{"id":990,"date":"2014-04-07T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=990"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:43:10","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:43:10","slug":"sb-392-to-create-rural-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2014\/04\/07\/sb-392-to-create-rural-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"SB 392 to Create Rural Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rural Affairs Commission and Farm to Plate Programs – more public-private partnerships means more pay-to-play and more shadow government.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If it weren’t bad enough that NH has a Water Sustainability Commission<\/a> (created by Gov. Lynch Executive Order 2011), and a Coastal Risk and Hazards Commission<\/a> (Hassan signed the bill in 2013 – Cliff Sinnott, director of the Rockingham Planning Commission, ends up as chairman) which basically monitors the sea level, now SB 392<\/a> has been filed to create a “Rural Commission”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The bill was heard in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee<\/a> and passed the full Senate on February 19th. It is slated to come out of the House Environment and Agriculture Committee<\/a> by May 8th.<\/p>\n

Recommended appointees would include:<\/p>\n

a) One member of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.<\/p>\n

(b) One member of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.<\/p>\n

(c) Three public members, appointed by the governor.<\/p>\n

(d) Two members appointed by the chancellor of the university system of New Hampshire.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the commission stacked with three appointees of the governor and two from UNH, the seat of the Carsey Institute, well, what could go wrong?<\/em><\/p>\n

Full text of bill: http:\/\/www.gencourt.state.nh.us\/legislation\/2014\/SB0392.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rural Affairs Commission and Farm to Plate Programs – more public-private partnerships means more pay-to-play and more shadow government. If it weren’t bad enough that NH has a Water Sustainability Commission (created by Gov. Lynch Executive Order 2011), and a Coastal Risk and Hazards Commission (Hassan signed the bill in 2013 – Cliff Sinnott, director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}