NH Sierra Club Announces Endorsements

Today, the New Hampshire Chapter of the Sierra Club has released its list of carefully selected candidates running for Executive Council, State Senate and State House of Representatives. The Chapter endorsements include 70 NH State Representatives, 11 State Senators, and 3 Executive Councilors. Of the total 84 endorsed candidates, each has expressed concern for the New Hampshire environment, protecting our beautiful landscapes, and the impact of pollution on human health.

“We are very pleased to announce today that the New Hampshire Sierra Club officially endorses for election these Environmental Champions,” said Jim Allmendinger, the Political Committee Co-Chair for the New Hampshire Sierra Club.

“These candidates are our best hope for preserving clean air and clean water; protecting the wild places of New Hampshire; and all of the local businesses that benefit from our abundant environmental wealth,” continued Allmendinger. “The incumbents worked hard to un-do former-House Speaker O’Brien’s radical conservative agenda that dismantled smart, popular energy programs and threatened other successful state programs. The new candidates showed their support for key environmental issues facing the state, using creative problem solving techniques, not business as usual political games.”

“New Hampshire Sierra Club endorsed these candidates based on responses to an in-depth questionnaire, voting record, and history of environmental involvement. The New Hampshire Sierra Club endorsement list will be distributed to the members in the state online and in the mail. Members will be encouraged to volunteer and support the various campaigns in a vigorous state-wide member to member outreach program.”

The list of all of the state endorsed candidates and available quotations are included here.See the list on our website:

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=CH_Elections_Endor...

New Hampshire Sierra Club List of Environmental Champions for State Office

Executive Council

• District 3: Robin McLane, New Castle
• District 4: Chris Pappas, Manchester
• District 5: Diane Sheehan, Nashua

NH Senate

• District 1: Jeff Woodburn, Dalton
• District 2: Carolyn Mello, Holderness
• District 3: John White, Wolfeboro Falls
• District 4: David Watters, Dover
• District 6: Richard Leonard, New Durham
• District 8: Linda Tanner, Georges Mills
• District 10: Molly Kelly, Keene
• District 12: Peggy Gilmore, Hollis
• District 15: Dan Feltes, Concord
• District 17: Nancy Fraher, Chichester
• District 21: Martha Fuller Clark, Portsmouth

State House Candidates

Look on the Chapter website for the House Candidate endorsements:

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=CH_Elections_Endor...

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