Mindi F. Messmer
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Position on Issues
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Candidate's Website, 2018
"To solve economic inequality in our country, we need at least a $15 minimum wage, paid family and medical leave, and a tax code that works for the 99% of us - not just the corporations."
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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?
"I oppose a ban on abortion after 24 weeks gestation, even with exceptions for cases of rape/incest and health complications."Other| Read My Position
Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"On the same day that I get to Congress to represent NH CD-1, I will immediately sign up to join the newly formed House Medicare for All Caucus lead by Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Debbie Dingell (Mich.) and Keith Ellison. Medicare for All is a program that works now and we need to allow access to everyone. ... But big pharma, health insurance companies, and the three insider opponents in this race are being cagey and saying they want to protect the ACA. They want the middleman insurance companies to continue to cash their checks and stay between you and your doctor. In fact, this is the way to protect Health Care Forever and for All. Ask anyone who is over 65 what they think about Medicare. They love it and it works."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should NH add an income tax on earned income?
"I oppose New Hampshire adding an income tax on earned income."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should NH add a broad-based sales tax?
"I oppose New Hampshire adding a broad-based sales tax."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire add a tax on capital gains?
"New Hampshire should add a capital gains tax."
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Voting Record, 2017
Voted against casinos (SB 242)
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Candidate's Website, 2018
"With increasing numbers of refugees due to climate change and conflicts, we must re-implement the Family Case Management program for asylum-seekers, have a clear path to citizenship, and protect the decades-old Flores Settlement."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"I will work to end discrimination and expand your rights, whether you're a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ, a person with a disability. No matter your religion, your age or your immigration status."
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted to decriminalize possession of 3/4 ounce or less of marijuana (HB 640)
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"On the same day that I get to Congress to represent NH CD-1, I will immediately sign up to join the newly formed House Medicare for All Caucus lead by Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Debbie Dingell (Mich.) and Keith Ellison. Medicare for All is a program that works now and we need to allow access to everyone. ... But big pharma, health insurance companies, and the three insider opponents in this race are being cagey and saying they want to protect the ACA. They want the middleman insurance companies to continue to cash their checks and stay between you and your doctor. In fact, this is the way to protect Health Care Forever and for All. Ask anyone who is over 65 what they think about Medicare. They love it and it works."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"I will fight to protect a woman's right and access to birth control and abortion."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2018
"As a woman scientist in Congress with experience in emergency response, I will address what the Pentagon considers 'the greatest challenge in modern times.'"
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"As your representative in Washington, I will always work with Republicans and Democrats trying to change the tax code to make it simpler and fairer. But I will never vote for changes that transfer wealth from low and moderate-income people to corporations and the wealthy."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
Regarding a Trump administration policy to tie health facilities' funding to abortion restrictions: "Now if a facility gets federal support the funding for the entire organization can be in jeopardy if one physician steps out on this!! He denigrates us. He's trying to control our bodies and take away our economic future. We must stand together and fight back."
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted to legalize recreational marijuana in New Hampshire (HB 656)
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Candidate's Website, 2018
"To solve economic inequality in our country, we need at least a $15 minimum wage, paid family and medical leave, and a tax code that works for the 99% of us - not just the corporations."
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Candidate's Website, 2018
"We must combat climate change by getting off of fossil fuels and protect our drinking water."
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Candidate's Website, 2018
"We must combat climate change by getting off of fossil fuels and protect our drinking water."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"Protecting our environment and ensuring the development of clean and renewable energy resources for our children and their children is our responsibility."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"I grew up in rural upstate New York around guns. I support common-sense gun safety legislation. I know you don't need an assault rifle for target practice or hunting. I support prohibiting the sale of assault weapons, high capacity magazines and bump stocks. I also support raising the age to 21 to be able to purchase a gun."
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Candidate's Twitter Feed, 2018
"Based on my experience as a small business owner, the single most important thing that would help me attract talented people and allow me to compete with larger corporations would be SINGLE PAYER health insurance. Not corporate tax breaks for co like Walmart"
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should NH legalize the recreational use of marijuana?
"I support marijuana legalization."
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"They also don't want you to know that removing the upper-income cap on Social Security to have everyone pay their fair share will make that program solvent forever. Our seniors deserve respect and dignity and we must protect their earned benefits."
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted to continue expanded Medicaid eligibility, using the traditional Medicaid system of managed care instead of private insurance (SB 313)
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Candidate's Website, 2016
"Medicaid Expansion, which allowed nearly 50,000 NH residents to keep their healthcare, sunsets in 2018 if not extended or made permanent."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire raise the minimum wage?
"New Hampshire should raise the state minimum wage to $15 per hour."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"I will fight to make sure we have the programs and the services needed to treat our opioid and substance misuse crisis."
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Candidate's Website, 2018
"Healthcare is a basic human right; every citizen, regardless of health or economic status, deserves full access to high-quality healthcare. Health is key to overall well-being and economic stability for all. The only way to solve our national healthcare crisis is to expand Medicare to all."
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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?
"I support increasing the size of energy project eligible for net metering."Other| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire increase subsidies and tax credits for business investment?
"I'd like to provide incentives for green and sustainable energy."
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted to change the sentence for any offense eligible for the death penalty to life imprisonment without parole (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?
"New Hampshire should greatly increase the base amount of per-pupil state funding."Other| Read My Position
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?
"I support the Senate Democrats plan because this one doesn't go far enough. Although I would support it if it was as good as we could get."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"I will work to stop the deregulation and privatization of the federal government."
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Candidate's Website, 2018
"I will fight to expand Social Security to lift Americans out of poverty, let people retire with dignity, and take care of our veterans and disabled citizens and their families."
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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?
"I support New Hampshire’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative."Other| Read My Position
Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"On the same day that I get to Congress to represent NH CD-1, I will immediately sign up to join the newly formed House Medicare for All Caucus lead by Democratic Reps. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), Debbie Dingell (Mich.) and Keith Ellison. Medicare for All is a program that works now and we need to allow access to everyone. ... But big pharma, health insurance companies, and the three insider opponents in this race are being cagey and saying they want to protect the ACA. They want the middleman insurance companies to continue to cash their checks and stay between you and your doctor. In fact, this is the way to protect Health Care Forever and for All. Ask anyone who is over 65 what they think about Medicare. They love it and it works."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
We all thought that ACA was safe for a while. But think again. The House just passed the Tax Scam. The bill now goes to the Senate. The Republicans have made the bill even worse by including a repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate."
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Voting Record, 2018
Voted against right-to-work (SB 11)
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire create a road usage fee?
"New Hampshire should supplement the gas tax with a road usage fee."For| Read My Position
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?
"I support the Senate Democrats’ plan for a statewide paid family and medical leave insurance program, paid for with a percentage of all employee wages."For| Read My Position
Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should NH pass stricter gun control laws?
"I support stricter gun control laws."
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"I have two sons. Every day I see statistics that worry me sick about the future we've created for them. In Congress, I will support legislation that provides free tuition and fees at public universities for all students with family income up to $125,000 and that would cut student loan interest rates in half. It's time we stop mortgaging our future and start investing in the people who will own it."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire add tax incentives for affordable housing development?
"New Hampshire government should do more to increase the supply of affordable housing."
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Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2020
Should New Hampshire allocate tax revenues for private and home schooling costs?
"I oppose allocating tax revenues for private and/or home schooling costs."Against| Read My Position
Voting Record, 2018
Voted against requiring all voters domiciled in New Hampshire to follow residency laws, such as the requirement to register any car in New Hampshire (HB 1264)
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"Researchers are beginning to study and understand the impacts of climate change on public health. As global temperatures rise, more extensive geographic areas are favorable for tropical illness and vector-bourne diseases, such as hand-foot-and-mouth disease, Dengue fever, and Zika virus. For example, the geographic extent of reported cases of Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases have significantly spread across the state of New Hampshire between 2002 and 2014 as average annual temperatures across the state have warmed. This is particularly concerning when on June 1, 2017, President Trump declared he would pull the United States out of the Paris Accord, which is a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Voting Record
CACR 22 (2018)
Constitutional amendment establishing various rights for crime victims.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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 593 (2018)
Changes the penalty for any offense eligible for the death penalty to life imprisonment without parole.
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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 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.
SB 11 (2017)
Right-to-Work bill that prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union.
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 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 157 (2017)
Adds chronic pain to the qualifying medical conditions for medical marijuana.
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.
HB 478 (2017)
Prohibits discrimination based on gender identity.
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.
