Politics & Government

Former NHGOP Chair: I Wasn't Worried About UN Invading NH

Jack Kimball said he sent the email because "there's a lot of things going on that are very suspicious."

Former NHGOP Chairman and Tea Party activist Jack Kimball says he never meant to imply that he thought the United Nations was "invading" New Hampshire in an email message he sent to friends and family.

The conservative NH Journal ran a story Tuesday saying it had "intercepted" an email from Kimball where he told a story about how his daughter and son-in-law saw 50 to 60 unmarked white military vehicles headed south from Maine toward New Hampshire.

"Don’t know what they were doing or where they were going but the white vehicles sound more like UN trucks," Kimball's email reads. "Be alert."

[You can read the full email here.]

But Kimball, a Seacoast resident who owns a business in Portsmouth, said he never meant to imply that the UN was "invading" New Hampshire.

"No, of course not," he told Patch Tuesday. "Nothing like that.

"I sent an email to select friends based upon info I received from my own daughter and son-in-law," Kimball said in a telephone interview. "They were on their way to Maine early a couple mornings ago and told me they had seen a 50 to 60 truck convoy. It consisted of a wide range of military vehicles, many of them white and nondescript and unmarked." He said they later saw another group of around 10 to 12 18-wheelers, also nondescript and driven by military personnel.

"We're on a watch for stuff like this," Kimball said. "I sent it to 50 to 60 people to let them know it was seen. The only thing I said was it was white so it could be UN because that's their color. We didn't really know."

Kimball said within five minutes of sending out his email, an individual he knows in the National Guard informed him that the convoy in fact consisted of medical units from the Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Massachusetts National Guard that were returning from a training exercise in Maine.

Kimball said he sent a second email to the same people he emailed the first time explaining this.

So why did he send the initial email?

"We're all concerned about what's going on with Obama," Kimball said. "We've all been talking about what's happening. We've got Chinese troops arriving in Hawaii... and Kansas. There's a lot of things going on that are very suspicious. There are a lot of people that are very vigilant.

"I'm usually the receiver of information, not the provider of it," he added. "In this case it happened to be my own family. I felt, 'Hey, look, let's just let people know.'"


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