Steve Negron
Historical Details
Position on Issues
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"Negron accused Kuster of wanting to take away the right to own guns. He said the problem of mass shootings, such as the recent shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue in which 11 people were killed, could be traced to mental health issues. The shooter in Pittsburgh had a long history of expressing violent anti-Semitic views on social media.
"'And I will tell you, respectfully, that, to me, is a mental health issue,' Negron said. 'It isn't the weapon that they used. They could have used any other (weapon). They could have gone in there with a rolling pin. That's not the point. The point is why does someone feel that's the only recourse they have?'"
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Candidate's Facebook Page, 2018
"This tax package is allowing NH families to keep more of their hard earned money"
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"The issue of rail in Nashua is, I think it is a good thing but we need to be cautious going forward. It's not the golden ticket. A lot of people have said if I bring rail, is that the possibility of having more people leave Nashua to go south? ...I think rail could be a possibility [but] you have to look at all the potential ramifications."
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I believe what has to happen is the federal government needs to fight for money to get to the state and then let the states understand what it is they need it to do."
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Negron supports repealing the Affordable Care Act entirely.
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WMUR, 2018
"I am pro-life, Catholic."
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"Negron said he is staunchly pro-life, while Kuster criticized him for opposing abortion in all cases, including in circumstance of rape, incest and protecting the life of the mother.
"Negron indicated that he believes medical science is advanced enough that doctors and pregnant women aren't forced to choose between the life of the mother and her child.
"'Right now, I don't think we get to the point that it's so draconian that we have to make a decision whether it's the life of a mother or the life of a child,' he said."
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I do oppose federal dollars going to a private organization to kill babies. That's what I do oppose. But we do it all the way right now on funding Planned Parenthood with your tax dollars.""
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Stay at the level that it is for now. Increasing to $15/hr is a very slippery slope."
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WMUR, 2018
"You cannot boil the ocean. You have to look at what I can do in small increments. At the end of the day, you want fair trade. If I start from a position of a negative position and try to get waiver trade, it looks like some draconian move when we should have been in that place to begin with. The president is a businessman. He believes in make sure our businesses are not hurt but that we have a level playing field with trade."
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WMUR, 2018
"We have to look at the evidence they found. One thing I think is important that everybody is overlooking is that there was no American in that. The whole conspiracy theory about collusion needs to be put on the back burner. Anybody who tries to influence our elections, and those people have been indicted, I think they should be brought back to the United States to face the judgment of our country. We don't do that to other countries and should not allow it in ours."
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WMUR, 2018
"I know having been a program manager in the Air Force in charge of billion-dollar programs that there is waste in the Department of Defense. We need to be accountable to ourselves and the taxpayers. I talk about zero-based editing where people start out - budgeting where people start out with a zero budget and have to justify from the bottom up. They are resilient people."
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Concord Monitor Candidate Profile, 2018
"The issue of infrastructure also illustrates the two candidates vastly different views on the role of the federal government.
"Kuster touted her efforts to steer federal funds to New Hampshire for the I-93 expansion from two lanes to three lanes from the Massachusetts border to Manchester. Negron downplayed the federal government's efforts in helping the state pay for its projects."
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"This is a constitutional right. My opponent wants to take away that right under the guise of being a little bit more gun responsible."
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"I do not believe recreational marijuana should be legalized. When it comes to pain management, and I have a good friend who was a charge nurse in burn units, they are having greater success. It is managing pain better than some opioids. I believe letting the federal government decriminalize for recreational use and we see great advances for marijuana for PTSD. Just have people go out and buy pot, I'm against that."
Undecided| Read My Position
Negron supports reforming Social Security, but has not offered specifics. "If we do nothing, we know that it's going to end as we know it.... Quite frankly, I don't know what those answers are. I do know that we have to put all of this on the table and discuss it or we're going to have a situation where we have to be reactionary."
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"The way it was presented to us was as an additional tax. When you say 'tax' to me, I get pretty defensive and I try not to tax the people."
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I don't believe that government should be in the business of healthcare."
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WMUR, 2018
"The wall is not just about immigration. There is a drug problem and terrorist problem that comes in. Central and South America are favored nations to terror cells in the Middle East. They will flow people through Central and South America into our borders."
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The candidate said he would provide a strong voice for the 2nd District in terms of advocating for more federal funding to combat the opioid crisis that has ravaged New Hampshire."
"Undecided| Read My Position
Negron supports reforming Social Security, but has not offered specifics. "If we do nothing, we know that it's going to end as we know it.... Quite frankly, I don't know what those answers are. I do know that we have to put all of this on the table and discuss it or we're going to have a situation where we have to be reactionary."
Undecided| Read My Position
Negron supports reforming Social Security, but has not offered specifics. "If we do nothing, we know that it's going to end as we know it.... Quite frankly, I don't know what those answers are. I do know that we have to put all of this on the table and discuss it or we're going to have a situation where we have to be reactionary."
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We need to be cautious about Russia. Putin is a former KGB operator and came out of the old regime. You can't change her spots. I think [Trump] is doing the right thing right now. There's a saying that you keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
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Find ways to reduce the cost of higher education or even work programs after graduation to work in a device related field to this country which could reduce the amount owed over time."
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"We, the United States, have reduced our carbon footprint by [0.5%], without having mandates against us, without a carbon tax... This country is doing the right thing on its own... We're doing something on our without having any mandate, I think is the right way to go."
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"[Negron] also mentioned the president's decision to back out of the Iran nuclear agreement and the current 'economic boom' as evidence of his strong leadership."
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"If you want to look at what's going on with some of these issues, you have to look at a person [sic] like China, that's putting 24% of the carbon emissions that's out there. India's third. So, you know, when the president backed out of the Paris deal - which had no enforcement mechanism at all - he's doing the right thing."
Voting Record
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.
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."
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 593 (2017)
Grants group II retirement system status to certain positions in the Department of Corrections.
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.
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.
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 157 (2017)
Adds chronic pain to the qualifying medical conditions for medical marijuana.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
