What does it mean to represent your community, your state? For me, it means knowing my neighbors and doing what’s right for New Hampshire.

I took part in my 3rd Hollis candidates’ forum on October 14th along with two Republican candidates both of whom moved to New Hampshire in 2018. They joined the Hollis Brookline Rotary Zoom meeting along with Republican floterial candidate, New Boston Free Stater, Keith Ammon.

Newcomer Sue Homola used part of her time to promote the NH Liberty Alliance website as a ‘non-partisan’ rating group that can give voters an idea of how their Representatives are doing in Concord. Since Ms. Homola is new to New Hampshire, I’m hoping she was simply unaware of the Free State Project (FSP), a group that invites their online members to move here from around the country, infiltrate targeted communities identified by the FSP ‘move program’, get involved with local schools and town committees, wait the required two years and then, run for elected office. The Free State Project chose New Hampshire as the state where they could most easily overtake the government in order to secede from the union. New Hampshire voters have consistently rejected being part of this unwanted lottery, but this incident highlights the importance of knowing who represent us in the legislature.

The Liberty Alliance and its’ State House flyer the ‘Gold Standard’ is conceived, produced and distributed by members of the Free State Project to further their agenda, not New Hampshire’s. They use ratings like CT (Constitutional Threat) to label Reps like me, who do not support their efforts to gum up the workings of New Hampshire’s State House. This ‘liberty-loving’ group is hardly non-partisan and I question the judgement of anyone who views this fringe perspective as useful to Hollis or the state. A group that pushes anarchy to legislators and then harasses them for non-compliance is hardly what our ‘Live Free or Die’ forebearers had in mind.

New Hampshire’s Democratic leaders are experienced and serious about maintaining and improving the places we love – because the job requires both. We have to meet our constitutionally mandated state-obligation to fund public education and maintain the New Hampshire Advantage. We have to stem the voluntary cost-shifting and find ways to meet the challenges of the 2021 COVID-19 budget.

Democrats fought the Governor’s veto of our 2-year budget (2019/2020) and won the fight to bring property tax relief to towns and schools, as we promised; we gave 138 million dollars back to New Hampshire communities without adding a broad-based tax! Property taxes rose consistently under anti-tax Republicans, from ill-advised state cuts. So, it is Democrats you can trust on fair taxes and good governance.

Free Staters and those who do not understand the threat they pose to New Hampshire are not the right people to lead us through the difficult economic downturn ahead. Stick with the Democratic majority you chose in 2018. We are up for the job and looking out for you. #KeepGoodGoing

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