New Hampshire State Senate District 16

“This is not something our towns can fix alone. Ask a select board what stands between them and new housing and most will not say they lack the will. They will say they lack the water line, or the sewer capacity, or the road a new development would need. A town that cannot afford the pipe cannot approve the project.” (Citizens Count Issue Survey)

“This past year alone, Goffstown missed out on more than $6.6 million in state education funding it should be receiving if the state paid the court-mandated amount of per-pupil base adequacy aid to our public schools. Manchester is missing out on more than $35.6 million, Hooksett $5.7 million, Raymond $3.3 million and Candia $1.2 million.” (Citizens Count Issue Survey)

“Additionally, from my years on the School Board and the Budget Committee, I know how much the practice of downshifting costs from the state to the local level severely stresses our communities' ability to provide services while also creating budgets our townspeople can afford.” (Citizens Count Issue Survey)

“I believe the law should follow the hearts and minds of the people, and while I am strongly pro-life I know the voters are not with me on this issue. However, I believe they would support a ban at viability, which is currently about 20 weeks gestation. Therefore, that is what I would endorse, while continuing to educate people about the medical reality that a fetus is a person at all stages of development.” (Citizens Count Issue Survey)

“I support gradually returning the BET/BPT to their historic levels, as revenues allow.” (Citizens Count Issue Survey)

“Prices are set by supply and demand. Some towns have used zoning to discourage new home construction, which has raised prices far beyond the ability of our young families to pay. I believe in basic property rights, and fundamentally believe that people that own property should be able to put a house on it.” (Citizens Count Issue Survey)