Husband and wife team John Bowman & Claire Ketteler are excited to announce our candidacy for the two House seats representing Newbury and New London, N.H., Merrimack County District 7.
We gratefully ask for your support in this marginally blue district. (2.5%)
83% of Americans believe our country is going in the wrong direction. This understanding proves that the mainstream public is sensible and can be trusted! Our state is sliding down the same path, and it is time for citizen volunteers to step up and “throw the rascals out.”
We chose to run because our state government is not responsive to the citizens. We witnessed the Senate lawyers tell our New Hampshire Supreme Court that our constitutional right to Petition and Remonstrance has “gone out of fashion” and is now just a right to ask permission to petition or remonstrate, with no obligation by the legislature to act. This same body allowed the Feds to mandate shared bathrooms in our schools under the threat of losing school lunch funding. This violates our Constitution in several ways.
Indeed, the US Supreme Court has held forever that school policies should be determined by community values. When did this change? The right to protest in the abortion debate is allowed only for one side. Mask mandates, school and business closures, and medical freedom all have devolved into hypocrisy. It appears that even at the local level, FREEDOM is held sacred only for some.
HB1431, the Parental Rights bill, failed by 5 Republican votes. Parents’ right to know what their children are being taught can only be controversial in a world turned upside down. That is why we run.
A biased media calling itself “mainstream” will tell us that Conservatives are radicals. That any crazy policies and their devastating consequences are not.
- Loving your country is mainstream. Hating your country and teaching that to our youth is radical.
- Respecting differences is mainstream. Censorship of unwelcome views is radical~~also evil.
- Wanting your kids to gather self-esteem from achievement is mainstream. Forcing crazy social experiments on them is radical.
- Judging people by the content of their character is mainstream. Demanding they admit their oppressor/victim status based on skin color destroys self-esteem~~not to mention being pure racism. That is as radical as it gets.
- Mainstream America is honest and fair: one standard applies to all. Only radical partisans use double standards and deception to manipulate the truth. One of a thousand examples: If one side questions the integrity of the vote, it is noble; If the other side does the same thing, it is a threat to democracy!
- Mainstream America knows a duck when it quacks. Radicals silence the duck.
The most recent example: MAYRA FLORES made history as the first Mexican-born woman to be elected to Congress. Now, we don’t care what her social status is, but the biased media does, and they were completely silent. She did not fit the accepted ‘conservatives-are-bigots’ narrative. Ms. Flores responded to her election by stating that Mexican culture is based on conservative values of “faith, family, and hard work”. She added “patriotism” further on. You will not hear that on the news.
Claire and I believe that FREEDOM is a mainstream value held in very low regard by the Left. Indeed, it is a Natural Right given or revoked only by the Creator.
Freedom of thought brings freedom of conscience. Neither can exist without the right to speak your mind. Conservatives allow this. Radicals do not.
We believe that people should be free to express their views on any issue without being abused by the force of law. Our legislature has difficulty with this concept.
We believe that parents should be free to question whatever their children might be experiencing at school. No item of curriculum or behavior, happy activity or wrongdoing, should be able to escape full disclosure by law.
We believe that our State Constitution–and that other one–exists to limit government, not our rights. We approve of the NHGOP platform, but I didn’t read the word “God” in it once. So perhaps they too believe our rights come from the government–and can be revoked by the government also. This needs to change as well.
We understand that votes in the House do not always represent what they seem to, as many buried words and phrases can change the entire bill, making a flawed Bill a worthless Act to be disposed of forthwith. That will be our combined task, to investigate all the words and phrases in bills, listen to all interested parties, and to vote according to our core beliefs in
- constitutional freedom,
- sensible stewardship, and
- full transparency in the functions of government and schools.
One final thought. We support TERM LIMITS for all elected offices, including the school boards, legislature, executive council, and the courts. We can’t be a citizen-volunteer government if we allow politicians to stay in business indefinitely.
Please check out our websites. We start marching as soon as the yard signs arrive!
johnbowman4nh.com claireketteler.com
