The 11th hour for HB 1645
Who will stand tall when the bell tolls 12?
Sunday, May 4, 2008
When you get your property tax bill later this year, add your state senator to the list of people to whom you should complain.
The Senate is on its way to gutting HB 1645 — a measure designed to give the state retirement system long-awaited and badly-needed reform. The bill was initiated in and passed by the House earlier this year, but advocates for the state's taxpayers knew the Senate had the trump hand and leaders of unions representing public employees knew it, too.
After all, it was the public employees unions that were calling the shots.....
on the bill in the easier to control chamber.
The disposition of HB 1645 in the Senate is expected to begin the measure's slide on the hill of election-year politics. The first sign came on an amendment that made the original wording irrelevant.
The deed was committed in the Senate's committee on Executive Departments and Administration and it took a measure that would have benefited local taxpayers inNew Hampshire
Instead of giving local taxpayers a long-deserved break, committee Democrats maintained their historic fealty to labor unions.
HB 1645 is now on the slippery slope leading to a committee of conference with the House of Representatives. That will likely be followed by a plunge into the darkness of interim study, often the cemetery in which worthwhile legislation is buried.
Democrats on Executive Departments and Administration outnumber Republicans 4-2, but Republican Sens. Joe Kenney ofWakefield , and Mike Dowling of Salem
The only bipartisan aspect of the Senate committee's vote on HB 1645 was in members of both parties engaging in high-stakes election-year pandering.
If HB 1645 continues on the path it has taken, it will result in a cruel political crime against taxpayers throughout the Seacoast and the Lakes Region and every other corner ofNew Hampshire
Here are just a few examples of what the impact of gutting HB 1465 will have in terms of additional tax burdens in four of the cities in the Sunday Citizen's circulation area.
Dover Portsmouth Laconia Rochester
Imagine so few politicians doing so much damage to the fiscal health of so many constituents.
The direction the Senate is taking constitutes the fiscal rape ofNew Hampshire
Sen. Jacalyn Cilley was quoted last week as saying, “There are fiscal realities and there are moral realities.” Then she quickly falls into lockstep with those whose actions will hasten the loss of homes currently owned by low- and middle-incomeNew Hampshire
We've heard it called the 11th hour in defense of an overwhelming majority ofNew Hampshire
The men and women to watch are:
District 2, Sen. Deborah Reynolds, D-Plymouth
District 3. Sen. Joe Kenney, R-Wakefield
District 4, Sen. Kathleen Sgambati, D-Tilton
District 6, Sen. Jacalyn Cilley, R-Barrington
District 17, Sen. Jack Barnes, R-Raymond
District 21, Sen. Iris Estabrook, D-Durham
District 23, Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter
District 24, Martha Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth
Who will stand tall when the final hour tolls?
The disposition of HB 1645 in the Senate is expected to begin the measure's slide on the hill of election-year politics. The first sign came on an amendment that made the original wording irrelevant.
The deed was committed in the Senate's committee on Executive Departments and Administration and it took a measure that would have benefited local taxpayers in
Instead of giving local taxpayers a long-deserved break, committee Democrats maintained their historic fealty to labor unions.
HB 1645 is now on the slippery slope leading to a committee of conference with the House of Representatives. That will likely be followed by a plunge into the darkness of interim study, often the cemetery in which worthwhile legislation is buried.
Democrats on Executive Departments and Administration outnumber Republicans 4-2, but Republican Sens. Joe Kenney of
The only bipartisan aspect of the Senate committee's vote on HB 1645 was in members of both parties engaging in high-stakes election-year pandering.
If HB 1645 continues on the path it has taken, it will result in a cruel political crime against taxpayers throughout the Seacoast and the Lakes Region and every other corner of
Here are just a few examples of what the impact of gutting HB 1465 will have in terms of additional tax burdens in four of the cities in the Sunday Citizen's circulation area.
Imagine so few politicians doing so much damage to the fiscal health of so many constituents.
The direction the Senate is taking constitutes the fiscal rape of
Sen. Jacalyn Cilley was quoted last week as saying, “There are fiscal realities and there are moral realities.” Then she quickly falls into lockstep with those whose actions will hasten the loss of homes currently owned by low- and middle-income
We've heard it called the 11th hour in defense of an overwhelming majority of
The men and women to watch are:
District 2, Sen. Deborah Reynolds, D-Plymouth
District 3. Sen. Joe Kenney, R-Wakefield
District 4, Sen. Kathleen Sgambati, D-Tilton
District 6, Sen. Jacalyn Cilley, R-Barrington
District 17, Sen. Jack Barnes, R-Raymond
District 21, Sen. Iris Estabrook, D-Durham
District 23, Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter
District 24, Martha Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth
Who will stand tall when the final hour tolls?
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