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• No on extending insurance coverage for dependents
  

Higher spending: it WILL result in more spending by the State as it will have to pay higher premiums for State workers.

Higher taxes: thus taxes will have to be raised.

Trumping local / personal control: Absolutely a case of forcing adults to be treated as children!  This is nothing more than another step towards a failure - Universal Healthcare.  Keep extending and keep the incrementalizing going...

• No on maintaining insurance coverage in the event of a divorce
  

• No on a job creation tax credit for North Country businesses
  

Higher spending: it might if the State starts a marketing campaign just for that area of the State.

Higher taxes: The rest of us will have to make up for the loss of revenue from this

Trumping local / personal control: Sorry, I disagree here totally - this is Politicians playing with a dangerous weapon that should be yanked out of their hands as soon as possible - the Democrats have shown that they cannot be trusted to wield such a weapon - and that weapon is called "the tax code".  They use it to:

• reward their followers
• pursue their pet dreams
• force us to adapt our behavior according to their idea how what free men should live their lives

Oh, sorry about that (too much salsa and Mountain Dew there) - and that is the point - why should government tell free men how to live their lives anymore than it already does?!?!?!

Why can't I get a credit for creating a new job here in NH?  This is just politicians picking winners and losers....BWB Martin seems to have no problem with this....

• No on raising the minimum wage for the first time in a decade
  

Higher spending: In effect, it has placed a tax on all of us via this mandate on local businesses

Trumping local / personal control: I am so tired of people saying that working families are suffering because they only earn the minimum wage!  Minimum wages are for high school kids or those just entering the marketplace.  Let me be blunt - no one should be trying to raise a family on minimum wages - that should be an absolute signal ahead of time that you should have even started one in the first place!  If you refuse to up your skills to get a better job, please do not "free ride" on the rest of us to support your family!  In reality, it is a VERY small percentage of people earning min. wage that actually have families.

I am of the age when I remember that there were ONLY full service gas stations with the high school kids running out to check my oil, check my tires, check the windshield fluid, et al.  I remember real ushers at the movies; I remember a whole host of entry level jobs that no longer exist because Government priced these jobs out of the marketplace by making them too expensive for business owners to maintain. 

• No on providing kindergarten to NH's kids
  

Higher spending: higher

Higher taxes: higher

Trumping local / personal control: This is a sop to the teachers unions.  There is NO real reason why Government has to provide it; heck, TMEW and I provided a kindergarten program for those families that wanted it.  And yes, I am in favor of the education money raised by taxes following the child - to anywhere as long as educational standards are met.

• No on defining an adequate education
  

Higher spending: higher

Higher taxes: higher

Trumping local / personal control:Heck, you legislators ALREADY have done such a crappy job on this issue.  Right answer?   Send it back to the local level, the taxpayers via their School Boards and make it clear - continue to mismanage your towns and cities and you should expect failure.  Once again, society needs to stop bailing out mediocrity.

• No on RGGI - the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
  

Higher spending: State will have to pay higher costs

Higher taxes: and raise taxes to compensate.

Trumping local / personal control:The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is nothing more than a "pink" socialistic / environmentalist's wet dream as it and a Christmas present to politicians:

• arbitrarily raises everyone's cost of energy so we get to go dark and shiver (the environmentalists dream to go back to the dark ages)
  
• ignores the science that the earth is cooling (and more due to the Pacific duo-decadal oscillation than rise in CO2 - the earth has stopped warming folks!)
• gives politicians yet another means to control free men via their taxes (can we PLEASE take the tax code away from them!!!!!)
  

This is a tax by yet another name and it will bring in gobs of money for a reason that doesn't exist.  After all, I grew up in the 1970s when people were fear mongering about the impending Ice Age.  Climate changes - get used to it, adapt to it - you ain't gonna change or stop it.

• No on capping the interest rate on payday and title loans at 36%
  

Trumping local / personal control: This class of citizens do not qualify for bank loans.  They do not qualify (or have maxed out) their credit cards.  Effectively the State has decided that these folks do not deserve loans under any circumstances.  So the State has dumped this folks into the dumpster as far as financing is concerned.  And I don't see any of these Liberals giving micro-loans to any of these cut-off citizens either...

• No on civil unions
  

• No on repealing the unconstitutional parental notification law
  

Trumping local / personal control: This takes away the Parents rights to raise their children by their values and mandates that the State knows best.  The hypocrisy is just off the scale on this one!  This IS inserting Government into each family's life and abrogagtes that Parental responsibility for the children and allows the State to take absolute control. This has moved the Nanny State to Big Brother status, and Parents have no say at all (but WILL have the responsibility to clean up any untoward results from a State sponsored abortion and have to pay for the after effects of something that they didn't want in the first place.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.  As a Representative to the House, Mr. Denley's vote is 1 of 400.  If Mr. Denley is elected to the Senate his vote will be 1 of 24, and his negative and partisan voting will be amplified by a factor of 17!

And this is why Jeb Bradley should be your choice in NH Senate District.  With these issues, Bud Martin shows himself to believe that the State SHOULD be spending more, that you SHOULD be taxes more to support that spending, and that the State SHOULD have the control and NOT your local government -

or you

That's right - his belief is that you are incapable for making correct decisions for yourself how to run your life - Mr. Martin believes that it is HIS job to do that!

Jeb?  In his editorial board meeting with the Conway Daily Sun (4/16):

• Oppose the so-called “bathroom bill” that would give transgender individuals protection under the civil rights bill.
• Continue to support the death penalty and would vote against attempts to repeal it.
• Oppose the use of medical marijuana.
• Oppose a mandatory seat-belt law,/
• Propose an across-the-board 13 percent cut in state government.

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Dear Friend,

Yesterday the Republican Party nominated Bill Denley to oppose me for the State Senate District 3 seat.

Mr. Denley presents as a nice person, but unfortunately his voting record in the New Hampshire House is partisan and negative and not very nice to our citizens.  Here is a partial list of such roll call votes:

• No on Governor Lynch's Health First program for small businesses
• No on extending insurance coverage for dependents
• No on maintaining insurance coverage in the event of a divorce
• No on a job creation tax credit for North Country businesses
• No on raising the minimum wage for the first time in a decade
• No on providing kindergarten to NH's kids
• No on defining an adequate education
• No on RGGI - the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
• No on capping the interest rate on payday and title loans at 36%
• No on civil unions
• No on repealing the unconstitutional parental notification law

This is just the tip of the iceberg.  As a Representative to the House, Mr. Denley's vote is 1 of 400.  If Mr. Denley is elected to the Senate his vote will be 1 of 24, and his negative and partisan voting will be amplified by a factor of 17!

I am working hard to prevent Mr. Denley from pursuing his negative agenda.  I am campaigning 7 days a week - door to door, telephone call to telephone call, driving from event to event - North Conway to Farmington.  Despite all of this work, I can not personally reach all 40,000 voters in the District.