The Issues

The Weare Democrats believe in supporting and fighting for issues that are important to Wearites and more generally to New Hampshire. Your concerns are our concerns:

  • Livable Wages and Fair Treatment for All Workers
  • Free and Fair Elections
  • Fully-funded Public Education for All Children
  • Affordable and Accessible Health Care for All, Including Reproductive Freedom
  • A Clean and Safe Environment
  • Protecting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid
  • Providing Affordable Housing
  • Promoting Gun Safety (Background Checks and Waiting Periods for all Commercial Gun Sales, and support for a Red Flag Law)

Republican policies hurt Granite Staters by:

  • Cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations
  • Raising property taxes
  • Diverting funds from public schools
  • Restricting free speech
  • Destroying democracy through voter suppression
    • “In New Hampshire, state legislators are jumping on the disturbing national trend of election sabotage legislation with three pre-filed bills that attack fair election administration in different ways. House Bill 1522 would allow any voter to conduct their own “citizen’s audit” of election results by personally viewing every ballot cast in an election, creating serious privacy problems and further undermining public confidence in elections. H.B. 1567 would allow any registered voter to sue to have an election official removed from office. And H.B. 1324 would allow the New Hampshire State Senate to initiate a dispute before the New Hampshire Supreme Court seeking to overturn the state’s results for a presidential election. Currently the Elias group’s Democracy Docket is involved with SB418 which introduces RSA 659:23-a Affidavit Ballots. I. For all elections, if a voter on election day is registering to vote for the first time in New Hampshire and does not have a valid photo identification establishing such voter’s identification, or does not meet the identity requirements of RSA 659:13, then such voter shall vote by affidavit ballot pursuant to this section.” See: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/5-egregious-voter-suppression-laws-2021 and https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/election-sabotage-scheme-and-how-congress-can-stop-it
  • Cutting health services and attacking reproductive freedom
    • NH GOP legislators have consistently voted against a number of common sense health services which would benefit Granite Staters. While some of these bills did pass and become law, the majority of GOP legislators, including those representing Weare, voted against these bills. Examples include: the Medicaid Dental Benefit (HB103, 2022); Paid Family Leave (HB1165, 2022); the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, Farmers Market Nutrition (HB574, 2023).
    • Additionally, NH GOP legislators also have consistently voted against reproductive freedom. For example, in 2022 they voted to allow medical professionals and pharmacists to refuse reproductive health procedures and contraceptives if it violated their conscience, HB1080. Limits on abortion rights were folded into the budget in 2022, rather than be voted on based on their merits. The GOP has voted against repealing the fetal life protection act and repealing civil and criminal penalties (HB 271, 2023). While currently abortion remains legal up to 24 weeks, there have been a number of efforts to move it back to 6 weeks (HB1477, 2022). Proposed 2024 bills would outlaw abortion after 15 days with few exceptions (HB 1248) and put a number of restrictions on the way an abortion can be performed after 15 days (HB 1541).
    • Also see NH legislation: HB1022, HB1409, CACR18, HB1165, HB1673/SB399, HB565, CACR2, HB224, and HB263, using the link to The General Court of New Hampshire at the bottom of this page.
  • Voting against livable wages
  • Ignoring science and climate change

For more information on our elected officials’ voting records, visit: The General Court of New Hampshire (state.nh.us)