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Lastly, I’d like to address the issue of local control as much has been made about the current lack thereof.
| would like to remind the citizens of Nashua that we are really talking about is local political...
Alderman O’Brien
Thirty seconds.
Michael Carignan
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is singling out the Nashua Police Commission for no legitimate reason other than because he wants to
change it regardless of what the Board of Aldermen says.
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Brady Owens
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One of the speakers who spoke against the Charter alluded to the fact earlier that there are perhaps not
enough diverse people who may have the qualification to sit on the Police Commission. That is factually
incorrect and an unacceptable argument and | take offense to that.
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Alderwoman Kelly
Alderman O’Brien there are 3 of us on Zoom.
Alderman Lopez
Point of order, | was actually on Zoom. | just was on the telephone one so | was muted so | couldn’t
answer the roll call.
President Wilshire
You can come up now. Thank you.
Laura Colquhoun
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Laurie Ortolano
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Alderman O’Brien
Thirty seconds.
Diane Lothrop
...thank you. As a separate entity from the control of the Mayor’s office. If this gets on the ballot, I’m
asking voters to vote NO. Thank you.
President Wilshire
Thank you.
Alderman Schmiat
She refuses to wear a mask.
Paula Johnson
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As aresult, the amount of misinformation given to our residents to gain signatures for this petition is
astonishing. | personally witnesses a State Representative — actually two — in their official capacity with
name badges and all from here in Nashua at Market Basket on Amherst Street collecting signatures and
telling voters that the members of the Police Commission were State officials and not Nashua residents.
They also denied that this Board of Aldermen had already weighed in on this issue.
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