New Hampshire Chooses RLC Leaders, 81 Endorsed Candidates to Lead State Legislature
By Aaron - November 5, 2010 at 8:22 AM
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Filed under Elections , New Hampshire , RLC Chapter News , RLC News , State races , States
In one of the most exciting victories for the RLC this November, former Chair of the New Hampshire RLC and its PAC, Jim Forsythe, won election to the 24-member State Senate. Before winning election, Forsythe also chaired the Strafford town GOP and the Strafford Taxpayers Coalition. His campaign focused on making the state more business friendly, cutting spending, and ending the structural deficit.
Another former RLC Chairman in New Hampshire, Dan McGuire, was elected to the 400-member State House. He will join his wife Carol there.
In addition to these important victories, the following 81 New Hampshire RLC candidates were elected on Tuesday. Those with a star (*) are Officers or Board members, past or current, in the Republican Liberty Caucus.
David Wheeler, Executive Councilor District 5 (Milford)
Jeanie Forrester, State Senate District 2 (WON)
Jim Forsythe*, State Senate District 4 (WON)
Andy Sanborn, State Senate District 7 (WON)
Raymond White, State Senate District 9 (WON)
Gregory M. Sorg, State House Grafton 3 (WON)
Lester Bradley, State House Grafton 4 (WON)
Paul Mirski*, Grafton 10 (WON)
Charles E. Sova, Grafton 10 (WON)
Rob Huxley, Hillsborough 3 (WON)
William L. O’Brien, Hillsborough 4 (WON)
Bob Mead, Hillsborough 4 (WON)
Stephen Palmer, Hillsborough 6 (WON)
Gary Daniels, Hillsborough 6 (WON)
Robert H. Rowe, Hillsborough 6 (WON)
Mark Warden, Hillsborough 7 (WON)
Calvin Dean Pratt, Hillsborough 7 (WON)
Cameron DeJong, Hillsborough 9 (WON)
Mike Ball, Hillsborough 9 (WON)
J. Gail Barry, Hillsborough 16 (WON)
Jerry Bergevin, Hillsborough 17 (WON)
Keith R. Murphy, Hillsborough 18 (WON)
John Cebrowski, Hillsborough 18 (WON)
Lenette M. Peterson, Hillsborough 18 (WON)
Jeanine Notter, Hillsborough 19 (WON)
Sean McGuinness, Hillsborough 20 (WON)
Carl Seidel, Hillsborough 20 (WON)
Timothy Hogan, Hillsborough 23 (WON)
Bill Ohm, Hillsborough 26 (WON)
Kevin J. Brown, Hillsborough 26 (WON)
Jonathan Maltz, Hillsborough 27 (WON)
George Lambert, Hillsborough 27 (WON)
Andy Renzullo, Hillsborough 27 (WON)
Lynne Ober, Hillsborough 27 (WON)
Laurie Sanborn, Merrimack 5 (WON)
Jenn Coffey, Merrimack 6 (WON)
Seth Cohn, Merrimack 6 (WON)
Tony F. Soltani, Merrimack 8 (WON)
Brian Seaworth, Merrimack 7 (WON)
Carol McGuire*, Merrimack 8 (WON)
Dan McGuire*, Merrimack 8 (WON)
Jon Richardson, Merrimack 8 (WON)
J.R. Hoell, Merrimack 13 (WON)
Tom Keane, Merrimack 13 (WON)
Kathy Lauer-Rago, Merrimack 2 (WON)
Walter Kolodziej, Rockingham 4 (WON)
Charles E. McMahon, Rockingham 4 (WON)
Gary S. Azarian, Rockingham 4 (WON)
Jason P. Antosz, Rockingham 9 (WON)
Al Baldasaro, Rockingham 3 (WON)
D.J. Bettencourt, Rockingham 4 (WON)
David Bates, Rockingham 4 (WON)
Donna Mauro, Rockingham 4 (WON)
Rick Okerman, Rockingham 4 (WON)
Will Smith, Rockingham 18 (WON)
Bob Fesh, Rockingham 5 (WON)
Marilinda Garcia, Rockingham 4 (WON)
Mary E. Griffin, Rockingham 4 (WON)
John Sytek, Rockingham 4 (WON)
John Reagan, Rockingham 1 (WON)
Jim Headd, Rockingham 3 (WON)
Andrew Manuse, Rockingham 5 (WON)
Daniel Itse, Rockingham 9 (WON)
Daniel Tamburello, Rockingham 3 (WON)
Kyle Tasker, Rockingham 1 (WON)
Kevin Waterhouse, Rockingham 4 (WON)
Robert Introne, Rockingham 3 (WON)
Stella Tremblay, Rockingham 3 (WON)
David A. Welch, Rockingham 8 (WON)
Gary Wheaton, Rockingham 14 (WON)
Laura Jones*, Strafford 1 (WON)
Kyle Jones, Strafford 1 (WON)
Susan DeLemus, Strafford 1 (WON)
Warren Groen, Strafford 1 (WON)
Thomas W. Laware (WON)
Steve Cunningham, Sullivan 2 (WON)
Spec Bowers, Sullivan 3 (WON)
Steven Smith, Sullivan 5 (WON)
Colette Worsman, Belknap 3 (WON)
Robert Luther, Belknap 4 (WON)
Bob Greemore, Belknap 3 (WON)
Congratulations to the New Hampshire RLC for running such a great slate of candidates!
On November 5th, 2010 at 8:25 am
[...] New Hampshire: Former Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire Chair Jim Forsythe was elected to the State Senate and State Rep. candidates Cameron DeJong and Andrew Manuse were elected to the State House. RLC Board member Paul Mirski was elected to the State House in Grafton as was former RLC Chair Dan McGuire in Merrimack. Longtime liberty activists Keith Murphy and Seth Cohn won election to the State House from Hillsborough and Merrimack, too. A full list of RLC victories from New Hampshire can be found here. [...]
On November 5th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
Wow! Wow! Wow! and Wow!
You all, pinch yourselves. This is for real. This is not a dream.
On November 5th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Oh my gosh. I just realized Dan and Carol are a husband/wife team of libertarian Republican legislators.
This keeps getting better and better.
On November 9th, 2010 at 11:46 am
[...] link to their blog. Bonus points: whoever the blog-master over there is, he’s a friend of Jim Forsythe’s (who won election to the State Senate on Tuesday), and any friend of Jim’s is a friend of [...]
On October 26th, 2011 at 1:19 am
So, a member of the RLC is sponsoring the reregulation of marriage in New Hampshire because government doesn’t intrude into legal contracts enough. This is why I contend the RLC is a fraud. You are big government Republicans with a moralistic agenda.
On October 26th, 2011 at 2:25 am
James, there’s nothing about that in this article. Could you direct me to your source? If you read our statement of principles we clearly would not support such a position, but sometimes endorsees fail to follow our principles for a variety of reasons. When that happens we do what we can to disavow their actions and hold them accountable.
Dave
On October 26th, 2011 at 2:31 am
Never mind. I did the research myself. As I should have guessed, you substantially misrepresented the situation. The legislation proposed by an RLC endorsee is not as you described. It does not interfere with legal contracts in any way. It preserves the contractual legality of gay marriages as civil unions and does nothing but change the terminology from referring to them as a “marriage” to referring to them as “civil unions” – no changes would be made to the rights of gay couples under the revised law.
On October 26th, 2011 at 2:32 am
In fact, the new law may arguably be even better than gay marriage from a purely libertarian perspecitve, as it allows even heterosexual couples of any combination of genders to form a contractual civil union.
What’s more it’s unlikely that the bill will come anywhere near passing and it’s opposed by many other RLC endorsees in the NH House.