On November 8, Canterbury and Loudon can elect four strong supporters of public education. Christine Tappan, former public school teacher, Army veteran, and Gov. Sununu’s associate commissioner of Health & Human Services, is running for Senate in District 17. Ruth Heath and Ellen Scarponi, candidates for the two state rep seats in Merrimack District 4, strongly support public schools; they listen as well as they speak, respect different views, and will work to find common ground. David Nesbitt, state rep candidate in Floterial District 26, is a retired public school history teacher who has supported teachers and the Merrimack Valley School Board because he believes “the foundation of our Democracy and the cohesion of our communities rest on our robust support for public education.”
Meanwhile, incumbent State Reps Jose Cambrils, Mike Moffett, and Howard Pearl have voted to siphon off what turns out to be $8.1 million in public education tax dollars to subsidize private, religious, and home schools, and to threaten teachers who allow honest discussion of so-called “divisive concepts” with loss of their licenses (HB 2, 2021); they have also often disrupted Merrimack Valley School Board meetings. (In a resounding show of support for public schools, their constituents at town meeting voted not to ask the MVSB to study whether Loudon should withdraw from the MVS District, by overwhelmingly tabling the motion.) Please vote for Christine Tappan, Ruth Heath and Ellen Scarponi, and David Nesbitt for our schools.
Howard Moffett
Canterbury