WHAT SCARES ME!!!

 

I don’t consider myself a terribly brave person; in my life I’ve experienced extreme courage and also extreme fear.  I am very slow to call anyone a coward or a hero because I suspect that deep down inside each of us has the ability to be a hero or a coward, just depends on the circumstances and the situation.  What is starting to scare me is President Obama as proven in recent events,  to harbor strong racial and racist attitudes which is reigniting the old race wars of the 60’s and 70’s.  He and his close advisor, Al Sharpton have pushed too hard in one direction which (as I predicted) is causing push back in the racially charged opposite direction, as recently seen in South Carolina.

I might be the odd man out intellectually but even when I was in the Army, if I didn’t like somebody it had nothing to do with their skin color it was because they were an idiot.

 So we know that Obama can still do catastrophic damage to this country before he leaves office, but, he didn’t elect himself what about the people who voted him into office that in itself is scary.  What about the liberals who think the sun rises and sets on Hillary Clinton?  They are just as scary; what they seem to not realize is the political social experiment has been an absolute failure and Clinton will be the same.

I am still trying to figure out who would be the best Republican candidate, we have plenty to choose from with plenty of strengths and weaknesses; but, it is still early.

PLEASE VOTE NO ON ARTICLE ONE OF THE SPECIAL TOWN MEETING!!!

 

This Gilman St land giveaway to the Academy certainly caught most people off guard and seemed to be under the radar to most of the town.

The academy promises to allow the taxpayers of Exeter to use the theater they plan to put on this land and will have seating, if I understood correctly, about 350 seats with yet to be resolved parking issues.  If I remember right there is about 1,000 students at the academy and about 15,000 residents in Exeter, this could get a little crowded.

For over 60 years that I can remember the taxpayers of Exeter were allowed foot traffic from River St. and Brown’s Court.  A few years back due to changes in Academy staff there were gates put in and locked which enhanced privacy to Academy staff living on those streets.  The Academy staff has keys to unlock the pedestrian gates to the playing fields for their personnel use.

As told to me by someone I was talking to one of the staff put it simply that, “this is our land not yours”; can’t argue with that.

Some like to argue about all the taxes the Academy pays and it is sizeable; but, they don’t talk about the fact that because of their tax exempt status they are exempted almost the same amount so if they are paying $900,000 a year in taxes than they are exempted 48% of that, I don’t think we get $800,000 in services to the town and we do not know the value of the land we are being asked to give away.

I believe the relationship between the Academy and Exeter has deteriorated in the last 3-4 years which is a shame it is a fine school with many good staff working there.

The issue is credibility and when the Academy spokesman tries to sell us this deal by saying how good this is for Exeter, I just don’t put a lot of credibility in the Academy argument.

I believe there is still room for more negotiations so please vote no and we can go back to the drawing board for better guarantees for an improved relationship.

 

 

THEY'RE AT IT AGAIN!!!

 

With the recent success of Exeter’s Economic Director come attacks.  MR. Winham has done more in less than a year to push Exeter forward for new development than the town has done in the past 20 years.

I know some of the people who were against any development on the Epping Rd. because of the wetlands off sets supported tearing down the dam because of the Obama/Gore global warming/ climate change agenda.  Tearing down the dam is going to ruin a beautiful wetlands habitat for duck breeding and the many species that need the marshes and wetlands to survive so it is obvious it is not about water.

It doesn’t take too much to figure out that the people who are against the Epping Rd. TIFF are those people who are against any further development in Exeter.  It isn’t the water issue, it is the development issue.

MR. Winham was hired by Exeter to do a job and a very good job he has done.  If he can serve the town the way he has and puts in his 40 or so hours per week, I think he is entitled to do whatever he wants to do in his off time; quite bluntly I could care less if he worked in a house of ill repute as a short order cook.

I suspect he is being attacked, and it is obvious he is being attacked, because he makes the planning department look like second string non-development supporters.  He knows where Exeter needs to go for development which will benefit the whole Town not just the NiMBYS(not in my backyard group).

As of yet, I have not met or talked to Mr. Winham; but, I have seen his presentations and he is very good at what he does.

ROBERT EASTMAN: UNFIT FOR SELECTMAN IN EXETER!!!

            

In my opinion Mr. Eastman is no longer fit to serve the Town of Exeter.  The once capable Mr. Eastman has become part of the active lunatic fringe element in Exeter that has an intense hatred for the town manager and anybody on the Board of Selectman that will work together to move Exeter’s growth forward, while keeping our taxes down.  It is sad to see someone you once respected fall victim to his own deep rooted personal issues.  He has shown (when his personal issues overcome him) to have a mean streak that causes him to lash out at people who disagree with him and he is not above fabricating what rhetoric he needs to sound plausible.

The lunatic fringe tries to hide under the once proud Republican banner.  Some of this leadership is jokingly referred to as the “town drunk, the town nut and the town liar”; not always the best campaign team you want promoting your candidacy.

If you ever watch the selectmen’s meetings you will see that these are the same people who go to the selectmen’s meetings and try to promote all of their qualifications and how wonderful they are while complaining that the BOS will not put them on committees or boards.  I hate to tell them but these same people are thought of as being crazy, liars or drunks who have been rejected by the voters on numerous occasions; not always the qualities the board is looking for.

It is interesting to see members of the fringe writing letters of support for Mr. Eastman’s write in campaign that they have been planning for weeks.  Analyzing how this campaign was strategized it was done behind everybody’s backs in such a way that Mr. Eastman was not a declared candidate therefore there would not be any candidate forums so the voters could see and question who they were voting for or against.  This is so typical of the lunatic fringe/Free State way of circumventing and manipulating the time honored tradition of Exeter elections; this alone should disqualify anyone from being considered a serious candidate.

With Frank Ferraro off the board we do not need any more divisiveness by trying to set up bogus issues to attack other selectman or the Town Manager, enough is enough; we can wallow in the past history of Exeter politics or vote for someone who will lead Exeter into the future.

This is why I will be voting for Dan Chartrand for Selectman.

I HOPE YOU CAN GET TO THIS SITE!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo

NO EXPLANATION NEEDED!!!

http://www.cbn.com/tv/embedplayer.aspx?bcid=1509282970001

OOPSY IN EXETER!!!

 

People lie because they are liars; they make mistakes because they make decisions.  This is not a difficult concept to understand.

At the last deliberative session and after about a two hour discussion on the Epping Rd. TIF Warrant Article 14 came up on the election (names placed on the budget recommendations committee).  Nelson Lourenco stood up to make a motion and that was for him to step down and appoint Frank Ferraro in his place.  A single vote on that motion passed and a second vote was taken to place that warrant on the March ballot.

I was out of the room when that happened, probably just as well.

After I found out what happened alarm bells were going off that this may have been an illegal vote.  I might be wrong; but, I did check with some parliamentarians who agreed with my assessment that it was illegal.

In our opinion the right way to do this was to take a vote to accept Lourenco’s resignation and then vote on putting Ferraro on the budget committee; so what we did was two issues with one vote and that was the vote on the motion.

If I am right I do not blame any of the town officials or the voters.  After the TIF discussion I think everyone’s eyes were glazed over.  I do blame Lourenco and Ferraro for the underhanded tactics to get Ferraro on the budget committee when he probably would not be voted into or appointed to that position.  A short time before this Ferraro was at the mike professing to support “the process” and they conspired with a small group to violate “the process” and hoodwink the Exeter Voters.

There is a way to correct this and that is at Town Meeting in March is simply to vote NO on article 14, which votes on the names of people going on the budget committee and if article 14 fails, then the selectman would have to appoint the members of the budget committee.  The budget committee members and the voters should not be subjected to this type of FREE STATE MANUVERING NONSENSE; this is the kind of actions that the Free State group does to win an issue they can’t win any other way.

I have the greatest respect for the Town Moderator, the Town Clerk, and all the people that work hard to make democracy work in Exeter including the voters; but, the blatant actions by these people who’s strategy is to take advantage of them and the voters is inexcusable.

I will be voting no on article 14.