A very high priority for me will be health care. Please click here to see a discussion of this issue.

Also important to me is the nature of independent candidacies. Please see my comments about this in my Hollis/Brookline Rotary Club breakfast speech, by clicking here.

A third important priority will be addressing toxics in the environment, building on my experience on the Environment and Agriculture committee. I will monitor the administrative rules on waste management and propose statutory changes. 

Global warming, and funding  LChip will be priorities. I have for many years been a leader in the NH House on environmental and conservation issues.

Another priority I will pursue is education. Having served many years on the Brookline School Board and the  Hollis/Brookline Cooperative School Board, I recognize the need to review and modify rules governing Cooperative School Districts. I was a leader in the House back in the seventies for educating special needs children. I played a significant role in passing the first statutes that required the education of physically, mentally, and emotionally handicapped children. I see home schooling of children as a significant contributor toward providing adequate education.

     Partisan considerations have prevented solutions to these problems ever since the Claremont decisions and before. I think my independent perspective will contribute to progress on the funding of the adequate education standards we have enacted.  

Voting-integrity issues, which I have studied carefully for many years, and redistricting will also be a focus.  

It has been an enriching experience for me to work on community issues that encompass both the city of Nashua and my towns. I will do everything I can to continue to advocate for our interests in the State Senate as I have done in the House. If you elect me your Senator in November, I will continue to speak truth to power, and be an independent thinker, doing it as an Independent Moderate representing District 12 in the New Hampshire Senate.