. Obviously, a Chinese Cartel is far more dangerous, and every effort should be made to eradicate it. Well, you would be wrong. Why would I write an article comparing the real threat of Chinese Cartels and the myth of parents who protest school boards as terrorists? I am using this space to shine a light on Merrick Garland and the Justice Department for the priority they placed on the parents and their alliance with the Chinese.

I have written numerous articles about the Chinese Pot Farming Cartel that have quickly spread throughout Maine and many other states. We have also pointed out the efforts of local and state law enforcement teams. We have also reported on the pleas of the Maine federal delegation, and then the letter from 50 Senators and Representatives sent to Attorney General Garland asking for help.

These calls for help have been made since August of 2023 and remain unanswered. I have a letter from Senator Susan Collins and one I just received today from Representative Jared Golden telling of the frustration experienced as they wait for a response from Garland. So, how does this antipathy by the AG compare to his response to the call for help with the parents or domestic terrorists?

The pandemic introduced many challenges to our lives, and the decision to shut down our schools may have a more significant impact than masks, shelter in place, or vaccines in the future. Parents were frustrated and became active and vocal about protecting their children. Their presence at school board meetings was an opportunity to voice their concerns. Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, saw these parents as a threat to teachers and administrators. She reached out to Garland and Biden for help. Weingarten must have pushed the right button because Garland and Biden jumped and had the FBI jump in unison.

Randi Weingarten not only got the attention of the Administration with one letter but was invited to assist in how the FBI would proceed at targeting parents who would be labeled as Domestic Terrorists. The threat of vocal parents was deemed an immediate threat requiring a quick response, yet the Chinese Cartels have yet to get the attention of the President and AG in eight months.

When I first wrote about the illegal Chinese pot farmers, we thought it was just a Maine situation. We now know that the issue is far more severe than pot, and the problem is national. In addition to the 270 farms identified in Maine, there are thousands in California, Washington, Oregon, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Nevada. These pot farms are causing an environmental problem as they illegally grow and distribute pot. Still, these Chinese nationals, many identified as illegal aliens, are also involved in human and sex trafficking, money laundering, and drug distribution and, in many cases, are funded by cash from federal migrant programs. That fact means that many of these illegal farms were set up with your tax dollars.

This article is not about the specifics of the Chinese Cartel but about the confused priorities of the Administration and Justice Department. It is about letters from 50 members of Congress asking for help but screaming into a void. The longer they ignore requests for help, the more they need to explain why they are complicit with these Chinese operators. We do nothing about spy balloons, Fentanyl, the buying of land around our military installations, TikTok, illegal pot farming, human trafficking, and stealing intellectual property. The inaction indicates the Chinese have this president and Administration in their pocket. I told the story, you decide.

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Considering that the RTK Tax, aka HB 1002, still needs to go to the whole House, it’s not yet dead, but in hospice care. I expect Rep Kuttab and Judge Lynn to perform CPR on it from the Reps Hall mic with the same fervor that an ambulance crew responds to a 911 call.  It’s just a question of who drives and who tends the patient bedside.

I’ll discuss this battery unit pair from Windham in more detail in a moment, but consider this “Part Deux” of my previous article.

I’ve modified the title for a few reasons.  One of them is that it’s already known that anyone can email any senator using their “leg.state.nh.us” email if they so choose, which I recommend at least copying to, hence my focus on just the House.  Emailing a government address gets your attempt to make contact on the record.  I used the “jury still out” comment anecdotally because I’m talking about lawyers, and there are seemingly way too many of them involved in the People’s Work to count.

A follow-up piece is in order because Granite Staters need and deserve an update on the situation since my last piece.  After submitting it, I watched the House Judiciary’s executive session (you can do the same by using this link and advance to 1:32:15 if you have the next hour to spare).  That hour is so full of discussion on how hard Kuttab worked on HB 1002, her amendment, and her project of keeping a spreadsheet of all 50 states’ RTK law details.

Um, isn’t that what OLS and staff are for?

I also observed that Mr. Testerman, one committee member who uses a personal email address, played hookey.

Marjorie Smith, the other member who uses personal email INSTEAD OF a government-issued address, revealed to the committee that she’s an active advocate for privacy, hence the preference for personal email, I suppose.  That was said at 2:16:59 when she called out Judge Lynn for talking about helping Kuttab with her application to law school!

Yup, he started singing her praises (as a future law student) at 2:10:10, and therefore, I suggest that their relationship be investigated for any impropriety. Before anyone’s imagination runs wild, you don’t have to block the kiddos from reading this. I’m talking in the professional, scholastic, ethical, and political sense.

I could go on to explore other government bodies and which members use government email addresses and those who don’t because I’ve been told it varies. However, I’m keeping my focus on the state legislature, but if someone else wants to focus on local boards, committees, and commissions, I’d be interested in the findings.

Meanwhile, I am still waiting for a reply from Attorney Lehmann and/or the Senate Judiciary members to my early Wednesday morning email that asks if non-government email accounts(of the legislature) are subject to 91A.  They might think it’s now moot, but the answer still matters.

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Friday’s mail brought an anonymous missive following regarding the apparent misuse of public funds by outgoing Gunstock General Manager Tom Day, who, it appears, used the Gunstock postage meter for postage to mail some type of personal payment from him to the City of Portland, Maine.

How do we know it was from Tom Day? Well, his name and return address appear on the envelope.

Assuming he did not reimburse Gunstock for the postage, the obvious next question is whether this misuse of public funds is limited to the general manager only or do other Gunstock employees do the same thing. Standing alone, this single instance is not much money, but multiplying it by a number of employees starts to get to more serious money.

I assume that this was caught and sent by an unnamed Gunstock staff member who saw the outgoing mail with the Gunstock meter stamp and was outraged.

And the Gunstock acolytes emphatically claim that there is no need for a forensic audit!

Note: Letter image rotated for publication. You can see the original here.

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As Joe Biden’s dementia becomes increasingly difficult to hide, the Left (by which I mean the media) is doing what you’d expect. Projecting. There has been an increase in chatter about Trump’s mental health, which proves what? Joe is nuts, and there’s no hiding it.

Distract, distract, distract.

As we creep toward November, successive broadsides from a range of third-party actions will attempt to show that Mr. Trump is not mentally competent (among other things) or just dangerous.

We are (each of us) welcome to whatever opinion keeps us warm at night, but the odds are very good that Trump will have enough delegates when the sun rises Wednesday morning. There is no escaping that or this.

New Trump ad absolutely destroys Biden

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— Alex Bruesewitz (@alexbruesewitz) March 9, 2024

While there is a lot to be said about what you can show people on television if they are not experiencing the hurt the way many Americans do, it won’t be enough. Joe’s public exposure as president is bad, but it is “Joe’s” policies (Democrat policies) that should doom the Left.

It’ll take more than some videos of Joe falling on his face, especially since he won’t be the nominee when the election rolls around, and just about everyone knows it but Joe. So, while it is a neat and necessary trick to show what Democrats will elect (no matter what it does to the country), we need to do more.

I do feel obligated to include the disclaimer that none of that matters if the elections are not cleaned up in key states before November or if the turnout for Trump is not beyond the Left’s ability to steal it. Polling in the margins is not enough, and the Democrats have the Deep State, the Censorship Industrial Complex, the Blob, globalist Western nations, Russia, China, and the media on their side.

We need a plan. Plans within plans.

I have some ideas, but I’m open to suggestions.

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