HB 1234 harms small town democracy
HB 1234 provides evidence of how out of touch those in the New Hampshire Legislature are from the public.
HB 1234 attempts to make all school elected offices as “incompatible” to be serve in a concurrent manner.
I attended the Senate hearing to discover why over 100 years of successfully serving the needs of their constituents that with the “flip of a switch” why these elected office were now “incompatible”
What I discovered was a local concern of the bills sponsors in Merrimack that became an interdiction on all elected school offices across the entire Granite State
What was most obvious was the poor scholarship, absence of due diligence or even a vapid grasp of how the bill’s impact would be in a variety of operating environments.
Far worse, these school elected offices with the continual new regulations that are place each year have become highly technical positions that the average person cannot step into.
Yet the requirements of their legal compliance demand exact precision.
In small towns, there are a limited number of qualified individuals willing to engage in this responsibility.
Due to this, small town democracy depends on these nonpartisan professions to serve in several positions concurrently.
HB 1234 is discriminatory as it only applied to school officials and not town or municipal elected office.
This unequal application of the law creates a “preference” of various classifications that warrants the necessity of a judicial challenge.