If you live in Andover, Danbury, Hill, Salisbury, or Webster, please vote for Lorna Carlisle for state legislature in November. Lorna grew up in a large family in Webster, absorbing the rural virtues of hard work, frugality, and love of nature. She’s lived in Salisbury for 18 years, operating a small farm and seasonal farms tand. After her partner Ray died last fall, Lorna continued farming on her own, having retired from a successful sales career. She decided to run for office as she watched NH Republicans unveil plans to eliminate long-supported rights; weaken public health, safety, and social-support programs; and expand government control over public discourse.
Lorna is generous, caring, smart, a deep listener, and a fast learner. She’s been a mom, step-mom, and family caregiver. As a legislator, she’ll work to further pragmatic values like strong public health and safety initiatives based on sound science; a sustainable energy infrastructure that can blunt the threats of climate change; reproductive choice for women, while affirming “life” with initiatives that support pregnant women, families, and people lacking health insurance; strong public education that benefits all, rather than taxpayer-funded “education choice,” detached from public accountability, without guardrails to check its expansion; education that doesn’t censor classroom discussions of uncomfortable but accurate facts, or remove age-appropriate books from school libraries. Lorna has a wicked sense of humor. She can imitate most any bird call and get an immediate response from nearby trees. She plays the fiddle. She’s the whole package!
Peg Boyles
Salisbury