PLATFORM

Emphasize knowledge attainment and academic achievement
Support freedom of speech at all education levels
Emphasize marketable skills at the high school and post-secondary levels
Support innovative measures to reduce tuition costs and increase national competitiveness
Promote personal responsibility and consequences for one’s actions
Implement the nation’s highest competency and accountability standards for our superintendent, principal, teachers, and students; empower teachers to maintain orderly, disciplined classrooms
Eliminate tenure and institute merit pay
Reform the teacher certification process to include participation by individuals outside the standard education paradigm whose experiences will elevate appreciation for knowledge in the classroom
Enable and encourage a momentary silent prayer or reflective silence in the classroom along with the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each school day

Remove barriers to business formation and encourage small businesses
Minimize business regulations, permits, licenses and paperwork
Keep state government lean to allow lower business taxes
Foster an attitude of assistance and cooperation with business and increase responsiveness
Prefer incentives to penalties and issue warnings before fines
Work with municipalities to streamline planning and zoning barriers to business
Support the development of a robust telecommunications and technology infrastructure throughout New Hampshire
Support cost-efficient means to protect, develop and market agricultural, forest and high value natural resource products

The Family

Support the pre-born child’s fundamental right to life and personhood under the Fourteenth Amendment, and implement all Constitutional and legal protections
Encourage individuals and organizations who provide alternatives to abortion by meeting the needs of mothers through adoption, support, counseling and educational services
Require parental consent for minors seeking abortions, ban the use of public resources to 186 fund or promote abortion, support the unity of the family and the sanctity of innocent life, and support similar efforts at the federal level
Recognize marriage as the legal and sacred union between one man and one woman as ordained by God, encouraged by the State, and traditional to humankind, and the 190 core of the Family
Maintain the fundamental role and responsibility of both parents in the care, upbringing and discipline of their children
Oppose euthanasia and physician assisted suicide
Support a Life at Conception Act guaranteeing the protections of Life and and Personhood to the pre-born under the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution

Support the repeal of Obamacare and oppose its implementation in New Hampshire
Allow free market driven health care plans and “ala carte” insurance plans free from government mandates
Allow the purchase of insurance plans across state lines
Allow for “portability” of health care plans
Increase the use of market forces to improve health care and lower costs
Improve access to the information necessary to make informed health care decisions, including information about the quality and cost of services provided by physicians, hospitals and insurers
Allow free market driven health care plans and “ala carte” insurance plans free from government mandates. Allow purchase of insurance plans across state lines
Support the moral and ethical right of informed consent with regard to all medical treatment and intervention
Provide for the special needs of seniors, including opportunities for personalized home health care and less expensive alternatives to hospital stays and prescription medication
Respect New Hampshire’s honored veterans by ensuring that they receive the benefits they have rightfully earned and deserve, particularly by combating homelessness and making all medical facilities available to qualified veterans