Ex-Mayoral Candidate Rich Girard Was Linked to Sex Industry Worker in 2013
“Little Mel” Sexted With Former Alderman and School Board Member — OPINION
Richard H. Girard has decided not to run for mayor in 2023, joining fellow two-time loser Victoria Sullivan as former mayoral candidates who realize they don’t have a chance to replace Joyce Craig.
Whether Rich Girard plans to run for the School Board or for alderman, any political campaign he runs will be dodged by two words: “Little Mel.”
LIttle Mel was a former sex industry worker who was intimately involved with Manchester Republicans a decade ago, on both a personal and “professional” level (if your profession is politics).
According to the bio on the podcast The Pleasure Saucer, Little Mel was the force behind the No Boundaries podcast. Little Mel’s show focused on “LGBTIAPQ, BDSM, body image, relationships, sex, self-esteem, rape culture, and women’s issues.”
On the podcast, she and the host discussed Paypal closing the accounts of “sex industry workers.” Around the 12:40 mark, Little Mel admits that “I do have a past where I was a sex industry worker for a little while….”
She said, “…I talk alot about slit shaming sex industry workers,” and act she found offensive.
It was perceived slut shaming that triggered her into outing her extracurricular relationship with Rich Girard, who at the time hosted a radio talk show show.
Girard at the time was grooming Little Mel to become a right-wing pundit. The Union Leader reported that he engaged in a n online “sexting” exchange with Little Mel in which he tried to inveigle sex from her.
Girard never denied his actions, and claimed the resulting scandal made him a “better Christian.”
