To The Daily Sun,
How would residents feel about having a landfill placed 200 feet from Lake Winnipesaukee? Or a smaller lake they love? My guess is that they wouldn’t favor it, regardless of political affiliation.
Early in 2022, the NH House and Senate both passed HB 1454, which set a new formula for location of new landfills a sensible distance from our surface water. The previous (and current) system uses an arbitrary and one-size-fits-all standard of 200 feet, allowing polluted groundwater to irreversibly contaminate a river or lake long before monitoring could detect it.
HB 1454 instructs developers to do a simple “perk test” before writing a full application, to avoid placing a landfill in super-porous soil very close to surface water.
My opponent for NH Senate District 6, Sen. James Gray, not only voted against HB 1454 initially, but also a second time on veto override, which passed overwhelmingly in the House. His anti-environment vote has been questioned by some as related to his financial contributions from the landfill industry. Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt on that, his vote was wrong-headed and harmful to the future of New Hampshire.
If voters agree, and live in Senate District 6, vote for me on Nov. 8.
Ruth Larson
Alton
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To the Reasonable and Rational Candidates of Alton Endorsed by Citizens of Belknap:
Citizens of Belknap County consider the four of you reasonable and rational. I think your answers to the following questions will be helpful in determining how rational and reasonable you are.
1, The Biden Administration has declared the United States systemically racist. Do you agree?
2, The Biden Administration not only refuses to enforce immigration laws, but it has sent thousands of illegal aliens all over the county. Many of these illegals are habitual criminals, and gang members who are smuggling fentanyl into the country. Do you support the Administration, or do you think immigration laws should be enforced?
3, Many Democrats controlled cities have illegally been declared “sanctuary cities” meaning that they welcome illegal aliens to live in their cities without. Do you support sanctuary cities?
4, The Biden Administration supports biological boys using girls dressing rooms. What is your position?
5, The Democrat Party supports full term abortions and even some like former Governor of Virginia Ralph Northam supports aborting a baby after he or she had been born. What restrictions if any would you put on abortion?
6, What is your position on Critical Race Theory being taught in schools across the United States?
7, Biden and his handlers have declared war against fossil fuels. Do you want to see fossil fuels banned in New Hampshire?
8, Democrats are known to raise taxes in towns, cities, and states that they control. Do you support a state sales tax and a state income tax?
9, How many genders are there?
10, While all rational and reasonable people condemn the violence at the Capitol on January 6th. But when it comes to the riots of 2020, Democrat leaders applauded the violence and some including Kamala Harris raised money to bail out the rioters. One such released rioter went on to commit murder. Do you condemn the riots of 2020.
11, Democrats abolished county government in Connecticut as well as some counties in Massachusetts. Do you want to abolish county governments?
12. Democrats around the country have defunded the police leading to skyrocketing crime. Do you support defunding the police?
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