New Hampshire Labor News: Scandalous Update on the Real Reason DJ Bettencourt Is Resigning From His State Rep Postion!: "Very early this morning I released a post titled, "Breaking News: REP Bettencourt To Resign on June 6th". While everything I said in that post was and still is accurate new more shocking information has just come out as to the real reasons why DJ Bettencourt is resigning his position.
While Mr Bettencourt's statement says that he is resigning because:
"I’m getting married next week and I am at a point in my life where my family should and needs to be my first priority. It is also critical that I am able to focus my full attention on my role as Executive Director of the New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation.""
According to the NH Legal Rights Foundation Website, DJ Bettencourt is no longer listed as the Executive Director.
House Majority Leader resigns amid law school fraud claims - NashuaTelegraph.com: "Initially, Bettencourt said he planned to resign to become executive director of the New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation, a conservative group founded by O’Brien.
“Speaker Bill O’Brien has created a culture of corruption in Concord on an unprecedented level,” Ray Buckley, chairman of the state Democratic Party, wrote Sunday in a statement. “It is time for Bill O’Brien to come clean about his apparent role in attempting to cover up this latest scandal, and mislead people about Bettencourt’s resignation and law school graduation.”"
NH Republican lawmaker's resignation likely to give Democrats fuel in November elections | The Republic: "The hullabaloo will give Democrats ammunition in November's elections, fueling the party's claims that the GOP has been pushing issues state residents don't favor and that leadership has been problematic and "dishonest," said Andrew Smith, a University of New Hampshire political science professor."
"O'Brien, the House speaker, also could come under pressure in the days ahead, said Bob Clegg, a former Senate majority leader and speaker pro tem of the House during his 14 years in the Legislature. He said people are going to ask if O'Brien was covering up for Bettencourt and how Bettencourt came to land a job at the New Hampshire Legal Rights Foundation, which lists O'Brien as its vice chairman on its website."
Leader's departure ripples through N.H. House - Fosters: ""All of this is just a pastiche of lies and misrepresentation and fraud, and it's absolutely stunning," said Rep. Peter Schmidt, a Dover Democrat.
Schmidt called on Portsmouth Rep. Terie Norelli, the Democratic leader of the House, to seek an inquiry into O'Brien's conduct during the affair.
In an interview with the New Hampshire Union Leader on Saturday, Giuda said he discussed the fabricated records directly with O'Brien and Bettencourt before the deception came to light."
"Based on published reports, Schmidt said it appears clear O'Brien was informed about the circumstances and was willing to tolerate a resolution that would have kept the situation from being disclosed publicly, raising questions about his integrity.
"I think there certainly are questions for the House and the public with regard to what degree of responsibility and complicity the speaker has in not revealing that a person of that high a position had been perpetrating a fraud," Schmidt said.
House Speaker William O'Brien said in a statement Sunday he was disappointed to hear about Bettencourt's decision."
Our self-righteous reps: "Sometimes letters to the Monitor are unintentionally hilarious.
Take Thursday's letter signed by House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt and 39 of his closest legislative buddies demanding an apology from Editor Felice Belman for publishing a Mike Marland cartoon depicting House Speaker Bill O'Brien with a Hitler-style mustache.
The letter was bizarre enough, but got even more so when I noticed that the second name on the list after Bettencourt's was that of Harry Accornero.
Golly, could that be Harry Accornero of Laconia condemning Marland for comparing O'Brien to a crazed German dictator who ruled by force and intimidation? Accornero is pronouncing himself "shocked and disgusted by the lack of judgment and decency" of the folks running the paper?
Is this the same Harry Accornero who on the very day the letter to the paper was published proudly posted on his exceedingly public Facebook page a crude caricature painting President Obama as Vladimir Lenin leading helpless Americans off a cliff?"
Bettencourt disgrace foreshadows speaker's fall | SeacoastOnline.com: "The first thing that struck the Portsmouth Herald editorial board last week when disgraced House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt came in with Speaker Bill O'Brien for a meeting was his youth.
At 28, he was the youngest House majority leader in the state's history and he looks his age. The most memorable comment he made was that he was graduating from the University of New Hampshire School of Law with $140,000 in debt.
Our overall impression was that he and Speaker O'Brien told the Herald editorial board a lot of half truths and that both simply refused to take responsibility for leading the House's turn to the ideological right wing of the GOP.
Given his combination of youth, debt and an inability to tell the truth, it is not surprising that Bettencourt has fallen hard after just a short time in power. And we expect that O'Brien will be tumbling after him following this November's general election. People who exercise dictatorial authority can quickly rise to power, but their falls are as inevitable as they are spectacular."
Belligerent or silly in Concord? - Fosters: "For example, it is the editorial position of this newspaper that voucher plans are generally flawed. They seek to send public dollars to parochial and private schools that don't have to play by the same rules as do public schools.
One voucher bill from the current legislative session depends on a state tax credit for businesses. But it fails to make private schools take all comers, as public school's must. There are also inconsistencies in how private schools handle special needs students, when compared to public schools, that are not addressed.
The closest thing to a good compromise in this debate has been the institution of charter schools, although even within our editorial board there is debate over their fairness."
NLRB member caught in ethics probe resigns - TheHill.com: "Terence Flynn, a Republican member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), is stepping down, the agency announced on Sunday. A statement from the NLRB said that Flynn had submitted a resignation letter to President Obama and Mark Pearce, the labor board’s Democratic chairman, on Saturday.
While Flynn's resignation is effective on July 24, the board member will recuse himself from agency business and asked the president to withdraw his nomination for a new term.
Flynn’s letter of resignation was dated Friday and was delivered via fax and email on Saturday, according to the NLRB."
Calling all heroes: Telegraph initiative seeks local heroes - NashuaTelegraph.com [Video]: "She might be a lifelong educator who was there to guide even the most rudderless and distant of her youthful charges well beyond teaching the ABCs.
Or maybe he’s the quiet, unassuming guy few noticed until the day he blew the whistle that relegated bias and discrimination obsolete in his little corner of the world.
Or perhaps she’s the rookie police officer who dove, uniform and all, into frigid water to rescue children whose toy boat was no match for the current.
Here, ladies and gentlemen of Greater Nashua, is where you come in.
The Telegraph is asking you to give some thought over the next few weeks to people who epitomize the word “hero.” They can be a lifelong friend, associate, that once-in-a-lifetime teacher or your elderly neighbor who rose above past familial dysfunction and gladly and lovingly raised two generations of children."
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