Crossover coming up at the State House. New trashcans for downtown. Hunter Biden’s laptop. It’s another week and we cover a lot of topics!
Open Government
Ep. 17 The Carla Gericke Show Sits Down with PBS’s “The State We’re In” to Discuss Open Government for Sunshine Week
FROM PBS: “It’s Sunshine Week, the annual initiative spearheaded by the News Leaders Association to educate the public on open government and the dangers of excessive secrecy. This week on The State We’re In, we discuss New Hampshire’s Right-to-Know Law, how it’s applied, and how it can be improved. Guests include Right-to-Know New Hampshire’s Carla Gericke and Concord Monitor reporter Cassidy Jensen.”
Honored to have participated in this PBS interview to highlight how important open and transparent government is to keeping society in balance. Click the link below to learn more about my landmark #freespeech 1st Circuit win! #SunshineWeek #SunshineWeek2022 https://t.co/A92ypkzR65
— Carla Gericke, Live Free And Thrive! (@CarlaGericke) March 18, 2022
This week, we discuss the shooting death by NH law enforcement in Walpole of the VP of Cheshire Medical Center after a domestic disturbance call. We talk about the various ways police are treated differently to regular folk during these homicide investigations.
Cops killed someone in Walpole this weekend. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any details to share. $100 it gets ruled a “justified shooting,” after a kid glove investigation, but on the plus side, the AG’s office is creating expansive definitions of what is legally regarded as “self-defense” under NH law. I’m partial to that one where you can justifiably shoot and kill a person fleeing in a car from behind like they ruled in Weare back in the day.*
* Everyone knows I am an agent of peace. Just pointing out the vast hypocrisy applied to “the law” depending on who is doing the shooting… In the De Jesus case I am referring to, even retired cops were like, WTAF, yo? The AG simply didn’t decide AT ALL, whether that shooting was justified… Like, oops, we can’t figure this out, and we just like, don’t want to deal, m’kay???
Another shooting occurred in Walpole back in December 2021. Read AG’s announcement. What does this mean? Do we even know if it’s the same officers? Where’s the final report? Any accountability?
UPDATE 11:15AM: “Per protocol, the trooper involved is being withheld until a formal interview is conducted.There were no body or cruiser cameras at the scene.” You don’t say… isn’t it AMAZING that we’re paying millions of dollars for body cams, and yet?!?
News links to yesterday’s shooting:
https://boston.cbslocal.com/…/walpole-new-hampshire…/
https://www.reformer.com/local-news/video-officer-involved-shooting-in-walpole/video_1ce9eda6-b132-5f04-b2e3-b2e4c7d15a9b.html
What Is the “Social Contract”? How About Not Tolerating Open Drug Use?!? (ManchTalk 02/01/22)
We cover a lot of ground this week, including Manchester Democrat Nicole Klein-Knight’s removal from committees for use of the N-word, a bill that would remove parental consent requirements for vaccines for 16 y/os, the problem with being overly tolerant to bad public behavior, and more!
Tammy and I don’t miss a beat and cover a lot of ground this week, including discussing the Honorable JR Hoell’s DCYF case, street crime in Manchester, and the book “San Fransicko: How Progressives Ruin Cities”. We also discuss this week’s upcoming Right-to-Know bills to foster open and transparent government, and CACR 32, the independence bill being heard on Thursday.