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Judge Vaughn denies KingCast on Contempt Motion; new RSA 91-A lawsuit against Martha McLeod for HB 1428 Bruce McKay Highway looms large.

By Christopher King

In a decision I received yesterday Judge Vaughn denied this motion for a show cause hearing as to why the Town of Franconia kept Troy Watt's ethics complaint against Norman Bruce McKay from me for an entire year. That's fine and the fact that the town allegedly never showed the complaint to lawyer Daniel Mullen will be noted to the U.S. House in a few months when session resumes. It was insane, how they danced around saying they didn't think it was a complaint and blah blah blah when anyone reading this 24 June 2007 email from Attorney Watts to me can see otherwise.

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Now moving on, the cash is in hand for the KingCast v. Martha McLeod lawsuit, in which I want all of her emails to and from her private and public emails as long as they pertain to failed HB 1428. That bill was an attempt to name a highway after Norman Bruce McKay, someone who was referred to by his peers at NH Fish & Game as a "Rogue, classic bully hiding behind his badge."

I just need to integrate the first part with the second part, with the other Attorneys General concurring with the KingCast position. Then I email it to her and her counsel and ask them if they are ready for battle, then file it. All of this is certain to occur, including a filing if necessary, by next Friday.

At issue is the Constitutionality of this policy JPEG'd in this post which holds that emails to the individual house members are not public record, even if they pertain to public matters like failed HB 1428 Bruce McKay Highway. I know, you're saying "they're joking, right?"

I like our chances in this one more than the last case for sure, even though Judge Vaughn, per his 6 March 2008 Order is going to issue a cost of litigation award against Kelly Ayotte and the town of Franconia now that the litigation is complete. We also got some really good information for our U.S. House Complaint (including the 7 OC spray and pursuit violations as well as the truth about Gregory Floyd shooting at Liko) so we can solidly posit Kelly Ayotte -- with her proved record of malfeasance and deceit -- squarely in the Congressional Record.

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on July 27, 2008 (boomark / email).