NH House District Carroll 3 (Moultonborough, Tamworth, Madison) has a 3-for-2 Republican primary election. Two candidates are newcomers; the third is terrible.
Karel Crawford has bounced back and forth between terrible and mediocre. In her first term, 2013-14, she voted with Democrats against Republicans 130 times, which placed her 10th worst RINO of all Republicans. In her second term, she improved all the way to mediocre, with “just” 84 bad votes. That term there were so many other even worse RINOs, that she was only 46th worst.
In the last six years, 2017-22, Crawford had two more terrible terms near the top 10 (9th and 12th) worst RINOs. Between those two, she had a mediocre term where she was still worse than 60% of Republicans.
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Here are some highlights (lowlights?) of her all-too-long career.
Bad votes by Crawford, Karel (R, Moultonborough)
Parental Control
- voted AGAINST giving parents more information about students‘ assessments ( 2021 HB194 )
- voted FOR restricting parental choice ( 2021 HB251 )
Education
- voted AGAINST education choice ( 2018 SB193, 2021 HB609, 2021 HB278 )
- voted AGAINST repealing the un-Constitutional unfunded mandate that schools provide menstrual products ( 2021 HB458 )
- voted AGAINST requiring students to pass a civics test ( 2021 HB320, 2021 HB319 )
Cost of Living
- voted AGAINST lower energy rates ( 2018 HB592 )
- voted AGAINST reducing business taxes ( 2013 HB434 )
- voted AGAINST reducing tobacco taxes ( 2013 HB335 )
- voted FOR an income tax ( 2018 HB628, 2018 HB628 )
- voted FOR higher electric rates for most users ( 2019 SB165 )
Constitutional Rights
- voted AGAINST prohibiting the suspension of civil liberties even during an emergency ( 2021 HB440 )
- voted AGAINST property rights ( 2022 HB414 )
- voted AGAINST repealing a never-used and unconstitutional infringement on free speech ( 2016 HB1570, 2019 HB124 )
- voted AGAINST rights of conscience ( 2021 HB63 )
- voted AGAINST the right to keep and bear arms ( 2016 HB582, 2016 SB336, 2015 SB116, 2013 HB451 )
- voted FOR restricting property rights ( 2021 HB177, 2021 HB177 )
Right to Life
- voted AGAINST collecting abortion statistics ( 2018 HB471 )
- voted AGAINST making it a crime to kill a wanted fetus ( 2015 HB560, 2015 SB40 )
- voted AGAINST punishing fetal homicide ( 2017 SB66 )
Other
- voted AGAINST prohibiting sex change surgery for minors ( 2018 HB1532
On all of these votes at least 80% – in most cases more than 90% – of Republicans voted the other way.
