Campaign messaging

Campaign messaging from DVCC

The New Hampshire House Dems Victory Committee (DVCC) is a political action committee dedicated to electing and sustaining a Democratic majority in the 400-member New Hampshire State House of Representatives.

The messages are listed in order of how convincing they were rated by persuadable voters in DVCC polling and focus groups, combined with the frequency of their appearance in canvass data across the state.

Democrats support:

Lowering property taxes by providing property tax exemptions for primary residences.
Capping annual utility rate increases.
Reducing the cost of prescription drugs.
Expanding the Granite Advantage program which allows families to access more affordable healthcare
Requiring out-of-state corporations to pay their fair share.

Republicans have voted to:

Cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations while increasing property taxes.
Block expanding access to affordable healthcare and refused to stand up to pharmaceutical companies.
Reject investing in cheaper and cleaner energy solutions that would lower costs.
Reject a program to make it easier to build more affordable housing, limiting our housing options and driving up costs.
Reject the expansion of a child care scholarship program to help working families pay for child care.

Campaign messaging from NH State Rep Chris Muns

Republicans care more about banning the books your kids can read than making it more affordable to send them to UNH.

Republicans overrode Ayotte's veto of SB 434 that permits any single parents to request that any book and/or classroom materials they believe is “offensive” be removed from a classroom.
Republicans voted down 2025 HB2, Amendment 2025-1543h, which would have restored $50 million in funding for the University System over a two year period.

Republicans would rather see gas, home heating oil and electric rates continue to soar than invest in clean renewable energy.

Republicans in the House passed HB 219, which sought to phase out the renewable portfolio standards over 5 years. The bill died in the Senate.
Republicans in the House voted to indefinitely postpone SB 106, which sought to set rules for eligible customer-generators up to 1 megawatt and industrial hosts between 1 and 5 megawatts
Republicans in the House voted for HB 1542, which would have effectively defunded low- and moderate-income solar programs. The bill died in the House after the Senate amended it.

Republicans are eager to cut the business taxes large multinational companies pay by $1 billion but are unwilling to cut your property taxes by $30 million.

Republicans have voted since 2016 to reduce the tax rates for New Hampshire’s two primary business taxes. These reductions have likely resulted in between $795 million and $1.17 billion less in State revenue from Tax Years 2016 through
2024.
Republicans passed HB 155, which
introduced a mechanism that allows
the Business Enterprise Tax 0.55% rate to automatically reduce by 0.05% intervals in future years if the state hits specific business tax revenue surpluses.
Republicans in the House voted against HB 197, which would have required the state to pay 7.5% of retirement system contributions for local and county group I teachers and group II police and firefighters, thus decreasing local expenditures by roughly $28.00 million in FY 2026, $28.74 million in FY 2027, and $29.51 million in FY 2028

Republicans are all about “family values” except when it comes to making childcare more affordable for you and your family.

Repubicans voted for HB 1515, which repealed a provision in the state budget to appropriate $15 million over two years for a childcare workforce grant program that would give programs money to raise staff wages, help recruit more teachers and give parents more access to affordable childcare.

Republicans are OK giving private and religious schools millions of your tax dollars – no questions asked – but will not meet the court-ordered constitutional requirement to fully fund our local public schools.

Republicans passed SB 295, which establishes a universal school voucher system. Base grants average roughly $4,200 to $4,600 per child annually. Funded directly through the state’s Education Trust Fund via statutory appropriations for any amount necessary. Estimated costs of $50 million for the 2025–2026 school year, with potential long-term costs exceeding $100 million annually as enrollment scales.
Republicans in the House voted against HB 1716, which would have required academic testing and educational attainment records for students in the state's Education
Freedom Account (EFA) program to be reported directly to the Department of Education.
Republicans in the House voted against HB 1803, which would have prohibited students from simultaneously receiving funds from both the Education Tax Credit (ETC) scholarship program and the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program in the same year.
Republicans in the House voted against HB 651, which would have increased Base adequacy cost per pupil from roughly
$4,100 to $7,356; Free or reduced price meal aid from $2,300 to $4,126.20 per eligible student; English language learner (ELL) aid from $800 to $1,435.20 per student; Special education services aid from $2,100 to $3,767.40 per student.
Republicans in the House voted against HB 1799, which would have raised the annual base per-pupil cost for an adequate education from $4,100 to $7,379.56, while expanding differentiated aid categories for special needs, English language learners, and free/reduced lunch students.

Republicans are more interested in saying who can use the bathrooms in our state than they are in building affordable homes for you and your family.

Republicans voted for three "bathroom" bills: HB1442, SB268, and SB552. (Ayotte vetoed all.)
Republicans voted against HB 572, which would have established the "Partners in Housing" program under the housing champions fund, designed to assist municipalities, counties, and developers in creating workforce housing on municipally or county-owned land.
Republicans in the NH House voted for HB 1196, which would have repealed the state housing champion designation and grant program, effectively eliminating several related statutes. (Senate voted Inexpedient to Legislate.)
Republican in the NH House voted against HB1405, which would have established an Affordable Housing Guaranteed Loan Program within the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority (NHHFA) aimed at promoting affordable housing for low- and moderate-income individuals.
Republicans in the House voted against HB 1661, which would have established a community heroes program under the housing finance authority, aimed at providing financial assistance for homeownership to essential workers, including healthcare, daycare, elder care workers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, first responders, educators, and active military members.

Republicans are more interested in encouraging state colleges and universities to invite more conservative speakers to campus than they are in preventing gun violence on those campuses.

Republicans in the House passed House Resolution 19 (HR 19), which encourages state colleges and universities to invite more conservative speakers to campus for the purpose of increasing diversity of viewpoints.
Republicans in the House passed HB 1793, which prohibits public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of certain weapons on campus. The Senate passed a scaled-back version that allowed concealed possession for faculty only and established a study committee. The bill then died in the House.

Republicans are “OK” and “very proud” to use surplus state funding to build a new parking garage for members of the House and Senate but are unwilling to provide any state funding to upgrade and repair aging local schools.

Republicans in the House voted against HB 295, which would have made school building aid appropriations non-lapsing so unspent funds would not expire at the end of the fiscal year.
Republicans in the House voted to amend HB 366 to remove the increased funding. The original bill would have increased state funding levels for construction/renovation and allocated funds for previously unfunded approved projects.
Republicans in the House voted for 2023- HB 384-FN-A, which appropriated $25 million for construction of a new legislative garage; $22.5 million of which was to come from the state’s surplus funds (“rainy day fund”).