David Trumble, Democratic Candidate for State Senate District 8
To the Editor:
It has been a privilege and a pleasure to meet so many of you over the past five months of full-time campaigning. I have done my best to listen to your thoughts about our state and how we can build a strong future. You are concerned about maintaining essential public services while keeping your taxes at a reasonable level. You would like to see civility in politics. That must start with our elected leaders.
If elected as your state senator, I would do my best to work for reasonable solutions. I believe in a New Hampshire built on respect: for each other, our beautiful natural environment, and our children’s futures. I would work to see the state pay more for public schools to give every child the opportunity for a good education, provide local property tax relief, and allow towns to fund other essential services. I will support making reproductive freedom a right like every other state in the northeast. If we invest in our future, we will have a stronger society. This means addressing important daily concerns like affordable housing, child care, feeding our children and clean energy.
It would be an honor to serve you in the legislature. I hope that you will vote on Nov. 5, and I humbly ask for your vote. Thank you!
David Trumble
Weare, NH
Re-elect Rep. Margaret Drye
To the Editor:
It’s easy to talk about the problems and challenges in our state but actually doing something about them is what counts. As a representative, I have found that even small changes can make big differences.
On bills that I authored or sponsored, I found that:
– By raising the fine for damaging covered bridges and allowing towns to have video cameras on covered bridges, ALL the covered bridges in New Hampshire now have more protection than they’ve had in 62 years.
– By allowing in-home daycare providers to take in four children instead of three, providers can now make more money and take in two pairs of siblings instead of one, enlarging our capacity for daycare without any government program or government money.
I also found that talking to commissioners and departments directly is an opportunity that state representatives can use to a district’s advantage.
Over the past two years, working with the Department of Safety and the Department of Transportation, I have helped get speed monitoring for Plainfield and got Charlestown on the project list for rumble strips for a section of Route 12 that has been the scene of many fatal accidents.
If re-elected, I want to work on tackling larger education issues such as funding special education and school building aid, plus aid for towns suffering natural disasters, and anything else to help make our lives easier, cheaper, safer and better.
I show up and I get things done.
I’m asking for your support on Nov. 5.
Rep. Margaret Drye
Plainfield, NH
Support Margaret Drye
To The Editor:
Margaret Drye has served our communities, towns, county and state for many years in many roles, including 44 years as an EMT on the rescue squad.
She’s worked long and hard representing the interests of her constituents over the years from her years on the Rescue Squad, to creating and leading a 4-H group for 25 years, to the town Finance Committee, Water District Clerk, the board of the Hanover co-op, to the Board of and a NH Trustee of the Big E, to name just a few.
In these many roles Margaret has gotten to know the people of our district and become familiar with the difficulties they face, their desires and the lives they live.
I speak from experience. Having heard from my brother of her help after a number of falls, I found Margaret’s familiar face helping me up and into an ambulance after a fall of my own.
Margaret is an intelligent, thoughtful, experienced, hard- working, involved, even-handed, fair-minded, energetic, enthusiastic woman. I can’t imagine a better qualified person than Margaret Drye to represent the people of our District 7. I urge you to join me and vote for Margaret Drye on Nov. 5.
J. Cheston M. Newbold
Cornish, NH
A vote for Craig is a win for our municipalities
To the Editor:
When I was the Mayor of Claremont, we reinstated the practice of convening monthly mayoral roundtables in 2020. Our focus was to identify three priority areas and collectively advocate for our cities with the governor and legislature. As the mayor of the largest city in New Hampshire, Craig could have commandeered the process. Instead, she worked side-by-side with each of the mayors as we conveyed our concerns to the state. As a result of our work, the NH Municipal Association presented the Russ Marcoux Municipal Advocate of the Year award to the mayors in 2021.
We need a person in the governor’s office who has been on the front lines. As mayor of Manchester for six years, she knows the impact of the state’s decisions on our communities. As a member of the Mayoral Roundtable, I have seen firsthand her collegiate approach to addressing the issues that municipalities face across New Hampshire.
Too often, there is a disconnect between the State and municipalities. Now we have a chance to change that. A vote for Craig is a vote for our municipalities.
Charlene Lovett
Claremont, NH
