This week, Tammy and Carla discuss Manchester employees’ salaries and pensions, and how these rising costs are unsustainable and will drown us under a tsunami of ever increasing taxes and fees. This Union Leader article was the one Tammy references near the start: “Eviction, arrest at the hands of Manchester police-officer landlord”.
Catch my video asking Mayor Joyce Craig for a full, public inquiry into the deadly debacle at the Quality Inn last week.
Worried about the increasingly dangerous policing, lockdowns, and new police cameras being introduced without any public input? Join me at City Hall on Tuesday, April 9th at 5PM for a rally–1984 Is Not an Instruction Manual–to highlight these issues. You are also welcome to provide 3 minutes of public testimony at the Alderman meeting that starts at 6PM.
My LTE from today’s Union Leader:
“Demand full inquiry
To the Editor: Last week, Manchester SWAT working with the DEA deployed chemical weapons on two twenty-something small-time drug users in a hotel near Exit 1, where they died. News articles already fail to mention this use of gas, so I can only assume the official narrative will attempt to ‘memory hole’ this damning detail.
Should we believe the official version? We have no way to vet the information provided because after the unlawful 2016 West Side Lockdown, the police ‘solved’ our concerns about transparency by secretly encrypting their scanners, destroying years of tradition, and leaving law-abiding citizens in the dark.
How do we know these LEOs are ‘ones we can trust,’ rather than ones on the blacked-out Laurie’s List of misconduct the AG is actively fighting to hide from us.
Why is the DEA operating in Manchester, expending meaningful resources on small time drug users (the dead 26 year old was out on bail for 0.4 grams of crack cocaine).
Was the public at large more or less safe during this debacle? Someone doing coke in a hotel room puts me at 0% danger…
Who pays when businesses on South Willow, like Starbucks, are closed down for hours?
Who pays for the unlawful displacement of hotel guest and nearby residents?
Who pays for the damage to our Queen City’s reputation, based on what sounds like an operation that went rogue and escalated unnecessarily?
Manchester residents all pay, but the buck must stop at Mayor Joyce Craig’s desk: Demand a full public inquiry.
CARLA GERICKE
Hooksett Road
Manchester”
Busy weekend meeting voters! So busy, I forgot to take any pics, except the featured one from Saturday morning before we headed out to go door knocking in West Manchester.
Our team of volunteers met at 9:30AM to get situated and finalize our lists before breaking into smaller groups to head into different areas of Ward 10.
We spent the next few hours dropping lit and chatting to folks on their doorsteps or outside where they were gardening and doing yard work. Great to connect!
We then reconvened for a delicious lunch of gazpacho, salad, salmon, and zucchini. LOVE peak season, and thank you, thank you, thank you to all the volunteers and the chef!
On Sunday morning, I fielded yard sign requests, then Louis and I headed out to drop off some before running our weekly household errands–which this week included picking up a blueberry pie and apple cider donuts at Golden Harvest Farm Stall for the evening’s festivities.
Later, I attended a "Meet Your GOP Candidates" event at the Parks & Rec building in Goffstown. Instead of a typical "speechifying" candidate event, this one was a dessert social/mixer, and it was relaxing and informative to talk to people one-on-one, or in small groups–so much better and meaningful!
Thanks to the Goffstown Republican Committee for organizing and hosting. I really enjoyed meeting and talking in depth to Goffstown voters. Thank you for coming out!
It’s rewarding to learn that you are also passionate about issues I care about: lower taxes, school choice, gun rights, to name a few. (And gardening! Got a few excellent tips for our nascent garden, thanks!)
I did consistently hear one sentiment: "It’s time for Lou to go!", "Twenty years in the senate is l-o-n-g enough!", and, "It is time for change."
With Carla Gericke in the NH Senate, you can expect:
As your senator, you will always know where I stand because as a principled advocate for limited, Constitutional government, and as someone who is not beholden to special interests, I can only stand for YOU. I ask for your vote this election!
Remember, the primaries are coming up on September 11th. While I don’t have a primary, be sure to get out and vote!
If you would like a yard sign or to have me to come speak at an event–I’d love to meet you!–please email me at Carla (at) Carla4NHSenate (dot) com.
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