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minor #BarnLaw development:
counterparty to all of this is the Zoning Board and the Board of Selectmen. Zoning Board interprets the zoning code [ very very poorly ] and grants variances [ illegally ]. Board of Selectmen decided on legal strategy [ defend vs lawsuit or not]
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9/ he loses. ...and then he's out of town gov entirely (at least for now).
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10/ < day job meeting begins ; back in ??? minutes >
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11/ <back> so, election today whether or not Jack M wins the moderator position, one thing is for sure: his term on the 5 person Board of Selectmen ends (immediately? in a week? three weeks? Not sure.) so...
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12/ I am inclined to go to the next BoS meeting and, during the public comment section, stand and read a speech (as I have a few times before), noting that "this board is not the same as the board that CREATED this Charlie Foxtrot; members have changed" and >>>
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13/ ...giving the board a brief capsule history of the law breaking, corruption, and conflicts of interest that have brought us to this point, explain to them how I am GOING to beat them in court, and telling them that there is nothing at all dishonorable about >>>
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14/ departing from the failed - and illegal - decision making that has brought them to this point. Just because the PREVIOUS board lost * one lawsuit * one election * one petition drive * one appeal of a variance because of corruption and incompetence, does not mean that >>>
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15/ THIS board has to continue those failed policies and spend ADDITIONAL taxpayer money to lose ADDITIONAL courts cases.
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16/ I'm not convinced that such a speech will necessarily change the board's decision ... but who knows! Maybe the composition of the board has already moved from 3-2 against me to 3-2 for me, or to 2-2-1 or something. But, even if the Board doesn't call the lawyer and say >
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17/ "actually...please withdraw your oppositional filing to the lawsuit and tell the courts that we will not be defending the illegal issuance of the variance" ...it still might be fun to hold them over the edge of the volcano and see what they're made of.
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18/ oh, no, I'm gonna crush them all it's just that if they give up on this legal defense, my legal bills go down a bithttps://twitter.com/DJSchreffler/status/1501219385951801346 …
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20/ oh, re "board deliberations are secret, until after legal matters are resolved" >>>https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1501210412284526592 …
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21/ The NH law says: * all meetings need to be documented * "public" meetings need to have public present, and documents released immediately * "non public meetings" (for a dozen reasons) can exclude public, and release minutes later * meetings w counsel are not "meetings"
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23/ so if the Board of Selectmen met at any point to DECIDE if they should defend against my lawsuit, or DECIDE if they should spend public moneys defending against my lawsuit...they're allowed to do so in private...but (a) they need to keep minutes (b) they need to release them
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24/ ...once the lawsuit is over. This makes sense. On the one hand, the BoS, operating on behalf of the citizens, should not be compelled to leak legal strategy WHILE LAWSUITS ARE ONGOING. ...but on the other hand, the citizens should be able to know who voted to spend tax $$
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25/ reminder of where we were in this thread yesterdayhttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1501211606746906639 …
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#BarnLaw ...and it turns out that my small-town-politics enemy got CRUSHED at the polls!


pic.twitter.com/SFwxAB2dHB
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28/ oh, and also - it is exactly 1 year to the day from last year's election...when I won a crushing victory [ against the town's attempt to retroactively change the zoning law by ] (a) knocking on 300 doors with a petition, which increased threshold of votes town needed >>>
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29/ (b) by sending out mailers to every house in town explaining the issue, with a QR code leading to a website with supporting documents, (c) standing outside the polling station for 12 hours in ~30 degree weather holding a sign, and thus (d) winning ~70% of the votes.
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