| House Republicans and Friends Across New Hampshire, This past week, House Republicans once again showed up and stood together to protect your elections and your wallets. We passed SB383, relative to local tax caps. As many town and school budgets unsustainably grow at the expense of taxpayers, this bill enables towns and school district to responsibly propose budgets that track with data such as inflation and population changes. This will help to make sure that local spending is fiscally responsible, ensuring your property taxes are calculated with reason and not driven by reckless spending increases. Another imperatively important action was indefinitely postponing SB537, allowing the processing of absentee ballots. This completely unnecessary bill would have been a gateway to requiring the processing of absentee ballots and mandated an election process created only for COVID-19 due to an influx of absentee ballots- which have since returned to normal levels. This bill was opposed by the New Hampshire Clerk’s Association, and during the hearing for this bill, no one could say why such a bill was needed. In fact, even Clerks who are in favor of preprocessing options opposed the bill, seeing the danger and issues that the bill posed. I concur with Chairman Berry’s statement that, “Opening absentee ballots before election day invites the opportunity for errors, degrades the election process, and turns Election Day into Election Weekend.” Thankfully, House Republicans shut down this preposterous and dangerous Democrat proposal that would have eroded trust and integrity in our elections. |
All the best,  |
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