Karen Testerman in 2022 NH Governor's race
On Budget & Economy:
Not necessarily a revenue problem but a spending problem
We have to then look at every department that is being run in the state to see where can we cut back, where are we less efficient. [It's] an analysis that needs to be done almost immediately before we implement anything. We have to look at the amount
of spending. I have often held that we don't necessarily have a revenue problem. We really have a spending problem. So that's the first thing I would be tackling.
Source: N.H. Public Radio on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race
Sep 3, 2020
On Civil Rights:
Against banning of discredited gay conversion therapy
In 2018, she broke from the state Republican Party and resigned as chairwoman of the Merrimack County Republican Committee over disagreements on policies around same-sex marriage and gay conversion therapy. At the time, Testerman disagreed with Gov.
Chris Sununu's 2018 decision to sign a bill that would ban the use of child conversion therapy--a discredited process that attempts to convert children from being gay to being straight.
Testerman said she also opposes efforts in recent years to expand gender identity protections.
"In my opinion, God made man and God made woman, and the idea that there's a gender and there is some confusion--those are mental health problems,"
she said. "That again, is something that needs to be left up to the parents of those children to deal with. Once an adult is an adult, whatever they choose to do is fine."
Source: Concord Monitor on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race
Jun 12, 2020
On Government Reform:
State vaccine mandate was government overreach
[On COVID vaccines]: "We have a governor, at this point, who has stepped on our constitutional rights," she said. Testerman pointed to the arrest of anti-vaccine mandate protesters at an Executive Council meeting, an event she sees as an escalation of
government overreach. "They arrested the New Hampshire 9 in October of last year," she said. "That was a deciding moment for everybody in the state -- that we've now lost our right to free speech, free assembly, freedom of religion."
Source: WMUR on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race
Jun 7, 2022
On Health Care:
Vaccine mandate unconstitutional; violates Geneva Convention
[On HIPAA]: "Forcing somebody to decide between starving or potentially dying from the side effects of the COVID vaccine is not only illegal, unconstitutional and a violation of the HIPPA (sic) law, it is also banned by the Geneva Convention
(forced medical experiments against unwilling human beings)," she wrote in her statement. "I will take immediate executive action to protect our citizenry against any CEO or business who would act in such an evil, un-American manner."
Source: WMUR on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race
Jul 29, 2021
On Principles & Values:
Slogan: Together We Can Make New Hampshire Great Again
Meanwhile, Ms. Testerman charges the governor's policies on the coronavirus "brought about the destruction of small businesses and hurt our families"--an echo of the approach that State Sen. Doug Mastriano used in his successful campaign for the GOP
gubernatorial nomination in Pennsylvania last month. Indeed, Ms. Testerman's website argues, "We must decide whether we are a free state," a statement itself with echoes of
Mr. Mastriano's plea for Pennsylvanians to "walk as free people." It will not go unnoticed that one of her slogans is "Together We Can Make New Hampshire Great Again."
The themes that have animated Trump supporters nationally are in the air here.
Source: Marshall News Messenger on 2022 New Hampshire Governor race
Jun 18, 2022
On Principles & Values:
We've got to put God back in our country again
[On religion]: "We've got to put God back in our country again--this country was founded on
God and it's the reason we have had the longest constitutional administration, longer than any country," Testerman said. "The reason I'm running for governor is we've got to get our home first taken care of."
Source: The Keene Sentinel on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race
Jul 17, 2022
On Principles & Values:
BSA changing sexual orientation policy leads to atheism
Additionally, boys who join the Boy Scouts of America pledge their "duty to God and my country." Asking the Boy Scouts of America to change its policy on
sexual orientation will eventually lead to a challenge to its belief in God. Some atheist leaders have already said they will pursue this.
Source: USA Today on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race
Apr 3, 2013
On Principles & Values:
Signed letter declaring state government illegitimate
A small group of Republican state representatives have signed onto a "termination of the state" document that declares New Hampshire's government illegitimate and says the November election was void.
In total, 37 people signed the document, including Karen Testerman, a conservative who launched an unsuccessful primary challenge against Sununu earlier this year.
Source: Concord Monitor on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race
Dec 28, 2020
On Welfare & Poverty:
Not always government's responsibility to care for the poor
The idea that we could ever completely get rid of the inequities is really a pipe dream in many ways because the poor will always be with us. And as a society, we do want to take care of them. But it is not always government's responsibility
to take care of them. It is really the responsibility of our communities to take from the excesses that we have to share with those that are less fortunate.
Source: N.H. Public Radio on 2022 New Hampshire Gubernatorial race
Sep 3, 2020
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