I have been saying I need to get involved, but I hate leaving the house and have said when an event is local, I will attempt to go. Moms for America had an event at Harley Jacks in Ossipee, and I did not get the gumption to go.
Then in a Wolfboro group I had talked about my efforts to at least act locally and then was told a US Senate Candidate would be down the road at Indian Mound Golf Course’s restaurant, The River’s Edge Grille & Tavern. I was called out and had to standby my word. Can’t get much closer. How could I not say “Yes”?
Holly Novelesky, who is running for Congress in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, was the guest speaker. She is dynamic and a very good speaker. She runs a business and has been in the Steel industry along with being a Nurse and she served our country as a US Army reservist. She is as strict as Trump when it comes to immigration, being a nurse, of course she wants to work to fix the many issues in the Medical Industry, and is very energy conscious and understands that you can not just turn off coal and go alternative.
She understands we need to work on transitioning to alternate green energy solutions. She believes all illegal immigrants should be deported but does not advocate actively looking for them. Her attitude is when anyone commits a crime, if they are here illegally, meaning if they did not go through the Lawful process of immigrating here, then they should be immediately deported.
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Now I consider myself a Hippie Conservative with a twinge of liberalism, so I asked her, “What about those illegals who have been here working and actually contributing to society where they live, is there any way we could work with those good people caught in a bad place?” She said she believed in the two-tier system we have always had, and that would create a third tier, which would mean all the immigrants who have already gone through the process, and the ones in the legal process now, would unfairly be held back while those who broke the law to come here would go to the front of the line, and that is wrong. I could not argue that point.
She was asked about what she could do to look into the issues of the legal system in NH where we have issues from the top down where people who are not actually trained in Law Enforcement are overseeing our State police, Sheriffs, and local departments. She said her position does not give her much pull in local with NH issues.
She was then asked about congressional investigations into Law enforcement issues in states and why she could not work to have a panel of some sort investigate it? She had not thought about it that way, and that she would look into the issues.
Now, I Wish I had thought about the major case involving child welfare at the NH Youth Detention Center. If ever something needed federal attention, that is it.
I asked her about her Energy Independence plan and whether it would include drilling in Anwar (The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), and she admitted she was not familiar with details about drilling there and would need to research further. I should have pushed her since Trump has said he would start up again as soon as he gets back in office, and how she did not know with all the news around about it over the last couple of decades? At least I planted the seed.
I spoke about her Clean Energy policy and how alternative green energy is not proven, especially in climates like New Hampshire’s, and her thoughts on Nuclear Power, which I believe is our best solution at this point in time. She said she should have included nuclear when she spoke about her Energy Independence policy and that alternative energy methods should work in concert with nuclear and coal as we work to transition to green energy in the future.
I didn’t like her answers on ANWAR or her Green Energy Plan, but those, in my humble opinion, are not enough to withhold my vote. I can vote for her “Without Holding My Nose,” and that is my litmus test on being able to vote for someone. https://www.holliefornewhampshire.com/
