Following is a rough transcript that someone on the Winnipesaukee Forum put together after watching the video of part of Betsey’s legislative update at the BoS meeting on January 7th, 2010.
This is in reference to the Braun Bay rafting bill that Betsey has proposed, HB 1466.
“I also put in a bill about the rafting that is happening, how many boats are in Braun Bay and that hearing will be coming up on the 21st which is probably next week?, next week the 28th? No, …………….“Well what happens is that you can, I think you can put 3 boats together in a raft, what happens at Braun Bay is that there is multiples of 3 and it just grows and grows and grows and I have gotten complaints, and I have always heard that under the law enforcement on the water, there wasn’t anything that law enforcement on the land can do unless marine patrol was out there, and so I wanted to be able to…what I put in was to limit how many rafting conglomerations can be out there, Say you can put three rafts of three out there, I don’t know where it’s going to go. The hearing is, I’m going to ask people for their input that are down in Braun Bay and we’ll see what happens with that so, every time I get a complaint it’s like lets talk about it and lets see if we can do ..mumbles….”
Betsey Patten
Nice and clear now…. right? It's painfully obvious Ms. Patten is not comfortable talking about her very own bill and very clear she doesn't understand the current law. Why then introduce a bill? Because a very small number of very wealthy lake front property owners in and around Braun Bay want to maintain their “private” lakefront. These wealthy few got in Betsey’s ear and an ill conceived bill is on the table, a bill that would further restrict the general public from utilizing a public treasure. Buying shoreline property does not mean you also bought the lake.
One would have hoped that Betsey Patten would have considered how this bill would impact the taxpayers and vacationers that utilize the lake before leaping forward with legislation. At the very least do some research? Is there a problem? What's the current law? And that's just for starters.
Makes me wonder....a lot ...about all her other bills. Seat of the pants legislating. Not a good way to represent contituents.
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Is this the same Betsey that complains New Hampshire is becoming a "Nanny State"? Could it be Betsey is part of the problem? Stop with the Bills already!
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