National politics won’t fix the unique challenges facing Coös and Northern Grafton counties. I am running to be a practical problem-solver who focuses on everyday economic stability, protecting our communities, and keeping our families here.
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Where I Stand: Local Solutions for the North Country
National politics won’t fix the unique challenges facing Coös and Northern Grafton counties. I am running to be a practical problem-solver who focuses on everyday economic stability, protecting our communities, and keeping our families here.
• The Challenge: Our seniors deserve to age with dignity in their own homes. Right now, critical state programs like Choices for Independence are facing federal legal battles due to state-level administrative shortfalls, putting independent at-home care at risk.
• My Solution: I will advocate for robust oversight and proper state funding of the Choices for Independence program to ensure it meets federal standards.
• The Property Tax Connection: Failing to fund elder care forces vulnerable seniors into expensive, taxpayer-funded county nursing homes, which ultimately drives up local county taxes. Keeping care local saves money and keeps families together.
• The Challenge: While the state funnels millions into private school vouchers (Education Freedom Accounts), our local public schools are being starved of necessary state stabilization grants.
• My Solution: I will fight to prioritize public education funding. While I support a parent's right to choose the best path for their child, state dollars must first fulfill our constitutional obligation to public school students.
• The Property Tax Connection: Stop the downshifting. When Concord politicians cut state funding for public schools, they don’t eliminate the cost—they just push the bill down to our towns. This forces local selectmen to raise your municipal property taxes to make up the difference. Protecting state school aid is property tax relief.
• The Challenge: Recent economic data shows a devastating reality for the next generation: buying a home in NH now requires an income of $158,000, and childcare costs are approaching $30,000 a year. Because of this, we have the nation's lowest state investment in higher education, driving our young people out of the state.
• My Solution: * Support targeted public-private partnerships to build dedicated workforce housing so our local workers can afford to live where they work.
o Protect our environment and local tourism by actively opposing external, short-sighted landfill expansions that threaten North Country clean water.
• The Property Tax Connection: If young families and businesses leave because they can't afford to stay, our local economy shrinks. When the business tax base shrinks, the entire financial burden of maintaining our town roads, police, and fire departments falls squarely on remaining homeowners. Economic growth protects the independent taxpayer.
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