Cheshire County Candidates Forum

The Cheshire County Candidates Forum will be held October 16 at 2pm in the Ruth Huntress Auditorium of the Keene Public Library. A total of 27 candidates from 3 parties were invited, 9 candidates have accepted the invitation to attend.

This event will be recorded with plans to submit the forum to Cheshire TV for broadcast before the election. Additionally, arrangements are being made to livestream the event online.

There will be sample ballots available for all 5 Wards in Keene and a table will be available for candidates to distribute literature.

The forum schedule will be followed as closely as possible.

Cheshire County Candidates Forum Schedule:
2PM event begins introduction & explain format
Larry Phillips -State Rep. Cheshire 5 (10 minutes) – 2 minute opening statement, 8 minute Q&A with questions from moderator & audience (90 second response)
Hardy Macia – US Congress 2 (15 minutes) – 2 minute opening statement, 13 minute Q&A questions from moderator & audience (90 second response)
John Babiarz – Governor (15 minutes) – 2 minute opening statement, 13 minute Q&A questions from moderator & audience (90 second response)
Twenty five (25) minute debates will be held for each of the three races with multiple candidates attending. The debates will have 4 parts:
1) each candidate will have 90 seconds to make an opening statement;
2) 8 minute Q&A with questions from the moderator (alternating first response – first candidate to respond gets 60 seconds, second candidate gets 60 seconds, first candidate gets 30 seconds to rebut;
3) “Rapid Fire” questions from the audience – each question answered by only 1 candidate, 60 second response (each candidate will have 3 rapid fire questions)
4) each candidate 60 second closing.
Darryl W. Perry & Anna Tilton – Register of Deeds
Keith Carlsen & Tim Robertson – State Rep. Cheshire 6
Ian Freeman & Chuck Weed – State Rep. Cheshire 16
4PM event ends

Updates: Darryl W. Perry vs City of Keene, et al

In exactly 2 weeks in Keene District Court, the case of Darryl W. Perry vs. City of Keene, Fred Parsells & Gary LaFreniere will go before a judge at District Court in Keene for a “Hearing on the Merits.”

Last week, I received an envelope from Erik G. Moskowitz – the attorney for the City – containing a 7 page “Motion to Dismiss.” That motion can be downloaded here. (more…)

Cheshire County Candidates Forum

When: Tue, October 16, 2pm – 4pm
Where: Ruth Huntress Auditorium at the Keene Public Library
Description: All ballot listed candidates for Governor, US Congress, State Senate (district 10), State Rep. (Cheshire 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 16) and Cheshire County offices (Sheriff, Treasurer, Attorney & Register of Deeds) have been invited to participate in a town-hall style forum.
Seating is limited, so it is will be first come, first serve.

I’m making arrangements to record and livestream the event for those unable to attend.

State v. Darryl W. Perry (re: expired registration)

I had a pre-trial scheduled for Tuesday September 25 at 1:30pm at the District Court in Newport, NH regarding a ticket I received in May for expired registration.

Ian Freeman and Jason Repshar accompanied me to the court, both intended to film the court appearance. As we were about to go through the metal detectors, the bailiffs stated that there is no trial. Trooper Ellis asked for me, then asked if I would be pleading guilty. I said “no” and he handed me a card with a court date: December 13, 2012 8:30am. I told Trooper Ellis that I had some paperwork for him. He responded “no thanks, I’m good.”
“This is your copy of a motion for discovery.”
“You can mail it to the barracks, Troop C.”
Puzzled as to why he would not accept his copy of the motion, I went through security to leave a copy for the court.

As I was giving the receptionist the court’s copy of the motion, Ian told Trooper Ellis that he could have saved us all a trip to Newport and we could have had this interaction in Keene (the location of the Troop C barracks).

After we arrived in Keene, we stopped at Troop C to hand deliver the paperwork that Ellis refused to accept.

I must now wait to see if Trooper Ellis or anyone with the State Police respond to my motion for discovery.

Live Free or Dance II: A Success

Sunday night, September 9 – the anniversary of the infamous Live Free or Dance Party, approximately a dozen activists gathered in Ashuelot Park for Live Free or Dance II. The party was scheduled for 1 hour beginning at 10pm.

The party was to take place in the gazebo, however it was moved to the picnic area due to people sleeping in the gazebo. (more…)

Voters Get an Alternative

On Tuesday September 4, 2012 the officers of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire submitted close to 15,000 certified petitions to the Secretary of State.

LPNH Chair Rich Tomasso sent an email to party members stating, “The Patch and WMUR were both there to cover the event. WMUR interviewed me, and Tony from The Patch interviewed me, John Babiarz and Hardy Macia. We talked about the petition drive, the issues and general remarks on the election.
(more…)