{"id":3206,"date":"2014-01-09T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=3206"},"modified":"2014-01-10T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T22:18:07","slug":"the-%e2%80%9cstiff%e2%80%9d-who-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2014\/01\/09\/the-%e2%80%9cstiff%e2%80%9d-who-keeps-on-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cStiff\u201d Who Keeps On Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cStiff\u201d Who Keeps On Giving<\/p>\n<p>Oh did you see!!<br \/>\nFired Atkinson Police Chief, Phil \u201cthe Thug\u201d Consentino, is thinking about running for selectman in town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eagletribune.com\/latestnews\/x1221270883\/Ex-Atkinson-chief-considering-selectman-bid\">http:\/\/www.eagletribune.com\/latestnews\/x1221270883\/Ex-Atkinson-chief-considering-selectman-bid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just as soon as the dust from an out of court sexual harassment suit was paid to the shiny new dispatch girl who had someone breathlessly explain to her that they no longer needed Viagra since she came to work, we have the scandal ridden former police thug enter the edge of the political stage \u2014 again.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n<p>I can predict it though.<\/p>\n<p>As I told the activists in Atkinson, when a former police thug loses his ability to abuse his office he has to:<br \/>\n1. Leave town.<br \/>\n2. Shut up and never be seen (Miles Rigney, Weare PD)<br \/>\n3. Get back in power somehow so he won\u2019t be the subject of revenge.<\/p>\n<p>Consentino has little choice but to run for office or be tossed to the waste bin of impotent former potentates.<\/p>\n<p>Atkinson voters have not shown much savvy beyond voting for their own special interests, the kind Consentino used to hand out as the \u201cElderly Affairs (except that one time)\u201d director.<br \/>\nFree rides in the E.A Cruisers for the shut-ins in town can carry a lot of votes \u2013 as well as a clipboard for petitions for more police spending.<\/p>\n<p>The out-of-court sexual harassment settlement never really hit the light of day until now.<\/p>\n<p>Run Consentino, run!<\/p>\n<p>We may get the out-of-court details yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cStiff\u201d Who Keeps On Giving Oh did you see!! Fired Atkinson Police Chief, Phil \u201cthe Thug\u201d Consentino, is thinking about running for selectman in town. http:\/\/www.eagletribune.com\/latestnews\/x1221270883\/Ex-Atkinson-chief-considering-selectman-bid Just as soon as the dust from an out of court sexual harassment suit was paid to the shiny new dispatch girl who had someone breathlessly explain to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3210,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions\/3210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}