2020 NH Senatorial race: on Civil Rights


Joe Biden: Reverse ban on transgender individuals serving in military

To further repair our moral leadership, I'm issuing a presidential memo to agencies to reinvigorate our leadership on the LGBTQI issues and do it internationally. You know, we'll ensure diplomacy and foreign assistance are working to promote the rights of those individuals, included by combatting criminalization and protecting LGBTQ refugees and asylum-seekers.

And finally, to successfully reassert our diplomacy and keep Americans safe, prosperous, and free, we must restore the health and morale of our foreign policy institutions.

The United States will again lead not just by the example of our power but the power of our example. Within hours of taking office, I signed an executive order overturning the hateful, discriminatory Muslim ban; reversed the ban on transgender individuals serving in our military.

Source: Manchester Ink Link on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race Feb 4, 2021

Don Bolduc: I don't look at color; I look at content of their character

I served 33+ years in the United States military, one of the most diverse organizations in the country and the organization that was the first to desegregate in our country back in 1948. I don't look at people by the color of their skin, their religion, their sex, their orientation. I look at them as through a lens or the quality of their character, content of their character, the quality of the type of person that they are and the contribution that they make.
Source: NHPR The Exchange on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race Nov 9, 2020

Don Bolduc: Solution to racism is not laws but education

We wouldn't be having this conversation if there wasn't racism existing in our in our country. It requires education. It requires us to stand shoulder to shoulder and to look past all those differences. I don't think there's a program that you can create or a law that you can pass or legislation that you can do. These are ideas. These are things about about fairness and in developing trust and about a moral consciousness that our country has overcome to include our state.
Source: NHPR The Exchange on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race Nov 9, 2020

Corky Messner: Horrific that students learn about transgender

Q: Support same-sex marriage and extension of LGBTQ protections against discrimination?

Corky Messner: Unclear. "What they're teaching kids in school [about `transgender'] is horrific." "Transgenders in military's OK, as long as there's no distraction from the mission."

Jeanne Shaheen: Yes. "Elated" by Supreme Court decision for marriage equality. Co-sponsored Equality Act that adds explicit protections for LGBTQ Americans to the nation's civil rights laws.

Source: CampusElect survey of 2020 New Hampshire Senate race Sep 30, 2020

Don Bolduc: AdWatch: opposes marriage equality

[On liberal support of LGBT rights]: "I didn't spend my life defending this country to let a bunch of liberal, socialist pansies squander it away," Bolduc says in the 15-second ad, airing on cable television. "I'm Don Bolduc, I approve this message, and
Source: The Advocate AdWatch on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race Aug 17, 2020

Corky Messner: Black Lives Matter is revolutionary, don't defund police

Q: What is one specific action you would take if elected to combat systemic racism?

Messner: The first thing I would do is I would bring together a group of people to broadly discuss issues around race in this country, and I would bring together people from various factions, including those African-Americans who view the race issue in a different way than what we hear from the left.

Q: Do you support the Black Lives Matter movement?

Corky Messner: I do not. I think the Black Lives Matter movement is a revolutionary movement. For example their support of defunding police, I do not support. Safety and security is important. Are there certain reforms that need to be made to law enforcement? Absolutely. But the idea of totally defunding police, I do not support. We need law and order. We need safety and security.

Source: National Public Radio on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race Jul 9, 2020

Bill O`Brien: Opposed students voting in-state "with no life experience"

There's been an effort underway for quite some time to strip out-of-state college students from the right to vote during their time in New Hampshire, or, at the very least, to dissuade them from exercising that right. Former House Speaker O'Brien, never one to mince words, made clear the intention during his time as one of the most powerful lawmakers in the state, promising a crackdown on "kids voting liberal, voting their feelings, with no life experience." In other words, not voting his way.
Source: The Keene Sentinel-Source on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race Jun 3, 2020

Don Bolduc: Shut down national media to stop spread of COVID fear

Don Bolduc suggested that the national media should be shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to reduce public anxiety. "I have a recommendation," he told a Sullivan County GOP meeting. To "buy down the fear," he proposed, "let's simply take national media and shut it down and see what happens. I guarantee you that better information gets out at the local level, people are better informed, there's less hyperbole, [and] there's less fear being spread."
Source: American Independent on 2020 New Hampshire Senate race May 21, 2020

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Candidates and political leaders on Civil Rights:

Democrats running for President:
Sen.Michael Bennet (D-CO)
V.P.Joe Biden (D-DE)
Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I-NYC)
Gov.Steve Bullock (D-MT)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-IN)
Sen.Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Secy.Julian Castro (D-TX)
Rep.John Delaney (D-MD)
Rep.Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
Sen.Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Mayor Wayne Messam (D-FL)
Gov.Deval Patrick (D-MA)
Sen.Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
CEO Tom Steyer (D-CA)
Sen.Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Marianne Williamson (D-CA)
CEO Andrew Yang (D-NY)

2020 Third Party Candidates:
Rep.Justin Amash (L-MI)
CEO Don Blankenship (C-WV)
Gov.Lincoln Chafee (L-RI)
Howie Hawkins (G-NY)
Gov.Gary Johnson(L-NM)
Howard Schultz(I-WA)
Gov.Jesse Ventura (I-MN) 		Republicans running for President:
Sen.Ted Cruz(R-TX)
Gov.Larry Hogan (R-MD)
Gov.John Kasich(R-OH)
V.P.Mike Pence(R-IN)
Gov.Mark Sanford (R-SC)
Pres.Donald Trump(R-NY)
Rep.Joe Walsh (R-IL)
Gov.Bill Weld(R-MA & L-NY)

2020 Withdrawn Democratic Candidates:
Sen.Stacey Abrams (D-GA)
Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NYC)
Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Sen.Mike Gravel (D-AK)
Sen.Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Gov.John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Gov.Jay Inslee (D-WA)
Rep.Seth Moulton (D-MA)
Rep.Beto O`Rourke (D-TX)
Rep.Tim Ryan (D-CA)
Adm.Joe Sestak (D-PA)
Rep.Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
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