“I can’t answer why FEMA’s doing it this way. It’s very frustrating.”
– Guv Sununu responding to a question about why the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent massive amounts of defective and unusable personal protective equipment to nursing homes.
See, hear, speak no evil
As members of the Commission to Study School Funding discussed the distribution of income and wealth at a recent meeting, attorney Bill Ardinger noted that the relatively high median household incomes in NH’s southern counties reflect the earnings of some 120,000 commuters leaving the state each day for jobs in Massachusetts.
Ames: Uttering the ‘t’ word
“And you know what?” interjected Dem Rep Dick Ames of Jaffrey, “we don’t get by taxation any of that income.”
Which prompted fellow Dem, Rep Dave Luneau of Hopkinton – chair of the commission – to quickly interrupt: “All right!
All right! Time out!”
Persistence and resistance
Has Ed Commish Frank Edelblut ever read the myth of Sisyphus?
It might help him learn a little bit about futility – as in trying and trying and trying and trying (that’s four times, folks) to get the Dem-controlled Legis Fiscal Committee to accept that $46m fed charter school grant. And failing and failing and failing and failing.
Which brings us to the Dems and sending and sending and sending paid family and medical leave to the guv for his signature …
“He’s had this fixation about New Hampshire. He can’t accept that maybe he just plain lost.”
– Fergus Cullen, onetime chair of the NHGOP on why the prez planned that rally in Portsmouth.
Rally reality
For a prez administration that has, shall we say, a tenuous relationship with truth-telling, it’s a rule of thumb that any message emitted by the House of White should be taken with at least one value-sized box of salt.
Trump: Storm clouds
Thus the official line that Tropical Storm Fay – which never made an appearance in these parts, BTW – was responsible for the cancelation of Trump’s Pease airport rally. While there is some truth to the excuse, the reality is that the House of White actually breathed a sigh of relief when TS Fay emerged on the Eastern Seaboard. Because that gave ‘em the excuse to cancel the NH rally, which had for days been showing signs of resulting in another Tulsa-like turnout.
Which also led to another sigh of relief – by NH public health officials and the guv himself, who were not exactly relishing the idea of thousands (or would it have been hundreds?) of Trump devotees from outta state showing up maskless to soak in Trump’s aura and share their aerosol generation.
They, of course, also noticed the reports emerging on 7/9 – the day the Pease rally was canceled – that the Tulsa rally in June sure looks like it turned out to be a superspreader event.
