Merrimack 10 includes four seats representing Dunbarton and Hooksett. In the running are Democrats Lucas Coriaty, Ricky Gurung, William Lynch and Germano Martins and Republicans Stephen Boyd, Pamela McMahon, Yury Polozov and Thomas Walsh.
Coriaty, Gurung, Boyd, McMahon and Walsh did not respond to the Monitor’s candidate survey.
William Lynch
Party affiliation: Democrat
What town/city do you live in? Hooksett
Political experience: Have served on the Hooksett Budget Committee for the past 4 years.
Professional experience: Have worked various careers, first as an EMT, then as a paralegal and for the last 10 years as a software engineer. My work as a software engineer involved building health care applications for Oracle Health.
Community service experience: I helped start the Manchester Makerspace, a non-profit organization in Manchester that works to provide local students, artists and makers with space, tools and experience to pursue their needs.
Policy Positions
Should NH legalize recreational marijuana use and position?
Yes
What is the No. 1 action the Legislature should take to address the housing shortage?
Streamlining regulatory processes for condo development and development on underutilized state-owned lands.
How involved should NH government and law enforcement be in immigration enforcement?
Local law enforcement should not enter into 287(g) agreements with ICE in order to ensure all residents feel safe when interacting with police. State resources should only be used when provided federal funding for it. State funds should not be spent on immigration detention facilities or on aiding in detaining people.
To what extent should NH restrict abortion, if at all?
The arbitrary 24 weeks set in the current law should be removed and replaced with allowing abortion until fetal viability, which is typically 24-26 weeks, while keeping the exception to preserve the life of the pregnant person.
What is one law currently on the books in NH that you would repeal, and why?
I would reverse the recent increases to Medicaid premiums and increased pharmacy co-pays. These changes passed in 2025 shift costs to families and low-wage individuals. Children will be particularly affected as they make up half of the state’s Medicaid population.
NH consistently struggles with funding its government and services. What is one way you would raise state revenue, and what is one area you would cut expenses? Be specific.
I would restore the Interest and Dividends Tax and restore the Business Profits Tax and Business Enterprise Tax to 2015 levels. This could provide public services nearly $1.2 billion without increasing property taxes. NH has been cutting corporate taxes without seeing a payoff in increased corporate investment. In fact, NH has been outpaced in corporate investment by surrounding New England states by almost 50%.
As people across the state struggle with their local school tax bills, what role should the state play in funding education?
The state is required by the state constitution to provide adequate funding for all students, and it has failed that measure. Rather than pay for public schools, the state has created the voucher system to divert funds away from public schools with no limits on who can use the funds. Wealthy families that were already sending their kids to expensive private schools now get to raid public tax dollars to pay for it.
Funding education at a purely local level hurts property-poor towns that must raise high property tax rates while wealth, property-rich towns get to see lower tax rates but still better funding. Approaching school funding from a state level will even the playing field across the state and ensure our students everywhere are receiving a quality education. Local property taxes will be eased greatly through state funding via corporate taxes.
Aside from those mentioned above, what do you believe is the biggest issue facing the state today?
Data centers present a large risk to the energy costs and environmental quality of NH towns. Data centers provide little economic benefit to a town; short-term construction jobs are then followed by very few permanent workers once construction finishes. Instead of jobs, data centers bring high energy prices by driving energy demand up and risk polluting local water through their use of millions of gallons of water daily. Data centers also produce continuous noise that would disrupt communities and pollute the quiet, natural scenery of New Hampshire.
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Germano Mendes Martins
Party affiliation: Democrat
What town/city do you live in? Hooksett
Political experience: Elected member of the Hooksett Budget Committee, Chair of the Hooksett Democratic Town Committee, SEA/SEIU1984 Retirement Committee Chair, and Political Education Committee member.
Professional experience: Worked both in the private and public sectors in New Hampshire, 37 years for the State of New Hampshire, 20 of which were spent as a manager.
Community service experience: Community fund raising for charitable organizations and participation in union charitable events.
Policy Positions
Should NH legalize recreational marijuana use and position?
Yes
What is the No. 1 action the Legislature should take to address the housing shortage?
Stop corporate exploitation of housing
How involved should NH government and law enforcement be in immigration enforcement?
We have always had good partnership with immigration enforcement, but what’s been going on recently is not a good representation of the good work that has been done in the past.
To what extent should NH restrict abortion, if at all?
It should not restrict abortion at all.
What is one law currently on the books in NH that you would repeal, and why?
Laws requiring public funds to private schools, especially religious schools, need to be abolished.
NH consistently struggles with funding its government and services. What is one way you would raise state revenue, and what is one area you would cut expenses? Be specific.
The current Republican leadership reduced an enormous amount of federal funding, which caused the cost to downshift to communities. I would start by reversing that trend.
As people across the state struggle with their local school tax bills, what role should the state play in funding education?
Public school funds should go to public schools only. I would start there.
Aside from those mentioned above, what do you believe is the biggest issue facing the state today?
The current legislative leadership has drastically reduced accepting federal grants, while reducing state matching funds, leaving municipal taxpayers to pay for everything on their own. This is a problem that needs to be corrected right away.
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Yury Polozov
Party affiliation: Republican
What town/city do you live in? Hooksett
Political experience: I am a two-term State Representative.
Professional experience: My fields of expertise include cybersecurity, real estate, and investments.
Community service experience: I serve as an alternate member of the Hooksett Planning Board.
Policy Positions
Should NH legalize recreational marijuana use and position?
Yes
What is the No. 1 action the Legislature should take to address the housing shortage?
Lift state regulations on development.
How involved should NH government and law enforcement be in immigration enforcement?
NH should assist only when directly asked by the federal government.
To what extent should NH restrict abortion, if at all?
Keep the current NH 24-week law. Improve informed consent and strengthen adoption as an alternative.
What is one law currently on the books in NH that you would repeal, and why?
New Hampshire should drop the mandate for a hepatitis B vaccination at birth. Senator Rochefort, a pharmacist and a crucial supporter of that policy, has testified that he declined to inject this profitable drug into his own newborn. If a well-informed supporter actively refuses it, why is it mandated for everyone else?
NH consistently struggles with funding its government and services. What is one way you would raise state revenue, and what is one area you would cut expenses? Be specific.
A cheaper, better education will save money for the state and on your tax bill. Converting district schools to charter schools would save money locally and statewide. It would also deliver the property tax relief constituents want. Charter schools are not funded by local taxes and deliver better results at about one-third the total cost.
As people across the state struggle with their local school tax bills, what role should the state play in funding education?
If communities demand that the state take total control of funding and directing education by turning failing schools into charter schools, so be it!
Aside from those mentioned above, what do you believe is the biggest issue facing the state today?
In the energy sector, New Hampshire is suffering from a blockade imposed by surrounding Democratic states: pipelines from Pennsylvania are blocked halfway. The federal government also restricts our maritime energy shipping through the Jones Act. I will fight for effective alternatives, including an electrical microgrid revolution to produce cheap energy locally.
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