It appears Selectman Baldwin ran a Possibly illegal campaign for re-election

 Here are the gory details;

Selectman Baldwin submitted his candidacy paperwork to run for the paid position of Selectman for the Town of Atkinson, NH. This paper requires residential domicile within the Town of Atkinson for the duration of the office. He signed this knowing full well he had been working and living for 8 months in a location 500 miles away from Atkinson. Thus potentially defrauding the Town.

In May of 2021, Billy accepted a full time salaried position as Public Safety Director in Mid Pennsylvania, at a salary of $112,000 per annum. This was not a temporary position as he led many in and around the Town Hall to believe when submitting his paperwork back in January. Oh no. Officials in PA thought they had a FT Director(read Chief of police). That is what they were paying for, or so they thought.

Flash forward 10 months, Billy wins re-election. He physically appears at the March 14, 2022, Selectmen's meeting to thank the town for their confidence in him.  one of only 7 meetings he has physically attended since taking his full time job in Pennsylvania (That commute must be a b$%#h) On March 16, 2022 at approximately 9:43pm. Billy ran his truck off the road and into a tree, drunk. He blew almost double the legal limit. This incident happened in PA. 500 miles away from Atkinson. He was arrested, and charged. Last week his employers in PA. held a meeting and within 5 minutes voted to fire him, and appointed a replacement.

The problem is that while living and working 500 miles aay Billy knowingly mis represented his residency status here in Atkinson, in order to run for re-election. CLEARLY, someone who lives and works full time in Pennsylvania can not legally hold paid office in Atkinson. Actions like this with full knowledge are usually charged as fraud. How long would thi fraud be allowed to continue had he not, in a drunken stupor rammed his truck into a Pennsylvania tree?

Many of you will remember Billy's checkered past here in NH. After spending 2 years as a US Marine, he cross serviced to the US Coast Guard for another few years, then to the USCG reserve, from which he retired. (He likes to claim 10 years+ of service as a Marine, but that is nto quite accurate) After returning to Atkinson, he applied and was hired by the Atkinson PD. within 8 months Phil was promoting him to a Lt. position that the voters never created. 

When called up to go to Kuwait(not Iraq as stated ad nauseum) Selectman Boyle generously offered for the Town to make up any loss in income between his town pay, and military pay, even advanced him $6,000 to bridge any gap. The town demanded Billy produce his military Leave and Earnings statement, in order to verify his pay. As any Veteran knows this is your monthly statement that verifies your pay and allowances. Billy chose not to comply. Instead he had his unit commander produce a "Commanders BASE PAY Letter". The problem is that when deployed your bas pay is about 40% your total pay. In support of Billy's attempt to lie about his pay, the most corrupt Chief in Atkinson's history repeatedly demanded the Town pay Billy $511/ week in supplemental pay, claiming that he and his family were suffering by the loss of over $2,000 in monthly income. That, too was a lie. In reality he was making $100 MORE being deployed than he did here in Atkinson. In essence Billy, with the assistance of Phil cravenly attempted to defraud the town of $25,000 over the year he would be deployed. 

Many will remember many of the tales from Billy's tenure in neighboring police depts. Fired in Kingston after an alleged incident of him sleeping in his cruiser. Fired from Plaistow after an alleged incident of sex in a cruiser. And now this.

The question is; It appears his bosses in PA. acted appropriately by first suspending his pay immediately, then firing him. 

WHY IS THE TOWN OF ATKINSON STILL PAYING HIM?? 

WILL THE SELECTMEN DO THE RIGHT THING, AND REFER FRAUD CHARGES TO THE NH AG, or try to sweep it under the rug as usual?

NO, The Federal Government should not bailout States!

Here come the Governors of the most long term horrendously mismanaged States in the country demanding that the Federal Government bail them out, because their pathetic response to Covid- 19 has allegedly decimated their budgets. In reality their budgets have been a house of cards for decades.

Take NY, Gov. Cuomo is demanding $40 billion, claiming his state NEEDS this amount to put it's financial house in order. He soft pedals the fact that $12 billion of that is for the state pension system, which has been severely underfunded for 20 years. Why should the taxpayers of NH fund the pensions of NYC unions?

Or, IL. Gov. Pritzker, wants billions to bail out his underfunded unions. Same for MA, NJ, CA, WA, OR, BTW, Why is it all the long term progressive Democrat control states, in this situation?

President Trump is exactly correct. There is no Constitutional provision to transfer States financial problems to the Nation at large. Further it will do no good at all. Much like the drunken sailor getting a gift, it will change his behavior not one whit. They will learn nothing, they will change nothing. They will have no incentive to become fiscally prudent. The corruptocrats who have endlessly promised 8% returns on union pensions in a 2% market will have no incentive to tell their Union boss owners to face reality, having been shown that the public trough is open to their fiscal gluttony.

Try the fiscal sleight of hand of former California Governor Jerry Brown, who facing multi billion dollar shortfalls in his budget, "fixed" the problem by simply taking CALPERS, offbudget. VIOLA! $20B in debt off the balance sheet!

To bail out the states, is simply another type of financial sleight of hand. It removes the responsibility for Illinois, or NY, or CA, decades of mismanagement, and debt from their own citizens, who have reaped the windfall from these corrupt practices, and bestow that responsibility upon the hard working reasonably fiscally prudent citizens of NH, MT, ND, etc. They did nothing wrong. They are not the corner panhandlers, that Gov. Cuomo, Gov. Pritzker, Gov. Newsom, et. al. are.

The difference is nil.

It is time for the FBI to label the Democrat Party a "Hate Group"

The FBI defines a "hate Group" as follows;

"A hate group is a social group that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, nation, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other designated sector of society."

Clearly the rabid daily explosions of hatred from the Democrats in Washington, their mouthpieces in the media, and their activists on social media far surpass this banal definition.

When President Obama exhorts his Latino supporters; "When they bring a knife, we bring a gun"

When Georgetown Prof. Carol Christine Fair tweeted during the hearings on the Kavanaugh smear that Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee,

"All of them deserve miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their corpses and feed them to swine? Yes."

When CNN compared Trump supporters to ISIS beheaders

When Maxine Waters Tells Democrats to confront Trump admin officials when they are seen in public. "Get in their faces" Harass them, shame them.

When Actor Alec Baldwin urged a television audience of approximately three million viewers to murder Congressman Henry Hyde

When Liberal activists are indicted/ arrested for threatening to kill Rep. Diane Black , Shooting Rep. Steve Scalise, Threatening the daughters of  Rep. Jason Lewis. Threatened to kill Sen. Rand Paul with an axe. Or another who actually beat Paul. Or being arrested at the offices of Rep. Lee Zeldin threatening to kill Trump supporters.

When A top spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party's effort to get Phil Bredesen elected senator has said he views "white male" gun owners as "the biggest terrorist organization on the planet."

When Democrat activists show up at Sen. McConnells home yelling "stab the mother*** in the heart", and "Kill the Mother***"

When Democrats refer to Republicans as; "The Taliban, Hostage takers, Racists, Bigots, Homophobes, White Nationalists, White Supremacists" That is doing nothing but spreading hate.

And these are but a very few of the daily comments from the Left spewing hatred for anyone who disagrees with their ideology. This is actively encouraged by the Democrats in Washington, cheered on by the Democrat media. Defended and justified by the Democrat Academia.

If this were done by any other group, the "Hate Group" designation would already have been made. It is beyond time for both sides to be treated by the same set of standards.

A Health care plan for all

First let me state that allowing the government to run health care means your health care will be every bit as effective and cost conscious as the VA. First let's address the primary cost drivers in Health care today; They are government regulation and compliance costs, Unreimbursed care( illegals, uninsured, medicare/aid reductions), and medical torts/ defensive medicine. Continuing down the road of separating consumers from providers will continue to exacerbate costs as neither have any incentive to conserve. Not to the details; 1.) Change the insurance model from specified coverage to dollar amount coverage: This means putting patients in control of their care and provider. Insurance companies will no longer specify coverage,you pay for dollar amount coverage much like auto insurance. YOU choose your provider and care putting YOU in charge of consumption. You will get rebates based upon money saved during the year. With this model there will no longer be a need for employer owned coverage allowing the consumer to purchase their insurance like car insurance and keep it with them when they move employers. 2.) Probable cause hearing: Every medical tort MUST have a probable cause hearing. this is a preliminary hearing at which the judge has the ability to dismiss the case for lack of probable cause. The plaintiff must be able to show a liklihood that once discovery is complete they will be able to show clear negligence, incompetence, or neglect. And there also must be actual damage. 3.) Complete competition: There are 1,124 companies selling health insurance in America. Let ALL of them compete in every state. NO mandatory minimums, you will be able to purchase basic catastrophic coverage, all the way to complete coverage, based upon WHAT YOU WANT AND CAN AFFORD. Al a carte pricing. 4.) TRANSPARENCY ALL doctors offices, clinics and hospitals will post prices for basic every day services, so the patient can compare. Most of the senseless regulations will disappear with the government intervention in the marketplace. This plan will allow doctors, and providers to innovate without government approval. Local urgent care, and primary care offices will multiply, expensive hospital services will decrease. With the patients in control and rewarded for making good decisions costs will drop as over consumption drops. As patients save insurers money and those saving s are passed back to consumers over all costs and reimbursements will also drop. Now my loony lefty friends feel free to flame away

Atkinson man wins New England Book Festival Award

From the Eagle Tribune;

January 7, 2011

Atkinson man wins New England Book Festival Award

The Eagle Tribune Fri Jan 07, 2011, 12:06 AM EST

ATKINSON — Photographer Paul Wainwright's new book, "A Space for Faith: The Colonial Meetinghouses of New England," has received the New England Book Festival Award for best photography/art book of the year.

Wainwright works with a wooden large-format camera and sheet film, and develops all his images in his darkroom. He uses traditional processes that force him to slow down and really think about what he wants his images to be.

"A Space for Faith shows a true artist's eye for detail and serves as a wonderful guide to a part of the region that deserves more attention," said Bruce Haring, director of the New England Book Festival.

The New England Book Festival Award will be presented at the Festival's award ceremony at 7 p.m. Jan. 15, at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston.

Wainwright's black-and-white photographs paint a composite portrait of these once ubiquitous landmarks of the New England landscape.

"I am extremely honored by this award," he said. "New England's meetinghouses embody a large part of our nation's history, and my work photographing them was aimed at bringing their story to a broad audience."

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Exercising your rights to redress of grievances

Letter to the Editor of the Concord Monitor Online today.

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Restoring order

Robert Seaman, Concord

For the Monitor

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July 08, 2008 - 12:00 am



June 30, 2008, may be remembered in history as the day Americans began, in earnest, the moral and solemn process of holding their government accountable to the Constitution - under threat of withdrawal of allegiance, support and tax money.

Last Monday, approximately 1,200 American citizens began the process of exercising a profound, but little-known, 800-year-old right first articulated in Magna Carta by formally serving a "legal notice and demand" for redress of grievances upon the president, the attorney general and every member of Congress.

Incredibly, academic research since 1986 makes clear the right to petition for redress is not a redundant statement of the right of speech. It is in fact, the individual exercise of popular sovereignty. Here's what the founders sitting at the first Congress wrote:

"If money is wanted by Rulers who have in any manner oppressed the People, they may retain it until their grievances are redressed, and thus peacefully procure relief, without trusting to despised petitions or disturbing the public tranquility."

Demanding an official response within 40 days, the notice includes seven petitions for redress of grievances regarding substantial violations of our Constitution including the war, money, privacy, arms and tax clauses.

If liberty and constitutional order are to survive peacefully, it is imperative that the people learn about and exercise the unalienable right of redress.

For details about the plan to restore constitutional order, visit www.wethepeoplefoundation.org.

ROBERT SEAMAN

Concord

Show me the money Interim administrator leaves Atkinson

From the Eagle Tribune:

Show me the money Interim administrator leaves Atkinson for better paying Plaistow position
By Meghan Carey
Staff writer

Atkinson interim Town Administrator Craig Kleman is leaving for the same job in Plaistow.

The contract was finalized last week, but Kleman asked Plaistow officials to keep it quiet until he could meet with Atkinson selectmen. He confirmed yesterday that he accepted the interim job in Plaistow and plans to start on July 14.

Until then, he'll stay at Atkinson Town Hall.

It's another similarity for two towns that have been searching for a town administrator and town manager for months. In this leg of the search, the town that pays more won.

Plaistow Selectman Larry Gil said they plan to pay Kleman $900 a week. That's $200 a week more than Atkinson pays him.

Plaistow also moved to promise Kleman a longer-term contract than Atkinson had.

Atkinson selectmen and Kleman verbally agreed he would extend his interim contract for another 30 days, but the deal was never inked. They were planning to sign the document last night. Selectman Fred Childs said earlier that Atkinson planned to offer Kleman a permanent job, but that hadn't happened yet.

Kleman's contract with Plaistow extends through the end of October, Gil said.

"That's when we anticipate, we think, we may have another town manager in," he said. "But we wanted to make sure, in case there wasn't an overlap, that we would have somebody on board for budget preparation."

Jason Hoch, Plaistow's former town manager and interim administrator, was going to stay until someone new started, but couldn't reach an agreement with the selectmen. His last day was Saturday.

When Kleman applied for the interim job in Atkinson in April, he also was a candidate for the permanent job. Yesterday, he said he plans to do the same in Plaistow.

"I haven't applied yet, but that is my intention," Kleman said of applying for the permanent job in Plaistow.

The application deadline for the permanent post is July 7.

Plaistow is looking for a town manager, not a town administrator. Plaistow is a larger community with a larger budget, and the salary offered reflects that. Plaistow advertised an annual salary between $84,000 and $95,000. Atkinson didn't advertise a pay range, but paid its last town administrator about $58,000.

Kleman, 51, has town administrator experience — interim and permanent — in Seabrook, Epping and Merrimack, Mass.

Plaistow selectmen restarted their search for a town manager after their first choice from the first round didn't accept their offer. Selectmen said none of the other candidates had town administrator or manager experience, and they wanted to expand the pool.

Atkinson selectmen met in nonpublic session last night to decide what to do. Kleman was one of three finalists for the town administrator job in Atkinson. The position has been vacant since February when Russell McAllister left for a local government job in Iraq.

Tale of two towns

Fact%Atkinson%Plaistow

Interim pay%$700 a week%$900 a week

Permanent pay%$58,000*%$84,000 to $95,000

Population%6,601%7,705

Town budget%$4 million%$7.5 million

Atkinson Woman Shot in Sandown Driveway

ATKINSON, N.H. — The family of a 20-year-old woman who was fatally shot at a home in Sandown Thursday night is mourning the loss of the 2006 Timberlane Regional High School graduate.

Deidre Budzyna of Atkinson was inside a sport utility vehicle with three friends in the driveway at 9 Morrison Lane in Sandown when she was shot in the back and later died at Parkland Medical Center in Derry, said James Boffetti, an assistant state attorney general.

Investigators have classified Budzyna's death as a homicide because it was the result of a gunshot wound inflicted by another person. But that doesn't necessarily mean criminal charges will be forthcoming, Boffetti said. The gun may have been discharged accidentally, he said. An investigation will unravel how the shooting happened and determine whether anyone will be charged, he said.

Budzyna's friends and relatives gathered yesterday at the home of her parents, Walter and Gail Budzyna, 15 Hemlock Heights Road in Atkinson. Near Big Island Pond, the house is where Budzyna grew up and where she was still living.

While family members declined to discuss any details of her untimely death, they said Budzyna was a wonderful, caring person who always thought of everyone else before herself and treated her friends like members of her family. She loved Jet Skiing on Big Island Pond and was working full time as a nanny for a family with three young children, they said.

"I love my daughter," her father said. "She was the best thing in my life. I'll always love her. She loved life. She loved people."

Her older sister, Nicole, 23, said, "I lost my baby sister and my best friend. She was always helping other people — always looking out for others before herself."

As they talked, family members cried and wiped away tears.

Her aunt, Irene Chenard, of Dracut, Mass., said there was a very close bond between Deidre, her sister and their parents.

"There was a special closeness between Nicole and Deidre," Chenard said. "It was special how they supported one another and cared for each other."

In fact, their father was planning to bring both daughters with him and their mother, Gail, on a trip to Hawaii next year to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.

The shooting that claimed Budzyna's life happened at the home of Gloria Caron, 9 Morrison Lane.

Neighbors said they were shocked by the news.

"It's horrible; it's a tragedy," said next-door neighbor Randy Cawthron, 7 Morrison Lane. "It's hard to believe someone was killed next door."

Cawthron's son, Ryan, 17, who was home at the time of the shooting, said he didn't hear a gunshot.

"I just heard the normal commotion whenever they have a party next door, just talking," he said.

His father said a lot of young people "hang out" at the residence because there's a swimming pool there.

When a reporter called the Caron residence, an unidentified woman who answered the phone said, "We're all set. We're not talking."

Boffetti said Budzyna was still alive when rescue workers arrived. They administered medical treatment at the scene and took her to Parkland Medical Center in Derry where she was pronounced dead.

Schools not properly preparing kids

From www.Townhall.com

http://townhall.com/news/us/2008/06/27/poll_schools_not_properly_preparing_kids

It's not much of a report card.

Half of Americans say U.S. schools are doing only a fair to poor job preparing kids for college and the work force. Even more feel that way about the skills kids need to survive as adults, an Associated Press poll released Friday finds.

"A lot of kids, when they get out school, are kind of lost," said Jamie Norton, a firefighter in Gridley, Calif. "When you get out of high school, what are you educated to do?"

The views of the general population echo concerns from business and college leaders, who say they have to spend a lot of time and money on remedial education for people who completed high school but don't have the skills to succeed at work or in higher education.

Education ranks behind the economy and gas prices as a top issue for Americans, the survey said. However, nearly all those polled said the quality of a country's education system has a big impact on a country's overall economic prosperity.

Education was generally viewed to be as important as health care and slightly ahead of the Iraq war. Among minority parents, education is just as important an issue as the economy.

Minorities and whites rate schools differently. Fifty-nine percent of whites rate their local school as good or excellent, compared with 42 percent of minorities.

Minority parents are more likely to think their children are getting a better education than they received as children. Overall, the majority of those surveyed said the quality of U.S. schools has declined over the past 20 years.

Three-fourths of those surveyed believe schools place too much emphasis on the wrong subjects. Asked what subjects should be given more time in school, more than a third said math. English was a distant second, at 21 percent. A tiny fraction picked art, music and the sciences, such as biology and chemistry.

Parents may want more math in school because they feel unprepared to help at home, said Janine Remillard, who teaches math-related courses at the University of Pennsylvania's education school.

"Math is the subject that parents are often intimidated by," she said. "We've allowed a lot of kids to just say, 'I'm not good at math,' .... and those kids become parents."

Most think the United States is just keeping up or falling behind the rest of the world in education. On some recent international tests, U.S. students have posted flat scores and landed in the middle to bottom of the pack when compared with other nation's children.

Americans have mixed views about standardized tests, which have grown in importance. The 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law judges schools based on math and reading tests taken by their students. Schools face increasingly tough consequences for scores that miss the mark.

About half of those polled said standardized tests measure the quality of education offered by schools well, while the rest disagree.

The vast majority think classroom work and homework _ not standardized tests _ are the best ways to measure how well students are doing.

Larry Michalec, a computer programmer in San Deigo, called the testing a waste of time. "They're standardized and people aren't standardized," he said. "Children get taught to the test. They get taught to take the test. They don't get taught to learn." Continued...