Kevin Scully
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Position on Issues
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support the “Education Freedom Account” program, which gives students access to the per-pupil share of state school funding to spend on private school or home school expenses?
"The Education Freedom Account is the best deal in town for local property owners, the parents who want to take advantage of it, and even for the parents who want their children to remain in public schools. The parent who wants to use it gets financial help in getting what they consider is the best education for their child. The parent who wants to use the public school system has less crowding for their child in the classrooms and therefore more individual attention. And local property owners benefit since their taxes can be reduced since the cost for each child that stays out of the public school system does not have to be taken from them."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire ban abortion after 24 weeks gestation, with exceptions for cases of rape/incest and health complications?
"Viable children should be given the constitutional protections every person in America enjoys"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the first trimester (e.g. after 6 weeks gestation)?
"Roe V. Wade recognized that the state has a compelling interest in protecting the lives of a person within its jurisdiction. That court, based on the technology of over 50 years ago, suggested that 24 weeks was when a child would be viable and therefore could be subject to the protection of the State. Since then, that number has shifted downward as technology has advanced. The point on which reasonable people differ, is when should a developing fetus be considered a person. In my opinion, any child 15 weeks into development is close enough to viability to be extended the State's protection that we provide to everyone, meaning the child's life cannot be ended without the accusation of a capital crime and due-process. I believe that life begins at conception, however out of respect for constituents who strongly differ, I will abstain from voting for any registration that would ban abortion before the 15th week."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire ban abortions during the second trimester (e.g. after 15 weeks gestation)?
"Roe V. Wade recognized that the state has a compelling interest in protecting the lives of a person within its jurisdiction. That court, based on the technology of over 50 years ago, suggested that 24 weeks was when a child would be viable and therefore could be subject to the protection of the State. Since then, that number has shifted downward as technology has advanced. The point on which reasonable people differ, is when should a developing fetus be considered a person. In my opinion, any child 15 weeks into development is close enough to viability to be extended the State's protection that we provide to everyone, meaning the child's life cannot be ended without the accusation of a capital crime and due-process. I believe that life begins at conception, however out of respect for constituents who strongly differ, I will abstain from voting for any registration that would ban abortion before the 15th week."
No Response
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire ban discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3?
No Response
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the state law that bans teaching certain concepts, such as the idea that people may be "inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously"?
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"Just say no! I will say no on your behalf."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"If you think property taxes are bad now, just put in a sales tax and see what happens. A sales tax would collapse Nashua's retail and restaurant economy that relies on Massachusetts traffic. If the retail businesses collapse, all the taxes the businesses would have paid will be shifted to Nashua's homeowners."
No Response
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire add a tax credit for businesses that contribute to student loan repayment for employees?
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire lower business taxes?
"Economic systems are not static. If you punish risk-takers with more taxes, they have little incentive to grow. If you lower taxes, they have incentive to grow, and ironically, when growth is optimized, the state actually gets more dollars by taking less from each dollar because the number of dollars keeps growing. This isn't theory, look at the actual results in NH. Republicans have been steadily reducing tax rates for wealth and job creators and revenue continues to increase."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"Leave money in the hands of those who have earned it. It won't be hidden under a mattress, people who are smart with money will invest it to keep the economy growing as a result of their risk-taking. Everyone benefits from a bigger, more healthy economy. Run away from people talking about 'fair share', they promote greed and envy to take other people's money for their use, and it will be used to reward themselves and their friends."
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Voting Record, 2017
Voted against casinos (SB 242)
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire increase the tax on cigarettes?
"Against"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire government do more to address climate change?
"As I'm sure you have noticed if you have lived in NH for any length of time, it is a cold place. In Nashua, at the southern most tier of the state, we have 10 times more heating-degrees days (days when your heater is needed) than we have cooling-degree days (days when AC is needed), and the farther north you go, the colder it gets. It is insanity to divert precious resources, better spent elsewhere, to make NH an ever colder place."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support giving voters who register without ID on Election Day a ballot that only counts if they return identifying documents to the state before a deadline?
"Voting is perhaps the greatest civic responsibility for citizens since it charts the future course for all of us. If you couldn't be bothered to register to vote in a timely manner, there is a good chance you haven't been paying attention to current events and are an uninformed voter who will cancel the vote of someone who has been paying attention and knows what they are voting for. Same day registration also increases the chance of voter fraud. Elections are like busses, there is always another one coming along. Do it the right way or wait for the next election."
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted to decriminalize possession of 3/4 ounce or less of marijuana (HB 640)
No Response
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should New Hampshire add a fee or mileage charge for electric vehicle owners to help pay for transportation and/or electric infrastructure?
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire add restrictions to the governor's powers during a state of emergency?
"NH section 4 : 45 needs to be rewritten so that the governor's declared state of emergency will end unless it is extended by a joint declaration by the House and Senate"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state do more to encourage municipalities to remove zoning barriers to housing development?
"I believe in local control regarding issues such as zoning. Let each community decide what is in their best interest without state-level interference."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support legislation to expand the net energy metering system capacity cap from 1 MW to 5 MW for all residential and commercial customers in New Hampshire?
"A 5MW solar array is a large-scale commercial system that a utility would be forced to pay for its output by raising the rates for all, including renters and the poor. I will not assist in the fleecing of the average rate payer who pays far too high a cost already."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire extend the renewable portfolio standard past 2025, requiring public utilities to obtain more than 25% of electricity from renewable energy sources?
"Govt intervention makes energy less reliable and more expensive. The poor suffer the most"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire guarantee the right to access abortion before 24 weeks?
"Roe V. Wade recognized that the state has a compelling interest in protecting the lives of a person within its jurisdiction. That court, based on the technology of over 50 years ago, suggested that 24 weeks was when a child would be viable and therefore could be subject to the protection of the State. Since then, that number has shifted downward as technology has advanced. The point on which reasonable people differ, is when should a developing fetus be considered a person. In my opinion, any child 15 weeks into development is close enough to viability to be extended the State's protection that we provide to everyone, meaning the child's life cannot be ended without the accusation of a capital crime and due-process. I believe that life begins at conception, however out of respect for constituents who strongly differ, I will abstain from voting for any registration that would ban abortion before the 15th week."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should the state increase funding for child care providers?
"I am pro-life and I believe the government should provide incentives that encourage two-parent families and having children. (There is no future without them.)"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire increase public access to reports of police misconduct?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Do you support the option of mail-in ballots for all voters, not just absentees?
"Against"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Do you support New Hampshire’s current system of public school funding, with about two-thirds of total funding coming from local property taxes?
"Education is a local issue since it revolves around a child, who lives in one place. Keeping education costs tied to property taxes is the best way to ensure that the community decides how much is enough and it also ensures active local oversight since it is the community's money that is taken and spent."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should NH legalize the recreational use of marijuana?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by allowing home-growing and private use without sales?
"I would discourage drug use of any kind, but I respect the right of adults to make their own decisions regarding non-addicting. drugs. I don't think the state should be involved in the drug business."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by licensing growers and private retail locations?
"I would discourage drug use of any kind, but I respect the right of adults to make their own decisions regarding non-addicting. drugs. I don't think the state should be involved in the drug business."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire legalize the recreational use of marijuana by establishing state-run cannabis stores?
"I would discourage drug use of any kind, but I respect the right of adults to make their own decisions regarding non-addicting. drugs. I don't think the state should be involved in the drug business."
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted against continuing expanded Medicaid eligibility, using the traditional Medicaid system of managed care instead of private insurance (SB 313)
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"An important truth that must be grasped, if the cost of a job exceeds it's value to an employer, that job will disappear. So if a business can no longer afford a person, his/her new minimum wage becomes $0 no matter what the 'official' rate is. Look at California, they raised the minimum wage to $20/hr for fast-food workers and tens of thousands of entry-level jobs have disappeared, many replaced with automation. Let business owners decide what they can afford to offer, and let the people decide if it makes sense to take it. I started at a low minimum wage job at the beginning of my working life, but I didn't stay at that level, because I took responsibility to grow my skill sets to make myself ever more valuable to subsequent employers."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire increase the size of solar panel installations that may participate in net energy metering?
"Net metering increases energy costs for those not in the program. It is a regressive energy tax on the poor."
Against| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire increase subsidies and tax credits for business investment?
"Government should not pick winners and losers"
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted to keep the death penalty unchanged (SB 593)
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire increase the base amount of per-pupil funding it provides to local school districts?
"We are spending enough, the money needs to be used more wisely."
No Response
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Should the state permanently increase how much tax revenue it shares with towns and cities every year, beyond public school funding?
No Response
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2022
Do you support the gradual phase-out of the Interests and Dividends tax?
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Do you support Gov. Sununu's proposal to allow employers and employees to opt-in to a private, paid family and medical leave insurance plan, based on a pool of state employees, excluding coverage for personal illness?
"For"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire add legal protections for residents of other states who travel here for health care related to abortion or gender transition?
"I will under no circumstances support the irreversible sexual mutilations of minors. Once a person reaches the age of majority, I will respect that the decision becomes theirs."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire continue to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which requires utilities to purchase allowances for every ton of carbon they emit?
"Govt intervention makes energy less reliable and more expensive. The poor suffer the most"
Against| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should New Hampshire repeal the ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation?
"Roe V. Wade recognized that the state has a compelling interest in protecting the lives of a person within its jurisdiction. That court, based on the technology of over 50 years ago, suggested that 24 weeks was when a child would be viable and therefore could be subject to the protection of the State. Since then, that number has shifted downward as technology has advanced. The point on which reasonable people differ, is when should a developing fetus be considered a person. In my opinion, any child 15 weeks into development is close enough to viability to be extended the State's protection that we provide to everyone, meaning the child's life cannot be ended without the accusation of a capital crime and due-process. I believe that life begins at conception, however out of respect for constituents who strongly differ, I will abstain from voting for any registration that would ban abortion before the 15th week."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement?
"Deliberate Democrat policies have led to the whole-scale invasion of our country by millions of undocumented, unvetted people. And yes, there are dangerous criminals and even terrorists among them. If sanity returns, and Trump is re-elected, we should definitely support his efforts to make our communities safer."
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted to consider right-to-work (SB 11)
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire create a road usage fee?
"Against"
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2016
Scully shared a post on Facebook showing a demonstration against state funding for Planned Parenthood read. He wrote, "With friends in Concord NH telling our Executive Council members that they should not spend our tax dollars to fund Planned Parenthood."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire create a statewide family and medical leave program, paid for with a percentage of employee wages, with no opt-out?
"no income taxes in NH"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2024
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"I proudly cast my vote when I was your Representative to become a Constitutional Carry State. I trusted the people, and that trust has proven justified. We are still safer than Canada! Constitutional Carry is working and there is absolutely no demonstrated need to revisit this issue."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire provide student loan debt repayment programs for workers in industries with labor shortages?
"equal treatment under the law"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire add tax incentives for affordable housing development?
"Either pay everyone to live here or no one. I say no one should be payed"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire allocate tax revenues for private and home schooling costs?
"We should encourage home schooling, it provides better results at lower cost per student"
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted to require all voters domiciled in New Hampshire to follow residency laws, such as the requirement to register any car in New Hampshire (HB 1264)
Voting Record
HB 1680 (2018)
Prohibits abortion after viability, unless the mother's life is in danger, "in cases of Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome, or to remove a fetus with severe anomalies incompatible with life."
HB 1319 (2018)
Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.
HB 587 (2017)
Prohibits conversion therapy for anyone under age eighteen. Conversion therapy attempts to change a person's sexual orientation.
CACR 22 (2018)
Constitutional amendment establishing various rights for crime victims.
HB 628 (2017)
Establishes a social insurance program that would be operated by New Hampshire Employment Security to provide for paid family and medical leave insurance. Employers would pay 0.5% of wages per employee as premium payments. The House amended the bill to increase the employee contribution to 0.67%, to allow employees to opt out, and to limit benefits to six weeks of paid leave.
SB 313 (2018)
Continues New Hampshire's expanded Medicaid program. This bill makes several significant changes to the program. First, it moves participants off private insurance and into managed care, similar to traditional Medicaid enrollees. Second, it adds a work requirement for participants. Third, it removes funding from voluntary contributions by health care providers, which the federal government said is illegal.
HB 1264 (2018)
Redefines "resident" and "inhabitant" to remove the phrase "for the indefinite future." This bill would potentially require all voters domiciled in New Hampshire to follow residency laws, such as the requirement to register any car in New Hampshire.
SB 193 (2017)
Establishes the "education freedom savings account program." This allows a parent to contract with a scholarship organization so that state education funding is transferred to the student's scholarship account rather than to the municipality in which the student resides. The House amended the bill to limit the scholarships to certain students, particularly low income students, students in underperforming schools, and special education students. The amended version also requires any student receiving a scholarship to complete an annual assessment to ensure academic progress.
HB 592 (2017)
Repeals the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The House amended the bill to instead end energy efficiency grants, and send all the proceeds from RGGI to commercial and residential ratepayer rebates.
SB 593 (2018)
Changes the penalty for any offense eligible for the death penalty to life imprisonment without parole.
HB 656 (2017)
Legalizes and taxes marijuana for adults over age twenty-one. The bill outlines various regulations, from the ability of municipalities to control the location of marijuana establishments, to labels disclosing the THC in each serving of a marijuana product. The bill also legalizes hemp. The House amended the bill to instead legalize possession and homegrowing of marijuana without allowing sales.
SB 500 (2018)
Removes the prohibition of carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun in or on a stationary motor vehicle, OHRV, snowmobile, or aircraft. This bill also changes some legal references to firearms, and allows licensed bow hunters to carry firearms. Lastly, this bill removes the ability to deny or revoke a hunting license if a person "is not a suitable person to carry firearms." The Senate amended the bill to also allow carrying a loaded firearm on a moving vehicle if the person is protecting livestock or crops. The Senate amendment also allows hunting with an air rifle.
HB 115 (2017)
Raises the minimum wage to $9.50 in 2018 and $12 in 2019, with annual cost of living adjustments starting in 2020. The bill also establishes a training wage that is one dollar less than the minimum wage for the first three months of employment for someone sixteen or seventeen years-old.
SB 131 (2017)
Appropriates $1,155,000 to hire five state troopers assigned to drug enforcement on the state border. This bill also appropriates $3,340,000 for state and local law enforcement and the state lab for overtime related to drug enforcement.
SB 242 (2017)
Authorizes one smaller and one larger casino with video lottery and table gaming. The smaller casino would pay an initial ten-year license fee of $40 million, and the larger casino would pay an initial ten-year license fee of $80 million. The casinos would pay a tax of 35% on gross slot machine revenue and 18% on gross table game revenue. The Legislature would choose how to distribute this revenue, provided that some of the revenue goes to towns hosting or neighboring the casino, and some of the revenue goes to treat problem gambling.
SB 10 (2017)
Creates a program to repay licensed milk producers from losses during the 2016 drought. The bill appropriates $2 million to the Milk Producers Emergency Relief Fund.
HB 478 (2017)
Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.
HB 144 (2017)
Changes the annual county budget procedures for Rockingham County to match those used in Hillsborough County. Since the House failed to pass the 2018-2019 budget bill HB 1, the Senate amended this bill into a new budget bill.
SB 66 (2017)
Includes fetuses as potential victims under murder statutes. The Senate amended the bill to include only fetuses twenty weeks and older, not just "viable" fetuses.
SB 191 (2017)
Increases state funding for full-day kindergarten programs, with adjustments based on the number of English language learners and free and reduced lunch students in each district. The House amended the bill to simply provide full funding for full-day kindergarten programs, and half funding for half-day kindergarten programs. The House also added keno legalization to the bill to create the revenue for kindergarten funding.
HB 103 (2017)
Requires school districts to provide advance notice to parents and legal guardians of course material involving discussion of human sexuality or human sexual education.
SB 3 (2017)
Changes the definition of domicile for voting purposes to make it more restrictive. This bill explicitly excludes anyone who comes to the state "for temporary purposes," such as volunteering or working on political campaigns. Out-of-state college students are still allowed to claim a domicile in New Hampshire. However, if someone moves to a new New Hampshire address within 30 days of voting, he or she must present proof of intent to stay in New Hampshire. This proof could include a lease, driver's license, a child's enrollment at a public school, etc.
SB 8 (2017)
Allows a school district to assign a child to a non-sectarian private school if there is no public school for the child's grade in the child's resident district. The bill was amended to also require the non-sectarian private school to administer an annual assessment.
HB 157 (2017)
Adds chronic pain to the qualifying medical conditions for medical marijuana.
SB 11 (2017)
Right-to-Work bill that prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union.
HB 640 (2017)
Decriminalizes possession of 3/4 ounce or less of marijuana, with additional penalties for violators under age twenty-one.
SB 12 (2017)
Increases the length of time for which a license to carry a concealed firearm is valid, and repeals the requirement to obtain a license to carry a concealed firearm.
