NH Commission Victory for Us!

	posted by Scott on Wednesday September 25, @12:02PM from the news dept.
	I just got back from Concord, NH, where the Executive Council voted on the nominations for the NH Commission on the Status of Men (see the room it was held in here). There is lots of good news: the nominations of Scott Hampton and Thomas Kaufhold were soundly rejected by the Executive Council. Stephen Gorin's nomination passed with only a 3-2 vote. The other nominees were pretty much voted in unanimously. I was very concerned when the meeting started, since the Council was approving tons of nominations without any debate. They were really rushing through them. When it came time for the NHCSM nominations, there was no discussion or debate on any of the candidates, it just came down to a quick vote for each nominee. There was no roll call on the votes, so I don't have any permanent record of which councilor voted which way, and I wasn't quick enough to keep track of it myself (sorry). A letter of gratitude to each of the councilors for hearing our concerns is definitely appropriate now. Further, they will have three other nominees to vote on in the future, so we need to keep them listening to us. A thousand thank-yous to everyone who took part in this activism, and supported us. The outcome of this meeting was very much in our favor. We are thwarting the attempted sabotage of the commission! Addendum: Paul Clements had a stinging letter printed in Foster's Daily Democrat criticizing Shaheen for her attempt to sabotage the commission.

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Way to go, Scott! (Score:1) by Steve (simparl@aol.com) on Wednesday September 25, @01:01PM EST (#1) (User #830 Info) http://www.imparl.net Good job, Scott! You're on your way to *Taking back* the commission! :-) Cheers, Steve http://www.maledepression.com Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.--Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Nice (Score:2) by Marc Angelucci on Wednesday September 25, @01:39PM EST (#2) (User #61 Info) Right on Scott. Big thanks to you and to everyone out there who's involved in this struggle.

Beer (Score:2) by frank h on Wednesday September 25, @02:06PM EST (#3) (User #141 Info) You are hereby DIRECTED to go have a beer in celebration. Or two. Congratualtions!! Frank

Mazel Tov! (Score:1) by mbr (spamproofed address: mbr at arlsoft dot com) on Wednesday September 25, @04:01PM EST (#4) (User #821 Info) Good work, Scott and everyone else who helped with this. When does Shaheen nominate her next three saboteurs? Mark Rosenthal

Re:Mazel Tov! (Score:1) by Scott (scott@mensactivism.org) on Wednesday September 25, @04:11PM EST (#5) (User #3 Info) First of all, thanks to everyone for the kind words regarding this success. It was a group effort and many of you are also responsible for making this happen. "When does Shaheen nominate her next three saboteurs?" I imagine the Gov. office will release three new names soon, possibly this week. We will then have at least two weeks of public review/input time and the Executive Council will have to vote on them. Note that we've already heard that one of the nominees is going to be a person someone from the NCFC-NH group recommended as an alternate, so it's defintely not a given that Shaheen will nominate more controversial individuals. Hopefully, she's learned not to play games with us, espeically during her campaign. But, you never know. We'll just have to wait and see. Scott

Re:Mazel Tov! (Score:0) by Anonymous User on Thursday September 26, @01:58AM EST (#6) YYYYAAAHHOOOO!!! Great goin' Scott. Well done! Let us all celebrate with the adding of chocolate to milk. (^_^) "Free at last, Free at last, Thank God all Mighty! Free at last!" (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)         Thundercloud.

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