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Democrat Congressional Candidate – House District 1 – Rep. Chris Papas Chris is grounded in the people and places of the Granite State. He ran for Congress to put the people of first and bring a deep understanding of the issues affecting our lives to Washington. He knows our economy--and our democracy--are tilted toward special interests and those at the top, and he works every day to be a steadfast champion of the people, communities, and Main Street businesses that make New Hampshire the best state to call home.

During his first term in Congress, Chris has sponsored legislation to support New Hampshire’s small businesses, improve access to affordable health care for Granite Staters, fight to get our veterans the benefits they have earned, combat the opioid epidemic, and protect our drinking water.

Chris serves on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee where he chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, focused on holding the Department of Veterans Affairs accountable for providing the highest standard of care and services to our nation’s veterans.

Chris also serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee where he is working to deliver transformational investments in New Hampshire’s roads, bridges, highways, airports, and rail systems.

Born and raised in Manchester, Chris Pappas is a small business owner and community-driven leader who has a record of addressing some of New Hampshire’s most pressing challenges. A proud product of Manchester public schools, Chris has dedicated his time in public service to putting people before politics to deliver opportunities to families in every community across our state. From creating new jobs and confronting the opioid crisis to ensuring the delivery of quality, affordable health care for every Granite Stater, Chris earned a reputation as a results-driven leader long before his election to Congress.

After graduating from Harvard College in 2002, Chris returned to New Hampshire to help run his family’s more than100 year old business, the Puritan Backroom Restaurant. Prior to serving in Congress, Chris represented District 4 on the New Hampshire Executive Council. When Chris was elected to the U.S. House in 2018, he became New Hampshire’s first openly gay member of Congress.

Before his election to Congress, Chris managed the restaurant's day-to-day business and more than 230 employees. Ninety-nine percent of New Hampshire’s employers are small businesses, and Chris understands the unique challenges and pressures that small businesses face – especially during the current COVID-19 crisis.

In his free time, Chris tries to run a few miles every day, spend time with family, and get in a spirited game of Scrabble.

Source: https://pappas.house.gov/about

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Democrat Congressional Candidate – House District 2 - Rep. Ann McLane Kuster When Annie Kuster was first elected to Congress, she pledged to bring a new approach to Washington. Annie's number one priority is to look out for the best interests of Granite Staters, and she believes Members of Congress must reach across party lines to end the gridlock and dysfunction in Washington.

Annie is a member of the prestigious House Energy and Commerce Committee, which puts her at the forefront of efforts to improve access to quality affordable healthcare, reduce the costs of prescription drugs and combat climate change.

During her time in Congress, Annie has established a record of putting aside party politics to focus on the issues that matter most to Granite Staters. She's worke with members of both parties to prioritize job creation and conomic opportunity, and support New Hampshire veterans, women, students, and seniors.

Annie is committed to strengthening the New Hampshire economy, so that regardless of national trends, the economic security of our Granite State families would always be protected. She is working every day to bring new economic opportunities to New Hampshire families.

In office, Annie has fought to cut taxes for Granite State small businesses, to help them expand and create more jobs. She has hosted a series of job fairs throughout the state, where she connected scores of job seekers with employers looking to hire. And the first bill Annie introduced in Congress would cut taxes for New Hampshire employers who partner with schools to provide job training for Granite State students so they are prepared to join the 21st century workforce.

As the daughter of a WWII veteran and POW, Annie is strongly committed to ensuring our veterans have access to the resources and support they need. She successfully fought for improved access to health services for New Hampshire veterans, including the expansion of a VA clinic in Littleton. She is working to expand access to care so veterans can more easily receive the services they need and deserve. Annie helped pass a package of legislation, including her own bill, to help eliminate the claims backlog for VA benefits. And she worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass into law comprehensive VA reforms to ensure New Hampshire veterans can receive medical care sooner and closer to home.

Annie is a proud New Hampshire native, born and raised in Concord. Her parents were community leaders who taught her the importance of public service through example. Annie's mother, Susan McLane, served in the New Hampshire State Senate and was a fierce advocate for equal rights and a true pioneer for women. Her father, Malcolm McLane, served as Mayor of Concord, was on the Executive Council, and ran for Governor as an Independent in 1972. Annie received her undergraduate degree from in 1978, and was a member of the third class of women to graduate from the college. She received a law degree from Law Center in 1984, and then went on to work as an adoption attorney for 25 years. A strong advocate for her community, Annie has served on the boards of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, New Hampshire Public Radio, the Capitol Center for the Arts, and Child and Family Services of New Hampshire.

Annie lives in Hopkinton with her husband Brad, an environmental attorney, where they raised their two sons Zach and Travis.

Source: https://www.kusterforcongress.com/meet-annie

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Democrat Senate Candidate – Sen. The daughter of a shoe factory manager and a church secretary, Jeanne Shaheen is the first woman in American history to be elected Governor and U.S. Senator.

Jeanne is firmly rooted in New Hampshire. She and her husband, Billy, raised their three daughters here, and now seven grandchildren live nearby. Jeanne ran a small business and taught at Dover High School before running for office. Throughout her public service, Jeanne has been a fierce advocate for strengthening the economy and reducing the cost of health care.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeanne Shaheen has worked with Republicans and Democrats to get resources to New Hampshire to address the devastating economic and public health impact.

As Governor, Jeanne Shaheen extended affordable health insurance coverage to tens of thousands of New Hampshire children, expanded public kindergarten, and balanced budgets without a sales or income tax. The first woman ever elected Governor of New Hampshire, she repealed a law making abortion a felony and signed legislation requiring insurance companies to cover birth control. She challenged the big utility companies to cut energy bills for consumers and small businesses, and she encouraged clean energy.

Now in the U.S. Senate, Jeanne is a tireless voice for New Hampshire and its residents. She successfully protected funding and jobs for the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, secured funding to open the Berlin prison and widen I-93, and brought a first-in-the-nation effort to New Hampshire to protect clean drinking water from contaminants like PFAS. As a member of the Armed Services Committee, and the only woman on the Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne is a leading voice on national security matters, a global leader for women’s rights, and she helped pass legislation to give veterans more options for health care closer to home.

And Jeanne isn’t afraid to take on her own party. She challenged Democratic and Republican Presidents to address the opioid epidemic and led a bipartisan effort to increase funding tenfold to help New Hampshire’s treatment centers and first responders.

Jeanne will continue making a difference for New Hampshire, with pragmatic leadership that overcomes extreme partisanship and division to bring people together to get real results.

Source: https://jeanneshaheen.org/about-jeanne/

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Republican Congressional Candidate – House District 1 – Matt Mowers At the U.S. Department of State, Matt Mowers saw first-hand how oppressive socialist regimes have eroded the freedoms of their own citizens, but also how strong and decisive American leadership can serve as a symbol of hope for those around the world. Now Matt sees America’s freedoms fading because of radical socialists in Washington – and he is running for Congress to fight back and protect those liberties for future generations of Granite Staters.

Source: https://mattmowers.com/about/

Republican Congressional Candidate – House District 2 – Steven Negron Steve Negron is a friend to anyone who meets him. In 2018, he was the New Hampshire Republican Nominee for Congress (NH- 02) where he garnered the most votes of any nominee since 2002 - a whopping 117,990! With over 111 years of military commitment to our country, the Negrons continue their family tradition of military service with their son who is on active duty with a Special Ops unit out of Hurlburt Field, FL.

Steve answers the call of duty in both the private and public sectors to this day. He is the founder, President and CEO of Integron, LLC, a Small, Minority, Disadvantaged, and Veteran- owned company in Nashua NH. A retired Air Force officer, Steve's initial assignment was as an ICBM Missile Combat Crew Member (MCCM) at Whiteman AFB, MO, followed by an assignment to Hanscom AFB, MA. Finally, Steve was assigned to the Directorate of Requirements, Air Force Space Command, in Colorado Springs, CO. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in June of 1998.

After retiring from the Air Force, Steve joined the private sector as a defense contractor for such companies as GTE Government Systems, General Dynamics, and Lockheed Martin. He established his own company, Integron, LLC, in 2005. In 1983 he graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice, and then earned an MBA from Western New England College with an emphasis on Federal Acquisition and Contracting.

Steve is very active within his community. He is a teacher, mentor, coach, community and church leader in Nashua. He volunteered his time in various roles with World Academy, Immaculate Conception Parish, Boy Scouts Troop 410, and Knights of Columbus Council 13904. He also served in leadership roles in many professional organizations such as the Paul Revere Chapter of the Air Force Association (AFA), North Suburban Chamber of Commerce, Nashua Catholic Regional Junior High School and the Nashua South Cal Ripken League (Little League).

Steve and his wife, Terry, currently reside in Nashua where they have lived for 29 years and raised their three children.

Source: https://negron4congress.com/about-steve

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Republican Senate Candidate – Corky Messner Successful businessman, veteran, proud father and patriot, Bryant “Corky” Messner is running to defeat career politician Jeanne Shaheen to represent New Hampshire in the United States Senate.

Raised in a blue-collar family in Altoona, PA – Corky left home at age 17 to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he played football and prepared for his military service. Upon his graduation in 1979 Corky became an Army Ranger, serving abroad guarding the Berlin Wall during the Cold War.

Following his military service, Corky attended Law School at the University of . He went on to found the law firm Messner Reeves LLP and grow that business to more than 100 lawyers, 200 employees and offices in nine cities.

A father of three, Corky’s two sons are West Point Cadets and his daughter is preparing to attend medical school. A strong conservative, Corky is passionate about service and excited for the opportunity to give back to a country that has offered him the opportunity to live the American Dream.

Corky has served and assisted various non-profit organizations including the Wentworth Watershed Association, Army West Point Athletic Association, The Rise School Denver and the Messner Foundation. Corky resides in Wolfeboro, NH.

Source: https://corkyforsenate.com/about/

Democrat Gubernatorial Candidate – Dan Feltes As a State Senator, Dan worked across the aisle to expand access to health care for 50,000 Granite Staters, protect people with pre-existing conditions, invest in renewable energy, and establish the toughest drinking water standards in the country.

Dan worked across the aisle where he could, however, too often progress was blocked. Critical laws designed to help working families like paid family and medical leave, job training, and expanded access to substance use disorder treatment were vetoed by an out of touch Governor who does not understand what the working families of this state are going through.

With the encouragement and support of his wife Erin, an education attorney with a working-class background, Dan decided to run for Governor. Dan is running for Governor to fight for all Granite Staters; to make health care more affordable, ensure working people earn a living wage, and to strengthen our local public schools. Dan will look at every issue through the lens of what it means for everyday working families — like the one he grew up in and the ones he represented at New Hampshire Legal Assistance.

Dan lives in Concord with his wife Erin and his daughters Josie and Iris. He earned his law degree from the University of Iowa, and his master’s degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, focusing on economics and energy regulation. Source: https://danfeltesnh.com/about/

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Republican Gubernatorial Candidate – Chris Sununu Christopher T. Sununu is the 82nd Governor of the State of New Hampshire and is currently serving his second term. In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Governor Sununu took unprecedented action to protect the health and safety of Granite Staters.

Just days after declaring a State of Emergency and transitioning New Hampshire schools to remote learning, Governor Sununu swiftly expanded unemployment benefits to provide financial relief to a historic number of New Hampshire residents.

He established the Emergency Health Care System Relief Fund and secured tens of millions of PPE for New Hampshire. His efforts have received national recognition.

Governor Sununu created the Governor's Office for Emergency Relief and Recovery to oversee the fair and transparent disbursement of the $1.25 billion CARES Act funds to businesses, communities, and organizations.

His accomplishments include delivering two balanced state budgets with no new taxes and establishing full day kindergarten. Additionally, Governor Sununu invested $275 million in clean water projects, established New Hampshire Care Academies allowing high school seniors to earn their Associates Degree at no cost to them or taxpayers, returned nearly $180 million to cities and towns for education aid and municipal grants, and signed job creating business tax cuts into law. Governor Sununu is a strong advocate of social and emotional learning in early childhood education and was the first Governor in the nation to release a statewide school safety plan.

In 2018, Governor Sununu announced the nationwide launch of his Recovery Friendly Workplace Initiative to engage employers and empower workplaces to provide support for people recovering from substance use disorder.

Governor Sununu's leadership has garnered a number of awards including New Futures' 2017 President's Award for championing policies that improve the health and wellness of all Granite Staters and he is one of only five Governors honored by AARP with their Capitol Caregiver 2017 award. He received CASA's 2018 John McDermott Champion of Children Award, New Hampshire Humane Society's 2019 Legislator of the Year Award, Nashua Humane Society's 2019 Pets' Choice Award, Housing Action New Hampshire's Home Matters in New Hampshire Award, and Volunteer New Hampshire Community Pillar Award.

An environmental engineer, Chris worked for ten years cleaning up hazardous waste sites across the country.

In 1998, Chris completed a five-month through-hike of the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia. Chris grew up in Salem, NH. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) with a BS in Civil/Environmental Engineering.

Governor Sununu lives in Newfields with his wife, Valerie, and their three children, Calvin, Edie, and Leo.

Source: https://www.chrissununu.com/about

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Libertarian Gubernatorial Candidate – Darryl Perry Darryl W. Perry has spent most of his adult life as an advocate & activist for peace and liberty.

As a Presidential candidate in 2016, he had a goal to run the most libertarian presidential campaign in history, to promote the ideas of liberty as boldly and as often as possible, and to give as many people as possible the chance to vote for an actual libertarian in November 2016. After the Libertarian National Convention – where he placed 4th for the LP Presidential nomination – Perry formed a crowd-funded public-interest lobbyist firm, to lobby the New Hampshire Legislature in support of individual rights, minimal government and maximum freedom!

Darryl served as Chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire from September 2016 until April 2018.

He ran the 2018 NYC Marathon on Team Innocence Project, and was to be a charity runner for Ronald McDonald’s House Charities in the 2019 Chicago Marathon before being forced to withdraw in order to recover from a concussion.

Darryl W. Perry is running for Governor of New Hampshire as a Libertarian on a platform of criminal justice reform, lower taxation, and ballot access reform & voting rights.

Source: https://darrylwperry.com/bio

Libertarian Senate Candidate – Justin O’Donnell The Republican and Democratic parties are the embodiment of everything that's wrong with Politics. Benjamin Franklin said that the founders had given us a republic if we could keep it. Well, we are on the verge of losing that precious republic as we knew it. Washington has become a breeding ground for corruption, where career politicians serve their own interests and advance their own agendas, often at the expense of the people and the freedoms we cherish.

Justin O'Donnell isn't a career politician, in fact, he's quite the opposite. A millennial, he has grown up knowing nothing but a nation at war, crippled with debt, and dividing itself along ideological grounds over the lesser of two evils. A student of history, he recognizes the crucial crossroads the American People are faced with, to either put aside partisan politics and unite as a nation, or stay the course of division, and fall like the empires of old.

Justin is running for United States Senate, not to serve a partisan interest, not to advance his own career, but to bring a strong independent voice that represents the people in this proud republic. Join us today, and help us share a New Voice for New Hampshire. Be Bold. Be Free. Be Independent. Vote Libertarian.

Source: https://www.odonnell2020.com/

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Libertarian Congressional Candidate – House District 1 – Zachary Dumont Zachary seeks to be the solution to the problems New Hampshire is facing within our Federal government. For too long the Granite State has been subject to the whims of elected officials who sought to benefit themselves rather than the people they served. In his mission to advocate for the success of New Hampshire, Zachary will continue to build bridges across the political spectrum and seek to ensure that all voices have the opportunity to be heard.

Source: https://lpnh.org/2020-candidates/

Libertarian Congressional Candidate – House District 2 – Andrew Olding The Washington Machine is entrenched with political games and bad actors. Instead of tangible problems, they stand behind a brutal war on terror, stagnated with dead American soldiers and displaced bystanders. Too often the needs the next generation are sold fulfill the unfunded obligations mandated by the power brokers. A.J. Olding stands before you, a man of honesty and integrity, in need of your support to build a lasting future for you, your children, and the American way of life.

Source: https://lpnh.org/2020-candidates/