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Pignatelli calls upon Burton to resign post
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN, Telegraph Staff
landrigank@telegraph-nh.com
Published: Thursday, Sep. 29, 2005
CONCORD – Nashua Democrat Debora Pignatelli became the third member of
the Executive Council Wednesday to call upon colleague Raymond Burton
to resign for repeatedly hiring a campaign aide with a long record as
a child sex offender.
Pignatelli said she told Burton, a Bath Republican, that he should
leave in the middle of his 14th two-year term serving a district that
includes the upper one-third of the state.
“I thought it was a major mistake to keep this individual in his
employ after he found out about his background,” Pignatelli said
during an interview.
“I’ve always looked at my job in government as protecting children. I
think that pedophilia is something that can’t be cured. By continuing
to employ this individual, Councilor Burton acted as an enabler.”
Legally, councilors cannot petition to remove one of their own from
office. The state constitution permits the House of Representatives to
consider charges of impeachment against a councilor, as the House did
in 2000 against former Supreme Court Chief Justice David Brock. The
state Senate acquitted Brock on all charges.
Burton, who attended a council meeting Wednesday, told reporters
citizens support him remaining in office and running again.
“I had 123 e-mails and all but two – and those weren’t signed – the
rest said, ‘Ray Burton, keep doing what you are doing,’” Burton said.
“I had 51 telephone messages and all asked how they can help start the
campaign to get up in gear.”
Manchester Republican Rep. Steve Vaillancourt started a petition drive
in support of Burton remaining in office.
“I suspect Ray will be re-elected by a healthy margin, and I urge him
to hang in there. This honorable man has served the North Country and
our state in an exemplary manner for 30 years,” Vaillancourt said.
Former Democratic state Sen. Wayne King of Rumney lent his support to
Burton staying in office.
“Let us not diminish the seriousness of what has happened. But a lapse
in judgment is not reason enough for the North Country’s most
effective advocate to step down,’’ King wrote.
“It’s hard enough for folks in the North Country to get Concord’s
attention in the first place.”
On Monday, Gov. John Lynch and the state’s entire congressional
delegation urged Burton to step down for having failed to sever ties
with Mark Seidensticker, 45. A former field coordinator and campaign
photographer, Seidensticker was recently charged by Concord police
with giving alcohol to a minor, and has been convicted three times for
failing to register as a sex offender over the past 13 years.
Pignatelli joins Portsmouth Republican Ruth Griffin and Manchester
Republican Raymond Wieczorek in concluding Burton should step down.
The fifth councilor, Hopkinton Republican Peter Spaulding, criticized
Burton’s behavior but said it’s up to the voters to decide if it
warrants his removal from office.
Burton paid Seidensticker more than $7,000 last year and employed him
in five of his last nine campaigns.
“I can’t stand by and ignore what is an enormous mistake in judgment,”
Pignatelli said. “Unfortunately, I have to look past Ray Burton’s
exemplary service to his district.”
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-duke (duckgumbo@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 59
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge,who pussied
out of the Vietnam draft, showing his gay side
despite his avowed anti-gay bigotry
Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke is such a racist:
http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
stpatrickbr<AT>bellsouth<DOT>net
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816
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