It did not use to work like this. But here we are with the pandemic emergency as an excuse, state employees gone rogue and asserting authority over private businesses and citizens they do not otherwise possess and/or feel obligated to identify.

I have previously known the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to operate within the authority granted to them by statute, administrative rule and/or federal regulations. Presently, the Sununu administration is making demands of private agencies and private citizens because “at a meeting” they decided it would be so. To be clear, not a meeting of a legislative body to promulgate law or rule, but a meeting held at the whim of certain state employees.

The DHHS is demanding that program evaluations be conducted “remotely”. I have been told it is too dangerous for the DHHS staff to meet at my site or the state office. Its tough to believe a private meeting is more dangerous than a market.

Sununu claims he has delivered on his personal protection equipment (PPE). Sununu touts his PPE efforts as a huge success. But clearly his staff can’t access PPE to the extent they can conduct their duties in the normal course. If the PPE is available, perhaps one state employee could don it to meet in person.

All citizens of this great state have yielded their rights as government has demanded, myself included. Enough is enough. This has gone too far.

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