Seabrook, like many other towns, has two districts. Unlike most towns, All of the candidates have voting records, i.e. they are current or recent Reps.
Rockingham 30 (Seabrook alone) has a 3 for 2 primary. There are two good guys and one bad buy. Tina Harley had one of the best records of all Republicans in 2021-22. She voted only three times with Democrats against Republicans. William Fowler had a very good record, with just nine bad votes.
Aboul Khan’s record runs from bad to very bad. For the last three terms, he has averaged more than 40 bad votes, putting him in the top (i.e., worst) 15% of RINOs. In the 2013-14 term, he voted with Democrats against Republicans 111 times, putting him in the top 10% of RINOs.
Rockingham 40 (Seabrook and Hampton) has a 2 for 1 primary. Neither candidate has a good voting record, but one is clearly worse than the other.
Jason Janvrin voted with Democrats against Republicans 82 times in the 2017-18 term. Cross-checking with the House Republican Alliance scorecard confirms that Janvrin is the worse of the two. Abramson’s average HRA score for the last three terms was 89.7%, right about the middle of all Republicans. Janvrin’s HRA score was 71.6%, which put him firmly in the bottom (worst) 15% of all Republicans.
Here are some highlights (lowlights?) of Khan’s and Janvrin’s careers.
Bad votes by Khan, Aboul (R, Seabrook)
Parental Control
voted FOR restricting parental choice ( 2021 HB251 )
Education
voted AGAINST education choice ( 2018 SB193 )
voted AGAINST repealing the mandate that schools provide menstrual products ( 2021 HB458 )
Cost of Living
voted AGAINST reducing tobacco taxes ( 2013 HB335 )
voted FOR an income tax ( 2018 HB628 )
voted FOR higher property taxes for most owners ( 2021 SB102 )
voted FOR higher rooms tax ( 2018 HB1609 )
voted FOR requiring state taxpayers to make up for poor investments by the Retirement Board ( 2022 HB1417 )
Constitutional Rights
voted FOR restricting property rights ( 2021 HB177 )
Other
voted AGAINST right to join or not join a union ( 2021 SB61 )
voted AGAINST strengthening the right-to-know law ( 2017 HB365
On all of these votes, more than 80% of Republicans voted the other way.
Bad votes by Janvrin, Jason (R, Seabrook)
Cost of Living
voted AGAINST lower energy rates ( 2018 HB592 )
voted FOR an income tax ( 2018 HB628, 2018 HB628 )
voted FOR higher energy rates ( 2018 HB559 )
Other
voted AGAINST prohibiting sex change surgery for minors ( 2018 HB1532 )
voted AGAINST strengthening the right-to-know law ( 2017 HB365
On all of these votes, more than 80% of Republicans voted the other way.
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