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What Granite Staters are Reading: Keene Sentinel, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan Make the Case for Joyce Craig

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What Granite Staters are Reading: Keene Sentinel, U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan Make the Case for Joyce Craig

U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan: “In New Hampshire’s governor’s race this year, there is only one candidate who knows how to bring people together, who will stand up for our Live Free or Die values and fight for all Granite Staters: Joyce Craig.” 

Over the weekend, Joyce Craig continued to build momentum in her campaign for governor, earning support from trusted voices across New Hampshire. Former New Hampshire governor and U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan outlined why Joyce Craig is the best candidate for the job in an op-ed in Seacoast Online, including Joyce’s record as mayor turning Manchester into a “leader in entrepreneurship and high-tech manufacturing” and “reducing crime and increasing the number of police officers,” calling out Kelly Ayotte’s record of voting for a national abortion ban and to defund Planned Parenthood.

Joyce also earned the endorsement of the Keene Sentinel’s Editorial Board, noting she “offers a better way forward,” and slamming Ayotte and her allies for their “wildly inaccurate narratives” and “incessant TV and radio ads smearing Craig’s record,” for her lies about her anti-chice record, and — “most damning” — for her support of Donald Trump, after saying she could not support him in 2016.

Read more from Senator Hassan in Seacoast Online

  • In New Hampshire’s governor’s race this year, there is only one candidate who knows how to bring people together, who will stand up for our Live Free or Die values and fight for all Granite Staters: Joyce Craig.

  • Joyce exemplifies the kind of smart, common-sense, and bipartisan leadership that has marked New Hampshire’s best governors, whether Republican or Democratic.
  • In any given year, Joyce’s executive experience, proven record, and collaborative leadership would make her a great candidate for governor. But I’m writing today because the stakes this year, in this election, make Joyce’s election particularly important.

  • We need a pro-choice governor again in the corner office, one who will champion reproductive freedom. For those who think New Hampshire Republicans won’t act to further restrict abortion rights in our state, remember: We also thought Roe would never be overturned. But it happened.

  • Joyce will always fight for a woman’s fundamental freedom to make her own health care decision. But her opponent, Kelly Ayotte, has repeatedly tried to take that right away.

  • When she was a U.S. senator, Ayotte voted for a national abortion ban. She also voted repeatedly to defund Planned Parenthood.

  • In this time of peril for a woman’s fundamental freedom, Kelly Ayotte is a particularly bad fit for the Granite State’s corner office. We need someone who will hold the line against anti-choice restrictions and who will stand up for freedom. For everyone.

Read why the Keene Sentinel Editorial Board says Joyce “can lead New Hampshire down a better path” endorsement : 

  • As mayor of the state’s largest city, Craig was responsible for building the city’s budget, handling personnel issues and being the ‘buck stops here’ public face of the city. She’s been at the fore of dealing with many of the same crises Keene and other communities have dealt with — opioids, homelessness, housing affordability and COVID, to name a few.

  • Ayotte, and the inevitable PACs supporting her bid, have run incessant TV and radio ads smearing Craig’s record on some of those issues. One even implied a Manchester woman’s 2015 murder took place in 2021, when Craig was mayor. Ayotte has since pulled the ad.

  • In fact, one of the red flags in Ayotte’s campaign has been her willingness to throw out wildly inaccurate narratives in her ads.

  • Or consider Ayotte’s continued insistence that she’s supportive of women’s reproductive rights. But her record shows otherwise. As a U.S. senator, she voted four times to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. And as attorney general, she fought for a parental abortion notification bill all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — even after then-Gov. John Lynch opposed it.

  • Perhaps most damning, Ayotte continues to support Donald Trump’s presidency, saying in May on WMUR-TV’s “Close-Up”: “There’s no question that he’s the right choice for the White House.”

  • Craig offers a better way forward.

  • She opposes the school voucher giveaway of tax dollars and has said she would work to ensure the state adequately funds public education. She plans to both codify New Hampshire women’s reproductive rights and expand access to services. She proposes an independent redistricting panel to oversee the remapping of political districts. And she’s said she hopes to expand pre-kindergarten and early childhood education across the state — which would both give children a boost educationally and parents help with child care costs.

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