The NH Court must decide if this project's meeting and records generated in the shadows can be seen in the sun. Should hearings on the expenditure of public funds be open to the public? It came to that!
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I recently filed two Attorney Discipline Office complaints, one against Attorney Hilliard and another against Attorney Bolton for failing to provide me with a properly and equitably marked exhibit book for a December 2023 Trial in which I am seeking records on the downtown barriers and the Nashua Performing Arts Center.
Read MoreWe need the Courts to share our public record interests, as our NH Constitution specifically recognizes, and permit us to challenge the open, accessible, accountable, and responsive actions of our cities. We are not vexatious, frivolous, or bad-faith citizens out to create burdens or harm anyone
Read MoreWhen the Judge issued the decision, she wrongly asserted that I counseled the pro se citizen at the hearing. She cited me for potential criminal action for falsely representing myself as the attorney for this pro se litigant. I am concerned that my city has worked tirelessly to criminalize my RTK efforts even going so far as to have me arrested. Now we have a Judge abetting the City’s extraordinary retaliatory efforts to silence anyone who dares question them?
Read MoreI suspect that the city attorneys know the judges will align with the city, and the court will do its utmost to accommodate the city. This might be a reasonable approach if the City were dealing in good faith and honoring their words stated in court.
Read MoreThe above are instances of three different judges accommodating Mr. Bolton regardless of the burden his demands placed on plaintiffs and court time. It is puzzling why judges would enable Mr. Bolton by accepting his assertion that he would not communicate directly with opposing plaintiffs.
Read MoreThe requester reopened both lawsuits, filed a protective order, a contempt order and an RTK lawsuit. The hearing is on April 22, 2024 at Nashua Superior Court.
Read MoreHB1002 recently passed the House by about a dozen votes and now heads to the Senate for deliberations. This Bill permits municipalities to establish a policy to charge up to $25 per hour for requests that take over 10 hours to fill.
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The PCC and the State must make an example out of Attorney Bolton’s and Attorney Leonard’s despicable practice of municipal law, disbar them and enact oversight to prevent this from happening elsewhere.
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Laws exist that permit citizen access to meetings and records but without the good will of those serving to provide access and records, it all falls apart.
Read MoreEconomic Development Director Cummings and Mr. Lannan, non-resident Nashua Appointee have robbed citizens of our legal rights and are spending tens of millions of dollars without allowing any public oversight.
Read MoreMayor Donchess actually confirmed this at his recent public coffee stating that residential property owners are not subject to any legal action from the City if they do not pay their taxes.
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Mr. Cummings is running covert operations with extravagant projects paid for by taxpayers.
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Mr. Cummings stated that these high costs are because the City wants to engage the public and encourage their participation, especially on the Main Street Downtown project. Really?
Read MoreAt Tuesday’s Budget Hearing, His Honor stated that if it were his choice, he would not be undertaking a property revaluation now. He blamed the state for this mess for ordering the 2022 update. Your Honor’s remarks were disingenuous, incredulous and just plain whiny.
Read MoreRead MoreIt is distinctly unbecoming for a public body such as Nashua to simultaneously attack its citizens for burdening the City by exercising their rights to access public records, and at the same time increasing the burden on itself (and by extension, the taxpayers) by hewing to the strictest reading of the law for no apparent purpose., Attorney Lehmann
The public’s voice should be welcomed at a meeting involving the spending of our tax dollars. I have every right to express my dissatisfaction in the spending of my money in departments I believe are mismanaged.
Read MoreTwo years into covid, the initial flat-footed response was understandable, but we are well past this point and life moves on. Sometimes it takes science a while to figure it out.
Read MoreAldermen/Attorney Dave Tencza has equated the choice on mask wearing to drunk driving. A poorly conceived parallel. “No one has the absolute right to drive drunk.”, said Tencza at Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen meeting.
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