James Danforth
A sales tax is unfair and punitive to low and fixed income families. It will adversely affect the income generated by the business profits tax and destroy the New Hampshire advantage. Most importantly, the state does not require the revenue and has the ability to meet its finical requirements.
Elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 2004, Jim reached out to the six towns of his district and made sure that their needs and their concerns were being addressed in Concord. Jim was the only freshman to serve of two standing committees, Public Works and Transportation. Jim worked with Senator Green and the Speaker Scamman to address energy transportation issues as well as ensuring that the state had an adequate supply of gasoline, diesel and home heating oil in case of disruption or national emergency.
Jim spent the majority of his time helping constituents, companies and towns obtain answers and or services from state agencies. An example of this is the foot bridge to the Hanna Dustin Memorial in Boscawen. Jim worked with the town, the department of transportation and state parks and recreation to inspect, close, rebuild and reopen the foot bridge in less than a month.
Jim delivered well water test kits to each of his towns during the spring floods of 2006. He checked with the towns to make sure they had the required forms and filing dates for FEMA. Jim worked with the Town of Wilmot and help secure a temporary bridge for Kearsarge Valley Road for the Department of Transportation.
Jim is a warehouse construction consultant and works from his home in Andover, NH. In 1991 Jim graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a B.A. in Political Science. He has worked as an instructor for a pre-release wilderness program for youth, operations manager for a international construction & rental company and as a national territory sales representative.
Not your typical Republican, would be a fair description of Jim. He is committed to improving social programs so that transition to independence is possible. Supports alternative sentencing laws, modernization of parole guide lines and investment in new compliance technologies. Revitalization and utilization of State Parks and State Forest lands beyond recreation and preservation.