CONCORD – The former Nashua lawmaker who gained notoriety in the 1990s and early 2000s for espousing violence against police and women plans to run for U.S. Senate as a Republican this fall.

Tom Alciere, who now lives in Hudson, was a freshman Republican legislator representing Nashua’s Ward 4 in the House of Representatives when his rants supporting the killing of police officers gained widespread public attention in early 2001. A public outcry ensued and resulted in Alciere resigning his seat on Jan. 11, 2001.

Alciere filed his declaration of candidacy at the New Hampshire Secretary of state’s office on Wednesday.

He will face off against incumbent U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte of Nashua, former state senator Jim Rubens of Hanover, Gerard Beloin of Colebrook and Stanley Michael Emanuel of Laconia on Sept. 13. Candidates have until 5 p.m. June 10 to file for office.

Attempts to contact Alciere by telephone on Thursday were not successful.

Alciere’s anti-police sentiments expressed in letters to the editor and online postings got him ousted from the Libertarian Party in 1993. They also gained him the attention of New Hampshire State Police, the FBI and Nashua police, former Nashua Deputy Police Chief Timothy Hefferan told a reporter in a 2001 published report.

Alciere told The Valley News of Lebanon in January 2001 that he loves it when someone kills a police officer: “It’s unfortunate that cops do make it necessary (to kill them) when they’re waging a war on drugs, and I view cops as enemy officers.”

Alciere also wrote a letter to the editor supporting violence against women, Hefferan said at the time.

Despite his public advocacy of violence, Alciere was elected to represent Nashua’s Ward 4 in the Legislature in 2000. Alciere told a reporter he didn’t discuss his anti-police views during the campaign because no one asked about them.

Following the vote, Alciere went online and said he was elected by a ‘‘bunch of fat, stupid, ugly old ladies that watch soap operas, play bingo, read tabloids and don’t know the metric system.”

To date, Gov. Maggie Hassan is the only Democrat to file her candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat.

Alciere’s name came to the public’s attention again following the capture in Concord in December 2002 of Andrew Hampton McCrae. McCrae had holed up in the Holiday Inn in Concord after he allegedly shot and killed Red Bluff, Calif., police officer David Mobilio.

Someone who claimed to be Tom Alciere posted an online message praising McCrae, calling the random ambush on Mobilio “absolutely justified.”

Kathryn Marchocki can be reached at 594-6589, kmarchocki@nashuatelegraph.com or @Telegraph_KMar.

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