Together Everyone Achieves More
I grew up on a small farm in Vermont. My dad was an engineer, and my mother was a nurse. I graduated from White Mountain School in Bethlehem, New Hampshire on scholarship and moved to Minnesota, where I got my bachelor’s degree at St. Olaf College. In 1990, I formed a partnership to promote venues for alternative rock during the heyday of the Minneapolis music scene.
After years in the Midwest, I moved to Nashville, working as the pastry chef in a Flagship Hotel. I was a single parent and my job required crazy hours. Childcare took a big share of my earnings. As a result, I quit my career and moved back to New Hampshire in 2006. I worked in a pizza shop in the Lakes Region for over fifteen years, while also working part time as a substitute teacher at Kearsarge Regional High School and later in the Hillsboro-Deering School District.
In 2018, I moved to Hillsborough and began a three-year apprenticeship with my father in electrical manufacturing. I now own and operate our family business, having successfully navigated a yearlong business crisis during the pandemic. I am an electrical contract manufacturer and work with three New England machine shops. In my free time, I have spent many hours revitalizing our antique cape, as well as adding a small orchard out back.
New Hampshire Needs Affordable Housing
Create Affordable Housing and Grow the NH Economy
from Cannabis Legalization Revenues
New Hampshire needs affordable housing! More houses will generate more revenue with the NH Real Estate Transfer Tax. We need workforce housing for industry as well as smaller homes, apartments, and attached dwellings. Shelter is a basic human right. We need small homes for seniors who want to downsize, and for young people to build equity. We need to change how we limit new homes by enforcing zoning regulations that discourage new homes.
We have some beautiful old buildings which need preservation. New Hampshire has skilled carpenters, electricians, and plumbers with knowledge and experience. Business is about building relationships as much as it is about profit.
A stable work force needs access to affordable childcare as well as affordable housing. We can legalize cannabis through a state-run commission to generate funds as an economic accelerator. Access to affordable homes will encourage younger people to build equity as well as allow our senior citizens to retire in dignity.
The Statewide Education Property Tax (SWEPT) has not been adjusted for inflation in almost 20 years. The property tax system puts some towns into a negative feedback loop and regular people are not able to build equity or struggle to afford the property they have. We need to invest in our youth and we can afford it!
As a small business owner, I pay business taxes as well as property taxes. Property taxes can be ruinous. Young people need to build equity, and our seniors need to be comfortable while living on a fixed income. Public education needs reform, but we need to fund schools first, and then focus on reform. This is no easy task and will require patience and resolve.
New Hampshire students are all our children! We need to find in ourselves the ability to provide better counseling for our youth as well as access to much needed STEM and vocational training.
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Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Protect Personal Freedoms
New Hampshire values individual liberty. We all have the right to pursue our own happiness. How someone expresses their gender is up to them, not the government. The government must use it's powers to address the needs of the marginalized. Privacy between a patient and a doctor is a well-established right. Women seeking medical advice need our courtesy and respect. Government must never limit access to abortion. Difficult decisions should remain within the doctor-patient relationship.