NH House Redress of Grievances Committee Needs Your Support!

by | Apr 13, 2012 | 16 comments

New Hampshire State Representative Kevin Avard (R) (Hills-20) is doing amazing work on giving voice to people who have suffered abuses by the NH Judicial Branch in his new show “Speak Up New Hampshire.”

I was honored when Rep. Avard asked me to be his second guest to speak of the abuses suffered by Ademo Freeman and Jason Talley of Keene by the hands of the judiciary. That interview now has over 1,000 views.

Rep. Avard is shining a much needed spotlight on a branch of government that operates almost completely unaccountable to anyone.

He also needs your help.

Rep. Avard is asking that all people who support accountability in the New Hampshire Judicial Branch come to a press conference he is holding at the Legislative Office Building (LOB) in Concord next week in support of House Speaker William L. O’Brien’s continued support of the Redress of Grievances Committee.

I’d argue that whether your individual political ideology makes you a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Voluntaryist, Anarchist, Communist, or simply someone who doesn’t care about politics at all, you should agree that criminal public officials need to be held accountable by someone.

04/17/12 (Tuesday) at 12:00PM
Legislative Office Building
33 North State Street
Concord, NH 03301

Old Media Advocates Dissolution of Grievance Panel

by | Apr 12, 2012 | 10 comments

In a sadly obeisant editorial, the Concord Monitor snuggles up to “the state”:

The House Redress of Grievances Committee is an artifact of colonial-era New Hampshire that for 150 years remained embalmed in the state Constitution. Last year House Speaker Bill O’Brien summoned the committee back from the dead, ostensibly to serve as a check on the power of the courts and public officials and agencies.

The committee is New Hampshire’s version of the 17th-century British star chamber, albeit one that holds its sessions in public. It is not required to obey the rules of law and evidence. (more…)