The heavy-hitting Defend the Guard is already scheduled for a hearing, Friday January 17 at 1:30pm at the Legislative Office Building in Concord NH, Room 206! Preceding that is my bill to prune out Selective Service Compliance Act from RSA at 1pm. If you can make it, please show up to testify!
I want to thank Speaker Packard for appointing me as one of the two House members on the State Veterans Advisory Committee. I have been going to their monthly meetings for over a year, now, and am impressed with its function as an information conduit between veterans and the various state agencies, as well as the NH Federal delegation in DC. I will continue to be present at the monthly meetings through this term and be available to the members.
I was interviewed by Ben Zeisloft of the Republican Sentinel about our efforts to pass Defend the Guard in New Hampshire. I thank him for expanding awareness about the bill!
https://republicsentinel.com/articles/how-the-defend-the-guard-movement-seeks-to-end-forever-wars
Thank you, people of Pelham, for sending myself and the rest of our slate to Concord for the next term!
With a strong majority in the House, Senate, and Ayotte winning the corner office, we have much more stable ground to push forward with tax cuts, education freedom, lower spending, reducing energy costs by abandoning wasteful subsidies that saddle ratepayers with unnecessary fees, and hopefully push through Defend the Guard!
I was proud to participate in the Pelham VFW’s candidate night at town hall last Friday. I wish we had got to more questions, but it was overall a great experience and I am always happy to be transparent to the voters and answer any questions they may have!
Similar to HB1338 from last session, I filed the repeal of New Hampshire’s Selective Service Compliance Act. The current law forbids individuals from enrolling in college, or receiving financial assistance for that education, or ever being permitted to be employed by the state in any capacity unless they have registered in compliance with the Federal Selective Service Act.
As an Iraq war combat veteran, I’ve become incredibly skeptical of United States’ foreign policy of the last several decades – between destabilization of Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya, and the disregard for the lives of the Ukrainian and Russian conscripts dying for a proxy war at the behest of the military industrial complex puppet masters behind the Biden administration, and of course the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan that ultimately resulted in thousands of lives lost to transfer the country from the Taliban to the Taliban.
I no longer trust that bringing forth the draft would be in the best interests of the United States, especially at the expense of the lives of the next generation, and I will not allow New Hampshire to be a facilitator through coercion with the existing compliance act.
And from a federalism standpoint, it is simply not the role of New Hampshire to be enforcing Federal law. As such, I have filed a repeal of the existing statute.
As no surprise, but always welcome, I’ve been endorse by NHLA for the 2024 election!
Both myself and my brother, Tim have received these endorsements and will be advocates for liberty and voting accordingly to keep government small, reduce taxes, and maximize freedom for Granite Staters!
I appeared on Shut the Punk Up podcast, hosted by my friend Ben Weir. We discussed Defend the Guard, U.S. foreign policy, our military service, my motivations for moving to New Hampshire and running for office, music, and how others can get involved politically to continue making New Hampshire the freest state in the nation.
On Wednesday, June 5, I refiled for State Representative for Hillsborough District 1, alongside Jeff Tenczar, Sandy Panek, and introducing my brother Tim Mannion.
I will continue the work in Concord of moving the state towards liberty, preserving the rights of Granite Staters, and keeping New Hampshire the #1 Freest State in the nation.
I will be refiling Defend the Guard, taking a crack at repealing the Selective Service Compliance Act, and working with other legislators to expand school choice, reduce taxes, protect the right to self-defense, and stand in the way of Federal overreach in whatever forms it will take into the next term!
I’m asking for your vote in the primary on September 10th and again in the general on November 5th!
The midterm grading by the New Hampshire Liberty Alliance have been posted, and I’m proud to report receiving a 100% score!
https://www.nhliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-mid-term-rating.pdf
Tom Mannion for New Hampshire 