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Merrimack County delegation meeting today; took a bit to get let in via Zoom… (we can still participate remotely at the county level, because Democrats control the Merrimack County delegation)… We’ll be voting on budget stuff today. #NHPoliticsPermalink On twitter.com
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Hm, looks like they’re short one of an in-person quorum; looks like I’ll have to attend in-person after all…On twitter.com
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So, someone came to pick me up, since if I had walked, it would have taken longer, but then once I got here, they'd already started anyways, so I guess they actually had an in-person quorum after all? In which case, I could've attended via Zoom after all? Meh, whatever...Permalink On twitter.com
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So, @Teamsters is the union that organizes Department of Corrections employees... does that mean they count as a cop union? It's not *just* guards at the prison, they also employ nurses and IT developers and rehabilitators and stuff like that...Permalink On twitter.com
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I dunno, this whole "cop unions bad, other unions good" position that more anarchist-type leftists hold is just too hard to apply in real-life decision-making; the line between the two is so hard to draw... I'd rather just take the simpler "all unions good" position instead.Permalink On twitter.com
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There's a "Gallagher" employed by the county, but she spells her last name with an "h", so, no relation...Permalink On twitter.com
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Rep. Schuett is explaining how the whole in-person quorum vs. remote attendance works; apparently things are more complicated now that Gov. Sununu's emergency orders have expired... guess I won't be able to use the remote option anymore; they've made it too difficult...Permalink On twitter.com
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we have to vote to allow participation by the remote attendees after we've gathered an in-person quorumPermalink On twitter.com
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it's no longer excuse-free remote attendance; now excuses are necessary... (although I guess since we vote on people's reasons, we can just vote to treat any excuse as valid?)Permalink On twitter.com
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we're just voting on everyone at once instead of hearing individual reasons, so, I guess, never mind...Permalink On twitter.com
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Vote is... the total is unclear? 20-3 or 19-5? (either way it's a wide majority to allow remote participation; the few objectors were all Republicans)Permalink On twitter.com
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actual total is 20-4 apparentlyPermalink On twitter.com
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ok so it looks like we just did a general vote as to whether to allow remote attendance overall; still need to hear individual reasons after all...Permalink On twitter.com
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Discussion about the @Teamsters contract currently; my basic position is that if the union negotiating team and the county negotiating team both already agreed to it, there's no need for us to second-guess themPermalink On twitter.com
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vote to approve contract is adopted unanimously, 28-0Permalink On twitter.com
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Sheriff Croft wants to increase civil processing fees; sounds like it's just an inflation adjustment...Permalink On twitter.com
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Good grief "Alicea" really isn't that hard of a last name to pronounce; clerk needs some work on his pronunciation skills here...Permalink On twitter.com
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budget as a whole is approved unanimously, 27-0 (one person was out of the room)Permalink On twitter.com
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this whole "clerk struggles with pronouncing Rep. Alicea's last name" thing feels racist; you don't hear him struggling with Rep. Luneau's last name, for instance, despite it having 3 vowels in a row pronounced togety like "o" even though "o" none of the 3Permalink On twitter.com
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anyways we're adjourning nowPermalink On twitter.com
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