New Hampshire Voter Guide Footnotes

2024 New Hampshire Governor Voter Guide Footnotes

1.) Candidate Website, Kelly Ayotte Governor Issues – “Kelly understands fiscal responsibility is the key to maintaining the New Hampshire Advantage. In the United States Senate, Kelly voted to rein in reckless federal spending, ban earmarks, and fought for a balanced budget amendment. In Concord, she will deliver a responsible, balanced budget for Granite Staters.” 2024: https://kellyfornh.com/issues/

Kelly Ayotte, Twitter/X – “As Governor, I’ll stop Democrats from MASS-ing (in reference to Massachusetts) up New Hampshire with higher taxes and more burdensome regulations. We’ll make Concord more efficient and accountable to Granite Staters and keep our great state safe, prosperous and free.” 4/3/2024:

https://x.com/KellyAyotte/status/1775524601612673130?t=TDrnLYkv6gGt98NJWYt_0A&s=19

Article, NH Journal –“Joyce Craig was an incompetent mayor who would take New Hampshire down the wrong path as governor,” Ayotte said in a statement Wednesday. “It’s clear from her record of raising taxes and overriding the tax cap that she will bring the Massachusetts model to the Corner Office.” 9/11/2024:

https://nhjournal.com/sununu-ayottes-biggest-advantage-shes-running-against-joyce-craig/

Kelly Ayotte, Twitter/X – “Glad to meet with @nhautodealers this morning – we talked about tax reform & vehicle regulations” 9/29/2015:

https://x.com/KellyAyotte/status/648883979760758784?t=Zu-siK4rdx_ll0iP9-TPSA&s=19

Article, NH Journal – “Higher costs due to inflation. That hits everyone. This meal [at the Airport Diner] is going to cost more than it normally would, the grocery store — everything costs more. Also, it costs more to build things. And then you combine that with rising interest rates, and you can imagine the challenge just when we think about the housing issue or building in New Hampshire.” 8/27/2024: https://nhjournal.com/its-diner-table-economics-with-kelly-ayotte/

Article, NJ Journal – “She tried to raise taxes every year as mayor, overrode the tax cap, and pushed for a city sales tax – and as governor, she’d bring back over $160 million in taxes with one signature. We can’t afford Joyce Craig as governor.” 9/30/2024: https://nhjournal.com/craig-doubles-down-on-support-for-id-income-tax-in-presser-with-union-leaders/

2.) Article, New Hampshire Union Leader – “For the first time since 2019, Manchester aldermen have voted to override the city’s tax cap to approve a $378 million budget for fiscal year 2023… ‘I commend the aldermen who worked together to proactively draft a budget that meets the needs of our community,’ Mayor Joyce Craig said in a statement.” (Joyce supported this spending over the tax cap.) 5/18/2022: https://www.yahoo.com/news/manchester-aldermen-override-tax-cap-080700783.html

Article, New Hampshire Union Leader – “Aldermen have voted to approve a $353 million fiscal year 2020 budget that overrides the tax cap to earmark an additional $6.6 million in funds for city schools. The budget, authored by Board of Mayor and Aldermen Chairman Dan O’Neil, provides $176 million for schools and $156.6 million for city services. 6/19/2019: https://archive.ph/Z1pEc

Article, NH Journal – “Criticism of her support for an income tax hasn’t slowed Joyce Craig’s roll on the policy as she repeated her call to bring back the tax on income from interest and dividends during a Monday press conference… ‘Craig said that, as governor, she will do what Ayotte will not: reverse the repeal of the interest in dividends tax,’ WMUR’s Adam Sexton reported…Craig reaffirmed her support for the interest and dividend income tax hike, which she estimates would cost Granite Staters $160 million a year.” 9/30/2024: https://nhjournal.com/craig-doubles-down-on-support-for-id-income-tax-in-presser-with-union-leaders/

Article, NJ Journal – She (Craig) supports the $118 billion U.S. Senate spending package that includes changes to immigration law along with some $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel, and other foreign policy priorities.” 2/14/2024: https://nhjournal.com/craig-opposes-sununu-border-move-supports-118b-senate-plan-with-ukraine-israel-funding/

Article, New Hampshire Bulletin – “Craig said she would “support an energy policy that promotes renewable energy and transitions away from fossil fuels.” She praised efforts by Democratic lawmakers to expand net metering allowances for municipalities in state statute, a change that allowed Manchester to build the state’s largest municipal solar array and cut city emissions by 60 percent.” 9/19/2023: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/09/19/governors-race-2024-heres-where-the-four-candidates-stand-on-the-issues/

Article, The Union Leader – “A majority of the aldermen went along with her spend-it-now mantra, despite the fact that the city has until 2024 to use the money. Perhaps by then the mayor will have a better answer to the cost of new employees under her plan. Before the vote last Tuesday, her answer was ‘I haven’t added it up.” 7/11/2021: https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/editorials/a-rush-to-spend-craig-grows-government/article_e6788c7b-ccb1-55cc-a499-8386d46d8c4d.html

Article, NH Journal – “Ruais’s predecessor, Democrat Joyce Craig, left him with a $1.7 million funding gap after she used federal COVID relief funds to cover ongoing expenses in her last city budget. Add to that an overage in city employee healthcare costs of $1.4 million, and a dramatic drop in new revenue from $4.5 million last year to $166,000 this year.” 3/28/2024: https://nhjournal.com/ruais-first-budget-fills-hole-left-by-craig-focuses-on-future/

Article, NJ Journal – “…she’s leaving behind $276 million in debt, a hole in city budgeting most taxpayers know nothing about.” 4/11/2023: https://nhjournal.com/manchester-gets-a-d-from-truth-in-accounting-org-over-rising-taxpayer-debt/

Other, Rights and Democracy – “In response to a RAD questionnaire, Craig also reaffirmed her support for raising the state’s minimum wage, supporting a just and clean energy transition by 2050, and supporting workers’ rights to collectively bargain.” 11/1/2019: https://radmovement.org/endorsed-joyce-craig-for-mayor-in-manchester-election/

3.) Candidate Website, Kelly Ayotte Governor Issues – “As a United States Senator, Kelly fought to increase funding for a border wall, advanced technology, and additional border patrol officers to stop illegal immigration… Kelly will require businesses to use E-Verify, block any attempt to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, and strictly enforce a zero-tolerance policy for sanctuary cities in New Hampshire.” 2024: https://kellyfornh.com/issues/

WATCH – Kelly Ayotte for NH Ad – “…I’ll do whatever it takes to ban Sanctuary Cities…” @0:20 8/28/2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj4a0wyyZZ0&t=30s

Article, NJ Journal- “My Democrat opponents…would bring these dangerous open-border and sanctuary policies to New Hampshire.” 2/26/2024: https://nhjournal.com/ayotte-ill-stop-nh-from-becoming-a-sanctuary-for-illegal-immigrants/

Congressional Website, VOTED FOR Cloture on the Motion to Proceed (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to S.2146) – A bill to hold sanctuary jurisdictions accountable for defying Federal law, to increase penalties for individuals who illegally reenter the United States after being removed, and to provide liability protection for State and local law enforcement who cooperate with Federal law enforcement and for other purposes. 10/20/2015: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1141/vote_114_1_00280.htm

Kelly Ayotte, Twitter/X – “Sanctuary Craig would turn New Hampshire into Massachusetts — a sanctuary state overrun by illegal immigrants.” 2/19/2024: https://x.com/KellyAyotte/status/1759586312619725307

Kelly Ayotte, Facebook – “As Governor, I will strictly enforce immigration laws throughout our state, never allow sanctuary policies…” 6/6/2023: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=847663270064832&id=100044634990259&set=a.395564811941349

Article, Boston Herald – “…Joyce Craig has supported radical immigration policies like Sanctuary Cities,” “Our neighbors are being forced to pay millions for services for illegal immigrants and they are even being asked to house illegals in their private homes?” 8/16/2023: https://archive.ph/gohqv

Congressional Website, VOTED FOR S.Amdt.1197 to S.744 – Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act – To require the completion of the 350 miles of reinforced, double-layered fencing…of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 before registered provisional immigrant status may be granted 6/18/2023: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1131/vote_113_1_00151.htm

4.) Article, NH Union Leader – “Craig said she supports the decision of Manchester police to not check immigration status of people they come in contact with.” 10/28/2019: https://archive.ph/Ab4u1

Article, NH Journal – “…opposition to a ban on sanctuary cities in New Hampshire currently working its way through the legislature…. ‘Law enforcement believes that doing that…would impact public safety in a negative way and erode trust within our residents.” 4/18/2024: https://nhjournal.com/craig-saying-illegal-alien-is-offensive-sanctuary-cities-are-a-ok/

Article, NH Journal – “…she supports the $118 billion U.S. Senate spending package that includes changes to immigration law along with some $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel, and other foreign policy priorities.” 2/14/2014: https://nhjournal.com/craig-opposes-sununu-border-move-supports-118b-senate-plan-with-ukraine-israel-funding/

5.) Congressional Website, VOTED FOR S.1 – Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act – A bill to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline. 3/4/2015: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1141/vote_114_1_00068.htm

Kelly Ayotte, Twitter/X – “Unrest in Middle East incl sit. in Iran contributes, but we can do better responsibly drilling OUR oil + Keystone should go fwd” 2/22/2012: https://x.com/KellyAyotte/status/172439474188451840?t=_DA1ckntueLpKPvtFnOo0g&s=19

Candidate Website, Kelly Ayotte Governor Issues – “Kelly’s utmost energy priority will be reducing costs for Granite Staters. Kelly will take an all-of-the-above approach to lower energy costs while focusing on stability, affordability, modernization, sustainability, and market-driven solutions.” 2024: https://kellyfornh.com/issues/

Article, New Hampshire Bulletin – “…we would look to make sure that whatever we do, that we aren’t adding additional costs to the people of New Hampshire that increase their energy bills.” 8/21/2024: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2024/08/21/how-new-hampshires-candidates-for-governor-would-lead-on-energy-climate-change/

Article, NH Journal – “Our energy prices are some of the highest in the nation, and we just don’t have enough energy. And so as governor, I want to champion how we get more energy…not adding regulatory costs to ratepayers like some of these other liberal states have done.” 8/27/2024: https://nhjournal.com/its-diner-table-economics-with-kelly-ayotte/

6.) Candidate Website, – Joyce Craig Governor – “We need to transition away from fossil fuels, encourage clean and renewable energy development, expand proven cost-saving initiatives for residents such as energy efficiency programs, and pursue off-shore wind development. These initiatives will save residents money and are the right approach to help mitigate the climate crisis.” 2024: https://joycecraig.org/issues

Article, WMUR News – “The start is investing in renewable energy and setting clear goals on how we transition away from fossil fuels” 9/13/2024:

https://www.wmur.com/article/craig-new-hampshire-voters-conversation-91324/62195313

Article, New Hampshire Bulletin – “Craig said she would ‘support an energy policy that promotes renewable energy and transitions away from fossil fuels.’ She praised efforts by Democratic lawmakers…allowed Manchester to build the state’s largest municipal solar array and cut city emissions by 60 percent.” 9/19/2023: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/09/19/governors-race-2024-heres-where-the-four-candidates-stand-on-the-issues/

Article, Concord Monitor – “…our state’s over-reliance on imported natural gas and non-renewable sources, which supply 86% of NH energy…plan removes artificial barriers to cost-saving clean energy and makes smart investments in energy efficiency…It also tackles the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, transportation, by building our EV charging network to enable cleaner, cheaper forms of transportation.” 8/21/2024: https://archive.ph/5NE53

7.) Article, Roll Call – “Her proposal… pay for a three-month extension of unemployment benefits by stopping a “scheme” that currently allows illegal immigrants to claim the Additional Child Tax Credit that she argued currently costs taxpayers billions.” 1/14/2014: https://rollcall.com/2014/01/14/ayotte-pressured-by-immigration-advocates/

Kelly Ayotte, Twitter/X – “President Biden’s open border policies have made our country less safe. As Governor, I’ll ensure we protect New Hampshire. That means no sanctuary cities, no driver’s licenses or benefits for illegal immigrants, and the toughest penalties for fentanyl dealers.” 6/11/2024: https://x.com/KellyAyotte/status/1800536965940699553

8.) Article, NH PR – “Businesses need a workforce,” Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig said during the meeting, “and individuals need to be able to get to those jobs.” (Referring to undocumented immigrants having access to Driver’s Licenses.) 6/15/2023: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-06-15/new-hampshire-mayors-police-chiefs-undocumented-immigrants-drivers-licenses-idss

9.) Article, New Hampshire Bulletin – “I don’t think that we should offer rebates for electric vehicles,’ Ayotte said, pointing to the fact that the Biden administration ‘has massively subsidized’ EVs. ‘And if people want to own an electric vehicle, you know, certainly that’s their choice.” 8/21/2024: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2024/08/21/how-new-hampshires-candidates-for-governor-would-lead-on-energy-climate-change/

Article, New Hampshire Bulletin – “Ayotte said the state should encourage and push for more clean energy, but that she does not support agreeing to emission reduction goals. Instead, she said she would have an ‘all of the above’ energy policy ‘that also focuses on the very best affordable clean energy’ for residents” 9/19/2023: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/09/19/governors-race-2024-heres-where-the-four-candidates-stand-on-the-issues/

10.) Article, New Hampshire Bulletin – “Craig said she would ‘support an energy policy that promotes renewable energy and transitions away from fossil fuels.” 9/19/2019: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/09/19/governors-race-2024-heres-where-the-four-candidates-stand-on-the-issues/

Candidate Website, Joyce Craig Governor – “Provide incentives to enable lower-income Granite Staters to purchase low-emissions vehicles. Drivers can save upwards of $1,000 in annual fuel and maintenance costs with electric vehicles which are now competitively priced with traditional vehicles.” 2024: https://joycecraig.org/energyclimateplan

Other, Rights and Democracy – “Craig also reaffirmed her support for raising the state’s minimum wage, supporting a just and clean energy transition by 2050, and supporting workers’ rights to collectively bargain.” 11/1/2019:

https://radmovement.org/endorsed-joyce-craig-for-mayor-in-manchester-election/

11.) Kelly Ayotte, Twitter/X – “Great to hear Riley Gaines story last night at the NHFRW gala. Thank you, Riley, for advocating for women’s sports!” 8/4/2024: https://x.com/KellyAyotte/status/1820161109103423915

Candidate Website, Kelly Ayotte Governor Issues – “Children are in school to learn academics – not to be indoctrinated by ideologies. As Governor, Kelly will focus on letting kids be kids, and get back to the important basics of education, prioritizing math, civics, English, science, and history.” 2024: https://kellyfornh.com/issues/

12.) WATCH: KMUR News video – In response to the question whether, as governor, she would repeal the bills in the house and senate that would (if passed) divide interscholastic sports by sex at birth: “Yes, I would. Again, this is not a situation where the government plays a role.” @4:32 4/28/2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_qcz2AP64

Joyce Craig, Twitter/X – “These bills are an attack on at-risk trans kids across New Hampshire. Our state needs leadership focused on delivering results, not division. (Note: HB 1205: This bill requires schools to designate athletics by sex and prohibits biological males from participating in female athletics. Note: HB 1312 – AN ACT requiring parental notification of student health or well-being and certain curricula by school districts. 7/19/2024:

https://x.com/JoyceCraigNH/status/1814423107647758506

Article, NJ Journal – “In the WMUR interview, Craig also reaffirmed her support for taxpayer-funded elective abortions and a ban on the sale of so-called ‘assault weapons…She also opposes a state law preventing male athletes who identify as female from playing on girls-only sports teams.” 4/28/2024: https://nhjournal.com/craig-saying-illegal-alien-is-offensive-sanctuary-cities-are-a-ok/

13.) Candidate Website, Kelly Ayotte Governor Issues – “Kelly will not be afraid to hold educators and administrators accountable when they inappropriately bring politics or gender ideology into the classroom…Children are in school to learn academics – not to be indoctrinated by ideologies.” 2024: https://kellyfornh.com/issues/

14.) Joyce Craig, Twitter/X – “These bills [including HB 1312] are an attack on at-risk trans kids across New Hampshire…As Governor I will always stand up for the right of our residents to live authentically, without demonization.” Note: HB 1312 – AN ACT requiring parental notification of student health or well-being and certain curricula by school districts…7/19/2024: https://x.com/JoyceCraigNH/status/1814423107647758506

15.) Article, NH Journal – “And while [Craig] believes it should be illegal for an adult to buy an AR-15 rifle, she supports allowing children to undergo permanent, irreversible ‘gender reassignment’ surgery.” 4/28/2024:

https://nhjournal.com/craig-saying-illegal-alien-is-offensive-sanctuary-cities-are-a-ok/

16.) Candidate Website, Kelly Ayotte Governor Issues – “Kelly supports and will not change New Hampshire’s current law, which protects women’s freedom to obtain an abortion for any reason up to six months of pregnancy and provides exceptions in the last three months for a medical emergency or a fatal fetal anomaly.” 2024: https://kellyfornh.com/issues/

Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.1670 – Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – Prohibits the abortion from being performed if the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child is 20 weeks or greater 1/7/2013: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1670/cosponsors

Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.906 – No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act 5/5/2011: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/senate-bill/906/cosponsors

Article, WMUR News – “The former U.S. senator said the current state law represents a consensus and should not change. “I’ve been very clear from the day I announced my candidacy that I would not change that law,” Ayotte said. 9/19/2024: https://www.wmur.com/article/kelly-ayotte-conversation-with-the-candidate-91924/62286848

17.) Article, INDepth NH – “[Craig] has criticized Ayotte on this subject [abortion]. Ayotte said she would not change the state’s current abortion laws which allow women to choose an abortion without exception during the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Craig has said she would…repeal the current restrictions.” 9/30/2024: https://indepthnh.org/2024/09/30/craig-launches-freedom-and-opportunity-tour-focusing-on-abortion-rights-and-housing/

Candidate Website, Joyce Craig Governor – “As Governor, Joyce will codify Roe v. Wade to ensure that Granite Staters are able to access reproductive health care and abortion in New Hampshire.” 2024: https://joycecraig.org/issuess

Candidate Website, Joyce Craig Governor – “Direct New Hampshire’s Medicaid program to cover costs for abortions” 2024: https://joycecraig.org/reproductiverights

Article, Union Leader – “I supported the largest Planned Parenthood in the state. I helped ensure that patients had access to the reproductive health care they needed, and it’s why I’ve always stood up for the right to abortion.” 10/6/2024: https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/op-eds/joyce-craig-i-ll-always-protect-reproductive-freedom/article_bae869f8-341b-11ef-80f2-e3c691ef3547.html

Article, NH Journal – “In the WMUR interview, Craig also reaffirmed her support for taxpayer-funded elective abortions” 4/28/2024: https://nhjournal.com/craig-saying-illegal-alien-is-offensive-sanctuary-cities-are-a-ok/

WATCH: WMUR TV video – “I believe that every Granite Stater should have access to quality, affordable healthcare and abortion is healthcare. @ 0:25 4/28/2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_qcz2AP64

18.) Congressional Website, VOTED FOR S.Amdt. 526 to S.Con.Res. 8 – To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to ensure election integrity by requiring a valid government-issued photographic ID for voting in federal elections. 2024: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1131/vote_113_1_00083.htm

Article, Union Leader NH – “Ayotte, a former U.S. senator, said the state does ‘not do enough follow up’ to confirm in a timely manner whether those without voter identification who signed an affidavit to vote were residents of the state” 9/4/2024: https://archive.ph/me1pa

Article, NH Journal – “When it comes to our voter ID laws, you should have to live here, you should have to be a citizen” 9/12/2024: https://nhjournal.com/sununu-signs-law-ending-voting-without-id-starting-next-year/

19.) Candidate Website, Joyce Craig Governor Issues – “Republicans have even passed legislation that would require Granite Staters to provide proof of citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, preventing eligible voters who may not have access to these documents from registering to vote.” 2024: https://joycecraig.org/issues

20.) Kelly Ayotte, Twitter/X – “I am proud to stand with Israel today and every day.” 4/13/2024: https://x.com/KellyAyotte/status/1779332516140233050

21.) Mayor Joyce Craig, Twitter/X – “Tonight, Manchester City Hall is illuminated in blue and white lights in support of Israel following recent terror attacks and violence in the region.” 10/10/2023:

https://x.com/MayorJoyceCraig/status/1711893219825328533

22.) Kelly Ayotte, Twitter/X – “I’m pro-second amendment and against raising taxes.” 7/27/2023: https://x.com/KellyAyotte/status/1684616670159986699

Other, New Hampshire Firearms Coalition Candidate Survey – Replied “Yes” when asked if she opposed further restricting the sale, use, ownership, possession or transfer of firearms or ammunition. Replied “No” when asked if she would support legislation, such as the now expired, so-called “Assault Weapons” Ban, to require a special license for, or other restrictions on, the private possession of semi-automatic firearms. 2010: https://www.nhfc-ontarget.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Kelly_Ayotte_2010NHFCSurvey.pdf

Article, WMUR9 News – “Ayotte said there are some cases in which a person’s mental health records prevent them from lawfully holding a firearm because a court previously found them to be a danger to themselves or others. She said those records aren’t in the background check system, adding ‘I think we should fix that.” 9/22/2024: https://www.wmur.com/article/kelly-ayotte-gun-laws-new-hampshire/62317536

Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST S.Amdt.711 to S.649- To regulate assault weapons to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited and for other purposes. 4/17/2013: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1131/vote_113_1_00101.htm

23.) Candidate Website, Joyce Craig Governor – “Common sense gun safety legislation such as universal background checks, requiring permits to carry a concealed gun, and extreme risk protection orders are necessary steps to prevent gun violence and limit the potential for a devastating mass shooting in our state.” 2024: https://joycecraig.org/gunviolenceprevention

WATCH: WMUR TV NEWS – “So I want to stop the AR-15s in our communities. There is no need for those assault rifles to be in New Hampshire.” @ 7:43 4/28/2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_qcz2AP64

WATCH: WMUR TV NEWS – “We have to do everything we can to protect families in our state from gun violence…as Mayor I implemented this city’s first gun violence prevention strategy…that says we will require universal background checks, red flag laws and prohibit guns from being brought into our schools” @1:03 9/5/2024: https://www.wmur.com/article/new-hampshire-democrats-governor-debate-shootings/62061039

Article, NH Journal – “In the WMUR interview, Craig also reaffirmed her support for…a ban on the sale of so-called ‘assault weapons’ …she believes it should be illegal for an adult to buy an AR-15 rifle…” 4/28/2024:

https://nhjournal.com/craig-saying-illegal-alien-is-offensive-sanctuary-cities-are-a-ok/

24.) Congressional Website, Sponsored S.2605 – Preserving Religious Freedom and a Woman’s Access to Contraception Act 7/15/2014: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/2605/text

Congressional Website, VOTED FOR S. 815 – Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013 – protects religious employers by protecting the religious discrimination exemption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 11/7/2013: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1131/vote_113_1_00232.htm

Article, Politico – “I have long been a strong supporter of the rights of conscience, of the rights under the First Amendment of the Constitution to religious freedom,” Ayotte said on the Senate floor Wednesday. “So, these protections are very important within this bill.” 11/6/2013: https://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/senate-gay-rights-bill-enda-099465

25.) Other, News Release John Barrasso Senate page (introducing bill with Ayotte) – Ayotte said, “…States should have the flexibility to determine how to best reform their health insurance markets in order to reduce costs and increase consumer choice, and this legislation gives them the ability to opt-out of the law’s onerous regulations and requirements,” 11/14/2023: https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2013/11/post-5839932a-d9a4-3b18-fba1-357f9a773794

Congressional Website, Co-sponsored S.1711 – State Health Care Choice Act – State Health Care Choice Act – Authorizes a state to limit the application of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) with respect to health insurance coverage within that state. 11/14/2013: https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/1711/cosponsors

26.) Article, NH Business Review – Housing is BIG in NH Governor Race – “…Ayotte wants to lift regulation to foster better collaboration between state and local governments and developers. She hasn’t supplied too many specifics, but one proposal she cites is a 60-day turnaround on state permitting approvals for any new housing.” “…Ayotte wants to lift regulation to foster better collaboration between state and local governments and developers…set just such a deadline for the Department of Transportation to approve driveway permits for new building projects. Another thing Ayotte talks about is targeting transportation and infrastructure money to build out sewer and utility connections to foster more development….” 10/2/2024: https://www.nhbr.com/housing-is-big-in-nh-governor-race-and-ayotte-and-craig-both-have-skin-in-the-game/

Article, WMUR9 News, – “Ayotte said the state needs more housing supply, and she’d be focused on promoting the building of all types of housing, from single-family homes and apartments to manufactured housing. The Republican said the state’s role in loosening the state’s housing market is through making the process of acquiring building permits and similar approvals more efficient. She said projects can languish for a long period of time as they move through the approval process.” 9/22/2024: https://www.wmur.com/article/kelly-ayotte-affordable-housing-construction/62317538

27.) Article, NH Business Review – Housing is BIG in the NH Governor Race – “One aspect of Craig’s plan is to get more accessory dwelling units built on current home lots…But what Craig is shooting for is to make it harder for communities to shut down potential ADUs based on local requirements. Another thing Craig wants are caps on the number of parking spaces cities and towns can require for apartment buildings…Craig also wants more mixed-use zoning, which would make it easier for developers to build housing among commercial and retail districts.” 10/2/2024: https://www.nhbr.com/housing-is-big-in-nh-governor-race-and-ayotte-and-craig-both-have-skin-in-the-game/

Article, New Hampshire Bulletin – “One part of [Craig’s] plan involves the pursuit of legislation to override local zoning laws that currently restrict housing. That includes a law that would allow property owners to construct one accessory dwelling unit ‘by right’ on their properties – meaning without additional stipulations imposed by the town or city – and allow for a second accessory dwelling unit subject to local permitting requirements…. And she would also push to empower cities and towns to exempt developments from density restrictions as long as the units are affordable. Craig has called for boosting funding to the affordable housing fund run by New Hampshire Housing; reducing approval times from the Department of Environmental Services and the Department of Transportation; pushing for the sale of state land to housing developers; expanding state-backed credit options for small developers; and putting money into programs that would make funds available to both new homebuyers and developers.” 9/6/2024: https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2024/09/06/what-the-gubernatorial-candidates-have-said-and-not-said-about-housing/