Are you tired of your property taxes rising? Are you tired of not having enough local resources to fund our schools? Then it is time for change in Senator for district 8. Senator Ruth Ward, Senate Education Chairperson, dismissed the findings of the School Funding Commission a report that taxpayers paid $500,000 for. The Commission found that the current system is unfair to taxpayers and students alike. Senator Ward also voted against Fiscal Disparity Aid; aid to the property poorest towns when there was a state surplus this past biannual budget season. Her vote against the fiscal disparity aid cost the city of Claremont nearly $2 million dollars, and the towns of Newport and Charlestown nearly $600,000 each in badly needed revenue. Senator Ward was also a proponent of taking needed public school resources to fund vouchers for private, religious schools and home-schooling. This state budget item was overspent by nearly $8 million dollars in its first year leaving us, the taxpayers to pick up the tab.
Enough is enough and our district 8 deserves real leadership and advocacy in Concord. Which is why we need to vote for Charlene Lovett. Charlene understands the complexity of fairly funding schools and has years of real world experience. She has spent most of her life working in different levels of government, as a Claremont school board member, Claremont city councilor, Claremont’s mayor, and NH State Representative. She has also served our country for 22 years as an Army Chief Warrant Officer 3, now retired. Charlene is fiscally conservative, yet knows how to work across party lines to get things done for the betterment of her community she is representing with a vision for the future. She supports working class families and believes a child’s educational resources should not be determined by their zip code.
We need Charlene Lovett in Concord to help restore economic prosperity and education funding fairness in District 8. She will work hard to represent and bring our voices down to Concord.
Guenter Hubert
Newport, NH
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