Candidate, New Hampshire State House of Representatives, District Rockingham 32, 2014

Representative, New Hampshire State House of Representatives, 2008-2010, 2012-2014

Candidate, New Hampshire State House of Representatives, District Rockingham 1, 2010

No caucus information on file.

Reporter/Editor, The Forum Newspaper, present

Realtor

Teacher, retired

Former Managing Editor/Board Chair, The Forum Newspaper

Chair, The Forum Newspaper Board

Volunteer, Philbrick James Library, Deerfield, 2001-present

Former Member/Volunteer, Deerfield Community Church Fair Committee

Charter Member, Middlesex Lioness

Trustee, Philbrick James Library

Awards:

Sherburne Award for contributions to community, 2006
New Hampshire Organic Farmers Policy Award, 2014

Reason for Seeking Public Office:

Government functions best when all involved work together to put the interests of our citizens ahead of partisan politics. While they may have disagreed about method, in the past members of both Parties shared the goal of promoting our state, protecting the rights of all our citizens, and safeguarding our environment.

In the first year of the current biennium, drastic cuts and attention to a rigid social agenda have replaced these goals without regard to the cost to our taxpayers, our businesses, our public servants, our children, and our seniors. These policies, often determined and funded by out-of-state interests, will again lead to costly lawsuits against the state and downshift onto local property tax payers,jst as they did in the 2010-2012 legislative term.

I am running to restore balance.