Reardon scandal pales in comparison to Lynch's FRM debacle

To the editor,

Why would the Reardon scandal be considered the most serious scandal of Governor Lynch's administration, as it was recently described? The Reardon case involved just a few thousand dollars of unemployment benefits to someone. The FRM cover up scandal involving Gov. Lynch, Kelly Ayotte and Peter Hildreth involved the loss of more than one hundred million dollars, for some people the loss of their homes and life savings and even some lost their lives. It has been proven that these losses were the fault of Gov. Lynch's administration but he refuses to consider reimbursing any of the victims. He allowed Peter Hildreth to retire with full benefits and Kelly Ayotte has been elected to a higher office. She said U.S. Atty. General Holder shouldn't be allowed to investigate himself but she supported the N.H. AG's office to investigate itself even though the N.H. AG's office had by their own admission failed in their duties to investigate criminal complaints about FRM multiple times, which amounted to allowing the Ponzi scheme to continue unobstructed.

It should be clearly understood that both Kelley Ayotte and Peter Hildreth were re-appointed to their positions by Governor Lynch and that both positions reported directly to Governor Lynch. What do these failures of the executive branch of N.H. government say about Governor Lynch's management capabilities? Was he hands off? Apparently. How can the Reardon case even be remotely compared to the FRM failure of the executive branch of N.H. government? It can't.

Governor Lynch promised a squeaky clean government should he become governor. He has not delivered on his promise. The failures of the N.H. executive branch under the leadership of Governor Lynch should forever own their massive failings as their legacy. N.H. deserves much better than we have received.

Thelma Bean

Gilford